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    William Stanley Jr. (November 28, 1858 – May 14, 1916) was an American physicist born in Brooklyn, New York. During his career, he obtained 129 patents...
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  • Stanley is a brand of food and beverage containers named after William Stanley Jr. who invented the first all-steel insulated vacuum bottle in 1913. The...
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  • jeweler and legislator Bill Stanley (politician) (William M. Stanley Jr., born 1967), American politician William Stanley (died 1495), English leader...
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    he ran Morgan Stanley until he left the firm in 1955. Stanley was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, the son of William Stanley, Jr. and Lila Courtney...
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  • William Stillman Stanley Jr. was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Wisconsin State Senate. Stanley was born on March 28, 1838, in Smithfield...
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    January 5, 2010 "Former U.S. Congressman Harold Ford, Jr. Joins Morgan Stanley". Morgan Stanley. Meet the Press. "Former Rep. Harold Ford (D-TN) on Meet...
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  • Stanley Grafton Mortimer Jr. (May 12, 1913 – August 11, 1999) was an American sportsman and advertising executive. Mortimer was born in Tuxedo, New York...
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    William Stanley Zmitrowicz Jr. (born May 16, 1947), known professionally as Bill Smitrovich (/ˈsmɪtrəvɪtʃ/ SMIT-rə-vitch), is an American actor. Smitrovich...
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    reads about them in the UK technical journal Engineering 1885 – William Stanley, Jr., working for Westinghouse, develops the first practical AC transformer...
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  • Stanley Maddox Rumbough Jr. (April 25, 1920 – September 27, 2017) was an American businessman, entrepreneur, distinguished veteran, philanthropist, activist...
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    incandescent lighting system introduced by William Stanley, Jr. working for George Westinghouse. Stanley lit 23 businesses along a 4000 feet length of...
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    businessman William Stanley Jr. (1858–1916), American physicist Winifred C. Stanley (1909–1996), U.S. Representative from New York Woodrow Stanley (1950–2022)...
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    first public demonstration of an "alternator system" was given by William Stanley Jr., an employee of Westinghouse Electric in 1886. Sebastian Ziani de...
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    (later called ZBD transformers), Lucien Gaulard, John Dixon Gibbs and William Stanley Jr. Practical AC motor designs including induction motors were independently...
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    William Franklin Holden (né Beedle Jr.; April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor and one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s...
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  • She was married twice; first, to the sportsman Stanley G. Mortimer Jr. and second, to CBS founder William S. Paley. Barbara Cushing Mortimer Paley, born...
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    Angus Stanley King Jr. (born March 31, 1944) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Maine since 2013. A...
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    William Stanley Jevons FRS (/ˈdʒɛvənz/; 1 September 1835 – 13 August 1882) was an English economist and logician. Irving Fisher described Jevons's book...
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    lighting business when he started to develop a DC system and hired William Stanley, Jr. to work on it. In 1885 he read an article in UK technical journal...
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    Stanley Earl Nelson Jr. (born June 7, 1951) is an American documentary filmmaker and a MacArthur Fellow known as a director, writer and producer of documentaries...
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    on the western edge of town. In November 1885 electrical engineer William Stanley, Jr., a sometime Great Barrington resident working for George Westinghouse...
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    William G. Kaelin Jr. (born November 23, 1957) is an American Nobel laureate physician-scientist. He is a professor of medicine at Harvard University and...
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    Pittsfield, Massachusetts (category William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham)
    19th century. In 1891, the City of Pittsfield was incorporated and William Stanley Jr., who had recently relocated his Electric Manufacturing Company to...
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  • Westinghouse then asked the engineer William Stanley, Jr. to design an electric lighting system using them. Stanley subsequently greatly improved on Gibbs...
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  • actions initiated by Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti and others. In 1885, William Stanley, Jr. built the first practical American transformer based on Gaulard...
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  • Stanley Marshall Rinehart Jr. (1897–1969) was an American book publisher. He was the son of mystery writer Mary Roberts Rinehart, the brother of publisher...
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    William Clark Styron Jr. (June 11, 1925 – November 1, 2006) was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work. Styron was...
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  • William Oliver Stanley, Jr. is a former professor in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign at the Urbana College of Education. He was one of the...
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    generation, measurement, distribution, and application by Gisbert Kapp, William Stanley, Jr. Johnston, 1893. p. 140. [cf., This direction has been first indicated...
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  • Literary and Artistic Works is signed. September 21 – American physicist William Stanley Jr. patents the first practical alternating current transformer device...
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