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Western Electric

COMPANY

Formerly the manufacturing and research arm of AT&T. The process of incorporation of WE's components into its parent started in 1984 and was completed in 1995. Parts of the old WE are owned by a number of companies, including AT&T and Lucent.

Industry:
Energy

Ticker:
(defunct)

EXECUTIVES

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Alexander Graham Bell
Inventor
3-Mar-1847 2-Aug-1922 Inventor of the telephone

EMPLOYMENT

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
John Bardeen
Physicist
23-May-1908 30-Jan-1991 Co-Inventor of the transistor
John Cook
Politician
27-Feb-1946   Mayor of El Paso
Lee De Forest
Inventor
26-Aug-1873 30-Jun-1961 Inventor of the Audion vacuum tube
Walter S. Gifford
Business
10-Jan-1885 7-May-1966 President of AT&T, 1925-48
Jerry Huckaby
Politician
19-Jul-1941   Congressman from Louisiana, 1977-93
Joseph M. Juran
Scientist
24-Dec-1904 28-Feb-2008 The Pareto Principle
Eugene Kleiner
Business
12-May-1923 20-Nov-2003 Venture capitalist
James P. Mitchell
Government
12-Nov-1900 19-Oct-1964 US Secretary of Labor, 1953-61
Michael Sitrick
Business
8-Jun-1947   Sitrick and Company
Frank J. Sprague
Inventor
25-Jul-1857 25-Oct-1934 Streetcars and express elevators

EXTRANEOUS

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
W. Edwards Deming
Mathematician
14-Oct-1900 20-Dec-1993 Quality Control guru


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