Steinway, blue jeans peddler Levi Strauss, real estate wheeler-dealer Donald Trump and electrical industry pioneer George Westinghouse.
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Tricoire has shaken up the internal culture at Schneider, a 130, 000-employee company that was founded in 1838 and prospered with the rise of the global electrical industry.
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He set up low interest instalment credit plans which enabled thousands to avoid the loan sharks and buy cookers and refrigerators and autos, and he built a whole new electrical industry with his loans.
True, there was the usual array of questionable balance sheets, particularly in the highly leveraged electrical utility industry.
If the EPA had continued its analysis, it would have found that for every single job lost in the electrical generation industry, 11 more jobs would be lost in related industries.
The area of eastern Japan which is an important source of electrical components for the car industry has been badly hit by the earthquake in March.
Krebs is an electrical engineer working in the technology industry and an active investor.
And while the EPA has done everything in its power to kill coal, that industry added nearly three times more electrical capacity than wind during the first nine months of 2010 (39% vs. 14%).
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At issue is a dearth of electrical components and zealous inventory management policies, which industry insiders say will limit supplies of smartphones, MP3 players, game consoles and televisions this holiday season.
Energy took an enormous step forward for the entire cleantech industry when it financed two fuel cell projects installed at electrical substations through the traditional rate setting process.
Having earned a degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University (1984), he worked in the semiconductor industry for companies like IBM and Cirrus.
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Unlike Toshiba, which pioneered the laptop computer and has learnt to live with the jittery pace of development and capital expenditure of the computer industry, Hitachi still saunters to the 20-year product cycle of heavy-electrical machinery.
It appears Monday's electrical fire that injured a firefighter was a more pressing issue for investigators, the manufacturer and the global airline industry that has embraced the 787 as a technologically advanced and efficient long-haul aircraft.
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