abstract:The Van Norman Machine Tool Company was an American machine tool builder from late in the 19th century until the mid-1980s. The company was based in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA.
Armed with a 130-year-old Flather lathe and a 50-year-old VanNorman milling machine, the pair churn out only 100 reels a year and have a three-year backlog.
In a 1999 article in the peer-reviewed journal Anesthesiology, Gail A. VanNorman, a professor of anesthesiology at the University of Washington, reported a case in which a 30-year-old patient with severe head trauma began breathing spontaneously after being declared brain dead.