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Jacob Schweppe can be considered as the father of the modern carbonated soft drinks industry: he was the first to produce carbonated mineral water on a commercial scale. From the formation of the Schweppes company in 1783 until today, Schweppes has continued to provide consumers around the world with high quality carbonated drinks. Schweppes today …
In 1983, Richard Stallman founded the GNU Project, with the goal of developing a complete Unix-like operating system composed entirely of free software. By the beginning of the 1990s, GNU had produced or collected most of the necessary components of this system libraries, compilers, text editors, a Unix shell except for the core …
Carlsberg was founded in 1847 by the visionary brewer J.C. Jacobsen. His new brewery, just outside the city ramparts of Copenhagen, Denmark, pioneered steam brewing, refrigeration techniques and, greatest of all, the propagation of a single yeast strain. J.C. Jacobsen demanded quality above all else and his innovations in the art of making beer laid …
The company that became Alfa Romeo was founded as “Darracq Italiana” in 1907 by Cavaliere Ugo Stella, an aristocrat from Milan, in partnership with the French automobile firm of Alexandre Darracq. The firm initially produced Darracq cars in Naples, but after the partnership collapsed Stella and the other Italian co-investors moved production to an idle …
Post World War II Italy was a dour placeand one which, in light of its agreement to cessation of war activities with The Allies, meant that its post-war aircraft industry was severely restricted in both capability and capacity. Piaggio emerged from the conflict with its Pontedera fighter plane plant completely demolished by bombing. Italy’s crippled …
The federal government’s takeover of the wireless industry during the war accomplished two things: it focused efforts and funds on further technological improvements and it sorted out the tangle of patent infringements that had crippled industry development. Wartime experience convinced Assistant Navy Secretary Franklin D. Roosevelt that radio patents should be kept under American control. …