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Re: [Poll] Computing favorities

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Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> writes:
> Boeing was founded in 1916 (as "Pacific Aero Products Co.") and took the
> founder's name in May 1917 before the US entered the Great War.  Grand Coulee
> power had nought to do with it.

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http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2015g.html#44 [Poll] Computing favorities

Boeing early years 1916-1930, Pacific Aero products, then Boeing, then
United Aircraft and Transport
http://www.wingsoverkansas.com/history/a741/
wood to metal, 1st all-metal was Boeing B-9, 1932-1933
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/intro-wood.htm
Boeing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing

The Air Mail Act of 1934 prohibited airlines and manufacturers from
being under the same corporate umbrella, so the company split into
three smaller companies -- Boeing Airplane Company, United Airlines,
and United Aircraft Corporation, the precursor to United Technologies

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also from the above, I've previously mentioned this (I was at Boeing
in the late 60s)

Will the last person
leaving SEATTLE -
Turn out the lights.

somebody from IBM mainframe group sent out similar message in the 90s,
would the last person to leave POK, turn out the lights.

Grand Coulee Dam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Coulee_Dam

With the onset of World War II, power generation was given priority
over irrigation.

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Grand Coulee Dam: Leaving a Legacy
https://depts.washington.edu/depress/grand_coulee.shtml

"Without Grand Coulee and Bonneville dams it would have been almost
impossible to win this war."[23] Specifically, the Grand Coulee Dam
provided the electricity needed to produce aluminum, which was crucial
for the airplane construction taking place at Boeing in Seattle. With
no capacity to produce aluminum in 1940, the Pacific Northwest was
producing 36% of the nation's aluminum output by 1946. It is estimated
that one third of the aluminum used in aircraft during World War II
came from the power generated by the Grand Coulee Dam.

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2/3rds of WW2 spending went to airplanes ... half of that to the
strategic bombing program.

-- 
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970

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