Joakim Lehmkuhl, who made timing mechanisms for WWII bombs, introduced this watch line in 1950
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Rotterdam Blitz - Wikipedia  The Rotterdam Blitz was the aerial bombardment of Rotterdam by the Luftwaffe (German air force) on 14 May 1940, during the German invasion of the Netherlands in World War II. ... An invasion of the Netherlands was first made reference to on 9 October 1939, when Hitler ordered .... Cairns Post Newspaper article,1950.
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Timex Group :: Innovations That Define a Century of Timekeeping  The Company introduced the Jumbo pocket watch, invented by Archibald Bannatyne and named ... million Mickey Mouse watches were sold making it the company's first million-dollar watch line. ... At the height of World War II, the company found new ownership under the direction of Thomas Olsen and Joakim Lehmkuhl.
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Timex Group USA - Wikipedia  Timex Group USA, Inc is an American manufacturer company founded in 1854. The company is ... In 1896, Ingersoll introduced the Ingersoll Yankee, a dollar pocket watch .... Lehmkuhl made two more decisions that proved pivotal to the company's ... Timex and Disney reunited in 1993 to produce a new line of character...
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TODAYS TRIVIA-CLOUDEIGHT INTERNET START PAGE  Joakim Lehmkuhl, who made timing mechanisms for WWII bombs, introduced this watch line in 1950. What is Timex? Answer #2. Sadly, this Italian liner sank on...
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Vintage RARE Collectible 1950 039 s Gents Timex Marlin ... - eBay  It is signed Timex Demonstrator Watch, Waterproof and Made in U.S.A. under the 6:00 position. ... shipbuilder Thomas Olsen and engineer Joakim Lehmkuhl--both of whom ... by producing bomb and artillery fuses that utilized clockwork mechanisms. ... The first Timex watches rolled off the assembly line in 1949 and soon...
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Bulova Accutron History - The Accutron Place  The developement of the Bulova Accutron tuning fork wristwatch. ... of Bulova Watch Company at the time, asked Max Hetzel to research these new watches. ... His report predicted that the newly-developed transistor would be the key ... watch that will be guaranteed accurate to within 2 seconds a day, or 1 minute a month.
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Manhattan Project: The Discovery of Fission, 1938-1939  Bringing It All Together  1945: Dawn of the. Atomic Era  1945-present: Postscript -- The Nuclear Age  Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn, Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute, Berlin ... the radiochemists Otto Hahn (above, with Lise Meitner) and Fritz Strassmann, ... They split and became not the new transuranic elements that some thought...
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Clocks - Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia - Wiley Online Library  Oct 13, 2006 ... The measurement of time is important in so many phases of human activity that ... One such method was the construction of these parts partly or wholly ... The first atomic clock was the ammonia clock invented at the United States ..... town of Schnwald im Schwarzwald, Germany, by Franz Ketterer in 1738.
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QUESTIONS UNLIMITED  (5) What machine using electromagnetic waves to transmit both sound and ... by an American general during the Second World War, referred to soldiers from ... 54 (20) Quote the line from Hamlet that comes just before the words, .... 121 (15) Give me a firm spot on which to stand and I will move the earth. ... Ans. Archimedes.
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This Month in Physics History - American Physical Society  This led to his work with J.M. Nuttall to formulate the Geiger-Nuttall Rule in 1912, ... one of his doctoral students, Walther Muller, on improving his original Geiger counter ... Geiger-Muller counter could detect many different kinds of ionizing radiation. ... But reports differ as to whether he helped or rejected his beleaguered...
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Carl Eady, Author at Escapement Magazine | Watch news, watch ...  Urwerk, the Swiss independent watch company, is certainly one such entity. ... Taking inspiration from a knight's breastplate, not only in form but in its impenetrable ... A massive 53mm would normally ring alarm bells for many a prospective owner, ..... Seiko's founder Kintaro Hattori had a vision that Seiko would become a...
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The Final Countdown (film) - Wikipedia  The Final Countdown is a 1980 alternate history science fiction film about a modern aircraft carrier that travels through time to the day before the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. ... to attack Pearl Harbor, Nimitz crew eventually realize that they have been transported back in time to December 6, one day before the attack.
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Important Dates in History for December - Events - Boy Scouts  Dec 1, 2015 ... December 24, 1942 - The first surface-to-surface guided missile, later known as the V-1 Flying Bomb, was launched by German rocket engineer...
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History of Bulova Corporation  FundingUniverse  1923: The company changes its name to the Bulova Watch Company. ... a popular line originally introduced in the early 1960s, and Sportstime watches. ... Loews Corporation, which has holdings in the hotel, tobacco, and insurance ... was the first to be sold with a written guarantee of accuracy to within one minute a month.
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Movado - Wikipedia  Movado is an American watchmaker best known for its Museum Watch. Designed in 1947 by ... Movado watches.svg  Type  Public  Traded as  NYSE: MOV.
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History of watches - Wikipedia  Most of the five hundred year History of watches consisted of the development of the mechanical watch. Watches evolved from portable spring driven clocks, which first appeared in ..... The company Mappin & Webb began production of their successful ... His Rolex wristwatch of 1910 became the first such watch to receive...
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Full text of "Navy yearbook" - Internet Archive  A supplementary sea-air watch has been maintained off the coasts of France and ... r WORLD WAR II the Deutschland (later renamed Liirzow) and Admiral Grat Spee ... ,he,r design, the Germans, carrying out plans se, in motion many days before, ... A destroyer, an ammunition ship and several supply ships were sunk at a...
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Moon Investigative Assets: Insights - PBS  ... shocked the world when Korolev's team launched Sputnik on October 4, 1957. ... sphere circled the earth once every 96 minutes, whizzing along at 18,000 mph and most .... On his 59th birthday Korolev entered an elite Kremlin hospital for what was ... One fact is known, the chief designer died on the operating table.
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Timeline of World War II (1939) - Wikipedia  This is a timeline of events that stretched over the period of World War II. For events preceding September 1, 1939, see the timeline of events preceding World War II. Contents. [hide]. 1 September 1939; 2 October 1939; 3 November 1939; 4 December 1939 ... Within five minutes of the Luftwaffe attacks, Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine...
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Wrist Check... American Style! [Archive] - WATCH TALK FORUMS  Ritz were introduced November 21, 1934 .... When he landed at Le Bourget Field in Paris, Lindbergh became a world .... (CORRECTION: It was a Bulova Lone Eagle, not Benrus.) ...... I just have to plug my ears when I wind it.
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jeopardy/143_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  INVENTIONS | In 1850 he developed a new Navy model of his 6-shooter .... How time flies: August 16, 1997 was the 20th anniversary of his untimely death...