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Commemorating the Opening of a Museum Honor George Westinghouse
Tags: AC; air brakes; Al Schmid; alternating currents; alternating-current system; American Standard, Inc.; APICS; Berkshire House; Bill Stanley; boats; Chicago Columbian Exposition; Chicago World's Fair; East Pittsburgh Works; Education and Research Foundation of the American Production and Inventory Control Society; electric power industry; electricity; engineering; George Melville; George W. Melville; George Wallace Melville; George Westinghouse and Company; George Westinghouse Museum; George Westinghouse, Jr.; Great Barrington, Massachusetts; Hartford, Connecticut; inventions; inventors; John Dixon Gibbs; John H. McAlpine; laboratories; laboratory; labs; Lucien Gaulard; main-line locomotives; marine turbines; museums; naval vessels; Neptune; Niagara Falls; Nikola Tesla; Pan Handle Route; Panhandle Route; Pittsburgh Packing Company; Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; polyphase systems; propellers; railroad electrification; railroad switching; railroads; railway signaling; railways; Reginald Belfield; rotary steam engines; Schenectady Agricultural Works; secondary generators; ships; single-phase alternative currents; steam turbines; steamboats; steamers; steamships; Stuart and Gibson; The Castle; trains; transformers; transportation; U.S. Navy; Westinghouse Air Brake; Westinghouse Air Brake Company General Office Building; Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company; Westinghouse Electric Corporation; William Stanley, Jr.; Wilmerding, Pennsylvania; World's Columbian Exposition; World's Fair: Columbian Exposition
Florida Historical Quarterly, Episode 2: Vol. 88, No. 1, Summer 2009
Tags: African Americans; Angelo Albano; archival research; Arthur Ellsworth Summerfield; Arthur Summerfield; Blockbusters; Bob Graham Center for Public Service; Brian Ward; Castenge Ficarrotta; Castenzio Ficarrotta; civil rights; Clarence J. Brown; Clarence J. Brown, Sr.; Connie Lester; Costanzo Ficarrotta; Dave Engels; factions; FHQ; Florence Garrison; Florida Historical Quarterly; French; G. H. Alexander; GOP; Grand Old Party; Henry B. Plant; Henry Flagler; Henry Morrison Flagler; Herbert Brownell, Jr.; immigrants; Italian Americans; Italians; Jesus Mendez; Miami; Michael D. Bowen; Neal Deal coalition; New Deal; political parties; political party; politics; Post-WWII; property expansion; race relations; railroads; Republican Party; Republican Party of Florida; Republicanism; Republicans; Robert A. Taft; Robert Alphonso Taft; Robert Cassanello; Robert J. Alderson, Jr.; Sicilians; Solid South; Spanish East Florida; Stefano Luconi; Taft-Dewey Campaign; Tampa, lynchings; Thomas E. Dewey; Thomas Edmund Dewey; urban growth; Wesley Garrison
The Florida Agriculturist, Vol. 10, No. 27, November 9, 1887
Tags: agriculture; anarchism; anarchists; Apopka; Astor; Bartow; bees; Blue Springs; cattle; citrus; clocks; colleges; consumption; courts; cows; creditors; De Funiak Springs; DeLand; Eber W. Bond; F. E, NORRIS; fertilizers; Florida Shippers Union; foreclosures; Gadsden County; Gainesville; Green Cove Springs; H. A. Wright; Halifax River Railroad; Hamlin; Haymarket Affair; Haymarket Massacre; Haymarket Riot; Highland Park; Holly Hill; horses; Huntington; Isaac D. Beauchamp,; Jacksonville; James H.c Chandler; John Cromie; John Ellis; Katie Beauchamp; Key West; Lake Apopka; Lakeland; Leesburg; Leon County; Lucas; M. Uenard; malaria; Melbourne; Monroe County; New Smyrna; Newnan; Ocala; Orange City; Orange Park; orlando; Palatka; Pensacola; Pullman; R. B. F. Roper; R. Mohan; railroads; Rockledge; Roger Laroque; San Mateo; Sanford; Seventh Judicial Circuit Court of Florida; Seville; Silas B. Wright; St. Augustine; St. Johns River; Starke; Tallahassee; Tampa; Tampa Bay; The Florida Agriculturist; The Florida Citrus Grower; The Southern Circulator; Titusville; trains; Volusia County; W. A. Allen; W. Fisher; W. W. Alexander; W. W. Parce; watch; watches; woman; women
Map of Florida Showing the Land Grant of the Florida South Railway
Tags: Alachua County; Altoona; Arcadia; arrowroot; Art-Printing Works; Astor; Baker County; bananas; Bartow; Boardman; Bowling Green; Bradford County; Brevard County; Brooksville; Brownville; Caloosahatchee River; Candler; cassava; castorbeans; cattle; Centre Hill; Charlie Apopka; Charlie Creek; Charlotte Harbor; Chinese sand pears; Citra; citrus; Clay County; Cleveland; climates; coconuts; Columbia County; comtie; Conant; corn; cotton; DeSoto County; Dragem Junction; Duval County; East Lake Weir; Eustis; Evinston; field crops; fish; fisheries; fishery; fishing; Florida Commissioner of Land and Immigration; Florida Southern Railway Company; Fort Mason; Fort Meade; Fort Ogden; Francis; Fruitland Park; fruits; Ft. Meade; Ft. Ogden; Gainesville; Glendale; Grove Park; groves; guava; hammocks; Hawthorne; hemp; Hernando County; hogs; Hollister; Homeland; immigrants; immigration; indigo; Interlachen; Irish potato; Irish potatoes; Jacksonville; Japanese persimmon; Japanese plums; John W. Candler; John W. Weeks; John Welsh; Johnson; jute; Kendrick; Keuka; L.O. Garrett; Lady Lake; Lake County; Lake Eustis; Lake Harris; Lake Weir; Lane Park; LeConte pears; Lee County; Leesburg; lemons; Levy County; limes; Lochbie; Manatee County; Mannville; Marion County; Martin; Matthews, Northrup and Company; McIntosh; McKeein; Micanopy; Monroe County; Mount Tabor; Nassau County; Nocatee; nuts; Oak-Lawn; Ocala; Ocklawaha; Okahumpka; Orange Belt Railway; orange county; Orange Lake; oranges; Osceola County; Palatka; Peace River; peach; peaches; pecans; Pemberton Ferry; pineapple; pines; Polk County; population; Punta Gorda; Putnam County; railroads; railways; rain; ramie; Ravenswood; Reddick; rice; Rochelle; Sherman Conant; South Lake Weir; St. Johns River; Stanton; strawberries; strawberry; sugarcane; Sulphur Springs; Summit; Sumter County; swamps; sweet potato; sweet potatoes; Tavares; timber; tobacco; Umatilla; vegetables; Volusia County; Wait's Crossing; Wauchula; Webster; Welshton; Zolfo Springs
Letter from William Beardall to Henry Shelton Sanford (November 26, 1886)
Tags: Alexander St. Clair Abrams; Diamond Match Company; fiber mills; fibers; fiberwork; FLCC; Florida Land and Colonization Company; Henry Shelton Sanford; Internal Improvement Fund Board; investments; lawsuits; Palmetto Fibre Manufactory; paper mills; Presbyterian College; railroads; railways; real estate; Sanford; Sanford Saw Mill; Sanford Wharf; Tavares; William Beardall; Winter Haven
Gas Turbine-Driven Locomotive
Westinghouse 501AA Gas Turbine
Westinghouse: A Proud History of Combustion Turbine Experience
Tags: blast-furnace gas; Bunker C; Canadian Utilities; coal gas; coal gasification; combustion turbines; cooled blades; cooled vanes; Creole Petroleum Corporation; DAEE Brazil; Departamento de Águas e Energia Elétrica; Detroit Edison Company; Dow Chemical Company; electric power generation; Fiat Automobiles; Florida Power and Light Company; IGCC; integrated gasification combined cycle; locomotives; Mississippi River Fuel Corporation; Mitsubishi Heavy Industries; natural gas; oil field compressors; PACE; peaking units; Power at Combined Efficiency; power plants; railroads; residual fuel; residual oil; Salt Grass Combined-Cycle Plant; Saudi Arabian Oil Company; Saudi Aramco; trains; U.S. Steel; U.S. Steel Company; United States Steel Corporation; vanadium; W251; W251B12; W501; W501D5; W501F; West Texas Utilities; Westinghouse 251; Westinghouse 251B12; Westinghouse 501; Westinghouse 501D5; Westinghouse 501F; Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Oral History of Warren McFarland
Tags: A&P grocery; abbreviations; ACL; agency checks; Alaska; American Morse Code; Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company; auditors; audits; Avon Park; Avon Park Atlantic Coast Line Train Station; barge lines; bugs; California; carpal tunnel syndrome; Central Florida Railroad Museum; Chicago, Illinois; communication limits; communications; computer-assisted train dispatching; conscription; CTS; Dallas, Texas; Department of Transportation; DOT; drafts; equal pay; extra boards; FCC; Federal Communications Commission; first solid-state amplifiers; first transcontinental telegraphs; Florida Boom; Frances Perkins Building; freight warehouses; Geoffrey Cravero; grocery clerks; grocery stores; Guglielmo Marconi; ham radio operators; ham radios; Hawaii; historical preservation; HOS; Hours of Service; ICC; International Morse Code; Interstate Commerce Commission; landline telegraphers; landline telegraphs; landline telegraphy; Montana; Morse Telegraph Club, Inc.; Nevada; Ocala; Ocala Union Station; Ohio; orlando; paid vacations; Pony Express; Prince Albert tobacco cans; railroad agents; railroad depots; Railroad Morse; Railroad Safety and Service Agent; railroad stations; railroading; railroads; railways; regulations; resonators; Ronald Reagan; Ronald Wilson Reagan; safety inspections; SAL; Samuel Finley Breese Morse; Samuel Morse; San Francisco, California; Seaboard Air Line Depot; Seaboard Air Line Railroad; social clubs; solid-state amplifiers; sounders; South Carolina; speed keys; stagecoach routes; TAPS; Tavares & Gulf Railroad; telegraph instruments; telegraph keys; telegrapher's paralysis; telegraphers; telegraphs; telegraphy; telephones; teletypes; Tennessee; text abbreviations; The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company; train depots; train dispatchers; train dispatching; train stations; trains; Trans-Alaska Pipeline System; transcontinental telegraphs; UCF; University of Central Florida; Utah; Virginia; Warren McFarland; Washington, D.C.; waybills; Western Union; Winter Garden; wireless telegraphers; wireless telegraphs; wireless telegraphy; World War II; WWII; yard checks
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Spike
Oral Memoirs of Jeannie Economos
Tags: agribusiness farms; agricultural labor; Agricultural Worker Protection Standard; agriculture; Angel City: A Novel; Angela Tanner; Apopka; Astatula; Audubon Society; AWPS; Betty Woods; Bracero Program; bromomethane; carrots; Central Americans; citrus; Civil Rights Act of 1964; commodity crops; corn; Dale Finley Slongwhite; DI; disability benefits; disability income insurance; disability insurance; disaster education; disaster responses; Domestic Fair Trade Association; economic development; educational programs; environmental advocacy; environmental justice; Environmental Protection Agency; EPA; Eustis; fair trade; Farmworker Association of Florida; farmworkers; farmworkers' rights; Fed Up: The High Costs of Cheap Food; FOLA; food movements; Friends of Lake Apopka; Geraldine Matthew; Geraldine Shannon; globalization; Great Recession; Guatemalans; Haitians; Harry and Harriette Moore Memorial Park; Harry T. & Harriette V. Moore Cultural Complex; Hawthorne Village; Henry Flagler; Henry Morrison Flagler; Hispanic Americans; Hispanics; immigrants; immigrants’ rights; immigration; income protection; Indiantown; Jared Muha; Jobs and Education Partnership; La Via Campesina; Lake Apopka; Lake Apopka Farmworker Memorial Quilts Project; Lake Apopka Project; Lake Apopka Restoration Act of 1996; Lake City; Latin Americans; Latinas; Latinos; Linda Lee; Magnolia Park; Mary Tinsley; methyl bromide; Mexican Americans; Mexicans; Mexico; migrant farms; migrant farmworkers; migrant labor; migrant laborers; migrant workers; Mount Dora; Museum of the Apopkans; NAFTA; National Institutes Of Health; NIH; non-profit; North American Free Trade Agreement; not-for[profit; nurseries; nursery; nuts; Oakland Nature Preserve; OASDI; Occupational Safety and Health Administration; Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance; oranges; OSHA; Patrick D. Smith; Pesticide Action Network International; pesticide exposure; pesticide health and safety; Pesticide Safety and Environmental Health Project Coordinator; pesticides; public housing; race relations; railroads; railways; retraining; Salvadorans; Sara Downs; Save the Manatee Club; slavery; slaves; Social Security; Social Security Disability Insurance; soy; specialty crops; SSD; SSDI; St. Augustine; St. Johns River Water Management District; The Last Harvest: A History and Tribute to the Life and Work of the Farmworkers on Lake Apopka; tomato; tomato industry; tomatoes; U.S. Department of Agriculture; unfree labor; USDA; wage theft; Wahneta; wheat; Wimauma; Winter Garden; Winter Haven; Worker Protection Standard; Zellwood