"Pemberton Place Pemberton Place, located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, just north of Centennial Olympic Park in the Luckie Marietta district, is a complex that is home to the Georgia Aquarium, the World of Coca-Cola, and the Center for Civil and Human Rights. It is named after John Pemberton, the inventor of Coca-Cola. The area was originally ten city blocks of businesses, residences, etc.; it started to decline in the mid-20th century and by the early 1990s was considered a ""long forgotten district of downtown"". The Coca-Cola Company acquired property in the area and built Coca-Cola Olympic City there, for the"
"£2.5Bn deal. The takeover was completed in November 2010. SSL International SSL International plc was a British manufacturer of healthcare products. Its best known brands were Durex and Scholl; other significant brands were Sauber and Mister Baby. The company's name was an abbreviation of ""Seton Scholl London International"", its predecessor businesses. Since November 2010, SSL International has been a part of Reckitt Benckiser. Dr. Scholl's was founded in 1906 by Chicago-based podiatrist William M Scholl. Opening its first shop in London in 1913, after the death of Dr Scholl it was listed publicly on the New York Stock Exchange in"
"leading providers of technological innovations, providing inventions as diverse as the World Wide Web by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and Viagra by British scientists at Pfizer's Sandwich, Kent. Sir Alec Jeffreys pioneered DNA fingerprinting. Pioneers of fertility treatment Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards, achieved conception through IVF (world's first ""test tube baby"") in 1978. The prototype tank was constructed at William Foster & Co. in Lincoln in 1915, with leading roles played by Major Walter Gordon Wilson who designed the gearbox and developed practical tracks and by William Tritton whose company built it. This was a prototype of the Mark I"
"and Oscar G. Bell, a drug store employee, the company grew to become a major developer and manufacturer of medicines and veterinary products, known for its Unguentine antiseptic dressing (introduced in 1893) and Pepto-Bismol, an upset-stomach and anti-diarrhea medication (introduced in 1901 under a different name). The company merged with Morton International, Inc. in 1969 and later became a subsidiary of Procter & Gamble in 1982. Under corporate restructuring, Procter & Gamble divided the company into several units, each of which was subsequently sold. This caused the loss of many jobs in Norwich, resulting in the city struggling to figure"
"organisations. These include AACC International, PMCA, BEMA and B&CMA in the US: and the Leatherhead Food International and Campden BRI in the UK. Baker Perkins Baker Perkins Ltd is a British engineering company based in Peterborough offering manufacturing and process services to the food industry throughout the world. The company has its origins with Jacob Perkins (1766-1849), an American inventor who moved to England in 1819 from Massachusetts. His son, Angier March Perkins (1799-1881), founded the firm of A. M. Perkins & Co Ltd to manufacture his inventions. In 1893, the company merged with Werner & Pfleiderer (London) to form"
"trees and the same again the following year. The company have always taken responsibilities to the environment seriously and continues to support this important project. Plumbworld Plumbworld is a specialist bathroom retailer based in the market town of Evesham in the United Kingdom. The company was founded by the current CEO James Hickman in 1999 and operates exclusively online. It has been owned by the Grafton Group since 2006. Plumbworld was founded in 1999 by James and Anita Hickman. The company grew into a multi-million pound business within a matter of years. In 2006, James Hickman sold the company to"
"HellermannTyton HellermannTyton is a British registered company with affiliated companies in 37 countries manufacturing and supplying products for fastening, fixing, identifying and protecting cables and their connecting components. The company employs worldwide over 3,800 people. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange until it was acquired by Delphi Automotive in December 2015. Delphi has since renamed and separated the part of its business that is focused on automated driving and electrification, calling the new entity Aptiv. The company was founded by Paul Hellermann and Jack Bowthorpe in Croydon as Hellermann Electric, a subsidiary of Goodliffe Electric Supplies, in 1938."
"was named after him. David E. T. Garman Concepts Limited is the corporate assignee of David's more recently-generated intellectual property and was founded in September 2013. David's latest invention is the AIR CRADLE® patient transfer system. The intellectual property relating to this is owned by David E. T. Garman Concepts Limited. David is also a philanthropist . In 2007, David was awarded the BHTA (British Healthcare Trades Association) Lifetime Service Award for his contribution and dedication to the rehabilitation industry. David was also made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for “services to the healthcare industry” by"
"United Kingdom's largest engineering businesses. It was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but in 1999 it merged with BTR plc to form Invensys. Invensys was taken over by the French multinational Schneider Electric for £3.4 billion in January 2014. The Company was notable for developing the ""closed"" diving helmet of the standard diving dress and associated equipment. As the helmet was sealed to the diving suit, it was watertight, unlike the previous ""open"" helmet systems. The new equipment was safer and more efficient and revolutionised underwater work from the 1830s. Colonel Charles Pasley, leader of the Royal Navy"
"stall in Cheltenham. Over the course of 15 years, Dunkerton and Hibbs built Cult Clothing to a chain of stores with a turnover of £17 million. In 2003, Dunkerton and co-founder James Holder launched fashion brand Superdry. The idea for the company came from a trip to Japan. A number of celebrities, including David Beckham, Leonardo DiCaprio and Idris Elba were spotted wearing the label. In 2010, the company was floated on the London Stock Exchange at a value for £400 million. As of January 2018, the company has more than 500 stores in 40 countries. In 2014, Dunkerton took"
"investors led by Bain Capital who had bought Baxter International's diagnostics unit for over $440 million, in late 1994. The combined operations of the two companies reached sales of $1.2 billion and employed a workforce of 6,400 worldwide. The new firm became the world's largest company devoted to diagnostics, with sales of over $500 million. The ""Dade"" part of the name is a legacy of the Dade Reagents Company, founded by Dr. John Elliott near the end of the 1940s to provide consistent, high quality typing and testing of blood. Jim Reid-Anderson joined Dade Behring Holdings Inc, in 1996 as"
"second largest pharmaceutical company in the world. Warner–Lambert was founded as a Philadelphia drug store in 1856 by William R. Warner. Inventing a tablet-coating process gained Warner a place in the Smithsonian Institution. Parke–Davis was founded in Detroit in 1866 by Hervey Parke and George Davis. Warner–Lambert took over Parke–Davis in 1976, and acquired Wilkinson Sword in 1993 and Agouron Pharmaceuticals in 1999. In 2002, Pfizer merged with Pharmacia. The merger was again driven in part by the desire to acquire full rights to a product, this time Celebrex (celecoxib), the COX-2 selective inhibitor previously jointly marketed by Searle (acquired"
"the acquisition of John Guest Holdings Ltd. RWC is a leading global manufacturer and supplier of premium-branded engineered water delivery, control and optimisation products and solutions for residential and commercial plumbing applications and is the premier manufacturer in the world of brass push-to-connect (“PTC”) plumbing fittings. In 1974, John Guest invented the now famous ‘Super Speedfit’ tube connector concept. The new product reduced assembly times to a few seconds with an instant tube-coupling system, which needed no tools for putting together or disconnecting. The original fittings had brass collets and zinc or brass bodies. The current Speedfit range mainly incorporates"
"by the BBC. Victor Pemberton told an interviewer for ""Doctor Who Magazine"", ""I'm very cross that the sonic screwdriver—which I invented—has been marketed with no credit to myself. … It's one thing not to receive any payment, but another not to receive any credit."" The toy version of the new series design (made by Character Options Ltd.) was slightly larger than the on screen version to accommodate a working sound chip. It also includes an ultraviolet light and changeable invisible ink nib for viewing messages written in the ultraviolet ink. A metal version of the sonic screwdriver produced by Wow"
"the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame. His work is the basis for a number of U.S. and foreign patents. Interferon is a major product of several U.S. and foreign companies many of which license interferon under his patents, including Schering-Plough, Hoffmann-La Roche, Amgen, Biogen and Berlex. At a White House ceremony in June 2002, President George W. Bush honored him with the National Medal of Technology. He was cited for his ""pioneering achievements that led to the development of the biotechnology industry, to the first recombinant interferons for the treatment of cancers, leukemias, viral diseases such as hepatitis B"
"which opened in 1830. With his role in the marketing and manufacturing of the steam engine, and invention of modern coinage, Matthew Boulton (business partner of James Watt) is regarded as one of the most influential entrepreneurs in history. The physician Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccine is said to have ""saved more lives ... than were lost in all the wars of mankind since the beginning of recorded history."" Inventions and discoveries of the English include: the jet engine, the first industrial spinning machine, the first computer and the first modern computer, the World Wide Web along with HTML, the first"
"Coats Group Coats Group plc is a British multi-national company. It is the world's largest manufacturer and distributor of sewing thread and supplies, and the second-largest manufacturer of zips and fasteners, after YKK. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. In 1755 James and Patrick Clark began a loom equipment and silk thread business in Paisley, Scotland. In 1806 Patrick Clark invented a way of twisting cotton together to substitute for silk that was unavailable due to the French blockade of Great Britain. He opened the first plant for manufacturing"
"one automobile company in the world. However, in 1957, because of DuPont's influence within GM, further action under the Clayton Antitrust Act forced DuPont to divest its shares of General Motors. In the 1920s, DuPont continued its emphasis on materials science, hiring Wallace Carothers to work on polymers in 1928. Carothers invented neoprene, a synthetic rubber; the first polyester superpolymer; and, in 1935, nylon. The invention of Teflon followed a few years later. DuPont introduced phenothiazine as an insecticide in 1935. DuPont ranked 15th among United States corporations in the value of wartime production contracts. As the inventor and manufacturer"
"Baker Perkins Baker Perkins Ltd is a British engineering company based in Peterborough offering manufacturing and process services to the food industry throughout the world. The company has its origins with Jacob Perkins (1766-1849), an American inventor who moved to England in 1819 from Massachusetts. His son, Angier March Perkins (1799-1881), founded the firm of A. M. Perkins & Co Ltd to manufacture his inventions. In 1893, the company merged with Werner & Pfleiderer (London) to form Werner, Pfleiderer & Perkins Ltd. In 1904, WP&P moved their manufacturing from London to Westwood, Peterborough. In 1914, owing to pressure over its"
"the customer’s needs. RPD International (company) RPD International is a design and manufacturing firm founded in 2013 by a British entrepreneur, Josh Valman. After only six months of its establishment, the business was worth £1 million. RPD operates a global supply chain of 100+ factories in 40+ countries. At a young age, Valman was designing robots. But his practical approach has put him in charge of a business worth multiple millions. According to an interview with the Telegraph, Josh Valman mentioned the idea of a flexible supply chain. He said the RPD can design any product of any kind for"
"the Elliott Cresson Medal—now renamed the Benjamin Franklin Medal—for his accomplishments of invention in technology. Pelton was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2006. There are memorials and monuments celebrating Pelton and the ""Pelton Runner"" mounted in Camptonville, California, in the Miners Foundry in Nevada City, California, and at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C., California Resort at Disney Land, among other sites. Lester Allan Pelton Lester Allan Pelton (September 5, 1829 – March 14, 1908) was an American inventor who contributed significantly to the development of hydroelectricity and hydropower in the old West and world-wide. In"
"Company. As a result of his making instruments for Capt. Phipps's voyage in the polar regions, the island of Cummingøya in Svalbard was named after him. Alexander Cumming Alexhander Cumming (sometimes referred to as Alexander Cummings) FRSE (1733 –8 March 1814) was a Scottish watchmaker and instrument inventor, who was the first to patent a design of the flush toilet, which had been pioneered by Sir John Harrington, but without solving the problem of foul smells. The S-trap (or bend) was invented by Cumming in 1775 to retain water permanently within the bowl, thus preventing sewer gases from entering buildings."
"to buy the company for $1.7 billion. The acquisition was completed on 18 December 2015 and HellermannTyton became constituent part of Aptiv’s Engineered Components Group division. The name HellermannTyton is a Portmanteau of the founders surname, Paul Hellermann, and the 1965 invented ""Tyton system"", a method for cable bundeling in continuous system. Three production facilities are located in the UK (Manchester, Plymouth, Northampton). The others are located in Poland (Kotunia, within Słupca County), France (Trappes), Germany (Tornesch), South Africa (Johannesburg), Singapore (Yishun), China (Wuxi), Japan (Hyogo), Korea (Incheon), USA (Milwaukee), Mexico (General Escobedo) and Brazil (Jundiai). The materials processed are"
"RPD International (company) RPD International is a design and manufacturing firm founded in 2013 by a British entrepreneur, Josh Valman. After only six months of its establishment, the business was worth £1 million. RPD operates a global supply chain of 100+ factories in 40+ countries. At a young age, Valman was designing robots. But his practical approach has put him in charge of a business worth multiple millions. According to an interview with the Telegraph, Josh Valman mentioned the idea of a flexible supply chain. He said the RPD can design any product of any kind for any company. This"
"Court of the European Union was dismissed, and the fine upheld. Coats Group Coats Group plc is a British multi-national company. It is the world's largest manufacturer and distributor of sewing thread and supplies, and the second-largest manufacturer of zips and fasteners, after YKK. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. In 1755 James and Patrick Clark began a loom equipment and silk thread business in Paisley, Scotland. In 1806 Patrick Clark invented a way of twisting cotton together to substitute for silk that was unavailable due to the French"
"SSL International SSL International plc was a British manufacturer of healthcare products. Its best known brands were Durex and Scholl; other significant brands were Sauber and Mister Baby. The company's name was an abbreviation of ""Seton Scholl London International"", its predecessor businesses. Since November 2010, SSL International has been a part of Reckitt Benckiser. Dr. Scholl's was founded in 1906 by Chicago-based podiatrist William M Scholl. Opening its first shop in London in 1913, after the death of Dr Scholl it was listed publicly on the New York Stock Exchange in 1972, and became a member of the Fortune 500."
"was improved and their cooling solution was a world sensation. Albert Einstein once mentioned how astonished he was by their ingenious solution. Manufacturing of the refrigerator commenced in 1923 by the company AB Arctic. In 1925, development was finished, and the company was bought by Electrolux. After inventing extruded polystyrene foam plastic, he started his own company in 1955 and developed, among other things, new insulation materials, air conditioners and dehumidification devices. At his death, Munters had over a thousand patents. Carl Munters Carl Georg Munters (March 22, 1897 – 1989) was a Swedish inventor, most known for inventing together"
"new company Network Si UK Ltd being formed. In 2008 a new, independent Apricot company was launched in the UK. Apricot was an innovative computer hardware company, whose Birmingham R&D centre could build every aspect of a personal computer except for the integrated circuits (chips) themselves, from custom BIOS and system-level programming to the silk-screen of motherboards and metal-bending for internal chassis all the way to radio-frequency testing of a finished system. This coupled with a smart and aggressive engineering team allowed Apricot to be the first company in the world with several technical innovations including the first commercial shipment"
"manufacturer founded in the 1940s by a researcher from the Pasteur Institute and acquired in 2003 by Thermo Electron. The Osmopile device was modernized over time and used in the fight against industrial pollution. Through his invention, Alain Berton proved to be an ecology pioneer. Alain Berton was awarded the Medal of the International Bureau of Analytical Chemistry (BICA)- International fight against chemical weapons. led by . The information on this page is partially translated from the equivalent page in French licensed under the Creative Commons/Attribution Sharealike . History of contributions can be checked here: Alain Berton Alain-Edgard Berton (1912-1979)"
"include Avon, Treasury Wine Estates, Edgewell/Schick, Tudor, HSBC, Johnson & Johnson, Newell, Air Canada and the United States Marine Corps. J. Walter Thompson, of the WPP Group, is the world’s best-known marketing communications brand. Headquartered in New York City, J. Walter Thompson is a global network with more than 200 offices in over 90 countries and employing over 12,000 marketing professionals. JWT celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2014. It traces its origins to the Carlton & Smith agency, which opened its doors in 1864, one of the first known advertising agencies in the United States. Founder William James Carlton started"
"with short production-runs of fashion styles and the classic 8 eyelet ankle boot, made on a rolling army last. To maintain independence White's registered the Tredair trade mark in 1976 to produce boots labelled ""Dr Martens Tredair"", and then just ""Tredair"" after 1983, using their own patented foam-injection system to make a bouncier mid-sole than the DM felt. They filed patent 2292878B with Harry Gee as inventor. In 1990 White & Company (Earls Barton) Ltd. was awarded a Queens Award for Export Achievement after exporting 70% of production including Gripfast shoes, made by the same company and mainstream Goodyear-welted styles"
"ship and aircraft manufacturers and other industries such as ""white goods"". Products are designed using design programs, known as CAD systems, in 3D. The designs are produced in a small series of prototypes sent to the customer for installation in vehicles, machinery etc. for testing purposes. After testing the part, corresponding quantities are made using injection molding. HellermannTyton HellermannTyton is a British registered company with affiliated companies in 37 countries manufacturing and supplying products for fastening, fixing, identifying and protecting cables and their connecting components. The company employs worldwide over 3,800 people. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange"
"the name and formula, and abandoned the troubled corporation, starting, without its other principals, a new corporation, The Coca-Cola Company. In the same year, Charley Pemberton died at the age of forty, after an apparent overdose of opium, as he was probably addicted to it like his father. The Coca-Cola Company remained vulnerable, until the inactive Coca Cola Corporation's charter expired in 1908, to legal challenges from it. Coca Cola Corporation Coca Cola Corporation was an Atlanta, Georgia company, the first large-scale manufacturer and marketer of beverages based on the Coca-Cola formula, and closely related to The Coca-Cola Company, the"