The Bryant Electric Company

Historical Perspectives: From Light Switches to Torpedo Controls: The Story of the Bryant Electric Company Bridgeport , Connecticut (Westinghouse Magazine, Volume 19; Numer 5) Historical Perspectives 1996 ISBN: B004JPN0S6
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NICE CONDITION LARGE SLENDER SOFTCOVER BOOK. NO WRITING OR MARKINGS IN TEXT. LIGHT WEAR TO COVER WITH PREVIOUS OWNER'S NAME. A CLEAN & SOLID COPY. Paperback

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Keyes, Christopher. Outside Magazine 4/07 ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER Cover. Santa Fe: Mariah Media Inc, 2007.

OUTSIDE Magazine 4/07. 30th Anniversary Special Edition. The magazine, in illustrated wraper, is in VERY GOOD condition with sticker residue on front cover and minor shelf edgewear. 144 pages. Color illustrated. JMVINTAGE specializes in Books, Magazines, and Treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor...and other curious subjects. OUTSIDE Magazine COVER: ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER in La Canada, California, Photographs by Sam Jones; FEATURES-GREEN GIANTS This earth needs a few bright ideas. Meet two dozen people whose visionary thinking just might save the planet. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger at Descanso Gardens, interview by Christopher Keyes; Andrew Shapiro, Eco-business strategist; Laurie David, Hollywood Heroine and producer of An Inconvenient Truth; David de Rothschild, founder of Adventure Ecology; Summer Rayne Oakes, Fashion model for sustainable textiles; Sir Richard Branson, Virgin empire; Al Gore, The Catalyst; Auden Schendler, Mountain resort maverick, managing director of community and environmental responsibility for the Aspen Skiing Company; Richard Cook, architect, designer of such futuristic buildings such as Manhattan's One Bryant Park, a 54-story glas and steel monolith on track to become the greenest skyscraper; John Doerr, a Silicon Valley capitalist and billionaire; Eliot Spitzer, Governor of New York; Issac Berzin, biotechnology engineer; Jerome Ringo, chairman of the National Wildlife Federation; Majora Carter, environmentalist; Willie Nelson, musician; Captain Paul Watson, cofounder of Greenpeace and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society; Jeff Schwartz, President and CEO of Timberland; John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market; Leonardo DiCaprio, actor; Alison Gannett, skier; Richard Cizik, VP for governmental affairs of the National Association of Evangelicals; Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia; Matt Peterson, CEO & President of Global Green; Plus, 40 ways you can help; LEAPING TIGER, DROWNING RIVER Is red the new green? Not just yet. With its massive economy and populace, China is the country environmentalists will watch in the 21st century. Join Patrick Symmes on a raft trip in Yunnan, whose wild rivers could be the next victims of eternal dam-nation; WHAT'S SO FUNNY? If you want to get the young-and-hip crowd charged up about environmental issues, it helps to work in a few jokes. A look inside the Seattle online magazine Grist and its snarky but dead-serious master plan by Tim Dickinson; TAPPED A global water crisis is devastating people, creatures, rivers, lakes, oceans-in short nearly everything that keeps us happy and alive. But don't let that sink you spirits. Activists are on the case, and each of us can play a part in restoring our liquid assets; MR. COOL How Minnesota's Will Steger, a 30-year veteran of polar exploration and global-warming activism, became Hollywood's unlikeliest "It" boy by Stephanie Pearson; HOME IMPROVEMENT In the heart of rustic Montana an architectural husband-and-wife duo have built a modern spread that takes eco-design from crunchy to cool. Katie Arnold pays a call. Plus: Ten cutting-edge solutions for greening up your current digs; DEPARTMENTS-FIRST LOOK At Jack Johnson's Kokua Festival, in Honolulu, Hawaii, Jack and Eddie Vedder will take the stage and local environmental groups will get the proceeds; DISPATCHES-THE OUTSIDE INTERVIEW Peter Diamandis, the renegade thinker behind the X Prize, is bribing the world to a better future; THE BIG IDEA A miser discovers the joy of charity. And all it took was the threat of environmental disaster; POLITICS: California's big-wave breaks are about o lose tow-in surfing, Enviro necessity or bureaucratic kookery?; SPORT: The world's first carbon-neutral cycling team; THE DRAWING BOARD Are you as green as you could be? Take our quiz; PLUS: Endangered-species ringtones and a beach cruiser from Ellsworth; MEDIA BOOKS New calls to action from Paul Hawken and Bill McKibbin; must-own titles for the savvy environmentalist; ENTERTAINMENT The second greening of Hollywood. Will It Last? DESTINATIONS: Moab gets even better by turning to solar, wind, and bio power; THE GREEN LIST: The best in sustainable travel, from Africa's new safari camp to fuel-efficient jets to a float down Chile's threatened Rio Baker. Plus: Five eco-lodges we love; REVIEW-COVET A zero-emissions pickup that fits five people and their gear; PERFORMANCE Quick-dry coconut T-shirts, wicking corn undergarments and other products from 40 leaders of the green gear revolution; CODE GREEN Detroit says it's almost back in the electric-car business. Which is good for all of us; AQUA MAN Environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is always on the H20 front lines; THE SHELTER: HOME IMPROVEMENT Brett Nave and Lori Ryker left the Earthship behind to build the cultimate eco-chic crash pad in the Montana hill. Paperback condition: Very Good

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Mabel Dwight (illustrator Cvr, Though Some Advertisements are b/w, MANY are Beautiful Color Design Using Pink, Blue, Yellow, Maroon, Green, Red, Purple, & Metallic Such as Silver: Fortune MAGAZINE, April 1930, Vol 1 #5; with Green & Black Ocean Liner on Front with 4 Large Flags & Large Crowd Below on Land Cheering Launch Ready C. Late 1800's Mabel Dwight (illustrator). Articles on: To Make a Circus Pay, John Ringling; Petroleum, TIME-LIFE., NEW YORK. 1930 ; weicher Einband / soft cover; 1. Ed.

MAGAZINE, April 1930 , 1st edition, NF-/GOOD+, AS-IS, some spine Damage clear tape repair, 14 x 11.5 in. 156 pgs. slight edge bumping and soil, minor edge stain to first few pgs, else a nice issue, a little page toning; Back Cvr FOXING STAINS, tiny Water stain bottom blank margin edges some pgs .includes The Texas Co., Spindletop, Natural gas, color map of US showing the Texas Co. & it's relation to industry; General Motors executives, Alfred P. Sloan; Fokker affiliated with General Motors ad; Copper with fold-out color illustration of Open cut copper mine near Salt Lake City; Aviation with several pages of color illustrations of planes and travel posters; Gillette razors; Grigsby-Grunow; Elgin watches with several pages of Margaret B. White photos; Big ships, SS Leviathan and Southampton port; British motion picture "One Family"; Eating & drinking the Imperial Dinner, Reeves-Smith & wine; statistics: 1928 - 24 individuals with income over5 million, up from 11 in 1927; Budget for a50,00 income in New York City; GoodYear Tires ad displaying a chart showing growth of motor vehicle tires rom 1902-1929; faces of the month & career milestones; some of the ads are from these companies: Packard, General Electric, Bryant Heater, Pierce Arrow, Cadillac, Marmon Autos, Spartan Aircraft Co., Chris-Craft, Sterling Engine Company, Gar Wood Motorboats, US Rubber, Brooks Brothers, J. Walter Thompson, White Trucks, Remington Rand, Aetna Insurance, Isotta Fraschini, Texaco Motor Oil, Camels cigarettes. First Edition No Jacket Soft Cover; First Edition

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