Global Information Lookup Global Information

Walter Kidde information


Walter Kidde
Born(1877-03-07)March 7, 1877
Hoboken, New Jersey
DiedFebruary 9, 1943(1943-02-09) (aged 65)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materStevens Institute of Technology[1]
Known forFire extinguishers
Scientific career
FieldsFire suppression
InstitutionsWalter Kidde & Company

Walter Kidde (/ˈkɪdə/; March 7, 1877 – February 9, 1943) was an American businessman. He was the owner of the Kidde company which manufactured fire extinguishers. His parents immigrated to the United States from Bohemia.[a] Kidde graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1897.[2] He died of a heart attack in 1943 at the age of 65.

  1. ^ History of Stevens Institute of Technology: A Record of Broad Bases Curricula and Technogenesis 1870-2000 by Geoffrey W. Clarck
  2. ^ Price, Norman (Feb 1, 2009). "Walter Kidde". Retrieved 2009-03-09.


Cite error: There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or {{efn}} templates on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}} template or {{notelist}} template (see the help page).

and 21 Related for: Walter Kidde information

Request time (Page generated in 0.8044 seconds.)

Walter Kidde

Last Update:

Walter Kidde (/ˈkɪdə/; March 7, 1877 – February 9, 1943) was an American businessman. He was the owner of the Kidde company which manufactured fire extinguishers...

Word Count : 723

Kidde

Last Update:

founded by Walter Kidde in 1917 in the United States. The founder was of Czech ancestry, and unrelated to the Danish author Harald Kidde. Walter Kidde founded...

Word Count : 1996

Riker Hill Fossil Site

Last Update:

Riker Hill Fossil Site (also referred to as Walter Kidde Dinosaur Park) is a 16-acre (6.5 ha) paleontological site in Roseland in Essex County, New Jersey...

Word Count : 544

List of Stevens Institute of Technology alumni

Last Update:

engineer and New York State Engineer and Surveyor Walter Kidde, B.E. 1897, founder of Walter Kidde Constructors and served as New Jersey State Highway...

Word Count : 1950

Fire extinguisher

Last Update:

carbon dioxide extinguisher was invented (at least in the US) by the Walter Kidde Company in 1924 in response to Bell Telephone's request for an electrically...

Word Count : 9438

Bear Archery

Last Update:

series of mergers, acquisitions, and spin-offs from Victor Comptometer to Walter Kidde & Co, Hanson PLC, U.S. Industries, Fenway Partners and the North American...

Word Count : 390

Tuy Hoa Air Base

Last Update:

USAF signed a Turnkey contract with Walter Kidde Constructors, Inc. to build the base on 27 May 1966. Walter Kidde committed to achieved interim capability...

Word Count : 960

Sirius Systems Technology

Last Update:

capitalized by Walter Kidde Inc. In late 1982 Sirius acquired Victor Business Systems (known for its calculators and cash registers) from Kidde and changed...

Word Count : 1145

Firefighting foam

Last Update:

400 formulas until a suitable compound was found. In 1964, Walter Kidde & Company (now Kidde) bought the patents for high expansion foam. In the 1960s...

Word Count : 2954

Weltron

Last Update:

500,000 and settlement of some of the company's debts. then owned by Walter Kidde Inc. Winston served as president of Weltron for about four years. In...

Word Count : 1505

Silver Beaver Award

Last Update:

Paul Ilyinsky Peter Johnsen John C. Keegan William H. Keeler Walter Kidde Edgar J. Lauer Walter Livingston David M. Lockton Charles L. Mader Thomas P. Mahammitt...

Word Count : 763

List of people from New Jersey

Last Update:

(Newark) Stacey Kent (born 1965), singer (South Orange) Walter Kidde (1877–1943), founder of the Kidde company (Hoboken) Tom Kiesche (born 1967), actor (Hackensack)...

Word Count : 15208

Bowling Green station

Last Update:

rights to 1 Broadway, where the Walter Kidde Company planned to build a 50-story skyscraper. In exchange, the Walter Kidde Company would have been required...

Word Count : 7017

Spartus

Last Update:

the early 1990s. In 1970, Spartus was acquired by the Kidde & Company, and made a subsidiary. Kidde itself was purchased by a U.S. arm of the Hanson Trust...

Word Count : 898

United States Lines

Last Update:

Moore (Moore-McCormack)(Co-Founder) W. Averell Harriman (United American Lines)(Co-Founder) Walter Kidde (Company) (1968–1978) Malcolm McLean (1978–1986)...

Word Count : 2620

1943 in rail transport

Last Update:

Mediterranean. September 7 – Chris Green, British railway manager. February 9 – Walter Kidde, president of New York, Susquehanna and Western Railway 1937–1943 (born...

Word Count : 681

Tomato slicer

Last Update:

F+W Media. p. 39. ISBN 978-1440227912. Systematic Tool & MacH. Co. v. Walter Kidde & Co., Inc., 390 F. Supp. 178 (E.D. Pa. 1975), Law.Justia.com, retrieved...

Word Count : 107

Diving cylinder

Last Update:

England, Canada, China and India. SM Gerzat (France) now Luxfer, France Walter Kidde and Co (United States)(historical) Metal Impact (United States) Testing...

Word Count : 20658

Queens Place Mall

Last Update:

designed by architectural firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and erected by Walter Kidde Constructors. The 330,000-square-foot (31,000 m2) building opened in...

Word Count : 635

Riker Hill Art Park

Last Update:

com/RikerHillArtParkArtists/ in Livingston, Essex County, New Jersey. Together with the Walter Kidde Dinosaur Park and Becker Park, it is a part of the Riker Hill Complex...

Word Count : 1074

1 Broadway

Last Update:

Broadway for sale in the late 1960s or early 1970s. USL's then-owner Walter Kidde & Company reportedly "nearly sold" 1 Broadway in 1972, but USL withdrew...

Word Count : 5147

PDF Search Engine © AllGlobal.net