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Al Gross (engineer) Irving " Al " Gross ( / ɡroʊs /; February 22, 1918 – December 21, 2000) was a pioneer in mobile wireless communication. He created and patented many communications devices, specifically in relation to an early version of the walkie-talkie, [1] Citizens' Band radio, [2] the telephone pager [2] and the cordless telephone. [3]
An NEC pager branded by Deutsche Telekom for the Skyper pager service Original Motorola "Pageboy II" pager, used in New York in the late 1970s. The first telephone pager system was patented in 1949 by Alfred J. Gross. One of the first practical paging services was launched in 1950 for physicians in the New York City area.
Joshua P. Prager was born in New York City, the son of Julian Arthur Prager (1914–1981) and Eleanor Vernon Goldsmith ( maiden; 1917–2008). [1] Joshua is the son of a New York City police officer, and later, a public school mathematics teacher, and a United Cerebral Palsy shelter workshop supervisor. Prager was educated in the New York City ...
Robert Edward Gross (July 2, 1905 – October 11, 1988) was an American surgeon and a medical researcher. [1] He performed early work in pediatric heart surgery at Boston Children's Hospital. Gross was president of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of ...
Contemporary newspaper articles reporting on the 1917 appraisal of Alfred's estate in the State of New York report that Alfred's gross estate was valued at $16,769,314, in addition to a Trust Fund valued at $4,612,086, with a net value of approximately $15,594,000; from this his oldest son William H. Vanderbilt III received the $4,612,086 in ...
Elliot M. Gross. Elliot M. Gross (born c. 1933–1934) [1] [2] is an American forensic pathologist who served as the Chief Medical Examiner of New York City from 1979 until his dismissal in 1989.
Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private, Ivy League, research university in New York City.Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhattan, it is the oldest institution of higher education in New York and the fifth-oldest in the United States and is considered one of the most prestigious universities in the world.
Crossroads is a 1942 American mystery film noir directed by Jack Conway and starring William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, Claire Trevor and Basil Rathbone.Powell plays a diplomat whose amnesia about his past subjects him to back-to-back blackmail schemes, which threaten his reputation, job, marriage, and future.