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Sylvania Electric Products. Sylvania Electric Products Inc. was an American manufacturer of diverse electrical equipment, including at various times radio transceivers, vacuum tubes, semiconductors, and mainframe computers such as MOBIDIC. They were one of the companies involved in the development of the COBOL programming language.
Osram Sylvania Inc. is the North American operation of lighting manufacturer Osram. It was established in January 1993, with the acquisition of GTE's Sylvania lighting division by Osram GmbH. [1] In 2016, Osram spun off its general lighting business to Ledvance which received a license to sell lighting products under the Osram and Sylvania ...
Historians Robert Friedel and Paul Israel list inventors of incandescent lamps prior to Joseph Swan and Thomas Edison of General Electric. [4]: 91–93 They conclude that Edison's version was the first practical implementation, able to outstrip the others because of a combination of four factors: an effective incandescent material; a vacuum higher than other implementations which was achieved ...
Havells Sylvania. Sylvania Lighting (formerly Feilo Sylvania [1] ), Havells-Sylvania, and SLI ( Sylvania Lighting International ), is an international designer and manufacturer of lighting products, trading as Sylvania. It has plants throughout Europe, Asia, North Africa and Central and South America, and is one of the few lighting companies ...
Sylvania Electric Products, a former major American diversified electrical and electronics manufacturer. Sylvania (brand), its Canadian lighting products division which continues to license to both Havells Sylvania and Osram Sylvania. Osram Sylvania, an American lighting manufacturer owned by Osram AG of Germany.
Sylvania is a Canadian multinational electronics corporation headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The company is owned in North America by Osram Sylvania and, outside of North America, Feilo Sylvania. The two license the brand to other companies for various products. The Sylvania brand was originally owned by Sylvania Electric Products.
Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometers (55 miles) south of modern day Baghdad. Babylon functioned as the main cultural and political centre of the Akkadian-speaking region of Babylonia.
The fall of Babylon was the decisive event that marked the total defeat of the Neo-Babylonian Empire to the Achaemenid Empire in 539 BCE. Nabonidus, the final Babylonian king and son of the Assyrian priestess Adad-guppi, [ 4] ascended to the throne in 556 BCE, after overthrowing his predecessor Labashi-Marduk. For long periods, he would entrust ...