Records, 1888-1999 (bulk 1930-1995).

Kothny, G. L., d. 1947.

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Pew, Joseph N. 1866-1963.

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Sperry-Sun Well Surveying Company.

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Sperry-Sun of Canada, Ltd.

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Fouché, J. A.

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Sperry-Sun, Inc.

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Pew, J. Howard (John Howard), 1882-1971

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A private trust company and successor to the Pew Memorial Foundation, the Glenmede Trust Company was chartered in 1956 to administer three Pew family trusts. By the mid-1980s Glenmede's dual identity, as both for-profit financial management company and not-for-profit philanthropic institution, proved unwieldy. In 1987 the not-for-profit activities were spun off as The Pew Charitable Trusts, thereby establishing an identity separate from the the Glenmede Trust Company. J. Howard Pew served on the...

Pew, J. Edgar (James Edgar), 1870-1946

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James Edgar Pew (1870-1946) was the nephew of Joseph Newton Pew, Sr., founder of the Sun Company. He became involved in the oil business in 1901 when his uncle sent him to Texas shortly after the Spindletop strike. J. Edgar Pew immediately began to negotiate for leases. He remained in Texas to manage the company's operations there. He was mostly concerned with drilling operations, shipping, and pipelines. He became president of the Sun Pipeline Company in 1918. He was active within the American ...

Petroleum Equipment Suppliers Association

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Sun Oil Company

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NL Sperry-Sun, Inc.

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NL Industries

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Gearhart Owen, Inc.

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Sperry, Elmer Ambrose, 1860-1930

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Elmer A. Sperry was born on October 12, 1860, in Cortland, N.Y. He attended the local elementary schools and then enrolled in Cornell University. At Cornell he developed an interest in electrical engineering and began working with a group of Syracuse industrialists in order to construct an arc lighting system. By 1882 Sperry was recognized as being one of America's electrical pioneers. He is primarily known as for his work with feedback devices and servomechanisms and as the founder in 1910 of t...

Dresser Industries, inc.

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National lead company

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Society of Petroleum Engineers (U.S.)

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Pew family.

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Reamco, Inc.

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Sperry Gyroscope Company, inc.

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Elmer Sperry (1860-1930) founded the Sperry Gyroscope Company in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1910 in order to develop, manufacture, and market his gyrocompass, ship stabilizer, and high-intensity searchlight. During the months that followed, Sperry worked closely with Admiral David W. Taylor of the U.S. Navy to perfect these inventions. In 1911 the first gyrocompass was installed on the battleship DELAWARE. Despite some problems associated with its installation, by 1915 it had been adopted a...

Sperry-Sun Drilling Services, Inc.

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Sperry-Sun Drilling Services, Inc. provided drilling services and equipment to the petroleum industry, first in Texas and the Gulf Coast and then world wide. In the late 1920s, J. N. Pew, Jr. of the Sun Oil Company began planning to develop better well-drilling techiques in the Texas oil fields. Among the principal problems he confronted was a means of measuring and regulating the inclination of the drilling rig, as the drill bit would tend to drift and change direction ...

Cornell Lead Company.

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Schlumberger Well Surveying Company.

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