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(0)Dewaine A. Speaks
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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For more than 150 years, East Tennesseans have experienced disasters of historic proportions. The 1902 Fraterville Mine explosion took the lives of 216 men and boys. A 1904 head-on passenger train wreck in New Market claimed the lives of 64. In 1906, Jellico was practically destroyed by the explosion of a train car loaded with dynamite. Floodwaters near Rockwood in 1929 took the lives of 7 Boy Scouts and their Scoutmaster. An explosion in 1960 at...
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The History Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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East Tennessee is gorgeous country, but the hills and hollers have a dark side. James Earl Ray, who had already assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., created mayhem at Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary when he led six other men in a short-lived escape. Several thousand Cherokee Indians from East Tennessee were forced on what would later be called the "Trail of Tears." In the "Hankins Murder" case and in the triple killings in Oliver Springs,...
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"Like every other red-blooded American, East Tennessee residents did all they could to help end World War II. Locals like "Petie" Siler signed up for service, despite having fought in World War I. Oak Ridge residents worked expeditiously on the Manhattan Project, gathering uranium-235 to fuel the first atomic bomb. Knoxville's Rohm & Haas Chemical Company branch furnished Plexiglas for aircraft. Military veterans Dewaine A. Speaks and Dr. Ray Clift...
4) Weston Fulton changed the world: the "Edison of the South" and his inventions that impacted mankind
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[Dewaine A. Speaks]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
176 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
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The story of Weston Fulton, the Knoxville inventor who became known as the "Edison of the South." Explains Fulton's impact on technical, military, educational, and manufacturing history and includes photographs of his best-known invention, the seamless metal bellows.
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Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
143 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of Weston Fulton, the Knoxville inventor who became known as the "Edison of the South." Explains Fulton's impact on technical, military, educational, and manufacturing history and includes photographs of his best-known invention, the seamless metal bellows.