Edison / San Francisco / Paris / Baltimore / New York / /
Company
CBS / General Electric / Hewlett Packard / NBC / Carrier Engineering Company / IBM / Boston Globe / ABC / AT&T / Fairbanks & Company / /
Continent
Europe / Asia / /
Country
United States / /
Facility
Navy building / Treasury building / Navy’s basement / /
Holiday
Christmas Eve / /
IndustryTerm
oil embargo / word processor / oil lamps / sterilization technology / computer office technology / gas ovens / energy / gas system / transcontinental telephone call / online presence / manufacturing / gas ranges / foreign oil / overflow energy / historic telephone call / solar energy systems / electricity / stainless steel / solar energy / therapy for polio / telephone system / /
MedicalCondition
illness / polio / cut / /
NaturalFeature
Jekyll Island / /
Organization
Committee on Public Buildings / William H. Taft’s administration / Taft administration / Clinton administration / Carter administration / White House Historical Association / American Solar Energy Society / Congress / WHITE HOUSE / National Park Service / /
Person
Harry S. Truman / Calvin Coolidge / Richard M. Nixon / Abraham Lincoln / Andrew Johnson / Franklin Pierce / George Washington / Theodore Roosevelt / Robert Leckie / John Quincy Adams / Jimmy Carter / William H. Taft / James Hoban / Millard Fillmore / Thomas Jefferson / James K. Polk / Thomas Watson / Blue / Zachary Taylor / James A. Garfield / Theodore Vail / Green / Monroe / Woodrow Wilson / Herbert Hoover / Franklin D. Roosevelt / Neil Armstrong / Helen Taft / Alexander Graham Bell / Harrison / Chester A. Arthur / Warren G. Harding / William Seale / Sarah / James Madison / Rutherford B. Hayes / George Bush / Ronald Reagan / Idea / Dwight D. Eisenhower / /
Position
President / Executive Office / engineer / businessmen / word processor / avid gardener / first president / /
WHITE HOUSE HISTORY | Timelines : Technology 1790s Inventories of the tools in the stonecutting sheds suggest that some of the stone was sawed, a technique that bypassed usual tooling used to “finish” the stone’s