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  • The first name refers to Adelbert Theodor Edward Wangemann, who joined the laboratory in 1888, assigned to transform Edison's newly perfected wax cylinder phonograph into a marketable device for listening to music.

    NYT > Home Page By RON COWEN 2012

  • The first name refers to Adelbert Theodor Edward Wangemann, who joined the laboratory in 1888, assigned to transform Edison's newly perfected wax cylinder phonograph into a marketable device for listening to music.

    NYT > Home Page By RON COWEN 2012

  • "Adelbert," crooned Mr. McGuffey, "ain't you got no heart?

    Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Gordon [Illustrator] Grant 1918

  • Lovecraft's memorial piece on Howard, with supplemental comments added by Otis Adelbert Kline, E. Hoffman Price, and Jack Byrne, the editor of Argosy magazine.

    Archive 2010-01-01 Blue Tyson 2010

  • Book buyers for major chains don't know a Henry Kuttner from an Otis Adelbert Kline from an Abraham Merritt.

    MIND MELD: The Forgotten Books of SF/F/H 2009

  • A guy named Otis Adelbert Kline made a whole career out of publishing imitations of Edgar Rice Burroughs.

    Someone Is Angry On the Internet grrm 2010

  • He was the General Secretary for the Adelbert College Association, in Cleveland, in 1909 and transferred to the Cleveland YMCA in 1912.

    Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I 2008

  • Among its members were Karl August Varnhagen von Ense (1785 – 1858), Adelbert von Chamisso (1781 – 1838), Wilhelm Neumann (1781 – 1834) and Heinrich von Kleist (1777 – 1811).

    Berlin Salons: Late Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Century. 2009

  • The ecoregion basically corresponds with the Adelbert and Huon ranges Endemic Bird Area (EBA) although the small Adelbert Mountain Range is not part of this ecoregion.

    Huon Peninsula montane rain forests 2008

  • After his only son, Adelbert, drowned at Yale, Stone gave $600,000 for the founding of Adelbert College, which evolved into Case-Western Reserve University.

    The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

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