Word: ledoux
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maintenance Technician John Ledoux of the Army National Guard in Vermont could not help noticing how difficult it was to test the infrared night-flight lights on Army helicopters. Wearing unwieldy goggles that cost $4,500 a pair, engineers crouched below the grounded choppers to check their lights. There had to be a better...
Three weeks later Ledoux had found it. With parts picked up at a local Radio Shack store, the first-time inventor developed an infrared tester the size of a cigarette pack that could easily be held near the lights. And the price was right: just $8.70 to buy a phototransistor, light-emitting diode, switch, casing and nine-volt battery. Ledoux sent the plans to Army officials, who asked to sample the actual device. The gadget proved popular with other test crews, and the Army estimates that its use will save an average of $6.3 million a year. Ledoux stands...
...work he had admired during his years as American Minister to France from 1785-89 -- Pierre Rousseau's Hotel de Salm, the Pantheon, the mock ruins of the Desert de Retz, the designs of dead masters like Andrea Palladio and living architects like Etienne Louis Boullee and Claude Nicolas Ledoux -- would leave their traces in his own designs, but the Maison Carree was decisive for American architecture as a whole. By copying it, Jefferson felt, one could improve the Republic's general taste, "introducing into the State an example of architecture, in the classic style of antiquity." He used...
Most firms recruit as intensely at a half dozen other Universities as they do at Harvard. "I think we do our best job recruiting anywhere we go," says Jean Ledoux, director of professional recruiting at the Los Angeles-based law firm Buchalter, Nemer, Christie for Younger. "We always put our best foot forward." A majority of Harvard law students do not want to work on the West Coast, Ledoux says, so firms such as hers recruit more heavily within their region...
...headquarters in downtown Louisville, Ky., for Humana Inc., and an addition to the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, designed by Bauhaus Architect Marcel Breuer. Yet it remains to be seen whether Graves' heavy-handed Pop surrealism-"a dash of deco and a whiff of Ledoux," as leading Postmodernist Architect Robert Venturi calls it-will influence workaday architecture. New inspirations are needed, but they should be inspirations that are real, joyful and charming...