George Dimitrios Grachis (1882–1965) 1

2018 ◽  
pp. 345-353
Author(s):  
Sotirios (Sam) Chianis
Keyword(s):  
Instrument Maker ◽  
Record Company

When George DemetriosGrachis arrived in America in 1907, he was already a master instrument maker and an accomplished violinist. By 1910, he launched the Terpandros instrument workshop in Chicago’s Greektown. Later, he and santouri player Spyros Stamos (1894-1973) owned Chicago’s Greek Record Company, which was between 1922 and 1923. For decades, he toured the county as an acclaimed musician.

scholarly journals Medical technologies and the social strategies of two surgical instrument makers in Denmark and Sweden, 1870–1900

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 101-117
Author(s):  
Kristin Halverson ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
Surgical Instrument ◽  
Social Strategies ◽  
Academic Interest ◽  
Medical Technologies ◽  
Instrument Maker ◽  
The Social ◽  
Technical Professions

Technical professions were important agents in medicine and its knowledge production in the nineteenth century. This paper will look more closely at two examples of the social strategies used by Danish surgical instrument maker Camillus Nyrop and his Swedish colleague, Max Stille respectively. Although the work of these two instrument makers attracted attention both within their respective countries as well as internationally, and they were regular fixtures in medical circles, their contributions have merited little academic interest thus far. By examining the social strategies used by nineteenth century technicians, in this case surgical instrument makers, we might better understand the interrelationships between technical professions and physicians in the knowledge production of modern medicine and the interplay between medicine and commerce.

scholarly journals Teamwork, Edison Style

2015 ◽  
Vol 137 (02) ◽  
pp. 46-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Miller Caldicott
Keyword(s):  
Team Member ◽  
Beating Heart ◽  
Diverse Group ◽  
Critical Component ◽  
Knowledge Assets ◽  
Textile Worker ◽  
Instrument Maker ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Electric Light

This article discusses Thomas Edison’s concept of teamwork and collaborations. Edison fundamentally viewed collaboration as a connecting force, a transformational force that facilitated and made possible the development of new knowledge. Edison’s innovations were generated through focused approaches to teamwork and collaboration. He viewed collaboration as the beating heart of his laboratories, a sustaining resource that fueled the knowledge assets of his innovation. Edison designed a process of collaboration that was used across his entire enterprise of more than 200 companies worldwide. Because Edison believed that individuals are vital to collaborative success, he placed emphasis on the contributions of each team member as a critical component of the team’s joint efforts. Because he believed that a diverse group of individuals offered the best chance for collaborative success, Edison consistently created teams that had members from several disciplines. The famous group that drove the breakthrough thinking behind the incandescent electric light consisted of a glassblower, a machinist, a chemist, a mathematician, an instrument maker, and a textile worker, along with Edison himself.

Sociological Congruence and Record Company Comparative Advantage

Shaping Jazz ◽  
2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damon J. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Comparative Advantage ◽  
Victorian Era ◽  
Jazz Music ◽  
Quantitative Analyses ◽  
Symphonic Music ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Record Company

This chapter examines why the firms that introduced a type of recorded jazz that was successful switched to champion another type of jazz that was less successful. Using both qualitative historical and quantitative analyses, the chapter explores record company comparative advantage in the context of sociological congruence. It also considers the relationship between jazz, race, and Victorian-era firms. In particular, the chapter considers a key source of jazz's illegitimacy with respect to cultural elites: its association with African Americans. It shows that incumbents, after releasing the earliest jazz recordings (in 1917–1918), reoriented the production of jazz music to align with their identities as producers of symphonic music amid mounting elite anti-jazz sentiments.

Ioannis Halikias, aka Jack Gregory (1898–1957) 1

2018 ◽  
pp. 378-383
Author(s):  
Aydin Chaloupka
Keyword(s):  
Black Market ◽  
Coffee Shops ◽  
Record Company

In 1932, Ioannis “Jack” Halikias (1898-1957), a Greek American, recorded “Minoretouteke” for Columbia Record Company, the first bouzouki solo and probably the most influential bouzouki recording ever made. This and a few subsequent recordings were responsible for the decision to start openly recording the bouzouki in Greece, which in turn created opportunities for the rise of the most famous players. Halikias was essentially a mangas—engaging in petty crime and black market sales as well as owning kafeneia or coffee shops.

Chapter XXXIX Further Adventures of Captain Edward Cuttle, Mariner

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Dickens
Keyword(s):  
Instrument Maker

Time, sure of foot and strong of will, had so pressed onward, that the year enjoined by the old Instrument Maker, as the term during which his friend should refrain from opening the sealed packet accompanying the letter he had left for him, was...

The Cop Out: Inside the Record Company

Solid Gold ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 144-215
Author(s):  
R. Serge Denisoff
Keyword(s):  
Record Company
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