COMPANY

Formerly the manufacturing and research arm of AT&T. The process of incorporation of WE's components into its parent started in 1984 and was completed in 1995. Parts of the old WE are owned by a number of companies, including AT&T and Lucent.

Industry:
Energy

Ticker:
(defunct)

EXECUTIVES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Alexander Graham Bell	Inventor	3-Mar-1847	2-Aug-1922	Inventor of the telephone

EMPLOYMENT

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
John Bardeen	Physicist	23-May-1908	30-Jan-1991	Co-Inventor of the transistor
John Cook	Politician	27-Feb-1946		Mayor of El Paso
Lee De Forest	Inventor	26-Aug-1873	30-Jun-1961	Inventor of the Audion vacuum tube
Walter S. Gifford	Business	10-Jan-1885	7-May-1966	President of AT&T, 1925-48
Jerry Huckaby	Politician	19-Jul-1941		Congressman from Louisiana, 1977-93
Joseph M. Juran	Scientist	24-Dec-1904	28-Feb-2008	The Pareto Principle
Eugene Kleiner	Business	12-May-1923	20-Nov-2003	Venture capitalist
James P. Mitchell	Government	12-Nov-1900	19-Oct-1964	US Secretary of Labor, 1953-61
Michael Sitrick	Business	8-Jun-1947		Sitrick and Company
Frank J. Sprague	Inventor	25-Jul-1857	25-Oct-1934	Streetcars and express elevators

EXTRANEOUS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
W. Edwards Deming	Mathematician	14-Oct-1900	20-Dec-1993	Quality Control guru

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