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In August 1908, a white mob attacked Springfield, Illinois’s Black community, destroying homes and businesses and lynching two Black men. National outrage over the violence helped spur the movement that created the NAACP the following year.
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This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
| Industry | Scooter |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1944 in Indiana |
| Founder | Woodrow Wilson Skirvin |
| Headquarters | , United States |
| Website | Cycle-Scoot.com |
Cycle-Scoot is an American line of scooters created by aircraft engineer & entrepreneur Woodrow Wilson Skirvin in 1953. The scooter was largely popular during the 1950s due to its Indianapolis "500" campaign & wide distribution across the country.
During World War II, Woodrow Wilson Skirvin headed to Detroit, Michigan, to land a job at a war plant. He found his opportunity at a tool & die company.[1] In 1944, he moved back to Indianapolis and started engineering aircraft parts in his garage. Due to demand, He quickly outgrew several shops. With Allison Engine Company and General Motors being his prime customers, two different engines using Skirvin parts powered airplanes successively setting new world air speed records. The first was the United States Air Force Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star, which achieved 623.8 MPH on June 9, 1947. The second was a Navy D-558 Douglas Skystreak, which achieved 650.6 MPH on Aug 25th, 1947.[2] In 1951 with a government loan of $100,000 W.W. Skirvin built the 25,000-square-foot (2,300 m2) building where the Cycle-Scoot was designed and manufactured.
The early Cycle-Scoot featured an "exclusive" combination foot throttle and brake designed by W. W. Skirvin. The rider would push down with the toe to go, push down with the heel to stop.[3] This design gave the scooter the "hands-free" braking simplicity of a cruiser bicycle. Most Cycle-Scoots had Clinton or Briggs-Stratton engines that would power the scooter to 30 mph. Mileage was claimed to be 100 MPG. Standard accessories included lights, tandem "buddy seat", parking stand, belt cover, foot rests, seat hand rail for passenger, gravel shield, and fork panel. Models include the 500, Deluxe and an army-green model known as "The General" for General Motors. The Cycle-Scoot was officially tested and proved at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway by track-President and 3-time Indy 500 Champion, Wilbur Shaw.
These scooters were officially used at the Indianapolis Brickyard by track administrators, race-car drivers and others as an efficient way to navigate the track grounds.[4] General intended market was the 14- to 17-year-old age group who didn't drive cars. They were used for family fun and work transportation. Nicknames for the bike include "Indianapolis 500 Cycle-Scoot", The "500", & "Skirvin Deluxe".
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Cycle-Scoot is an American line of scooters created by aircraft engineer & entrepreneur Woodrow Wilson Skirvin in 1953. The scooter was largely popular during the 1950s due to its Indianapolis "500" campaign & wide distribution across the country.
Split Cycle Offset Optimisation Technique (SCOOT) is a real-time adaptive traffic control system for the coordination and control of traffic signals across an urban road network. Originally developed by the Transport Research Laboratory for the Department of Transport in 1979, research and development of SCOOT has continued to present day. SCOOT is used extensively throughout the United Kingdom as well as in other countries. SCOOT automatically adjusts the traffic signal timings to adapt to current traffic conditions, using flow data from traffic sensors. Sensor data is usually derived from inductive loops in the carriageway but other forms of detection are increasingly being used. Adjacent signal controlled junctions and pedestrian/cycle crossings are collected together into groups called "regions". SCOOT then calculates the most appropriate signal timings for the region. SCOOT changes the stage lengths or the splits to ensure that the delays are balanced as much as possible, changes the cycle time to ensure that delays are minimised and finally changes the offset between the signal installations to ensure that the timings are co-ordinated as well as possible. SCOOT has been demonstrated to yield improvements in traffic performance of the order of 15% compared to fixed timing systems. In early 2021, TRL released SCOOT 7, having updated the algorithm to work with future mobility needs.
Scoot is a low-cost airline based in Singapore. Scoot or skoot may also refer to: SCOOT (bus service), a shuttle service in California Scoot (EP), a 1997 EP album Skoot (ship) Scoot McNairy (born 1977), American actor and producer Scoot Networks, an American company which provides public electric scooter sharing systems Split Cycle Offset Optimisation Technique, a traffic control system SKØØT, a streetwear label designed by MLMA
Lucid Group, Inc. is an American automotive and technology company that manufactures electric vehicles and supplies advanced electric vehicle powertrain systems. The company is headquartered in Newark, California. In September 2021, the company began producing the Lucid Air sedan at its factory in Casa Grande, Arizona. Production of its second model, the Lucid Gravity SUV, started in December 2024. Lucid also supplies and develops powertrain technology to other automakers, including Aston Martin. Since April 2019, the majority shareholder of Lucid has been Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund. Other investors include large index fund managers like Vanguard Group, BlackRock, and State Street Corporation.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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