Gleaner

Gleaner may refer to somebody who gleans or:

Allis-Chalmers

Allis-Chalmers was a U.S. manufacturer of machinery for various industries. Its business lines included agricultural equipment, construction equipment, power generation and power transmission equipment, and machinery for use in industrial settings such as factories, flour mills, sawmills, textile mills, steel mills, refineries, mines, and ore mills. The first Allis-Chalmers Company was formed in 1901 as an amalgamation of the Edward P. Allis Company (steam engines and mill equipment), Fraser & Chalmers (mining and ore milling equipment), the Gates Iron Works (rock and cement milling equipment), and the industrial business line of the Dickson Manufacturing Company (engines and compressors). It was reorganized in 1912 as the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company. During the next 70 years its industrial machinery filled countless mills, mines, and factories around the world, and its brand gained fame among consumers mostly from its farm equipment business's orange tractors and silver combine harvesters. In the 1980s and 1990s a series of divestitures transformed the firm and eventually dissolved it. Its successors today are Allis-Chalmers Energy and AGCO.

Gleaner Manufacturing Company

The Gleaner Manufacturing Company is an American manufacturer of combine harvesters. Gleaner has been a popular brand of combine harvester particularly in the Midwestern United States for many decades, first as an independent firm, then later as a division of Allis-Chalmers. The Gleaner brand continues today under the ownership of AGCO.

History

Gleaner combines date back to 1923, when the Baldwin brothers of Nickerson, Kansas, created the best and most reliable self-propelled combine harvester. They decided to use the "Gleaner" name for their radically redesigned grain harvesting machine based on inspiration from "The Gleaners", a famous 1857 painting by Jean-François Millet. Gleaning is the act of collecting leftover crops from farmers' fields after they have been commercially harvested, or on fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest, and in the broadest sense, it is the act of frugally recovering resources from low-yield contexts. Thus, with the Gleaner name, the company evoked a positive connotation in potential customers' minds, of a brand of harvester that would leave none of the grain behind. A combine harvester combines the reaping (plus or minus binding), threshing, and winnowing functions all into one machine—hence the "combine" part of its name. To that list, the Baldwin brothers' Gleaner added self-propulsion. Earlier combines, the so-called pull-type or tractor-drawn combines, were towed by tractors.

The Gleaners

The Gleaners (Des glaneuses) is an oil painting by Jean-François Millet completed in 1857. It depicts three peasant women gleaning a field of stray grains of wheat after the harvest. The painting is famous for featuring in a sympathetic way what were then the lowest ranks of rural society; this was received poorly by the French upper classes.

History

Nokia phone series

Nokia's nomenclature can be traced back in 2005, when the Nseries line was introduced. Because of the demands and peak of that line, Nokia again introduced another series of phones named Eseries, made mostly for the enterprise market and to compete with Palm and BlackBerry. In 2009, Nokia dropped their four-digit naming scheme and focused on their two existing lines, with additional two introduced during Nokia World being the Xseries which is for entertainment and music enthusiasts, while Cseries is what Nokia considers their "core" range of products. A Chinese-exclusive range of devices named Tseries was introduced on 13 June 2011. Two more series were introduced at Nokia World 2011 Asha which means "hope" and Lumia which means "light." Other series of phones include the N-Gage,XpressMusic,Navigator series, Prism,Supernova and the fashion-oriented Distinctly Bold and L'Amour Collection.

Nseries

Nokia Nseries is a product family composed exclusively of smartphones and Internet tablets. Mobile devices included in the series include digital multimedia services and other advanced features. The company's flagship products come from this series, and this is where most of Nokia Research Center's technologies and innovations are applied.