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The decade of the 70s begins with a roar. Henkels & McCoy contracts to plow cable to the top of Pike’s Peak, supplying power to the summit buildings. The project receives widespread press coverage and burnishes the company’s reputation as a can-do organization. Most of the work is performed at night so as not to interfere with busy tourist traffic at the Colorado destination spot... John B. Henkels III moves to Salt Lake City, Utah to further develop the eleven state operations referred to as the West Coast. States include California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana... Henkels & McCoy installs new telephone exchanges for Cincinnati & Suburban Telephone Co., including Greater Cincinnati Airport, and also Walton, Burlington, Florence, and Union in Kentucky... H&M is featured in Constructioneer Magazine following a highly successful transmission pipeline job in Lancaster County, Pa. of 30,000 feet of 20-inch and 30,000 feet of 24-inch lines... Groundbreaking occurs in Burlington, N.J. for an expanded Henkels & McCoy office to accommodate the growing workforce... H&M Industrial Division provides electrical and mechanical and general construction services for a new printing press facility for a magazine publisher in Parkesburg, Pennsylvania... H&M begins a 25-mile three-2 conductor 350 MCM direct buried cable project along parts of the Long Island Railroad using the new H&M Railroad Mounted Cable Plow... Over 2500 feet of 42-inch concrete coated steel gas line is laid by H&M across Needwood Lake in Maryland... Henkels & McCoy is contracted to install a new cable television system for Cape Cod Cablevision... H&M builds a mobile safety education trailer capable of traveling wherever our people are working for on-site training in CPR and other life saving techniques. The trailer is equipped with an independent power generator (as well as traditional power hook up) and contains projectors and screens for slide and film presentations and has a library of safety publications for use in the field.
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November 9 November 26 December ALSO IN 1970: First Picturephone made in US. Public saw a technology preview of the device in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, released in 1968. Floppy disk technology invented. Kinko’s makes its debut in Santa Barbara, California.
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The Beatles implode and go to court in bitter bust-up.
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