About: Reading Works

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dbo:abstract	Western Electric's Reading Works in Berks County, Pennsylvania was a manufacturer of integrated circuit and optoelectronic equipment for communication and computing. The work force grew to nearly 5,000 by 1985 making the Reading, Pennsylvania, facility one of Berks County's largest industrial employers. As a part of Western Electric and the Bell System, it changed its masthead many times during its life. (en)
dbo:fate	Closed in 2003 (en)
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dbp:fate	Closed in 2003 (en)
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dbp:industry	Electronics Manufacturing (en)
dbp:name	Reading Works (en)
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dbp:owner	Lucent Technologies (en) AT&T Technologies (en) Agere Systems (en) Western Electric (en)
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rdfs:comment	Western Electric's Reading Works in Berks County, Pennsylvania was a manufacturer of integrated circuit and optoelectronic equipment for communication and computing. The work force grew to nearly 5,000 by 1985 making the Reading, Pennsylvania, facility one of Berks County's largest industrial employers. As a part of Western Electric and the Bell System, it changed its masthead many times during its life. (en)
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