B&W
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Companies

  • Babcock and Wilcox
    Babcock and Wilcox
    The Babcock & Wilcox Company is a U.S.-based company that provides design, engineering, manufacturing, construction and facilities management services to nuclear, renewable, fossil power, industrial and government customers worldwide. B&W's boilers supply more than 300,000 megawatts of installed...

    , an American manufacturing company (operating unit of McDermott International)
  • Brown & Williamson
    Brown & Williamson
    Brown & Williamson was an American tobacco company and subsidiary of the giant British American Tobacco, that produced several popular cigarette brands. It became infamous as the focus of investigations for chemically enhancing the addictiveness of cigarettes...

    , a former American tobacco company, now merged with R. J. Reynolds
  • Bowers & Wilkins
    Bowers & Wilkins
    Bowers & Wilkins is a British loudspeaker company that produces mid-range through reference quality hi-fi and home theater speakers. The company name is often abbreviated to just B&W.Joe Atkins is current owner and chairman...

    , a British loudspeaker company
  • Bra & Wessels
    Bra & Wessels
    B&W was a chain of Swedish department stores founded in 1976 by a merger of Wessels and Bra. The chain was bought by KF in 1990 and in 2001 it changed names to Coop Forum....

    , a Swedish chain of department stores, since 2001 known as Coop Forum.
  • Burmeister & Wain
    Burmeister & Wain
    Burmeister & Wain was a large established Danish shipyard and leading diesel engine producer headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded by two Danes and an Englishman, its earliest roots stretch back to 1846. Over its 150-year history, it grew successfully into a strong company through the end...

    , Danish ship yard and diesel engine producer
  • Boeing & Westervelt – precursor company to Boeing
    Boeing
    The Boeing Company is an American multinational aerospace and defense corporation, founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Boeing Corporate headquarters has been in Chicago, Illinois since 2001...

  • B+W Filterfabrik, a photographic filter manufacturer now owned by Schneider Kreuznach
    Schneider Kreuznach
    Schneider Kreuznach is the abbreviated name of the company Jos. Schneider Optische Werke GmbH, which is sometimes also simply referred to as Schneider. They are a manufacturer of industrial and photographic optics....


Other

  • Black-and-white
    Black-and-white
    Black-and-white, often abbreviated B/W or B&W, is a term referring to a number of monochrome forms in visual arts.Black-and-white as a description is also something of a misnomer, for in addition to black and white, most of these media included varying shades of gray...

     as it refers to photography or cinematography
  • Monochrome
    Monochrome
    Monochrome describes paintings, drawings, design, or photographs in one color or shades of one color. A monochromatic object or image has colors in shades of limited colors or hues. Images using only shades of grey are called grayscale or black-and-white...

  • Gray scale
  • Power Macintosh G3 (Blue & White)
    Power Macintosh G3 (Blue & White)
    The Power Macintosh G3 series was a series of personal computers designed, manufactured and sold by Apple Computer Inc. as part of their Power Macintosh line...

    , a computer model made by Apple Computer.
  • College van Burgemeester en Wethouders
    College van Burgemeester en Wethouders
    The college van burgemeester en wethouders is the executive board of a municipality in the Netherlands. This local government body plays a central role in municipal politics in the Netherlands. It consists of the mayor and the members of the municipal executive...

    , the Dutch municipal executive.
  • Black & White Festival
    Black & White Festival
    The Black & White Audiovisual Festival is a Portuguese arts festival which takes place in April. It celebrates the black & white aesthetics in film, photography and sound...

    , the Portuguese audiovisual festival
  • b/w (meaning "backed with"), an abbreviation often used to separate the listing of the two sides of a vinyl record, especially a 45 record
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