He developed Electrical Porcelain with transmission engineers at GE. His family continued to work at Building 68 in Schenectady for decades. William's son Frank Cermak advanced insulator design into the mid 20th century.
When Rex Harrison accepted his Academy Award for My Fair Lady (1964), he dedicated it to his two fair ladies, Audrey Hepburn and Julie Andrews both who had played Eliza Doolittle with him.
The original Miss Peregrineâs Home for Peculiar Children was published in 2011 and spent more than 100 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list (including a run at No. 1) and was named by Amazon as one of â100 Young Adult Books to Read in a Lifetime.â