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  2. Pope Manufacturing Company - Wikipedia

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    At that time, sewing machines were selling poorly, so Fairfield accepted the contract. [5] In September 1878, Weed Sewing Machine Company built the last of the fifty bikes under the first contract. Albert Pope chose the brand name Columbia for the first high-wheelers "produced" by Pope Manufacturing. These first machines, copied from the ...

  3. James Buchanan Duke - Wikipedia

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    Duke's father, Washington, had owned a tobacco company that his sons James and Benjamin (1855–1929) took over in the 1880s. In 1885, James Buchanan Duke acquired a license to use the first automated cigarette making machine (invented by James Albert Bonsack), and by 1890, Duke supplied 40 percent of the American cigarette market (then known as pre-rolled tobacco).

  4. James Albert Bonsack - Wikipedia

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    The slow manual fabrication process—a skilled cigarette roller could produce only about four cigarettes per minute on average [7] —was insufficient to satisfy demand by the 1870s. In 1875, the Allen and Ginter company in Richmond, Virginia , offered a prize of $75,000 (equivalent to $2.1 million in 2023) for the invention of a machine able ...

  5. American Tobacco Company - Wikipedia

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    In 1882, two years after W. Duke, Sons & Company entered into the cigarette business, James Bonsack invented a cigarette-rolling machine. It produced over 133 cigarettes per minute, the equivalent of what a skilled hand roller could produce in one hour, and reduced the cost of rolling cigarettes by 50%.

  6. Rolls Razor - Wikipedia

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    Rolls Razor model: Imperial No. 2 in closed chrome-plated case with the meander decoration Rolls Razor open case. The blade handle on the left is attached to the honing mechanism lever via a spring-loaded bearing. The nickel plated blade on the right side is attached to the honing bar that slides on the red leather strop. The grey honing stone ...

  7. John Player & Sons - Wikipedia

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    John Player & Sons, most often known simply as Player's, was a tobacco and cigarette manufacturer based in Nottingham, England. In 1901 the company merged with twelve other companies to become a branch of the Imperial Tobacco Company of Great Britain and Ireland. [2] The company pioneered the advertising with trading (cigarette) cards.

  8. Nikola Tesla electric car hoax - Wikipedia

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    According to the story, in 1931, Tesla modified a Pierce-Arrow car in Buffalo, New York by removing the gasoline engine and replacing it with a brushless AC electric motor. The motor was purportedly powered by a "cosmic energy power receiver" contained in a box measuring 25 inches by 10 inches by 6 inches, which contained 12 radio vacuum tubes ...

  9. W.D. & H.O. Wills - Wikipedia

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    W.D. & H.O. Wills was a British tobacco manufacturing company formed in Bristol, England.It was the first British company to mass-produce cigarettes.It was one of the 13 founding companies of the Imperial Tobacco Company (of Great Britain and Ireland); these firms became branches, or divisions, of the new combine and included John Player & Sons.

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