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Cole was born January 4, 1914, in Cleveland, Ohio. [1] He began his career in 1926 working for the National Key Company in Cleveland. [2] After working for the company for seven years, he left to establish a retail key division of Curtis Industries, building it into the country's second-largest key company, after National Key.
It was while they were living and working in Springfield that Loring Coes invented the screw wrench commonly known as the monkey wrench.Prior to the invention of the screw wrench, the two common wrenches of the time, the English patent wrench and the Merrick wrench (also known as the Springfield wrench), needed two hands to adjust, whereas the new screw wrench could be used and adjusted with ...
Things Remembered was founded as "Can Do" in 1967 as a subsidiary of Cole National Corporation by Joseph Edmund Cole. At the time Cole National consisted of Cole Vision, DBA Sears Optical, Montgomery Ward Vision, Cole Key Company, and several other subsidiaries. Cole National was taken private in 1984 by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts. The Cole family ...
Knife publications frequently list the location, date and time of club meetings as a service to new collectors. Collectors who have already narrowed their collecting focus to the knives of a particular maker or factory may want to join a club that focuses on this producer's work, such as the Randall Knife Society , Emerson's Collector Club , etc.
The maker of the Swiss Army Knife is working on a new version of the classic multi-tool, which won’t have a blade. “We are in the early stages of developing pocket tools without blades,” a ...
Texas musician Guy Clark wrote and sang the original song "The Randall Knife" as an elegy for his father; the song first appeared on Clark's 1983 album Better Days. Vince Gill, who sang and played guitar on Clark's original recording, mentions a Randall knife in an elegy for his own father, "The Key to Life", from the 1998 album The Key.
The Gerber Ultimate Survival Knife was the first in the Bear Grylls Ultimate Survival Knife series created in the early 2000s in collaboration with Bear Grylls and Gerber. . In April 2013, Gerber released the Ultimate Pro Knife as an improved version of the original Ultimate Survival kni
Zwilling J. A. Henckels AG is a German knife-maker based in Solingen, Germany.It is one of the largest and oldest manufacturers of kitchen knives for domestic and professional use, having been founded in June 1731 by Peter Henckels.