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A Crown Equipment dealership in Vandalia, Ohio. Crown Equipment Corporation is a privately held American manufacturer of powered industrial forklift trucks based in Ohio. The fifth-largest such manufacturer, Crown had $5.18 billion in worldwide sales revenue for fiscal year 2023. [1] The company was founded in 1945.
William Painter (November 20, 1838 – July 15, 1906) was an American mechanical engineer, inventor and the founder of Crown Holdings, Inc., a Fortune 500 company. He most notably invented the crown cork bottle cap and bottle opener.
Ken Olsen, the MIT-educated inventor who started Digital Equipment Corp. with $70,000 in venture capital in the 1950s and built it into a company with billions of dollars in sales and more than ...
Edward Huber (September 1, 1837, Dover, Indiana – August 26, 1904, Marion, Ohio) was an American inventor and industrialist.. Huber established his role in the modernization of American agriculture when he invented a “revolving hay rake” (patented in 1863) [1] that allowed one man to do in three hours what three men could do in a day.
Crown Holdings, Inc., formerly Crown Cork & Seal Company, is an American company that makes metal beverage and food cans, metal aerosol containers, metal closures and specialty packing. Founded in 1892, it is headquartered in Tampa, Florida. [2] As of their annual report for 2020, Crown employs 33,264 people at 192 plants in 39 countries. [2]
Lewis H. Nash (c. 1852 – November 11, 1923) was an American engineer who invented the liquid-ring-vacuum pump, and was the holder of over a hundred United States patents for pumps, engines, and other equipment.
Thompson worked for General Motors Corporation from 1929–1940. He left General Motors on May 1, 1940, to begin his own business, the E.A. Thompson Manufacturing Company in Ferndale, Michigan . Thompson manufactured the Thompson Automatic Profiling Milling machine which was used by manufacturers in the production of parts for armaments, planes ...
David Jarrett Collins (February 11, 1936 – March 12, 2022) was an inventor and businessman whose career was focused on bringing barcode technology into the mainstream. . While at Sylvania in 1960, he led a team that developed the first functional barcode system for tracking railroad cars, and subsequently worked on developing laser barcode syste