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Roebuck co-founded Sears, Roebuck and Company with Richard Warren Sears in 1891. [1] [2]In 1895, Roebuck asked Sears to buy him out for about $20,000. At Richard Sears' request, Roebuck took charge of a division that handled watches, jewelry, optical goods, and, later, phonographs, magic lanterns and motion picture machines.
The new range of Barr & Stroud binoculars are currently made in China (Nov. 2011) and distributed by Optical Vision Ltd. Bausch & Lomb (US) – has not made binoculars since 1976, when they licensed their name to Bushnell, Inc., who made binoculars under the Bausch & Lomb name until the license expired, and was not renewed, in 2005.
Models made by Mamiya but marketed under other labels are shown in parentheses. ... Mamiya Prismat NP (Sears 32A, Tower 32B, Sears 32B) (1961) — Exakta bayonet ...
One of Tower Optical's coin-operated binoculars in Utah A Tower Optical viewer on the observation deck of Manhattan's GE Building. A foundry in Pennsylvania manufactures the parts used for Tower's viewers, about 35 of which are assembled each year in its two-story building in East Norwalk. The company maintains several thousand of the devices ...
Craftsman — re-branded Chamberlain models sold at Sears. Those products have a "139" model prefix to denote that the Chamberlain Group made them for Sears. Clicker — a line of universal garage door remotes. Chamberlain, LiftMaster, and Craftsman have interchangeable parts, primarily the gear and circuit boards.
A 1909 ad for the Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company. The Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company, also known as the Belknap Hardware Company or simply Belknap Hardware, was at one time a leading American manufacturer of hardware goods and a major wholesale competitor of retail sales companies Sears, Roebuck, and Company and Montgomery Ward.
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Sears, Roebuck and Co., commonly known as Sears (/ s ɪər z / SEERZ), [5] is an American chain of department stores founded in 1892 by Richard Warren Sears and Alvah Curtis Roebuck and reincorporated in 1906 by Richard Sears and Julius Rosenwald, with what began as a mail ordering catalog company migrating to opening retail locations in 1925, the first in Chicago. [6]