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The company was founded in 1865 by Joseph Dean (born c1825 in Barnoldswick, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire), in Bingley, West Yorkshire, [2] known as "Old Dean", who retired in the late 1800s and died in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, in 1909. In the late 1860s Dean Smith & Grace moved to Keighley, and exported machine tools across the Empire.
Knife and scissor grinder sharpening a knife on a water-cooled grinding wheel, 2018.. A scissor grinder (German: Scherenschleifer), sometimes also scissor and knife grinder or knife and scissor grinder, for short also knife grinder, is a craftsman who sharpens and repairs blunt knives, scissors and other cutting tools.
Kilbourne and Jacobs Manufacturing Company was founded in 1881 by James Kilbourne and HL Jacobs in Columbus, Ohio with an initial investment of $100,000. [1] Built in close proximity to Union Station , [ 2 ] the company produced wheelbarrows, horse-drawn railroad scrapers and other earth-moving equipment during the turn of the century. [ 3 ]
For more than 30 years, Waccamaw Pottery anchored a vast shopping complex off U.S. Highway 501 in Myrtle Beach, eventually growing to one of the largest in America
The company was founded in 1949 as Global Equipment Company, a material handler. It first entered direct marketing in 1972 and began marketing computer equipment in 1981. The company changed its name to Global Direct-mail, in 1995 and to Systemax in 1999 and Global Industrial Company in 2021. [4] Former Systemax logo
Adams Leaning Wheel grader no.21, outside the original offices the Nungarin roadboard 1910 company catalog, image of Road King No. 12. J.D. Adams & Company was founded in 1885 by Joseph D Adams who invented the first leaning-wheel pull grader and was based in Indianapolis. The company manufactured construction machinery including sheepsfoot ...
Exterior of the company's Visitor Center in 2008. Stoneware & Co., which was previously known by various other names including the J. B. Taylor Company and Louisville Stoneware until sometime after its sale in July 2007, is a stoneware-producing company located in the Highlands section of Louisville, Kentucky.
Jacobs was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1916.His father was a Lebanese immigrant who sold straight razors. He attended Brooklyn Technical High School.Jacobs worked various jobs to pay for his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, and taught college while he earned his master's degree and doctorate in that field, in 1939 and 1942, respectively.