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By 1935, Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation developed a lightweight 3/4" electric hammer drill. This power tool was designed to drill and sink anchors into concrete. This drill could also be converted into a standard 3/4" drill. Milwaukee also designed an easy-to-handle, single-horsepower sander/grinder that weighed only 15 pounds. [7]
In 1945, Rockwell Manufacturing Company acquired Delta Machinery and renamed it the Delta Power Tool Division of Rockwell Manufacturing Company and continued to manufacture in Milwaukee. In 1966, Rockwell invented the world's first power miter saw. In 1981, Rockwell's power tool group was acquired by Pentair and re-branded Delta Machinery.
Bucyrus-Erie was an American surface and underground mining equipment company. It was founded as Bucyrus Foundry and Manufacturing Company in Bucyrus, Ohio, in 1880.Bucyrus moved its headquarters to South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1893.
The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road) classes EP-1 and EF-1 comprised 42 boxcab electric locomotives built by the American Locomotive Company (Alco) in 1915. Electrical components were from General Electric. The locomotives were composed of two half-units semi-permanently coupled back-to-back, and numbered as ...
The EMD SD40-2 is a 3,000-horsepower (2,200 kW) C-C diesel–electric locomotive built by EMD from 1972 to 1989.. The SD40-2 was introduced in January 1972 as part of EMD's Dash 2 series, competing against the GE U30C.
A second "Quill" was modified to the Milwaukee Road's specifications, and with more success. The entire series was effectively converted to single-end operation and were fitted with Commonwealth Delta idler trucks of better design than the originals to help guide the locomotives into curves.
The Milwaukee Road was the only railroad to order this design of locomotive from GE. The most remarkable mechanical improvement was arguably the traction motors used on the new locomotives. They were known as bipolar motors , because each of the locomotive's 12 motors had only two field poles, mounted directly to the locomotive frame beside the ...
Milwaukee Shops — 1885: Originally No. 37, renumbered 58 in 1898, then 1057 in 1899. [4] 1004: G8: 4-6-0: Milwaukee Road (r/b) 19543: September 1920: Rebuilt from class B4 no. 4335 (Baldwin 19543 of 1901) and numbered 2404; renumbered 1004 in 1938 [5] 1416: I5-a: 0-6-0: Milwaukee Shops — April 1908: Originally 1207, renumbered 1416 in 1938 ...