"granted to the first lawyer in the New World, Adriaen van der Donck. Getty Square's two oldest, still-standing buildings, Philipse Manor Hall (circa 1682) and St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church (built 1752 by Frederick Philipse III), were built in close proximity to the river. The Hudson River, bordering the western waterfront of Getty Square, provided a transportation route to markets beginning in the 1600s. The completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 increased water-borne traffic from upstate New York down the Hudson to Manhattan. In 1853, Elisha Graves Otis, inventor of the safety elevator, established the Otis Elevator Company on"
"was forced to flee to England. All the lands that belonged to the Philipse family were confiscated and sold. For its first two hundred years, Yonkers was a small farming town with an active industrial waterfront. Yonkers's later growth rested largely on developing industry. In 1853, Elisha Otis invented the first safety elevator and the Otis Elevator Company, opened the first elevator factory in the world on the banks of the Hudson near what is now Vark Street. It relocated to larger quarters (now the Yonkers Public Library) in the 1880s. Around the same time, the Alexander Smith and Sons"
"first such watch was completed in 1852; it carried the serial number of 18, and was marked ""Warren."" Approximately 80 ""Warren"" watches were produced, followed by about 900 marked ""Samuel Curtis"", and a further 4000 marked ""Dennison, Howard, and Davis"". The factory was moved to Waltham, Massachusetts around 1857 and named the Waltham Watch Company. The basic design of this watch was used for several years as the 1857 model Waltham. Applying armory practices to the manufacturing of watches carried both opportunity and risk for the Waltham Watch Company. The generally high price of watches allowed for a large investment"
"called a safety, which would kick in if the hoisting rope broke. This addressed a major public concern regarding the safety of elevators. Three years later, Otis installed the first passenger elevator in the United States in a New York City store. Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations was a World's Fair held in 1853 in what is now Bryant Park in New York City, in the wake of the highly successful 1851 Great Exhibition in London. It aimed to showcase the new industrial achievements of the world and also to demonstrate"
"in Canton, Ohio. Diebold states that 878 of its safes protected some of the only undamaged property in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, and the following year Diebold moved its operations and headquarters to Canton to meet increased demand. In 1874, Diebod was contracted to build the world's largest safe, to be installed in the San Francisco branch of Wells Fargo. In 1876, after becoming incorporated in Ohio, the company changed its name to Diebold Safe & Lock Company. Diebold secured its first international sale in 1881, when it built a safe for the President of Mexico. Diebold debuted"
"private residence in the U.S. Richard Morris Hunt interpreted the Louis XII and François I wings from the Château de Blois for it. The most notable United States architectural innovation has been the skyscraper. Several technical advances made this possible. In 1853 Elisha Otis invented the first safety elevator which prevented a car from falling down the shaft if the suspending cable broke. Elevators allowed buildings to rise above the four or five stories that people were willing to climb by stairs for normal occupancy. An 1868 competition decided the design of New York City's six story Equitable Life Building,"
"in London. In 1835, Charles Chubb expanded the business and took out a patent for a burglary-resistant safe. A safe works was opened shortly afterwards, in 1837, in London and in 1839 the brothers patented their first fire safe. Following the death of Charles, the company remained in the family, being taken over by his son, John Chubb, in 1846, and then his grandchildren, John Charles, George Hayter and Harry Withers Chubb in 1872. In 1882, the business became a private limited company and changed its name to Chubb & Sons Lock and Safe Company Ltd. The London safe works"
"in the US, but had only limited success until partnering with Michael Lerner. Lerner was told about the signs after recounting his experience of aggressive drivers when driving his baby nephew home in busy traffic. An urban legend claims that the death of a baby led to the creation of the signs, but there is no truth to this claim. Lerner eventually bought PHOB for approximately US$150,000, and changed the name to Safety 1st. The company later diversified into infant and child care products. The sign became a ubiquitous fad, flourishing in 1985. Its use in the US rapidly declined"
"helped him in establishing the burglar alarm industry. The alarm was patented in 1853 by the Reverend Augustus Russell Pope (1819–1858) of Somerville, Massachusetts. Edwin Holmes acquired Pope's patent rights in 1857 for US$1500 and manufactured the device in his factory in Boston, Massachusetts. He began to sell them in 1858. His son Edwin Thomas Holmes took over his father's company after his death and documented the events in his biography, ""A Wonderful Fifty Years"". Initially, people were fearful of and skeptical about using electricity for alarms, and the business did not go well. Therefore, in 1859, in search of"
"yourself. They believe in carrying the torch ignited by Otto Bernz in 1876—whose quality craftsmanship and progressive mindset is what blazed the trail for their line of quality products. California Prop 65:This product can expose you to chemicals including lead, which is known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm. http://www.torchinjuries.com/index.html http://www.torchinjuries.com/lawsuits.html Injuries and instances of product defects and failures may be reported through http://www.torchinjuries.com/contact.html and to the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission at 800-638-2772 or www.SaferProducts.gov (reference number 20180519-A9E35-2147387862). BernzOmatic Bernzomatic is an American manufacturing company. It was founded by"
"frame that made modern skyscrapers possible. In 2013 funding was confirmed to convert the derelict building into offices. In 1857 Elisha Otis introduced the safety elevator, allowing convenient and safe passenger movement to upper floors. Another crucial development was the use of a steel frame instead of stone or brick, otherwise the walls on the lower floors on a tall building would be too thick to be practical. An early development in this area was Oriel Chambers in Liverpool, England. It was only five floors high. Further developments led to the world's first skyscraper, the ten-story Home Insurance Building in"
"but Simpson Drag Chutes was founded. The first person to inquire about and use his parachute was ""Big Daddy"" Don Garlits. He evolved his business into a number of other safety items, such as gloves, helmets, restraints and shoes. Simpson designed NASA's first umbilical cords, where he met Pete Conrad. Conrad introduced Simpson to DuPont product Nomex in 1967. Simpson used the product to create the first fire suit to be used in racing. He took the suit to the 1967 Indianapolis 500 where it was worn by 30 of 33 drivers. Simpson had developed over 200 racing safety products,"
"unincorporated partnership until 1958 when Mr. Fallon was killed in an auto accident. The Brown family purchased Mr. Fallon’s half of the company and incorporated the business as Pac-Kit Safety Equipment Company, Inc in 1960. In 1970, the safety equipment industry in the US dramatically changed with the enactment of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) in the U.S. This law required that first-aid kits be present in every business with employees. Pac-Kit’s growth was substantial due to the new OSHA requirements, and the company purchased a larger, 32,000 sq. ft. facility in Norwalk, Connecticut in 1973. Four years"
"and blade production remained in Brooklyn. By 1921, it had produced 1,800,000 safety razors; 110,000,000 razor blades; 1,000,000 shaving brushes; 2,000,000 cakes of shaving soap. By 1942, it had introduced and popularized the phrase ""five o'clock shadow"". In 1953, it acquired the Pal, Treet and Personna brands after purchasing the Pal Blade Company. These two product names continue to be made today. In 1954 the factory relocated to Staunton, Virginia, after the Brooklyn City Planning Commission's planned civic center encroached on the factory with plans to redevelop the industrial area into office and residential use. The American Safety Razor factory"
"In 1874 he took out a patent for a safety pinion (U.S. patent no 157’913) for pocket watches, which prevented damage to the watch movement if the watch's mainspring broke. In partnership with W.J. Savage, the son of a prominent Columbus, Ohio watchmaker and businessman, Dietrich Gruen started the Columbus Watch Manufacturing Company in 1876. Initially, the company imported and finished watch movements imported from Madretsch, a suburb of Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. The movements featured Gruen's 1874 safety pinion design. In 1882 the company was refinanced and reorganized under the new name “Columbus Watch Company” and started manufacturing their own movements"
"(ICI) in England. ICI registered the product under the trademark Perspex. About the same time, chemist and industrialist Otto Röhm of Rohm and Haas AG in Germany attempted to produce safety glass by polymerizing methyl methacrylate between two layers of glass. The polymer separated from the glass as a clear plastic sheet, which Röhm gave the trademarked name Plexiglas in 1933. Both Perspex and Plexiglas were commercialized in the late 1930s. In the United States, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (now DuPont Company) subsequently introduced its own product under the trademark Lucite. In 1936 ICI Acrylics (now Lucite"
"H.J. Cave & Sons Ltd. It has updated its product line to include more modern designs as well as maintaining their vintage collections. Katherine Mansfield Winston Churchill F.D. Roosevelt H.J. Cave & Sons H.J. Cave & Sons is a London-based leather luxury goods company founded in 1839 and regarded by some as the inventor of the luxury leather handbag. The Original Company was established in 1839 as a sole trader, the company is famous for making the Osilite trunk, a strong and light trunk used on the 1933 Everest Expedition and several other adventures. The case won several major prizes"
"printmaking firm Currier & Ives. Nathaniel Currier, of Currier & Ives, also surviving as a volunteer firefighter in New York City during the 1850s. In 1818 the first known female firefighter Molly Williams rose to prominence in New York, when she took her place with the men on the drag ropes and pulled the pumper to the fire through the deep snow. In 1853 the first practical, steam powered, fire engine was tested in Cincinnati (OH). It was created by Abel Shawk, Alexander Bonner Latta, and Miles Greenwood. The engine was then named ""Uncle Joe Ross"" after a city council"
"given country. It expanded into Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, however, through a joint venture. This initial nucleus of stores received Safeway systems and technology and then expanded organically. International chains acquired include: In 1941, Marion B. Skaggs retired from the Safeway board of directors. In 1947, the company's sales exceeded $1 billion for the first time. By 1951, total sales had reached nearly $1.5 billion. The company adopted the S logo, which it still uses, in 1962. In 1955, Robert A. Magowan became Chairman of the Board of Safeway. Magowan had married Charles Merrill's daughter, Doris. Magowan also assumed the"
"inquire about and use his parachute was ""Big Daddy"" Don Garlits. He evolved his business into a number of other safety items, such as gloves, helmets, restraints and shoes. Simpson designed NASA's first umbilical cords, where he met Pete Conrad. Conrad introduced Simpson to DuPont product Nomex in 1967. Simpson used the product to create the first fire suit to be used in racing. He took the suit to the 1967 Indianapolis 500 where it was worn by 30 of 33 drivers. Simpson had developed over 200 racing safety products, including three generations of fire suits. Simpson demonstrated the suit's"
"H.J. Cave & Sons H.J. Cave & Sons is a London-based leather luxury goods company founded in 1839 and regarded by some as the inventor of the luxury leather handbag. The Original Company was established in 1839 as a sole trader, the company is famous for making the Osilite trunk, a strong and light trunk used on the 1933 Everest Expedition and several other adventures. The case won several major prizes in the 19th Century including first prize in Paris in 1867, beating rivals Asprey. The trunk was popular as an early flight case. It is also thought that they"
"professional) and remained a barrier to the ubiquitous adopting of the ""be your own barber"" ideal. The first safety razors used a single-edge blade that was essentially a 4 cm long segment of a straight razor. A flat blade that could be used alternately with this ""wedge"" was first illustrated in a patent issued in 1878, serving as a close prototype for the single-edge blade in its present form. New single-edge razors were developed and used side-by-side with double-edge razors for decades. The largest manufacturers were the American Safety Razor Company with its ""Ever-Ready"" series, and the Gem Cutlery Company"
"""safe haven"" they once were. The company ranked No. 108 in the 2018 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue. The company states its history is traced to a London tobacconist, Philip Morris, opening a single shop on London’s Bond Street in 1847 which sold tobacco and cigarettes. In 1881, Philip Morris' son, Leopard Morris, established the ""Philip Morris & Company and Grunebaum, Ltd"" with Joseph Grunebaum. In 1885, the company changed its name to ""Philip Morris & Co., Ltd"". In 1894, William Curtis Thomson and his family began to control the company, and in"
"prints were used in simple, comfortable silhouettes"", by one account. She advocated trousers for women and followed her own advice. In 1933, Hawes hired herself to a dress manufacturer to design ready-made clothes. She aimed to create moderately-priced designs that brought high fashion design to the ready-to-wear customer. The venture was commercially successful, but Hawes discovered that her designs were being made from inferior materials, and she severed the business connection. One of Hawes' most successful designs was a glove design called ""Guardsman"". It was a colored suede glove first designed in 1931 that buttoned on the back of the"
"Pac-Kit First Aid Kits Pac-Kit Safety Equipment Company has roots dating back to 1880 when Silas Burroughs, a former representative of the US pharmaceutical company John Wyeth & Co, and his business associate Henry Wellcome formed Burroughs Wellcome & Co in the UK. The two started manufacturing compressed pharmaceuticals, a novelty in those days and much safer than medicines prepared by pestle and mortar. The business thrived, and thanks to the cooperation with many explorers from the late 19th and early 20th century, Burroughs Wellcome gained fame around the world. In 1946, the Pac-Kit entity was spun off, and became"
"fully interchangeable. Based upon the experience of earlier failed trials, Howard and Dennison eventually perfected and patented their precision watch making machines, creating what has been called the American System of Watch Manufacturing. The original name of the company, which began operations in 1851, is unclear. Some sources say the name was the ""American Horologe Company"". However, in 1886, Dennison stated that the first company name was the Warren Manufacturing Company, named for General Warren of Roxbury, a famous soldier of the War of Independence. The word ""watch"" was specifically omitted to retain secrecy of the novel operation. In 1851,"
"many, many years. The brands and the year they were founded are as follows: TB Wood’s (1857)Boston Gear (1877)<br>Svendborg Brakes (1884)Nuttall Gear Corp. (1897)Bibby Transmissions (1919)Kilian Manufacturing (1922)Delroyd Worm Gear (1922)Warner Electric (1927)<br>Stromag (1932)<br>Bauer Gear Motor (1927)<br>Ameridrives (1928)Industrial Clutch Corp. (1930)Marland Clutch (1931)Matrix International (1939)Stieber Clutch (1944)Twiflex Limited (1946)Formsprag Clutch (1946)<br>Guardian (1947)<br>Centric (1948) Wichita Clutch (1954)Huco Engineering (1965)Inertia Dynamics (1971)All Power (1986)<br>Lamiflex (1999)Bear Linear (2001) Altra Industrial Motion went public in December, 2006. It trades on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol AIMC. Altra's broad product range can be divided into three distinct divisions: Altra operates production facilities in the"
"any working person and continued producing cheap pocket watches into the 1990s. In 1959, Westclox introduced and patented its ""drowse"" alarm, which was one of the first of its kind powered by electricity, which integrated what is now more commonly known as a ""snooze"" function. Talley Industries acquired General Time in 1968. Westclox introduced its first quartz movement in 1972. In 1988, the management of Talley Industries purchased General Time from the company. Another bankruptcy shortly followed, and Salton, Inc. acquired the ""Westclox"" and ""Big Ben"" trademarks in 2001. In October 2007, Salton sold its entire time products business, including"
"department stores; architects of the new stores used huge ornamental glass skylights whenever possible to fill the stores with natural light, and designed the balconies around the central courts to provide the maximum of light to each section. The Galeries Lafayette store on Boulevard Haussmann, finished in 1912, combined skylights over courtyards with balconies with undulating railings, which gave the interiors the rich roccoco effect of a baroque palace. Before the store was enlarged and modernized, it had several vertical great halls filled with light from richly decorated glass cupolas. The safety elevator had been invented in 1852 by Elisha"
"Controls & Security’s brands provide building technologies, heating and cooling, fire safety and security and refrigeration products and services. Through its brands, UTC Climate, Controls & Security dates back to 1818, when Jeremiah and Charles Chubb patented the world’s first detector lock. In 1881, Robert Edwards patented the first electric alarm bell. In 1902, Willis Carrier developed and later patented the first modern air conditioner. And in 1917, Walter Kidde founded the Walter Kidde Company, which produced the first integrated smoke detection and carbon dioxide extinguishing system for use on board ships. UTC Climate, Controls & Security UTC Climate, Controls"
"in drink driving adverts. The building of roundabouts (circular junctions) grew rapidly in the 1960s; there are now more than 10,000 in the UK The Cat's eye retroreflective safety device used in road marking was invented by Percy Shaw in 1933. The UK has had a long history of car making. Some of the best known British brands are Rolls Royce, Bentley, Aston Martin, Jaguar, Land Rover and the Mini. Rolls-Royce was founded by Charles Stewart Rolls and Sir Frederick Henry Royce in 1906. In addition to the company's reputation for superior engineering quality in its cars, Rolls-Royce Limited was"
"electrical products. In 1908, the company was renamed Detroit Fuse and Manufacturing. Horton, an 1895 electrical engineering graduate of the University of Michigan, was credited with the invention of the safety switch, which encased high voltage switches and started the company's main line of business of circuit breakers and encased control panels. Their first enclosed safety switch was introduced in 1909. Soon after their renaming to Detroit Fuse and Manufacturing, the company adopted their famous logo — a capital ""letter D"" for Detroit, enclosed in a square. The logo was stamped on all Square D's switches and products. The combination"
"is also credited as the first African American in Cleveland to own an automobile. The smoke hood was completed circa 1912. He received his patent for it that year as well. The successful invention of the smoke hood precipitated the launch of the National Safety Device Company in 1914. It is unknown if the smoke hood brought him any commercial success. No sales figures have been found but his use of guerrilla marketing, going to different venues and demonstrating his smoke hood by strapping it on and entering a smoke filled teepee, certainly demonstrated his faith in his own invention."