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Alfred B. Dick
Dick conceived the idea for the mimeograph, and secured permission from Thomas Edison for what would become known as the Edison-Dick Mimeograph. At the time of Dick’s death, the Edison-Dick Mimeograph had become virtually indispensable to every kind of public and... View Details
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Charles A. Coffin
Coffin led General Electric into the production of other electrical products besides arc lights, including railway motors and alternating generators and transformers. In the late 1890s, Coffin was able to negotiate a patent agreement with Westinghouse Electric, which... View Details
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Clarence M. Woolley
With the financing help of JP Morgan, Woolley’s American Radiator came to control just about every heating equipment manufacturer in the United States. Seeing that a greater market for gas radiators existed in Europe than in the United States, however, Woolley... View Details
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Gerard Swope
Though GE was highly successful in the market for heavy electrical machinery and engineering systems, Swope was determined to diversify the company into “public” products. Swope steered GE towards smaller electronic appliances, giving the utility giant its first access... View Details
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Elmer A. Sperry
A prolific inventor, Sperry was instrumental in creating technological advances in navigation. He invented gyroscopic compasses and stabilizers that became fundamental components for both ships and airplanes. His inventions were adopted by the United States Navy and... View Details
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Elwyn L. Smith
Son of founder Wilbert Smith, Elwyn Smith joined the family company, becoming president in 1951. Smith continued the success of his father and uncles, and was the driving force behind the creation of Smith-Corona-Marchant in 1958. View Details
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Clarence W. Seamans
After making a name for himself in sales at E. Remington and Sons, Seamans and his associates bought the company and eventually merged it into what became Union Typewriter. Under Seamans' leadership, Union Typewriter acquired other business machine producers and grew... View Details
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Robert F. Bensinger
Bensinger, the last Brunswick family member to run the company, is credited with the company’s survival and prosperity. Taking the helm of the family company at the brink of the Depression, Bensinger embarked on a growth and diversification path. Under his direction,... View Details
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Royal Little
Little, often referred to as “the Father of Conglomerates,” was famous for his “unrelated diversification” theory. He built one of the world’s largest and most successful conglomerates. Starting as a textile manufacturer, by the mid-1960s he had acquired nearly 70... View Details
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Herbert V. Kohler
Kohler built the second largest plumbing supply company in the United States. He is also responsible for widening the company’s scope of production. Today, Kohler makes electric generators for standby power systems, yachts, motor homes, lawn and garden tractors,... View Details
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Mitchell P. Kartalia
Kartalia spent 40 years with Square D. During his 15-year tenure as CEO, he achieved a fivefold increase in revenues building Square D into a $1 billion+ electrical equipment manufacturer. View Details
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Herbert W. Hoover, Jr.
Grandson of Hoover Company’s founder, Herbert Hoover Jr. joined the family firm at a young age, working on the assembly line in summers between school. As he gradually moved up through the company, succeeding his father as president in 1954, Hoover learned the ins and... View Details
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Henry F. Henderson, Jr.
After working at Richardson Scale Company for a number of years, Henderson’s entrepreneurial spirit led him to start Henderson Industries (HI) in 1952. Winning a contract from Richardson, HI began growing rapidly. Manufacturing sophisticated instrumentation and control... View Details
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Stanley C. Gault
Taking the helm of the company his father helped to found, Gault was instrumental in reorganizing and revitalizing Rubbermaid from a small household gadget company into a streamlined and efficient multinational corporation. He embarked on a dual plan of divestiture and... View Details
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Lothar W. Faber
Faber improved the Eberhard-Faber Company’s product line by adding fountain pens, mechanical pencils, and refill leads. Faber also invented the clamp tip type of pencil with a removable, adjustable eraser. Faber grew the company’s Brooklyn pencil factory from 180,000... View Details
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Roy L. Ash
In 1953, Ash and his partner, Tex Thornton, bought Litton Industries, a small West Coast producer of microwave tubes. Litton embarked on an aggressive acquisition course. By 1961, the same year Ash became president of the company, Litton had completed 25 mergers and... View Details
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Joseph S. Wright
Wright led Zenith Radio Corporation during its heyday as the leading manufacturer of color televisions in the United States. Under Wright’s direction, Zenith pioneered the wireless remote controller and introduced advances in color television, phonographs, and hearing... View Details
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John F. Welch, Jr.
Though he had the full support of GE’s board, Welch’s first few years as CEO consisted of extensive cost cutting plans, some of which involved controversial divestitures of GE subsidiaries. Having successfully streamlined the company, Welch had his employees focus on... View Details
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John T. Underwood
Purchasing the rights to the only “visible” typewriter available at the time, Underwood led his company to extreme success. By 1915, he had created the “largest and most complete typewriter factory in the world,” and his company was producing some 500 machines a day,... View Details
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Edward R. Stettinius
When Stettinius joined Diamond Match, it was the United States’ leading producer of matches, but it was a suffering entity. Within a few short years, however, Stettinius turned the company around and initiated an advertising campaign to boost popularity of the... View Details
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