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In 1880, Washburn-Crosby flour brands won gold, silver and bronze medals at the Millers' International Exhibition in Cincinnati, causing them to launch the Gold Medal flour brand. [ 7 ] In 1924, the company acquired a failing Twin Cities radio station, WLAG , renaming it WCCO (from Washburn-Crosby Company).
A branch in Cincinnati operated during the period of 1903 through 1915. [8] The company won the grand prize and gold medal in construction at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. By 1915, the company had 600 employees. Stewart began producing trucks in 1912, which placed the company in debt by the end of the 1920s.
One of the early decorators was E. T. Hurley who joined Rookwood in 1896 and worked there for over 50 years. He was a student of Frank Duveneck at the Cincinnati Art Academy. Hurley specialized in painting landscapes and nature scenes winning a gold medal at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair for his work in ceramics. [6]
Before 1900, the John Holland Pen Company was a major fountain pens manufacturer. George S. Parker, founder of the most famous brand at the time, was a reseller. In 1880, Holland discovered the ability to melt and make castings of iridium by fusing the white-hot ore with phosphorus, [ 1 ] and patented the process in the United States. [ 3 ]
Some of the Cincinnati local foundries which supplied to the machine tool company included the Blackburn Foundry, Buckeye Foundry Company, the Steel Foundry Company (Cincinnati) and others. In 1889 the screw and tap business was sold off, as the company focused on machine tool business. It was renamed as the Cincinnati Milling Machine Co. (CMM).
Biles captured her second gold medal of Rio Olympics, winning the women's all-around by a whopping 2.1 points in a sport that keeps score to the hundredth of a point. Not only was the performance ...
The Ault & Wiborg Company was a manufacturer of printing inks that operated independently from 1878 to 1928. Founded in Cincinnati, Ohio , by Levi Addison Ault and Frank Bestow Wiborg , it expanded until its operations in multiple cities made it the world's largest ink manufacturer of its day.
Ohio will try to add to its Olympic medal count this summer From July 26-Aug. 11, the sports world will be centered on Paris, as top athletes from around the world compete for their countries in ...