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  2. E. C. Stearns & Company - Wikipedia

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    US Patent: RE7,484 - Improvements in Hollow Augers - Granted: January 30, 1877; US Patent: 203,384 - Improvements in Hollow Augers - Granted: May 17, 1878; US Patent: 225,496 - Hollow Auger - Granted: March 16, 1880; Patents for E. C. Stearns & Co. - Directory of American Tool & Machine Patents; Stearns Visible Typewriter 1905 - Thomas Fuertig ...

  3. Coes Wrench Company - Wikipedia

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    Coes Wrench Company was a tool manufacturing company based in Worcester, Massachusetts. The company was originally part of the L. and A. G. Coes & Co. [1] The Coes Wrench Company was founded April 1, 1888. [2] Coes Wrench Company manufactured the screw type wrench invented by Loring Coes; this wrench is commonly known as a monkey wrench.

  4. OTC Tool Company - Wikipedia

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    OTC Tools (originally Owatonna Tool Company) is a tool and equipment manufacturer. It was founded in Owatonna, Minnesota, by Godfrey Kaplan, who operated a small machine shop there. Kaplan's son Rueben, invented the "Grip-O-Matic" universal gear puller and received his first patent. [1] The tool remains virtually unchanged to this day. [2]

  5. Monkey wrench - Wikipedia

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    Coes monkey wrench. US patents July 6, 1880 and July 8, 1884. A monkey wrench is a type of smooth-jawed adjustable wrench, a 19th century American refinement of 18th-century English coach wrenches. It was widely used in the 19th and early 20th century. It is of interest as an antique among tool collectors and is still occasionally used in practice.

  6. Antique tool - Wikipedia

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    Although an antique tool might be said to be one that is more than a hundred years old, the term is often used to describe any old tool of quality that might be deemed collectable. The use of tools is one of the primary means by which humans are distinguished from other animals.

  7. Yankee screwdriver - Wikipedia

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    The first patented spiral push drill or similar spiral screwdriver dates back to 1868 known as the Allard's patent, but since we have never been able to find one in existence, we assume that the 1868 patent was never manufactured in quantity. The earliest we have observed is the F. A. Howard patent, known to have sold in the US in quantity.

  8. Atlas Press (tool company) - Wikipedia

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    In 1919 the Pennimans filed an unfair trade lawsuit against Eames (Atlas Press Co. v. Eames), claiming rights over the trademark, patent and improved design.The case was argued in front of the Michigan Supreme Court, which ruled that Eames had to cease use of the trademark, but refusing the transfer of the improved press to the Atlas company.

  9. Howard R. Hughes Sr. - Wikipedia

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    The manufacturing operations of Hughes' Sharp-Hughes Tool Company at 2nd and Girard Streets in Houston, Texas. Hughes Sr. married Allene Stone Gano, on June 24, 1904, in Dallas County, Texas, and engaged in various mining business endeavors before capitalizing on the Spindletop oil discovery in Texas, as a result of which he began devoting his full time to the oil business.