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1910 Duncan Black and Alonzo Decker quit their jobs and form their own company with $1,200 in capital. They initially made a bottle-capping machine and a candy-dipping device. They soon begin work on a power drill from a plant on South Calvert Street in today's Inner Harbor.
1917 The firm patents a drill design, called the world's first portable power drill with a pistol grip. It is related to a portable air-compressor they had also patented. Also, Black & Decker's first plant opens in Towson.
1919 Sales at the young company surpass $1 million annually.
1923 The company begins selling a low-priced power drill.
1941 The company makes shells and tools for World War II.
1946 The first line of home utility drills is introduced after Alonzo G. Decker Jr., son of company's founder, notices that workers were stealing industrial power drills from defense contractors. They took the drills, then not available at local hardware stores, to do home improvements. The firm begins making electric drills, drill-bit sets, portable circular saws, jigsaws and sanders for the do-it-yourself market.
1961 Black & Decker introduces the DustBuster cordless vacuum. It also brought out a battery-powered drill - the first of a type widely sold today.
1968 Black & Decker develops a no-torque, cordless power drill used on the Apollo 16 and 17 missions to the moon. The drill is used to drill the moon's surface in the early 1970s.
1995 Black & Decker begins operations in India and China. It introduces its DeWalt power tools to Europe and Latin America.
2003 Black & Decker acquires Baldwin Hardware.
2009 The company sees earnings decline in part because of the downturn in housing construction but says the demand for its products has started to stabilize.
1917 The firm patents a drill design, called the world's first portable power drill with a pistol grip. It is related to a portable air-compressor they had also patented. Also, Black & Decker's first plant opens in Towson.
1919 Sales at the young company surpass $1 million annually.
1923 The company begins selling a low-priced power drill.
1941 The company makes shells and tools for World War II.
1946 The first line of home utility drills is introduced after Alonzo G. Decker Jr., son of company's founder, notices that workers were stealing industrial power drills from defense contractors. They took the drills, then not available at local hardware stores, to do home improvements. The firm begins making electric drills, drill-bit sets, portable circular saws, jigsaws and sanders for the do-it-yourself market.
1961 Black & Decker introduces the DustBuster cordless vacuum. It also brought out a battery-powered drill - the first of a type widely sold today.
1968 Black & Decker develops a no-torque, cordless power drill used on the Apollo 16 and 17 missions to the moon. The drill is used to drill the moon's surface in the early 1970s.
1995 Black & Decker begins operations in India and China. It introduces its DeWalt power tools to Europe and Latin America.
2003 Black & Decker acquires Baldwin Hardware.
2009 The company sees earnings decline in part because of the downturn in housing construction but says the demand for its products has started to stabilize.
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I notice nowhere in the timeline does it mention the year it raped the towns of Hampstead and Easton by moving their manufacting operations to China and Mexico.
JMR_2112 (11/03/2009, 7:00 AM )