. History of Milwaukee, city and county . e in-dustry which might have been termed an electric machinist shop in which smallamounts of work were done on individual orders. Messrs. Cutler and Hammer werethe enterprising and hopeful young men of this company. Soon after there came a need for resistances, resistance boxes, some to be used withthe early types of motors and others including regulating resistance to be used withgenerators. As a result of the need for such apparatus, another small company wasstarted in Milwaukee, known as the American Rheostat Company. In this companywere two men, Mr
. History of Milwaukee, city and county . e in-dustry which might have been termed an electric machinist shop in which smallamounts of work were done on individual orders. Messrs. Cutler and Hammer werethe enterprising and hopeful young men of this company. Soon after there came a need for resistances, resistance boxes, some to be used withthe early types of motors and others including regulating resistance to be used withgenerators. As a result of the need for such apparatus, another small company wasstarted in Milwaukee, known as the American Rheostat Company. In this companywere two men, Mr. F. R. Bacon and Mr. F. L. Pierce, who thought the future of theelectrical industry particularly good and decided to stake out their lines in this specific object was to manufacture an overload starting box invented by LouisGibbs and later improved upon by Mr. Bacon. After both these small companies had progressed to the point where starters,speed regulators and controllers for elevators, cranes and printing presses were ROBERT B. DOMOGALLA HISTORY OF .MILWAUKEE 529 a consolidation of the companies was effected in 1S98 and an enlarged plant establishedin Milwaukee. One of the early evidences of the clear realization of the increased use in motordrive and incidentally the need for controller apparatus, was the use and acquiring ofcomplete rights to the No-Voltage Release which although it had been used on Cutler-Hammer apparatus had really been patented by a Mr. Blades of Detroit. The new plant occupied a twostory building with about seventeen thousand squarefeet of floor space. Within a year, however, the business had increased to such anextent that the plant was doubled and this process has been repeated at frequentintervals, until at the pesent lime the plant at Milwaukee occupies not only the entireblock bounded by Twelfth street, St. Paul avenue, Thirteenth street and the railroadtracks of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, but goodly portions of
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