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- Black & Decker Type A Electric Hammer, 1929-1930 - Alonzo G. Decker and S. Duncan Black, who operated a small manufacturing company in Baltimore, Maryland, began designing and producing electric tools in 1916. Their pistol-style grip and trigger switch, patented the following year, set the standard for power tool design. Black & Decker developed new products as the company expanded through the 1920s, introducing an electric hammer in 1929.
- 1929-1930
- Collections - Artifact
Black & Decker Type A Electric Hammer, 1929-1930
Alonzo G. Decker and S. Duncan Black, who operated a small manufacturing company in Baltimore, Maryland, began designing and producing electric tools in 1916. Their pistol-style grip and trigger switch, patented the following year, set the standard for power tool design. Black & Decker developed new products as the company expanded through the 1920s, introducing an electric hammer in 1929.
- Workmen Standing on Large Cut-stone Structure Holding Tools, Springfield Ohio, circa 1885 -
- circa 1885
- Collections - Artifact
Workmen Standing on Large Cut-stone Structure Holding Tools, Springfield Ohio, circa 1885