Frank Brook
Frank Brook (c1860-1924)
of 9a Market Street, Huddersfield (1893), Frank Brook and Co.
1893 A watchmaker; he applied for a patent on improvements in apparatus for checking or indicating the time of arrival and departure of workpeople
1896 Frank Brook and Co advertised the "Automatic Time Checker"[1]
Business acquired by Brook Time Checking Clock Co
1896 Managing director of the Brook Time Checking Clock Co Ltd of Cloth Street, Huddersfield; patent on improvements in time checking or registering apparatus.
1896 Patent. 'Arthur W. Brook and Frank Brook, of Huddersfield, for an improved method of and means or advertising on tables, counters, stands, and the like'[2]
1897 Patent on new or improved manufacture or construction of wire or metallic cord.
1900 Frank Brook and Joseph Shaw Gaunt gained a US patent on "Workman's Time-Recorder" and Frank Brook with Peter Macmaster on a similar topic in 1902 and by himself in 1905.
1908 Patent. 'James J. Stockall, junr., and Frank Brook, Huddersfield, for improvements relating to time recorders'[3]
1924 Died. 'The death occurred suddenly yesterday at his home at 7, Wellington street, Lindley, Huddersfield, of Mr. Frank Brook, aged 64, who was well known throughout the watch and clock making trades of the United Kingdom. He was the inventor, about 30 years ago, of one of the earliest time-recording instruments for checking the entry and exist of workmen to various industrial establishments. On the suggestion of a local millowner he set to work on the construction of a checking clock, and his device was first patented in 1891, but there were many subsequent improvements and patents. Later he was in business as a watchmaker and jeweller, but afterward, he relinquished all sections of the business except that of making time recorders, and his business was incorporated with another concern as the Gledhill-Brook Time Recorders Ltd., of which he was a director. The firm have their headquarters in Huddersfield and are the largest makers of time recorders in the Kingdom. Mr. Brook was a member of the Huddersfield Commercial Travellers' Association and of the Lindley Liberal Club. He leaves a widow and three daughters.'[4]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ The Ironmonger
- ↑ Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette - Saturday 07 March 1896
- ↑ Halifax Daily Guardian - Friday 16 October 1908
- ↑ Halifax Evening Courier - Tuesday 08 July 1924