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Scovill Manufacturing Co

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of Waterbury, Connecticut

The Scovill Manufacturing company produced brass objects such as buttons, screws, and tools in Waterbury, Connecticut, from 1802 to 1956.[1]

1839 The Scovills were the first to produce silvered plates for making daguerreotypes in the USA[2]

1850 The Company was incorporated as Scovill Manufacturing Company to reflect the expansion into product lines such as brass lamps, munitions, fuses for artillery, some of the earliest cameras and plates as well as coin blanks for the US Mint.[3]

1888 Several large American cameras made by Scovill Manufacturing Co were exhibited at the Crystal Palace photographic exhibition[4]

1923 Striking design of laboratory at Waterbury, Connecticut associated with the brass foundry. The purpose-designed building covered mechanical testing, chemical analysis, metallography, pyrometry as well as some research with direct practical application, such as extrusion[5]

1923 The company acquired Hamilton Beach, and began producing electrical housewares.

1924 Scovill bought the Oakville Company and continued to produce the safety pins that the company had been making since 1882.

1930 Acquired the Schrader Company and began producing pneumatic tyre valves for the automobile industry.

By 1937 was offering gauges

Through the acquisition of these different companies, the Scovill Manufacturing Company also acquired numerous overseas plants.

By the 1960s Scovill operated plants in Canada, England, West Germany, Mexico and Japan, and had become the world leader in the production of snap fasteners.

British subsidiaries were:

1978 Scovil (sic) Manufacturing Company acquired Eaton Corporation's world-wide security products business, including its locks and hardware business at Willenhall[6]


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Sources of Information

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  4. The Engineer 1888/03/02
  5. The Engineer 1923
  6. Wolverhampton Express and Star 26 September 1978