We took a look at our "Big Green Books" to see how manufacturers used to advertise their businesses. Take a look and see who we found!

1. From Our Archives:
Manufacturing Ads

2. 1943
During World War I, Dow Chemical supplied
many war materials the United States had
previously imported from Germany. By 1918,
90 percent of Dow Chemical production was
geared towards the war effort.

3. 1947
The Fafnir®
brand of bearings traces its founding
as "The Fafnir Bearing Company" in New Britain,
Connecticut back in 1911. Founder Howard S.
Hart started the company based upon the need
at that time for less expensive alternatives to
English and German made ball bearings.

4. 1947
Kidde produced the first portable carbon dioxide
fire extinguisher in 1924.

5. 1947
Founded in 1870 as Fiske Brothers Refining Co.,
today Lubriplate Lubricants Co. is the oldest
independent lubricant manufacturer in the
United States.

6. 1953
From the rivets on Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of
St. Louis, to safety critical high strength bolts in
modern jet engines, to parts that make today's
automobiles safer, Hassall continues to play a
critical role in advancing technology.

7. 1953
The first power driven hack saw, appropriately
named the No. 1, weighed 115 pounds and sold
for around $12.00. The saw was marketed under
the slogan “Too simple to be misunderstood.”

8. 1970
In 1954 the world’s first atomic-powered
submarine is equipped with Ingersoll-Rand
boiler-feed pumps and compressors.

9. 1975
3M created the world's first waterproof
sandpaper, which reduced airborne dust during
automobile manufacturing, in the early 1920s.

10. 1977
Model LA 1-ton forklift truck, Toyota's first forklift
truck model, introduced in 1956.

11. 1977
Valley Craft was established in 1953 when
Carl Weinmann introduced the first hand truck
with a brake.

12. The Thomas Register of American Manufacturer's
"big green books" were indispensable to buyers and
industrial suppliers alike for well over a century.
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