| Ort |
Zeit |
Firma |
Ereignis |
| Adams (Massachusetts) |
1895 |
Deutsch-Österreichische Mannesmannröhren-Werke, Centralbüro Berlin |
Carl Mannesmann beteiligt sich am Bau eines zweiten Werkes in Adams/Massachusetts |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1895 |
Chestnut Hill Pumping Station |
Gründung des "Metropolitan Water District", und das Versorgungsgebiet wird in ein nördliches und ein südliches aufgeteilt. Das südliche recht bis Quincy und Hyde Park und wird von Chestnut Hill versorgt. |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1895 |
Deer Island Sewage Treatment Plant |
Errichtung der Pumpstation |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1895 |
Gillette, King Camp |
Der Handelsreisende Gillette, Erfinder und Autor mehrerer Bücher, erfindet den Sicherheits- oder Naßrasierapparat. Er ist Verkaufsbevollmächtigter und Freund von William Painter, dem Präsidenten der "Crown Cork & Seal Company" und Erfinder des Kronkorken-Flaschenverschlusses. Painter empfiehlt ihm, etwas zu erfinden, was von jedermann gebraucht wird, aber nach einmaligem Gebrauch weggeworfen wird. |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1895 |
The Gillette Company |
Der Handelsreisende Gillette, Erfinder und Autor mehrerer Bücher, erfindet den Sicherheits- oder Naßrasierapparat. Er ist Verkaufsbevollmächtigter und Freund von William Painter, dem Präsidenten der "Crown Cork & Seal Company" und Erfinder des Kronkorken-Flaschenverschlusses. Painter empfiehlt ihm, etwas zu erfinden, was von jedermann gebraucht wird, aber nach einmaligem Gebrauch weggeworfen wird. |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1895 |
The Gillette Company |
King Camp Gillette konstruiert den Sicherheits- oder Naßrasierapparat. |
| Bridgeport (Conn.) |
1895 |
Yost Writing Machine Co. |
Das "Yost"-Schreibmaschinenmodell 4 erscheint |
| Chicopee (Mass.) |
1895 |
Stevens-Duryea |
1895 oder 1900 Beginn des Automobilbaues |
| Deer Island (Boston) |
1895 |
Deer Island Sewage Treatment Plant |
Errichtung der Pumpstation |
| Fall River (Mass.) |
1895 |
---- |
In den Baumwollspinnereien sind 2.833.961 Spindeln vorhanden |
| Northboro (Northborough) |
1895 |
American Camera Mfg. Co. |
Gründung durch Thomas Blair |
| Northborough (USA) |
1895 |
American Camera Mfg. Co. |
Gründung durch Thomas Blair |
| Providence (R.I.) |
1895 |
Rice & Sargent Engine Company |
Gründung durch Richard Henry Rice und John Warren Sargent |
| Somerville (Mass.) |
1895 |
Mystic Water Works |
Vergrößerung um fünf Hallenschiffe nach Westen |
| Springfield (Mass.) |
1895 |
Bullard Camera Co. |
Gründung durch Edgar R. Bullard |
| Waterbury (Conn.) |
1895 |
Deutsch-Österreichische Mannesmannröhren-Werke, Centralbüro Berlin |
Carl Mannesmann beteiligt sich an der Errichtung eines Mannesmannröhren-Werkes in Waterbury/Connecticut und nachdem dieses samt Kraftzentrale abgebrannt war, am Bau eines zweiten Werkes in Adams/Massachusetts. Während seiner Zeit in Nordamerika unternimmt er eine mehrmonatige Jagdtour in Kanada. |
| Waterbury (Conn.) |
1895 |
Mannesmann, Carl |
Carl Mannesmann beteiligt sich an der Errichtung eines Mannesmannröhren-Werkes in Waterbury/Connecticut und nachdem dieses samt Kraftzentrale abgebrannt war, am Bau eines zweiten Werkes in Adams/Massachusetts. Während seiner Zeit in Nordamerika unternimmt er eine mehrmonatige Jagdtour in Kanada. |
| Waterville (Maine) |
1895 |
Waterville Iron Works, Webber & Philbrick |
Die Fabrik am Messalonskie River brennt ab, und das Werk wird am Kennebec River neu aufgebaut. |
| Boston (Mass.) |
09.02.1895 |
The Lombard Governor Company |
Erteilung des englischen Patents 2.919 |
| Portland (Connecticut) |
21.02.1895 |
Pickering, Thomas Richard |
Tod von Thomas R. Pickering vmtl. in Portland (Conn.). Er wird auf dem Trinity Cemetry beigesetzt. |
| Portland (Connecticut) |
21.02.1895 |
T. R. Pickering & Company |
Tod von Thomas R. Pickering vmtl. in Portland (Conn.). Er wird auf dem Trinity Cemetry beigesetzt. |
| Portland (Connecticut) |
21.02.1895 |
The Pickering Governor Company |
Tod des Firmeninhabers |
| Boston (Mass.) |
07.03.1895 |
The Lombard Governor Company |
Erteilung des kanadischen Patents 41.360 |
| Boston (Mass.) |
05.06.1895 |
Metropolitan Water Works |
Das Gesetz Metropolitan Water Act zur Ernennung von drei Wasser-Kommissären zur Gründung des "Metropolitan Water Board" wird verbschiedet |
| Bridgeport (Conn.) |
Sept. 1895 |
Yost Writing Machine Co. |
Tod von George W. N. Yost |
| Attleboro (USA) |
19.09.1895 |
---- |
JOSEPH DICKENS, yardmaster of the Consolidated railroad at Attleboro, Mass., was struck by a freight train yesterday afternoon, and died shortly afterward. |
| North Adams (Massachusetts) |
21.09.1895 |
---- |
Mrs. Caroline Dressauer, 79 years old, was struck by a train yesterday afternoon and instantly killed. Her neck was broken and her body horribly mutilated. |
| Waterbury (Conn.) |
14.10.1895 |
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A serious freight wreck occurred here when two parts of a broken train came together. Ten cars loaded with trotting horses, live stock and other exhibits from the Danbury fair, which closed last week, were crushed and thrown down a 40 foot embankment. MAZEPPA, the famous champion trick horse of the world, valued at 40,000, was instantly killed, one man was fatally injured and two other seriously hurt. The injured are:
GEORGE W. LUSGOE, groom, both legs broken, will die.
HENRY THOMPSON, Boston, cut about head.
JAMES McCARRON, Boston, contusions on head, arms and body.
The train, which was a long one, was made up at Danbury, and it carried little besides the exhibits which had been displayed at the fair. When about a mile from this city, it parted in the middle, and the two sections came together again with a tremendous crash when near the center of the city. Cars were splintered and piled up in every direction. Ten of them fell in fragments to the bottom of a 40 foot embankment.
The car containing the famous MAZEPPA was reduced to kindling wood, and the house was killed on the spot. He was owned by H. D. McGUIRE of Boston. The groom, HARRY THOMPSON, had a miraculous escape. He jumped when the crash came and sustained only slight cuts and bruises over the eyes. McCARRON was pinned under a portion of the wreck for two hours and had to be cut out with saws and axes. LUSGOE was terribly crushed.
The loss to the road and others besides McGUIRE, owner of MAZEPPA, will exceed 15,000. |
| Hyde Park (Massachusetts) |
25.10.1895 |
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A rear end collision occurred here on the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, in which one man -- G. M. AUSTIN, a brakeman -- was killed, a woman fatally injured, and 12 other passengers, including Congressman ELIJAH A MORSE, were more of less seriously hurt.
The regular Mansfield accommodation train, due in Boston at 5:47, was just leaving the Hyde Park station, ten minutes late, when the New London and Providence express, due in Boston at 6:10 came running down from Canton Junction on a perfectly straight track and crashed into the rear of the Mansfield train.
The engine of the Providence train plowed into the rear car for a distance of five or six feet and caused this car to telescope the one ahead. Between these cars was Brakeman AUSTIN, who wad caught and remained jammed in the wreck for nearly an hour. |
| Medford (Massachusetts) |
21.12.1895 |
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A Medford-bound electric car, leaving Boston at 6 o'clock, ran into an inward-bound car that left Medford Square at 6:30 this morning. There was a dense fog prevailing at the time. The cars came together with a crash that demolished the fronts of both.
The following were injured:
BUNNELL, WILLIAM H., aged thirty-five; right leg broken and body bruised.
BUTTKIN, LOUIS H., bruised and cut.
CARLSON, THOMAS H., compound fracture of the right ankle; injured internally; may die.
GESNOLD, ARNOLD R., right leg crushed.
KEEFE, MARY, badly bruised.
LEMAR, JOSEPH, cut by glass.
The police were notified, and they, with an ambulance of physicians, were quickly on the spot, and, with the aid of citizens, the wreck was cleared and the injured persons taken out. Those badly injured were taken to the hospital, while others were removed to their homes. |
| Melrose (Massachusetts) |
21.12.1895 |
---- |
By the explosion of a fifty-pound box of dynamite under a crowded trolley car in Melrose, a suburb of Boston, six persons were killed outright, among them a woman and her child, three others received fatal injuries from which they died in the hospital and seventeen more were severely hurt. The front part of the car was blown to pieces and a huge hole torn in the ground. Men standing 100 feet away were knocked off their feet by the force of the explosion and windows were shattered for blocks around.
The conductor of the car was a Harvard student named BLANCHARD. |
| Providence (R.I.) |
1896 |
Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Co. |
Der Brown & Sharpe-Drehautomat erhält seine neue Bauart durch die im amerikanischen Patent Nr. 604.306 vom Jahre 1896 (Davenport) beschriebenen Verbesserungen. |
| Providence (R.I.) |
1896 |
Granville Manufacturing Company |
Bern. Granville aus Dayton konstruiert eine Schreibmaschine, die als Verbesserung der "Rapid" betrachtet werden kann. |
| Springfield (Mass.) |
1896 |
Charles & Frank Duryea |
Die Brüder Duryea bauen eine Kleinserie von 13 Autos (zweisitzige Runabout mit 6-PS-Zweizylindermotor) |
| Worcester (Mass.) |
1896 |
Wheelock Engine Co. |
Die Gesellschaft verkauft ihre Fabrik und ihr Geschäft an den Nachfolger, die "American Wheelock Engine Co." |
| Worcester (Mass.) |
1896/99 |
Wheelock Engine Co. |
Die Dampfmaschinen werden für "American Wheelock Engine Co." in Philadelphia, Chicago und Milwaukee gebaut. Die in Worcester gebauten machen nur noch einen kleinen Teil des Geschäfts aus. |
| Canaan (Connecticut) |
09.01.1896 |
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Word was received here this noon that the crew of the West End local freight train on the Philadelphia, Reading and New England Road, running between this place and may brook, N. Y, the western terminus of the road, had narrow escapes from death at that place early this morning. The men, four in number, have a coach fitted up for sleeping purposes, with bunks on each side and a stove in one end. A rousing fire was built last night in the stove to keep our the cold, and the men went to sleep.
At 3 o'clock they were awakened by the smell of smoke, which filled the car. Flames were spreading around them, and escape was all but cut off. They finally succeeded in leaving the car in their night clothes, all four being badly burned. Brakeman Michael McGuire was seriously burned and it is feared will not recover. George Blake, of this place, James Keenan and Samuel Drum, the other occupants of the car, were badly injured, but will recover. Four freight cars standing on either side of the coach were also burned. McGuire is a brother of Conductor Martin McGuire of Hartford.
How the fire originated is not definitely known, though it is supposed to have originated from the stove. |
| Ludlow (Vermont) |
18.02.1896 |
---- |
A dozen or more persons were injured by the wrecking of a passenger train on the Vermont Central Railroad a mile north of this place this morning. Those most seriously hurt are:
BAKER, E. O., express messenger; pinned under the wreckage and seriously crushed.
BAKER, T. J., of Rutland, a railroad carpenter; crushed about body; will probably die.
FLETCHER, GEORGE L., of Chester, mail agent; seriously injured under the wreckage.
SEXTON, D. B., of Rutland, conductor; cut about head and injured internally.
The other eight or ten persons on the train have painful but not serious bruises. The cause of the accident was a broken rail. The baggage car, mail car, and one coach went off the track and went down the embankment, being smashed in pieces. The engine was left on the ties. |
| Forestville (Connecticut) |
01.03.1896 |
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A special freight train on the New England road, bound for Hartford, was wrecked at 3:25 yesterday morning one eighth of a mile west of Forestville. The locomotive ran into a washout and turned over. Seven heavily loaded freight cars were piled up in a heap, and most of them were smashed to pieces. The engineer and fireman escaped through one the cab windows. George Gormully, brakeman sustained internal injuries. |
| Pawtucket (USA) |
05.1896 |
Bridge Mill Power Plant |
Eintragung der "Pawtucket Electric Company" als Zusammenschluß der "Pawtucket Electric Lighting Company" (Dampfkraftwerk am Blackstone River, erbaut um 1890, Eigentümer: "Pawtucket Gas Company", künftig als "Upper Station" bezeichnet) und der "Bridge Mill Power Company", ein Wasserkraftwerk, Eigentümer: Darius L. und Lyman B. Goff, künftig die "Lower Station" genannt. |
| Concord (N.H.) |
27.08.1896 |
---- |
The down express on the Concord Division of the Boston and Maine Railroad due here at 2:28 P.M. left the rails on account of a defective switch near Ferry Street, throwing several cars from the track and injuring several passengers. An ambulance with a corps of physicians has gone to the scene of the wreck.
The train was heavily loaded, many of the passengers being on their way from the veterans' reunion at the Weirs. The speed of the train was moderate, and the first intimation the passengers had of anything wrong was when the cars began to sway and then left the iron. PAUL WHIPPLE of Riverdale, S. C., who had been to the veterans' reunion and was in the smoking car, said:
"The train was running along at a moderate rate of speed. The car in which I rode was filled, and everything was going along smoothly when all at once the car began bumping on the iron and the passengers were thrown toward the front end. I got out as quickly as possible and assisted others to escape. The locomotive and baggage car toppled over, and one car, went down a small embankment. I should say fully ten passengers were hurt. It is probable that the baggagemaster and engineer are seriously, if not fatally, hurt." It is thought that three of the injured will die. |
| Claremont (New Hampshire) |
28.11.1896 |
Tyler, John |
Tod von John Tyler in Claremont, N.H. |
| Dexter (Maine) |
29.11.1896 |
Dexter Mills Company |
Tod von Albert H. Bradbury |
| Bath (Maine) |
1897 |
Hyde Windlass Company |
Eintragung |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1897 |
Central Power Station |
Die "West End Street Railway Company" wird in die "Boston Elevated Railway" umgewandelt. |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1897/98 |
Chestnut Hill Pumping Station |
Gemäß den Bostoner Architekten Wheelwright & Haven wird die Pumpstation erweitert. Eine neue Dreifachexpansionspumpmachine (No. 4), bestellt 1898, gebaut von E. P. Allis Company, wird aufgestellt. |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1897 |
George F. Blake & Co. |
Nach 19 Jahren unabhängiger Dampfpumpen-Produktion durch "Knowles & Sibley" und "G. F. Blake Mfg. Co." Zusammenschluß zu "Blake & Knowles Steam Pump Works" |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1897 |
Gillette, King Camp |
Die erste Patentanmeldung des Rasierapparats von Gillette wird abgelehnt, da es ihm nicht gelingt, einen funktionstüchtigen Rasierapparat zu bauen. |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1897 |
The Gillette Company |
Die erste Patentanmeldung des Rasierapparats von Gillette wird abgelehnt, da es ihm nicht gelingt, einen funktionstüchtigen Rasierapparat zu bauen. |
| Cambridge (Mass.) |
1897 |
Blake & Knowles Steam Pump Works |
Nach 19 Jahren unabhängiger Dampfpumpen-Produktion durch "Knowles & Sibley" und "G. F. Blake Mfg. Co." Zusammenschluß zu "Blake & Knowles" |
| Cornwall Bridge (USA) |
1897 |
Cornwall Bridge Iron Co. |
Einstellung des Hochofenwerks |
| Derby (Conn.) |
1897 |
Williams Typewriter Co. |
Die Schreibmaschinenmodell 2 und 3 kommen auf |
| East Cambridge (Cambridge) |
1897 |
Blake & Knowles Steam Pump Works |
Nach 19 Jahren unabhängiger Dampfpumpen-Produktion durch "Knowles & Sibley" und "G. F. Blake Mfg. Co." Zusammenschluß zu "Blake & Knowles" |
| Fitchburg (Mass.) |
1897 |
Putnam Machine Co. |
Putnam verkauft sein Bürogebäude in der Main Street an die Witwe von Iver Johnson, für den Bau des Johnsonia Bldg, Putnam's office bldg. wird zur Putnam St. zurückverlegt. |
| Houlton (Maine) |
1897 |
Houlton Foundry and Machine Company |
Umfirmierung in "Houlton Foundry and Machine Company" |
| Mechanic Falls (USA) |
1897 |
J. W. Penney & Sons |
Eintragung |
| Orono (Maine) |
1897 |
The University of Maine |
Umbenennung aus "Maine College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts" in "University of Maine" |
| Salisbury (Conn.) |
1897 |
Chapinville Furnace |
Einstellung des Betriebs |
| Stamford (Connecticut) |
1897 |
The Blickensderfer Mfg. Co. |
Das Schreibmaschinen-Modell 7 wird hergestellt |
| Warren (Mass) |
1897 |
Knowles & Sebley |
Nach 19 Jahren unabhängiger Dampfpumpen-Produktion durch "Knowles & Sibley" und "G. F. Blake Mfg. Co." Zusammenschluß zu "Blake & Knowles Steam Pump Works" |
| Watertown (Massachusetts) |
1897 |
Stanley Motor Carriage Company |
Die Brüder Francis E. und Freelan O. Stanley beginnen - mehr als Hobby - dampfbetriebene Fahrzeuge zu konstruieren |
| Watertown (Massachusetts) |
1897 |
Stanley Motor Carriage Company |
Die Zwillingsbrüder Francis Edgar und Freelan O. Stanley erwirtschaften durch den Verkauf der Nutzungsrechte eines von ihnen entwickelten Fotodruckverfahrens eine beträchtliche Summe. |
| Warren (Mass) |
01.02.1897 |
Warren Steam Pump Company |
Antrag zur Gründung |
| Warren (Mass) |
09.02.1897 |
Warren Steam Pump Company |
Mitteilung wegen Einberufung der Gründungsversammlung am 16. Februar |
| Warren (Mass) |
19.02.1897 |
Warren Steam Pump Company |
Gründungsversammlung |
| Springfield (Mass.) |
23.03.1897 |
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The Montreal express, which left this city at 8 o'clock last evening, ran into four detached freight cars between Chicopee junction and Chicopee Street. The train was going at a speed of not less than 40 miles an hour. No lives were lost, but the engineer, John Brennan of Windsor, Vt., was seriously injured. Others who were injured are: Mail Clerk Simmons, Dr J. Owen of New York and a woman who gave her name as Mrs William Bullis. The rolling stock loss will be large. It is probable that the Boston freight which leaves this city at about 7 o'clock, but was late last night, was responsible for the accident. The scene of the accident was a few rods from the Chicopee crossing. A spur track, used by the Dwight manufacturing company, runs from the main track near this point. Last evening there were eight freight cars on the spur. The Boston freight took four of them and soon after the other four found their way to the main track. The spur track has a considerable grade and the cars on it are generally blocked. It seems probable that the train hands of the Boston freight, after releasing the four cars which were attached to that train, neglected to block the other four, which rolled down the grade and onto the main track. It is certain that these cars had been on the main track but a few minutes, as the train which leaves this city for Holyoke at 7.30 passed the scene of the accident without obstruction. |
| Readsboro (USA) |
31.03.1897 |
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There was an accident this morning on the Hoosac Tunnel & Wilmington R. R. a quarter of a mile below Readsboro, Vt. The train was due at hoosac Tunnel at 9:50. Two cars rolled over on their sides and lodged on the brink of a bank 25 feet high.
Several passengers were more or less injured. Those most seriously hurt were:
G. W. Averill of North Adams, cut on face and hands;
Mrs. Elizabeth Carpenter, of Whitingham, Vt., bruised on chest and internally injured;
Miss Bertha Wheeler of Whitingham, shock and cut on face;
C. E. Wheeler of Whitingham, cut on the head and injured internally;
Frank Childs, Wilmington, leg lacerated by broken glass;
Spreading rails caused the accident would have proven most disastrous.
Assistance was summoned from Readsboro and Hoosac Tunnel. The officials are very attentive. The injured are being well cared for. |
| Woodsville (New Hampshire) |
06.07.1897 |
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A freight train on the White Mountain Division of the Boston and Maine Railroad was wrecked by a washout at a point four miles north of this station early this morning. Three men were killed and the engine and three cars were Patrick Lennon, engineer, Whitefield, N. H.; Bert Pebbles, fireman, Woodsville; O. E. Lange, brakeman, Berlin, N. H.
The washout was caused by a cloudburst, which passed over this section yesterday. A great volume of water fell in a short time, and the small streams overflowed the lowlands. |
| Boston (Mass.) |
03.08.1897 |
The Lombard Governor Company |
Erteilung des U.S.-Patents 587.675 |
| Etna (Maine) |
05.09.1897 |
---- |
A bad accident occurred on the Maine Central Railroad this morning to a special excursion train from Dover and Foxcroft to the Etna camp meeting. Martin Payne, aged twenty-two persons were injured, several of whom are in a serious condition with slight hopes of recovery.
The train was made up of five cars and a combination. The latter was thrown from the rails, owing to a break in a flange two miles west of Etna station. The car, which was completely overturned, contained sixty-five persons, who were thrown in a heap. Most of the injuries sustained by the passengers are said to have resulted from their struggles to escape from the train. |
| Warren (Mass) |
08.09.1897 |
Warren Steam Pump Company |
Die erste Pumpe besteht den Test |
| Boston (Mass.) |
30.11.1897 |
The Lombard Governor Company |
Erteilung des U.S.-Patents 594.632 |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1898 |
National Typewriter Co. |
Die "National (I)"-Schreibmaschine, eine Erfindung von Henry Harmon Unz, kommt heraus |
| Dexter (Maine) |
1898 |
Dexter Mills Company |
Die Gesellschaft überträgt ihren Besitz auf die Anteilseigner R.W. Robinson, Eben Dale, R. S. Russell, Edward R. Robbins und Albert F. Bradbury. |
| Malden (Massachusetts) |
1898 |
Spot Pond Pumping Station |
Die Kontrolle über das Spot Pond -Pumpwerk geht auf das "Metropolitan Water Board" von Boston über. |
| New Haven (Conn.) |
1898 |
Goodyear, Charles |
Frank A. Seiberling gründet die "The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company" und benennt sie zu Ehren des bereits 1860 verstorbenen Erfinders der Gummi-Vulkanisation (erfunden 1839), Charles Goodyear |
| Sharon Valley (Conn.) |
1898 |
Sharon Valley Iron Co. |
Der Hochofen geht außer Betrieb |
| Spot Pond (Malden) |
1898 |
Spot Pond Pumping Station |
Die Kontrolle über das Spot Pond -Pumpwerk geht auf das "Metropolitan Water Board" von Boston über. |
| Torrington (Connecticut) |
1898 |
Hendey Machine Co. |
Das Mitte der 189er Jahre errichtete dreigeschossige Ziegelgebäude wird auf die doppelte Größe erweitert |
| Wolcottville (Torrington) |
1898 |
Hendey Machine Co. |
Das Mitte der 189er Jahre errichtete dreigeschossige Ziegelgebäude wird auf die doppelte Größe erweitert |
| Old Town (Maine) |
29.01.1898 |
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The St. John Train No. 29, or what is called down here the Provincial Express, was wrecked in the cut at Orono Basin Mills at 3:45 this afternoon, and six cars, including the smoker, were turned topsy-turvy into the ditch. One of the passenger cars was almost entirely demolished. Two persons were killed and more than a score injured severally probably fatally. The dead are Jennie S. Murray, St. Stephen, N. B.; Mrs. D. Cunningham, Troy, Me. The fatally injured are Daniel Cunningham, Troy, Me.; Howard L. Maddox, Skowehegan, Me.; Stanley Bean, Bertin Falls, N. B., and C. E. Whittier, Skowhegan, Me.
The train was running over the Maine Central tracks and left Bangor a little late. At the time of the derailment, which was due to spreading rails, the train was running about thirty-five miles an hour. It was made up of a combination baggage, and mail car, parlor car Claribel, smoking car, two passenger coaches, and the private car of President F. A. Wilson of the Maine Central Railroad, which was occupied by President and Mrs. Wilson and two women on the way to St. John to pass Sunday. |
| Massachusetts |
04.02.1898 |
---- |
Zusammenstoß eines Milchzuges mit einem Schneepflug, geschoben von Lokomotive 823 (Achsfolge 2'B) auf der "New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad", Bereich der "Boston, Clinton, Fitchburg, and New Bedford Railroad" (Teil der Old Colony Railroad). Die Milchzug-Lok klettert auf die des Schneepflugs und bleibt leicht geneigt auf deren Kesselscheitel liegen. |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1899 |
Blair Camera Co. |
Eastman Kodak kauft die Blair Camera Co. |
| Bridgeport (Conn.) |
1899 |
The Locomobile Company of America |
Gründung. Der Name ist eine Kombination von "locomotive" und "automobile". John B. Walker kauft die Pläne für ein frühes Fahrzeug, das von Francis und Freelan Stanley produziert wurde, für US$250.000. |
| Chicopee Falls (USA) |
1899 |
The Overman Automobile Co. |
Beginn des Dampfautomobilbaues |
| Gardner (Mass.) |
um 1900 |
Nichols & Stone |
Verlegung der Firma Nichols (vmtl. von Westminster, Massachusetts) nach Gardner |
| Lowell (Mass.) |
1899 |
Market Mills |
Das Unternehmen kommt an die Briglow Carpet Co. |
| Marlborough (Massachusetts) |
1899 |
Marlboro Automobile & Carriage Company |
Gründung durch Orrin P. Walker |
| New Bedford (Mass) |
1899 |
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In New Bedford entsteht das erste Wähleramt mit selbsttätiger Freiwahl. |
| New Haven (Conn.) |
1899 |
New Haven Steamboat Company |
Der Schiffsverkehr wird von New Haven nach Providence ausgedehnt |
| Providence (R.I.) |
1899 |
Riverside Mills |
Die Riverside Mills werden von der "American Woolen Company" gekauft |
| Torrington (Connecticut) |
1899 |
Hendey Machine Co. |
Bau eines neuen Maschinenhauses und Einbau einer elektrischen Anlage |
| Torrington (Connecticut) |
1899 |
Hendey Machine Co. |
Die Gießerei wird auf die doppelte Größe erweitert |
| Westerly (Rhode Island) |
1899 |
C. B. Cottrell & Sons |
Erweiterung. Das Werk wird nach "R. Hoe & Company" zur zweitgrößten Druckmaschinenfabrik der USA |
| Wolcottville (Torrington) |
1899 |
Hendey Machine Co. |
Bau eines neuen Maschinenhauses und Einbau einer elektrischen Anlage |
| Wolcottville (Torrington) |
1899 |
Hendey Machine Co. |
Die Gießerei wird auf die doppelte Größe erweitert |
| Worcester (Mass.) |
Frühj. 1899 |
Wheelock Engine Co. |
Die "American Wheelock Engine Co." (auch genannt: "International Power Co." im Jahre 1900) erwirbt die Fabrik der "Corliss Steam Engine Co." in Providence, R.I., und das Geschäft wird von Worcester nach Providence verlegt. |
| Bridgeport (Conn.) |
06.08.1899 |
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Bei einem Unfall der Milford Street Railway stürzt ein Wagen bei Bridgeport durch eine Holzfachwerkbrücke. 20 Tote und 12 Verletzte |
| Oronoque (Connecticut) |
06.08.1899 |
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The greatest catastrophe recorded in Connecticut for nearly half a century occurred shortly before 4 o'clock this afternoon on the Stratford extension of the Shelton Street Railway, when a loaded car went off the trestle over Peck's Mill Pond, at Oronoque, about six miles north of Bridgeport, and sank in the flats forty feet below. Thus far thirty-six persons are known to be dead, and several others are injured. Only two persons are known to have escaped unharmed. It is believed that there were nearly fifty passengers on the car, but the indicator was removed by a conductor of another car and spirited away, so that at presentit is impossible to ascertain the exact number.
The scene of the accident is midway between Shelton and Bridgeport. The car was north-bound, running toward Shelton. It was in charge of Conductor JOHN CARROLL of Bridgeport, who is among the killed, and Motorman HAMILTON of Bridgeport. The latter escaped by jumping.
The trestle is 440 feet long and constructed or iron, with stone foundations. It is not protected by any guard rails. South of the trestle is quite an incline, down which the can ran at a rapid rate. After it had run about ten feet on the trestle the trucks left the rails. The car continued on the ties for about seventy-five feet, when it bounded off the trestle and dropped into the pond below, overturning completely, and striking on one end. When the car struck, the motor, which weighs four tons, and the heavy trucks crushed into it, instantly killing many of the passengers. |
| Waterbury (Conn.) |
05.10.1899 |
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What came very near being a dreadful crossing fatally occurred last evening at the West Main Street crossing on the Naugatuck Division. The two-horse bus Alpha, which runs between this city and Morningside was struck by the northbound train due to leave this city at 9 o'clock and thoroughly demolished, while the passengers, numbering over a dozen in all, were thrown in every direction about the crossing. A number received various cuts and bruises, but the only man seriously injured was the driver of the vehicle, Edward Fuller, who, though badly hurt, will recover, with careful nursing. That there were not more seriously injured or killed is nothing less than miraculous. |
| Connecticut |
1900 |
---- |
In Connecticut sind 1900 178.708 Dampfmaschinen-PS vorhanden. |
| Derby (Conn.) |
1900 |
Williams Typewriter Co. |
Die Fabrik kommt mit einem neueren, größeren Schreibmaschinenmodell 4 heraus |
| Fall River (Mass.) |
1900 |
---- |
In den Baumwollspinnereien sind 3.042.472 Spindeln vorhanden |
| Hartford (Conn.) |
1900 |
The American Writing Machine Co. |
Die "New Century"-Schreibmaschine wird gebaut (= No. 6) |
| Hartford (Conn.) |
1900 |
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. |
Westinghouse baut das erste Dampfturbinen-Aggregat für die öffentliche Versorgung in den USA, für die "Hartford Electric Light Company" in Hartford (Connecticut) |
| Lime Rock (Conn.) |
1900 |
Lime Rock Iron Co. |
Das Werk wird geschlossen. |
| Malden (Massachusetts) |
1900 |
Spot Pond Pumping Station |
Bau eines größeren Pumpwerks für das "Metropolitan Water Board" durch due Hochbaufirma "Shepley, Rutan & Collidge" (auch Erbauer der Chestnut Hill Pumping Station) im Neorenaissance-Stil für $120.000 |
| Massachusetts |
1900 |
---- |
In Massachusetts sind 1900 579.110 Dampfmaschinen-PS vorhanden. |
| Pawtucket (USA) |
1900-1901 |
American Textile Co. |
Bau des Fabrikgebäudes in der Esten Avenue |
| Providence (R.I.) |
1900 |
Corliss Steam Engine Company |
Übernahme durch die "International Power Co." |
| Rhode Island |
1900 |
---- |
In Rhode Island sind 1900 115.876 Dampfmaschinen-PS vorhanden. |
| Spot Pond (Malden) |
1900 |
Spot Pond Pumping Station |
Bau eines größeren Pumpwerks für das "Metropolitan Water Board" durch due Hochbaufirma "Shepley, Rutan & Collidge" (auch Erbauer der Chestnut Hill Pumping Station) im Neorenaissance-Stil für $120.000 |
| Woodlawn (Pawtucket) |
1900-1901 |
American Textile Co. |
Bau des Fabrikgebäudes in der Esten Avenue |
| Plainville (Connecticut) |
01.03.1900 |
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A passenger train, southbound on the Northampton division of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, due in this city from Shelburne Falls, Mass., at 6:55, went through a washout about nine miles north of here and four persons were killed and seven more or less injured.
The wrecked train was made up of engine, baggage and mail car, combination car, passenger car and the pay car in the rear. The train was nearly one and a half hours late and was proceeding cautiously when it struck the washout. The two unknown passengers killed were in the smoker. There were no women aboard the train.
The scene of the wreck is ordinarily a small rivulet, the waters of which flow through a spacious culvert. Today, however, the water assumed greater proportions, owing to the heavy rains. There are about 150 mail pouches in the wrecked car, and but five have been accounted for. |
| Unionville (Connecticut) |
03.03.1900 |
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Conductor William Thomas is off duty for a few days. Thursday he slipped on an icy platform at Unionville, receiving painful bruises and a severe shaking up that called for a few days lay-off. |
| Bridgeport (Conn.) |
03.04.1900 |
The Ashcroft Manufacturing Company |
Patent auf den Tabor-Indikator |
| Cambridge (Mass.) |
04.07.1900 |
Harvard University |
Eine Expedition von Professoren der Harvard University in Cambridge im US-Bundesstaat Massachusetts trifft, von Neufundland kommend, in Labrador ein. Die Forschungsreisenden bleiben fast drei Monate in Labrador, wo sie die bislang unbekannten Berge Mt. Eliot, Mt. Faunce und Mt. Elizabeth benennen sowie wertvolle Mineralien, besonders Gold, finden. |
| Collinsville (Connecticut) |
18.08.1900 |
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he tracks of the Central New England Railway were blocked all Thursday night as the result of an accident which occurred west of the Cherry Brook station, near Collinsville, at 4:30 Thursday afternoon.
Local freight, No. 26, east bound, was running at a lively rate of speed when the flange on one of the wheels broke, derailing five cars, three of which went down an embankment into the highway.
The other two rolled down the opposite side into the Farmington River.
The track was torn up for a quarter of a mile---where the cars ran before stopping. Brakeman William Simmons was badly cut in the face and it was feared that he had also internal injuries. He was transferred to a train on the other side of the wreck and brought to Hartford. The Mountain Express, that leaves Hartford afternoons for the west, carried passengers to the wreck and transferred them to a train on the other side of the wreck and then returned to Hartford with the passengers from that train. The evening train due here at 3 o'clock also transferred at the scene of the wreck.
The Hartford wrecking crew had the tracks clear yesterday when trains again resumed running on schedule time. |
| Bath (Maine) |
1901 |
Bath Iron Works |
BIW wird vom "United States Shipbuilding Trust" erworben |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1901 |
Boston Elevated Railroad, Charlestown Power Station |
Erbaut |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1901 |
Boston Elevated Railroad, Lincoln Power Station |
Erbaut |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1901 |
Chestnut Hill Pumping Station |
Bau der Low-Service Pumping Station (Station Nr. 2 mit drei Holly-Gaskill Triplex-Maschinen) |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1901 |
Gillette, King Camp |
King C. Gillette (* 1855, + 1932) gründet die Gillette Co. Da ihm das benötigte Kapital für weitere Entwicklungsarbeiten und den Aufbau von Produktionsanlagen zur Massenfertigung nicht zur Verfügung steht, wird ein Konsortium aus Geldgebern gebildet, die den Mechaniker und Metallurgen William E. Nickerson engagiert. Er vermag Gillettes Erfindung in einen funtkionsfähigen Apparat umzusetzen, indem er das notwendige Härteverfahren für den Stahl entwickelt und zahlreiche andere technische Probleme löst. |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1901 |
The Gillette Company |
King C. Gillette (* 1855, + 1932) gründet die Gillette Co. Da ihm das benötigte Kapital für weitere Entwicklungsarbeiten und den Aufbau von Produktionsanlagen zur Massenfertigung nicht zur Verfügung steht, wird ein Konsortium aus Geldgebern gebildet, die den Mechaniker und Metallurgen William E. Nickerson engagiert. Er vermag Gillettes Erfindung in einen funtkionsfähigen Apparat umzusetzen, indem er das notwendige Härteverfahren für den Stahl entwickelt und zahlreiche andere technische Probleme löst. |
| Charlestown (Boston) |
1901 |
Boston Elevated Railroad, Charlestown Power Station |
Erbaut |
| Chicopee Falls (USA) |
1901 |
The Overman Automobile Co. |
Umwandlung aus "The Overman Wheel Co." in "The Overman Automobile Co." |
| Claremont (New Hampshire) |
1901 |
Sullivan Machine Co. |
Kauf der "Bullock Manufacturing Company" in Chicago |
| Hartford (Conn.) |
1901 |
Underwood Typewriter Co. |
Kauf der Hartford Cycle Works zum Zwecke der Schreibmaschinenfabrikation in Hartford, Conn. |
| Hartford (Conn.) |
1901 |
Underwood Typewriter Co. |
Verlegung der Schreibmaschinenfabrikation von Bayonne, N.J., nach Hartford, Conn. |
| Newtonville (USA) |
21.01.1901 |
Gray, Elisha |
Tod von Elisha Gray in Newtonville/Massachusetts |
| Marlborough (Massachusetts) |
Jan. 1901 |
Marlboro Automobile & Carriage Company |
Bisher wurden 30 Dampfautomobile verkauft |
| Fore River (Quincy) |
15.02.1901 |
Fore River Ship and Engine Company |
Eintragung unter der Firma "Fore River Ship and Engine Company" mit einem Kapital von 6.500.000 Dollar auf Wunsch der U.S.-Navy, zur Absicherung beider Seiten. Die Unternehmensleitung besteht aus: Thomas A. Watson, Präsident und Finanzleiter; Arthur Wainwright, Vizepräsident und Sekretär; Frank O. Wellington, General-Manager; H. P. Elwell, General-Superintendent; und J.B. Dill aus New Jersey, Rechtsanwalt. |
| Quincy (Mass) |
15.02.1901 |
Fore River Ship and Engine Company |
Eintragung unter der Firma "Fore River Ship and Engine Company" mit einem Kapital von 6.500.000 Dollar auf Wunsch der U.S.-Navy, zur Absicherung beider Seiten. Die Unternehmensleitung besteht aus: Thomas A. Watson, Präsident und Finanzleiter; Arthur Wainwright, Vizepräsident und Sekretär; Frank O. Wellington, General-Manager; H. P. Elwell, General-Superintendent; und J.B. Dill aus New Jersey, Rechtsanwalt. |
| Manchester (N.H.) |
24.06.1901 |
Manchester Locomotive Works |
Zusammenschluß zu "American Locomotive Company" |
| Providence (R.I.) |
24.06.1901 |
Rhode Island Locomotive Works |
Zusammenschluß zu "American Locomotive Company" |
| Claremont (New Hampshire) |
Juli 1901 |
Sullivan Machine Co. |
Fertigstellung des ersten zweistufigen Kompressors (die Pläne dafür wurden bereits 1899 fertiggestellt) |
| Boston (Mass.) |
03.12.1901 |
Gillette, King Camp |
Gillettes Rasierapparat wird zum Patent angemeldet. Seine Erfindung hat noch viel Ähnlichkeit mit dem Rasierhobel. |
| Boston (Mass.) |
03.12.1901 |
The Gillette Company |
Gillettes Rasierapparat wird zum Patent angemeldet. Seine Erfindung hat noch viel Ähnlichkeit mit dem Rasierhobel. |
| North Kingstown (USA) |
16.12.1901 |
William Gregory |
Tod von William Gregory in North Kingstown, Rhode Island |
| Wickford (R.I.) |
16.12.1901 |
William Gregory |
Tod von William Gregory in North Kingstown, Rhode Island |
| Boston (Mass.) |
30.12.1901 |
Griffin Wheel Foundry Company |
Der Sohn von Thomas F. Griffin, Patrick, hat finanzielle Probleme, und deshalb kauft sein Bruder seinen Anteil an der "Boston Car Wheel Company". Umbenennung in "Griffin Wheel Company-Boston" |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1902 |
Gillette, King Camp |
Patentanmeldung des Rasierapparats in Deutschland. Er hat schon eine gezahnte, gewölbte Grundplatte |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1902 |
The Gillette Company |
Patentanmeldung des Rasierapparats in Deutschland. Er hat schon eine gezahnte, gewölbte Grundplatte |
| Bridgeport (Conn.) |
1902 |
The Locomobile Company of America |
Beginn des Pkw-Baus mit Verbrennungsmotoren |
| Chicopee (Mass.) |
1902 |
Stevens-Duryea |
Stevens beginnt die Produktion des Victoria Stanhope |
| Derby (Conn.) |
1902 |
United States Rapid Fire Gun and Power Co. |
Eintragung (incorporated) |
| Fore River (Quincy) |
1902 |
Fore River Ship and Engine Company |
Th. A. Watson beschließt den Bau der Fore River Railroad, einer kurzen Bahnstrecke von East Braintree zur Werft, 3 miles (4.8 km) entfernt. |
| Hartford (Conn.) |
1902 |
Royal Typewriter Company Inc. |
Edward B. Hess macht ab 1902 über 140 Schreibmaschinen-Patente |
| Lowell (Mass.) |
1902 |
Market Mills |
Das zweite Gebäude im Bereich des Hofes wird wegen des Bedürfnisses höherer Produktivität gebaut |
| Mechanic Falls (USA) |
1902 |
J. W. Penney & Sons |
Br. Walter S. McCrater, Financial Secretary No. 64, Math, Me., übernimmt die Leitung |
| Norwich (Conn) |
1902 |
Laurence, Scott & Co. Ltd. Gothic Works |
Das Elektrizitätswerk wird von der "Norwich Electricity Company" übernommen. Es ist bis 1926 in Betrieb. |
| Norwich (Taftville) |
1902 |
Ponemah Mill |
Ein weiteres Fabrikgebäude wird errichtet |
| Quincy (Mass) |
1902 |
Fore River Ship and Engine Company |
Th. A. Watson beschließt den Bau der Fore River Railroad, einer kurzen Bahnstrecke von East Braintree zur Werft, 3 miles (4.8 km) entfernt. |
| Springfield (Mass.) |
1902 |
Bullard Camera Co. |
Circa 1902 aufgegangen in Seneca Camera Co. |
| Taftville (USA) |
1902 |
Ponemah Mill |
Ein weiteres Fabrikgebäude wird errichtet |
| Waterbury (Conn.) |
1902 |
The Scovill Manufacturing Company |
Zusammenschluß von Scovill mit der "E. & H. T. Anthony Company" und Umwandlung in "Scovill & Anthony Company" |
| Worcester (Mass.) |
1902 |
Wheelock Engine Co. |
Die "American Wheelock Engine Co." wird mit der "American & British Mfg. Co.", New York, verschmolzen |
| Pawtucket (USA) |
22.01.1902 |
Conant Thread Company |
Tod von Hezekiah Conant in Patucket. Er erfand Maschinen zum Appretieren von Nähfäden und zum Spulen von Baumwolle. |
| Worcester (Mass.) |
26.02.1902 |
Wheelock Engine Co. |
Tod von Jerome Wheelock in Worcester (Mass.). Während eines Ganges auf der Straße wird er plötzlich besinnungslos und stirbt wenige Minuten später ein einer Gehirnblutung |
| Worcester (Mass.) |
26.02.1902 |
Wheelock, Jerome |
Tod von Jerome Wheelock in Worcester (Mass.). Während eines Ganges auf der Straße wird er plötzlich besinnungslos und stirbt wenige Minuten später ein einer Gehirnblutung |
| Cambridge (Mass.) |
06.03.1902 |
Harvard University |
An der US-amerikanischen Universität Harvard in Cambridge erhält Prinz Heinrich von Preußen die Ehrendoktorwürde verliehen. |
| New Milford (Connecticut) |
20.03.1902 |
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The midnight freight from New Haven to Pittsfield, which goes through here at 1 o'clock was badly wrecked by a rear end collision, caused by the train breaking in two parts a short distance below the station here.
Joshlin Hogan Camp, the head brakeman, whose home is at 685 Chapel street, New Haven, was killed. Two cars were badly smashed a number of others derailed and the engine was derailed but not seriously injured.
Just how the accident happened is not known. The engine and two first cars of the train became separated from the rear section which was quite long. Camp went ahead from the engine to a switch which he was going to set so that the engine and two cars could pass on it.
Before the switch was set the rear end come crashing into the forward part shoving the engine and cars ahead. The engine crushed Camp. His right arm was cut completely off, his head cut off and his body badly mangled.
There were no other injuries reported to any of the train crew. The body of Camp was removed to the undertaking shop here and the wrecker was summoned from New Haven.
The engine was put on the tracks and the wreck was cleared away so that the 8:10 passenger train came down on the main track this morning.
Camp's relatives in New Haven were notified and will send for the body. Conductor Thomas Shields was in charge of the train which was No. 1488. The train hands maintain that no one can be blamed for the accident. |
| Bridgeport (Conn.) |
23.05.1902 |
American & British Manufacturing Co. |
Gründung unter der Firma "American Machine & Ordnance Co." in New York |
| Bennington (Vt.) |
02.07.1902 |
---- |
Twenty-five Persons Injured Near Bennington, Owing to a Misplaced Switch.
Bennington, Vt., July 1,----The Troy, N. Y., Montreal express, due at 8:30 o'clock, was derailed at a switch about a mile from here. Twenty-five persons were injured. |
| Short Beach (USA) |
26.07.1902 |
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A collision occurred this evening not far from Short Beach on the trolley line of the Fair Haven and Westville Street Railroad Company, between this city and Branford. Two of the largest closed cars on the line came together with terrific force. It is reported that fifteen or more were less severely hurt. STURE LINDSTROM, a motorman, who had both feet badly crushed to the ankle, and a number of cuts about the face and head, died at the New Haven Hospital late to-night.
Motorman J. SMITH was also badly cut, as were also MISS ELLA ARMSTRONG; MISS RHEIN, and two small children; daughter and son of EDGAR M. BABBITT; a boy the son of HERBERT F. BLOGG. JOHN KENNEDY, associate coach of the Yale crews, is also reported somewhat injured.
Reports which have reached the company's officials and which are being investigated are to the effect that Motorman SMITH pulled his car off the siding at the Johnson trap tock quarries and went forward when he should have waited for the westbound car. The collision came on a grade. The platforms of both cars were demolished and all of the windows were shattered. The passengers were hurled in promiscuous heaps. MISS ARMSTRONG and MISS RHEIN were on front seats and were pinnioned in the wreck. MISS ARMSTRONG, it is thought, received serious internal injuries. |
| Salem (Massachusetts) |
01.10.1902 |
Locke Regulator Co. |
Umwandlung von "Locke Brothers" in eine Gesellschaft unter der Firma "Locke Regulator Company" |
| Sandy Hook (Connecticut) |
09.10.1902 |
---- |
One person dead and more than a score injured is the result of a head-on collision of the Highland division of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad at 7:25 this evening directly in front of the station at Sandy Hook.
An excursion train of fourteen cars running from the Fair Grounds to Waterbury, failed to take a siding, it is alleged and crashed into the regular west-bound train standing in front of the station, discharging passengers. The engines on both trains were considerably damaged, but the first car on the excursion train was crushed, and the inside, which was crowded, was a mass of splinters, broken glass, and shrieking, wounded men and women.
Miss Mamie Quinlan of Naugatuck, aged twenty-two, who occupied a seat near the front end of the car, was so seriously injured that she died a few moments later injured that she died a few moments later in the station. Her companion, Michael Melia, was injured, but not seriously. Hardly a person in the car escaped injury. |
| Marlborough (Massachusetts) |
11.10.1902 |
---- |
Slippery rails on which leaves had fallen is given as the cause of a collision of electric cars in Monument Square this afternoon, the outcome being the injury of a dozen passeners.
A car on the Worcester and Marlboro divisions of the Consolidated Street Railroad ran into one of the Marlboro Street Railway Company's cars. Motorman CHARLES WHITNEY, of the former, was probably fatally hurt and WILLIAM DALEY, his conductor, received internal injuries.
Motorman GEORGE RAPPLYEA of the Marlboro car was bruised.
The wreck of both cars was complete. |
| Bridgeport (Conn.) |
08.11.1902 |
Pacific Iron Works |
Tod von Philo H. Skidmore jr., dem Eigentümer der "Pacific Iron Works", in seinem Haus im Alter von 51 Jahren |
| Bridgeport (Conn.) |
12.1902 |
Yost Writing Machine Co. |
Ende 1902 erscheint das "Yost"-Schreibmaschinenmodell 10 |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1903 |
Griffin Wheel Foundry Company |
Die "Boston Car Wheel Company" wird mit der "Griffin Wheel Company" für $290.000 vereinigt |
| Cambridge (Mass.) |
1903 |
Blake & Knowles Steam Pump Works |
Bau des Montagegebäudes |
| East Cambridge (Cambridge) |
1903 |
Blake & Knowles Steam Pump Works |
Bau des Montagegebäudes |
| Fore River (Quincy) |
1903 |
Fore River Ship and Engine Company |
Lieferung des Sechsmasters "William L. Douglas" |
| Marlborough (Massachusetts) |
1903 |
Marlboro Automobile & Carriage Company |
Übernahme durch die "Videx Automobile & Carriage Company". Ein Weiterbau der Dampfautomobile kommt nicht zustande |
| Providence (R.I.) |
1903 |
Armington & Sims Machine Shop & Foundry |
Schließung der Nachfolge-Firma "Eastern Engine Company" |
| Quincy (Mass) |
1903 |
Fore River Ship and Engine Company |
Lieferung des Sechsmasters "William L. Douglas" |
| Burlington (Vermont) |
02.01.1903 |
---- |
The New York flier, north-bound, collided to-night with a wild engine on the Rutland Railroad opposite Dr. W. Seward Webb's estate in Shelburne. The engineers of both engines were killed and their firemen probably fatally hurt. No passengers were seriously injured. |
| Boston (Mass.) |
07.04.1903 |
Cooley General Development Co. |
Patenterteilung auf einen rotierenden Flüssigkeitsmotor mit zwei gegeneinander bewegten Drehkörpern (U.S. Patent 724.665 |
| Great Barrington (USA) |
20.05.1903 |
---- |
By the derailing of a trolley car on the Berkshire Street Railway at a point three miles north of here this evening Motorman Gladwin was almost instantly killed, his child probably fatally injured, and his wife and five or six other passengers, together with Conductor Ward, were severely hurt. The accident is believed to have been caused by a stone that had become wedged between the car track and a guide rail on a curve.
As is customary, the car was running at a good rate of speed. When it shot around the curve the car left the rails at a tangent and crashed into a tree. Motorman Gladwin was hurled against the tree and his wife and child, who were on the front seat, were hurled into the front end of the car by impact. |
| Boston (Mass.) |
Herbst 1903 |
Thomson-Houston International Electric Company |
Emil Rathenau handelt in den Vereinigten Staaten Verträge mit der "General Electric" und "Thomson-Houston" zum gegenseitigen Austausch von Patenten und Erfahrungen aus. Sie bilden die Grundlage für die endgültige Fusion der AEG mit der UEG. handelte Rathenau mit GE die gegenseitige Überlassung aller Patente aus und grenzte das Geschäft territorial ab. Danach ist die GE ausschließlich für die Märkte in den USA und Kanada zuständig; die AEG in einem Großteil der Länder Europas. In Italien gründen beide Unternehmen eine gemeinsame Gesellschaft; in Großbritannien schließen die "Britische Thomson-Houston Co." und die AEG einen Vertrag über das Exportgeschäft. Thomson-Houston beteiligt sich an der englischen AEG-Tochter zur Herstellung von Glühlampen. In Frankreich erfolgt ein gegenseitiger Patentaustausch mit der dortigen "Thomson-Houston Cie.". Außerdem gründen die AEG und GE eine Gesellschaft zur gegenseitigen Verwertung von Patenten auf dem Turbinensektor und vereinbaren einen Austausch von Rechten beim Bau von Schiffsantrieben. Im Ergebnis wird das Abkommen so gewertet, "daß die AEG und GE die geistigen Grundlagen ihrer Fabrikation vereinigen und sozusagen die Welt unter sich aufteilen." |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1904 |
E. Hodge & Co. |
Incorporated |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1904 |
The Gillette Company |
Es werden 1,2 Mio. Rasierklingen produziert. |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1904 |
The Gillette Company |
Gillette stellt 91 000 Rasierapparate her. |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1904 |
The Gillette Company |
Gillette stellt weltweit 91.000 Rasierapparate her |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1904 |
The Gillette Company |
Produktion von 1,2 Millionen Rasierklingen im Jahr |
| Derby (Conn.) |
1904 |
Williams Typewriter Co. |
Die Neubearbeitung des Schreibmaschinenmodells 2 erscheint |
| East Boston (Boston) |
1904 |
E. Hodge & Co. |
Incorporated |
| Guilford (Conn., USA) |
1904 |
I. S. Spencer's Sons |
Frederick C. Spencer, Enkel von Isaac Stowe Spencer, wird Präsident |
| New Britain (Conn.) |
1904 |
Corbin |
Beginn des Automobilbaues |
| North Plymouth (Plymouth) |
1904 |
Plymouth Cordage Company |
Bau eines weiteren Werks der "Plymouth Cordage Company" in Welland, Ontario. Welland wird für das kanadische Zweigwerk wegen der Nähe zu den Vereinigten Staaten, der guten Verkehrsanbindung und der durch langfristige Verträge gesichteren Stromversorgung durch die "Hamilton Power Company" gewählt |
| Norwalk (Conn.) |
1904 |
Postal Typewriter Co. |
Verlegung der Firma nach Norwalk, Conn. |
| Norwalk (Conn.) |
1904 |
Postal Typewriter Co. |
Verlegung der Firma von New York |
| Plymouth (Mass.) |
1904 |
Plymouth Cordage Company |
Bau eines weiteren Werks der "Plymouth Cordage Company" in Welland, Ontario. Welland wird für das kanadische Zweigwerk wegen der Nähe zu den Vereinigten Staaten, der guten Verkehrsanbindung und der durch langfristige Verträge gesichteren Stromversorgung durch die "Hamilton Power Company" gewählt |
| Everett (Mass.) |
19.01.1904 |
McClellon, James M. |
Erteilung des U.S.-Patents Nr. 750.003 für einem Apparat zum Handhaben (Verladen?) von Kohle |
| Cambridge (Mass.) |
22.04.1904 |
Harvard University |
Geburt von Jacob Robert Oppenheimer in New York. Oppenheimer studiert Physik und Chemie an der Harvard University. |
| Everett (Mass.) |
12.07.1904 |
McClellon, James M. |
Erteilung des U.S.-Patents Nr. 764.753 für einen Lokomotivkessel |
| Everett (Mass.) |
13.09.1904 |
McClellon, James M. |
Erteilung des U.S.-Patents Nr. 769.762 für "Means for staying plates" (Stehbolzen für Stehkessel?) |
| East Brookfield (Massachusetts) |
23.09.1904 |
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The special train conveying the Archbishop of Canterbury from Bar Harbor, Me., to Washington was wrecked on the Boston and Albany division of the New York Central Railroad near the station here today. The archbishop was not injured, although considerably shaken up. J. Pierpont Morgan, of New York, who was on the train, accompanying the archbishop, also escaped injury.
The train, running at the rate of sixty miles an hour, was just passing the station when a detached locomotive, which had been drawing a train on the North Brookfield branch, ran onto the main line for some reason at present unexplained. The engineer of the special sighted a danger signal, but owing to the high speed of the train and the slippery condition of the rails, due to the mist of early morning, he found it impossible to do more than slightly reduce the speed of his locomotive. The engineer of the branch engine heard the on-rush of the special, but he had not time to move out of the way. The archbishop's train struck the North Brookfield engine with a terrific crash and demolished it. The other was thrown from the rails and landed across the east-bound track, near the wreck of the North Brookfield engine. The cars did not leave the track, [ineligible] of archbishop and Mrs. Davidson, as well as of others attending them, had been imperiled, and first inquiries were for them. Rev. J. Ellison, the archbishop's secretary, answered for those in the archbishop's private car, saying that no one way injured. |
| Everett (Mass.) |
04.10.1904 |
McClellon, James M. |
Erteilung des U.S.-Patents Nr. 771.657 für einen Kessel |
| Boston (Mass.) |
15.11.1904 |
Gillette, King Camp |
Der Rasierapparat von Gillette wird unter der Nr. 775.134 patentiert. |
| Boston (Mass.) |
15.11.1904 |
The Gillette Company |
Der Rasierapparat von Gillette wird unter der Nr. 775.134 patentiert. |
| Everett (Mass.) |
15.11.1904 |
McClellon, James M. |
Erteilung der U.S.-Patente Nr. 774.773 und 775.115 für Lokomotivkessel |
| Bath (Maine) |
1905 |
Bath Iron Works |
John S. Hyde, der älteste Sohn von General Hyde, erwirbt die BIW |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1905 |
Murray & Tregurtha, Inc. |
Planung und Bau von Benzinmotoren als Schiffsantrieb |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1905 |
The Gillette Company |
Der Rasierapparat wird in Europa angeboten |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1905 |
The Gillette Company |
Gillette stellt weltweit bereits 277.000 Rasierapparate her |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1905 |
The Gillette Company |
Produktion von 11,9 Millionen Rasierklingen im Jahr |
| Fall River (Mass.) |
1905 |
---- |
In den Baumwollspinnereien sind 3.254.094 Spindeln vorhanden |
| Fore River (Quincy) |
1905 |
Fore River Ship and Engine Company |
Auftrag zum Bau von Kreuzern der Chester-Klasse, von denen zwei mit Brown-Curtis-Turbinen ausgestattet werden sollen. |
| Fore River (Quincy) |
1905 |
Fore River Ship and Engine Company |
Vertrag zum Bau der Brown-Curtis-Dampfturbine |
| Providence (R.I.) |
1905 |
Corliss Steam Engine Company |
Kauf der "International Power Co." durch die "American and British Manufacturing Co." |
| Quincy (Mass) |
1905 |
Fore River Ship and Engine Company |
Auftrag zum Bau von Kreuzern der Chester-Klasse, von denen zwei mit Brown-Curtis-Turbinen ausgestattet werden sollen. |
| Quincy (Mass) |
1905 |
Fore River Ship and Engine Company |
Vertrag zum Bau der Brown-Curtis-Dampfturbine |
| South Boston (Boston) |
1905 |
Murray & Tregurtha, Inc. |
Planung und Bau von Benzinmotoren als Schiffsantrieb |
| Stamford (Connecticut) |
1905 |
The Blickensderfer Mfg. Co. |
Die "Niagara"-Schreibmaschine wird gebaut |
| Durham (New Hampshire) |
20.01.1905 |
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The "Sunrise" express, from Halifax and St. John, over the Western Division of the Boston and Main Railroad, was wrecked by a broken rail a short distance west of the Druham station to-day. Four cars were thrown from the track and a score or more persons were injured, four seriously.
Those severely injured were Miss Belle Donald, Hampton, N. D., severe injuries to head and shoulder dislocated; may not recover. Albert Hall, Portland, Me., internal injuries; may not recover. Charles Dunn, Jr., Portland, Me., head and hip injured. Benjamin G. Bowden of Boston, colored porter of Pullman car, head and shoulder laceerated and bruised by being thrown through car window. Among the less seriously hurt was Mrs. Samuel Clark of New York City, whose head was bruised and face injured.
The four passenger cars wre thrown form the rails and piled up in the ditch beside the track. Three of them turned over on their sides. There were about 100 passengers on the train, many of whom were imprisoned in the overturned cars. Practically the entire student body of he New Hampshire State College of Agriculture turned out to rescue the passengers, including seven female members of he college who acted as nurses. |
| Saint Johnsbury (USA) |
21.02.1905 |
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While Jonathan Ross, formerly United States Senator and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Vermont, was driving with his wife this afternoon their sleigh was struck by a train on the St. Johnsbury and Lake Champlain Branch of the Boston and Maine Railroad, and Mrs. Ross was killed, Judge Ross was severely injured.
The accident occurred at Gould's Crossing, about two miles from East St. Johnsbury. The horse which Judge Ross was driving became frightened at the approach of a west-bound freight train and dashed between two of its cars. The sleigh was demolished, and the Judge and Mrs. Ross were hurled many feet away. Mrs. Ross was instantly killed and Judge Ross was rendered unconscious. The train was stopped as quickly as possible, and the victims were brought here in the caboose.
A hasty examination by physicians showed that Judge Ross had suffered a broken hip. As the Judge is over eighty years old, it was feared that this injury, together with the shock, will prove fatal. |
| Brockton (Mass.) |
20.03.1905 |
R. B. Grover Company |
Dampfkesselexplosion, verbunden mit Brand und Einsturz des hölzernen Fabrikgebäudes. Durch Reißen einer Nietnaht wird der 1890 erbaute, als Reserve dienende Kessel über drei Stockwerke durch das Dach katapultiert. Das führt zum Absturz eines Wasserbehälters auf dem Dach, und dieser Gebäudeteil stürzt ein. Die Glut des Kessels setzt das Gebäude mit geölten Holzdecken in Brand, und das Feuer wird durch ausströmendes Gas genährt. Von den 300 - 400 Arbeitern können 150 entkommen, und 150 werden verletzt, 58 Menschen sterben. Der Kessel fliegt rd. 66 m weit in ein Wohnhaus in der 74 Denton Street. Die Explosinskraft entspricht 300 kg Dynamit |
| Hartford (Conn.) |
08.07.1905 |
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Die Lokomotive No. 321 der New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad durchbricht die Außenmauer des Ringlokschuppens in Hartfort (Conn.) und bleibt mit Laufachse und Rauchkammer über einer hohen Stützmauer an einem Fluß hängen. |
| South Gardiner (Maine) |
02.09.1905 |
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The Boston-Bar Harbor express on the Boston and Maine and Maine Central Railroads was wrecked at the Maine Central station here to-day and twenty passengers were injured. The train was in two sections. The first section was standing at the station when the second section crashed into it. The rear car of the stationary train was wrecked. Escaping steam from the locomotive caused many of the injuries. Those most seriously hurt were:
Clarence G. Ramsay, Portland, Me.;
M. D. Ricker, Cherryfield, Me.;
E. E. Maxwell, Somerville, N. Y., and
L. W. Murray and wife, New Bedford, Mass.
The accident, it is supposed, resulted from the failure of the engineer of the second section to observe the signals of the brakeman of the first section.
The second section struck the standing train at full speed. The locomotive forced its way through the rear coach of the first section and did not stop until it had reached the platform of the smoker. Parts of the engine were broken by the force of the collision and hot water and steam enveloped the wreck. Many persons sustained burns and scalds from contact with the engine and from the hot vapor which came from it. |
| Baker Bridge (USA) |
26.11.1905 |
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Sixteen per-persons[sic] were killed, twenty-five were badly injured, and probably a score of others received minor hurts in a railroad wreck which occurred at 8:15 o'clock to-night at Baker's Bridge Station, a mile and a half west of Lincoln, on the main line of the Fitchburg Division of the Boston and Maine Railroad. The regular Sunday night express which left Boston at 7:15 o'clock for Montreal, by way of the Rutland system, crashed into the rear of an accommodation train bound for points on the Marlboro branch line, and which started from Boston at 7:15 o'clock.
Of the dead a dozen were passengers in the two rear cars of the Marlboro train. The other two were Engineer Barnard of the Montreal express and his fireman. No passenger on the express was injured. Of those who lost their lives a number were apparently killed instantly in the collision, while others were either burned to death by the fire which ensued, or died from suffocation. |
| Bridgeport (Conn.) |
28.11.1905 |
American & British Manufacturing Co. |
Umbenennung aus "American Machine & Ordnance Co." in "American & British Manufacturing Co." |
| Lincoln (Massachusetts) |
01.12.1905 |
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Sixteen persons were killed, twenty-five were badly injured, and probably a score of others received minor hurts in a railroad wreck which occurred at 3:15 o'clock at night at Baker's Bridge Station, a mile and a half west of Lincoln, on the main line of the Fitchburg Division of the Boston and Main Railroad. The regular night express which left Boston at 7:45 o'clock for Montreal, by way of the Rutland system, crashed into the rear of an accommodation train bound for points on the Marlboro branch line, and which started from Boston at 7:15 o'clock.
Of the dead a dozen were passengers in the two rear cars of the Marlboro train. The other two were Engineer BARNARD, of the Montreal express, and his fireman. No passenger on the express was injured. Of those who lost their lives a number were apparently killed instantly in the collision, while others were either burned to death by the fire which ensued, or died from suffocation. |
| New Britain (Conn.) |
13.12.1905 |
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The Main street grade crossing, where several deaths have occurred, was the scene of another fatality last evening when John Stefanik, the driver of a delivery team, was instantly killed by the cars. Stefanik's body was cut in two. He was 32 years old. |
| Bath (Maine) |
1906 |
Bath Iron Works |
Die "USS Georgia", das erste allein von der BIW gebaute Schlachtschiff, wird geliefert |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1906 |
The Gillette Company |
Es werden 307.000 Rasierapparate hergestellt |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1906 |
The Gillette Company |
Es werden 53,4 Mio. Rasierklingen produziert. |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1906 |
The Gillette Company |
Gillette stellt 307 000 Rasierapparate her. |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1906 |
The Gillette Company |
Produktion von 53.4 Millionen Rasierklingen im Jahr |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1906 |
The Gillette Company |
Seither wird in Deutschland für den Rasierapparat geworben: "Neuester amerikanischer Rasierapparat 'Gillette'. Kein Schleifen! Kein Abziehen! Detail-Verkaufspreis: ein Apparat mit 12 Messern in Etuis: 20 Mark" |
| Cambridge (Mass.) |
1906/07 |
Spencer, Percy |
Spencer verläßt die Schule in der siebten Klasse ohne Abschluß und beginnt in einer Spinnerei als Maschinistenlehrling |
| Derby (Conn.) |
1906 |
Secor Typewriter Co. |
Die "Secor"-Schreibmaschine kommt auf den Markt. Konstrukteur ist Jerome B. Secor, langjähriger Mitarbeiter bei "Williams Typewriter" |
| Fore River (Quincy) |
1906 |
Fore River Ship and Engine Company |
Lieferung der Schlachtschiffe "USS New Jersey" (BB-16) und "USS Rhode Island" (BB-17), der ersten Schlachtschiffe der Werft (bis in die 1940er Jahre gebaut). |
| Hartford (Conn.) |
1906 |
Royal Typewriter Company Inc. |
Die Firma tritt in die Industrie ein |
| Hartford (Conn.) |
1906 |
The American Writing Machine Co. |
Einstellung des Baues der "New Century"-Schreibmaschine |
| New Haven (Conn.) |
1906 |
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad |
Baldwin in Philadelphia baut eine Anzahl großer Elektrolokomotiven für die Bahn zum Ersatz von Dampflokomotiven im Bereich von New York. Es sind Drehgestellokomotiven mit vier Einphasen-Wechselstrommotoren als Achsmotoren (ohne Getriebe). Leistung je 1000 PS |
| New Haven (Conn.) |
1906 |
Rowland Machine Co. |
Das Unternehmen wird neu organisiert. Henry W. Leete wird Präsident und George C. Moore Vizepräsident der "Rowland Machine Co." |
| Quincy (Mass) |
1906 |
Fore River Ship and Engine Company |
Lieferung der Schlachtschiffe "USS New Jersey" (BB-16) und "USS Rhode Island" (BB-17), der ersten Schlachtschiffe der Werft (bis in die 1940er Jahre gebaut). |
| South Egremont (USA) |
1906 |
Dalzell Axle Company |
Es gelingt nicht, mit den Erfordernissen der wachsenden Automobilindustrie Schritt zu halten, und es werden keine Dividenden mehr gezahlt (in guten Jahren wurden bis zu 50 % Dividende gezahlt) |
| Torrington (Connecticut) |
1906 |
Hendey Machine Co. |
Errichtung eines zweistöckigen Gebäudes für den Bereich der Hobelmaschinen-Herstellung und der Bearbeitung größerer Gußstücke |
| Watertown (Massachusetts) |
1906 |
Stanley Motor Carriage Company |
In Daytona Beach wird mit dem Dampfauto-Modell "Stanley Rocket" von Fred Marriott ein Geschwindigkeitsweltrekord für Automobile mit Dampfantrieb mit 205,5 km/h aufgestellt, der für 103 Jahre Bestand hat. |
| Windsor (Conn) |
1906 |
The Terry Steam Turbine Co. |
Gründung durch E. C. Terry |
| Wolcottville (Torrington) |
1906 |
Hendey Machine Co. |
Errichtung eines zweistöckigen Gebäudes für den Bereich der Hobelmaschinen-Herstellung und der Bearbeitung größerer Gußstücke |
| East Clarendon (USA) |
20.06.1906 |
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A wreck which resulted in the killing of Engineer HARRY S. DAVIS of this city and the narrow escape of a whole train load of passengers, occurred at the East Clarendon Station on the Rutland Railroad this afternoon when the express, which left this city at 2 o'clock, was struck by a runaway freight car which was coming down the mountain at a terrific rate of speed.
The car, which was loaded with four-foot pulp wood, broke loose at East Clarendon, and started down the sharp incline. When the car passed Cuttingsville, three miles south of East Clarendon, the operator at the former place notified the East Clarendon operator that it was coming, and to put the express on to a siding.
This the operator tried to do, but just as the express came to a standstill the wild car came around a sharp curve, running into the engine. Engineer Davis jumped from the right side of the engine and was caught under a pile of pulp wood and timbers at the bottom of a thirty-foot embankment. He was killed almost instantly. Fireman George Ryan jumped from the left side and was not injured.
The forward part of the engine was badly damaged and the car was demolished. None of the passengers were injured. |
| Hyde Park (Vermont) |
06.08.1906 |
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Charles Gorzey, of Johnson, a man 84 years old, was struck by the way freight just below Hyde Park Saturday afternoon and probably fatally injured. He had been berrying and was standing near the track when the train passed, being struck by one of the cars and hurled into the ditch, a distance of several feet. He was injured about the head and side. Dr. C. S. Leach, of Hyde Park, was called and the man was made as comfortable as possible and taken to his home in Johnson. Doctor Leach came from Johnson this morning and said the patient was not as well and probably would live only a short time. |
| Arlington (Massachusetts) |
23.08.1906 |
Arlington Pumping Station |
Baubeginn |
| Pittsfield (Maine) |
25.08.1906 |
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One man was killed and three others slightly injured to-day in a collision between a runaway freight car and the Knickerbocker Limited, bound from New York to Bar Harbor, on the Maine Central Railroad. The victim was Louis A. Gilbert of Bangor, a traveling engineer employed by the road. The injured men were train hands.
A number of prominent New York people were passengers on the express, among them being District Attorney William T. Jerome, R. Fulton Cutting, Walter G. Hooke, and Judge Frederick E. Crane of Brooklyn. These, with many other passengers, were badly shaken up, but none was injured.
The Limited, which is the fastest express on the Maine Central Road, was running at a high rate of speed to make up a delay of an hour and a half. When about a mile west of this city a loaded freight car, running wild on a down grade, crashed into the express head on, derailing the engine and overturning the baggage car.
Engineer Lewis Bailey jumped after he had applied the air brakes, but his fireman was pinned into the tender and was badly bruised. Bailey's ankles were sprained. R. L. Wade, a porter, of New York, was cut by flying glass. D. L. Hall, the baggage master, jumped when his car piled up in the ditch and was not injured.
The dining car, which was in the rear of the baggage car, was twisted from its trucks, but still remained right side up. There were no passengers in it at the time.
The collision shook up nearly every passenger on the train, but none of them was hurt, although many suffered from the shock. |
| Stamford (Connecticut) |
10.1906 |
Gebrüder Stollwerck Aktiengesellschaft |
Gründung des Zweigwerks "Stollwerck Brothers" in Stamford (Conn., USA). Es ist das bis zum Kriege die zweitgrößte Schokoladenfabrik der USA. - Bereits 1904 wurde ein 43 acres großes Grundstück dafür erworben. |
| Meriden (Conn.) |
1943 |
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Two light coupled engines, north-bound from New Haven on the main line of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, crashed into a stalled freight train above Yalesville this morning, demolishing the caboose, two box cars, and one flat car, which was laden with oil barrels. Eugene Fowler of Windsor Locks and a brakeman named Lee, who were in the caboose, were badly injured. |
| Hartford (Conn.) |
30.12.1906 |
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The first section of the Boston to New York passenger express train to-night ran into the rear of a slowly moving freight train about a mile below this city.
The express struck the freight at a reduced speed, but the jar overturned a lighted stove in the caboose and this set both the caboose and the rear freight car on fire, both being burned. Two men were in the caboose, but got out safely and no one was injured. The tracks were blocked for two hours. |
| Bridgeport (Conn.) |
1907 |
The Singer Manufacturing Company |
Eröffnung einer Singer-Fabrik in Bridgeport, Connecticut. |
| Bridgeport (Conn.) |
1907 |
Yost Writing Machine Co. |
Die "Yost"-Schreibmaschine wird mit einer Bandvorrichtung ausgestattet |
| Chicopee (Mass.) |
1907 |
Stevens-Duryea |
Stevens-Duryea konzentriert sich auf 6-Zylinder-Modelle |
| Gardner (Mass.) |
1907 |
Nichols & Stone |
Nach einem Brand Wiederaufbau als Ziegelgebäude zusammen mit dem neuen Partner Reuben Stone unter der Firma "Nichols & Stone" |
| Norwich (Conn) |
1907 |
American Thermos Bottle Company |
Gründung der "American Thermos Bottle Company" durch William Walker in Brooklyn, New York |
| Providence (R.I.) |
1907 |
Rhode Island Locomotive Works |
Schießung des Werks |
| Stamford (Connecticut) |
1907 |
The Blickensderfer Mfg. Co. |
Das Schreibmaschinen-Modell 8 erscheint |
| Torrington (Connecticut) |
1907 |
Hendey Machine Co. |
Hendelys erste Spindelstöche (für Drehbänke) mit Acht-Gang-Getrieben kommt heraus |
| Waterbury (Conn.) |
1907 |
The Scovill Manufacturing Company |
Änderung der Firma aus "Scovill & Anthony Company" in "ANSCO" |
| Windsor (Conn) |
1907 |
The Terry Steam Turbine Co. |
Die Firma baut die ersten direkt gekuppelten kleinen Dampfturbinen, um Kreisel-Kesselspeisepumpen in der Kraftstation von Edison anzutreiben. |
| Wolcottville (Torrington) |
1907 |
Hendey Machine Co. |
Hendelys erste Spindelstöche (für Drehbänke) mit Acht-Gang-Getrieben kommt heraus |
| Chatham (Mass.) |
25.01.1907 |
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The condition of Joseph Sherman of Russell street, Merrick, the Boston and Albany brakeman, who was thrown from the top of a freight car near Chatham, Wednesday, is much improved. He is still at the Mercy hospital and is attended by Dr. T. S. Bacon. It is thought that he will be in a condition to leave the hospital in a few days. |
| Shelburne Falls (Massachusetts) |
25.01.1907 |
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A narrow escape from a serious accident occurred Wednesday evening on the bridge across the Deerfield river at Shelburne junction, near Shelburne Falls. The engine drawing the express train from Boston for the west, known as the Consolidated Limited, leaving Greenfield at 4 o'clock, was running about an hour and a half late Wednesday afternoon. When the train was within a quarter of a mile of the bridge a flange of one of the wheels under the boiler broke.
The engine kept the rails until it reached the bridge, which is a long trestle work, probably 23 or 30 feet high, when it left the rails. The guard rail held it, however, from going into the river. Both tracks were blocked and the wrecking train was sent out from Greenfield. After one track was cleared another engine was sent for and the express train started on for the west, reaching Shelburne Falls about 9:30. The express train for the west out of Greenfield at about 8 o'clock was delayed by the accident. No one was hurt but it was a very narrow escape. |
| Boston (Mass.) |
30.01.1907 |
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William O. Clapp Celebrates Anniversary of Birth and Falls Under Car Wheels on Way to Work---Watchman at Norrh[sic] Station.
Happy and proud, surrounded by his friends, William O. Clapp of Somerville yesterday celebrated the 81st anniversary of his birth, and then at the close of the day's festivities, as he was headed for his night's employment, with the good wishes of his friends still ringing in his ears and his hand still warm from the hearty clasps and handshakes, he fell beneath the wheels of a train and his life was crushed out.
Today the battered and bruised body of the unfortunate man will be tenderly carried to the home on Howe street and laid in the room next to one in which his only daughter lies dying, all unconscious of what has happened to her "dad," the light of her life.
Clapp has been employed as a watchman at the North Union Station in Boston for twenty-eight years, and he was on his way to work when he was killed. He was boarding an inward-bound train at what is known as the "Hoodoo" crossing in Somerville when he slipped and fell beneath the wheels and the train starting up suddenly passed over his body. He has lived at 16 Howe street for the past thirty-seven years and lost his wife but a few months ago. |
| Waterbury (Conn.) |
02.03.1907 |
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A head-on collision early this morning on the Naugatuck division of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad a mile and a half below this city between the midnight passenger train due in this city at 12 40 and a special bound for New Haven bearing Company F, of the Second Regiment Connecticut National Guard, which had been attending a banquet in this city as guests of Company A of the same regiment, resulted, so far as is known now, in the death of four persons, and possibly two more. |
| Hartford (Conn.) |
23.06.1907 |
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In a railroad smash-up in the home section of Hartford to-night nine workmen were killed and 35 injured, some fatally. A passenger train on the Highland Division of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad ran into a work train which was backing into the city and crushed the cars.
The work train had been out with a gang of men who were repairing tracks, and was bringing part of them from New Britain. It had sixty-five men aboard when it left that city, and had dropped about fifteen of them at intermediate points. The engineer and conductor of the work train understood that they had the right of way on Track No.2 until 7 o'clock, as the other track had been used for traffic during the day, in order to give opportunity for the repairs.
Near the Sigourney Street crossing, where there is a sweeping curve, the passenger train, which had gathered good speed as it came out of the station, appeared on track No. 2. Both engineers tried to stop, but they had little time, and the trains came together in a bad smash. Some of the trainmen and workmen jumped, but most of those on the work train were caught. The engine of the passenger train tore through the cars and piled up on top of the debris. |
| Athol (Massachusetts) |
19.08.1907 |
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The Boston & Maine wreck train was called out from this city early Sunday morning and the crew were given a 10 hours' task in clearing up a bad freight wreck which had occurred in the freight yards at Athol half an hour after midnight, in which a large freight locomotive tipped over and slid down a small embankment, five freight cars also jumping the rails, two of which tipped over with the locomotive. The derailing arrangement at the foot of a grade, which in some unexplainable manner had been set caused the accident. No one was seriously hurt and the locomotive or cars were not damaged to any great extent the chief damage being the fact that the west bound track of the main line was blocked by one of the derailed cars which had swung around across the track and remained there pending the arrival of the wrecking equipment.
The freight was bound from Boston to East Deerfield with an East Deerfield crew including Engineer Barrington, Fireman Ferran, and was in charge of Conductor Barnhardt. The train was side tracking to set off some cars in the Athol yards and when the locomotive struck the derailing arrangement, it left the iron and after running into the soft dirt along side the track, toppled over and slid down a short embankment pulling five cars from the iron before the train came to a stop. The train was running slowly and none of the equipment suffered much injury. The engineer and fireman went down the banking with the engine and the only injury was a sprained thumb received in the tumble by Fireman Farran. Brakeman Gaffney of the train and had his feet pinched and slightly bruised. The wreck occurred near the plant of the Diamond Match company and the wreck train arrived back in this city early in the afternoon. The locomotive landed in soft dirt and was not injured. |
| Still River (USA) |
19.08.1907 |
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One of the worst wrecks which the Boston & Maine railroad has had to contend with for some time occurred on the Worcester, Nashua & Portland division near Still River, Sunday evening about 8:30 o'clock, when a broken rail caused a fast freight to leave the rails and plough its nose into an embankment, piling up the locomotive and 15 loaded freight cars in a mass of tangled debris which it took a wreck train and crew from Worcester all night and the larger part of today to clear up. No one was injured, but the damage to rolling stock was very nearly 24 hours. The Bar Harbor express and other night trains got by the wreck by leaving the W. N. & P. division at Ayer and running to this city, connecting with the Portland division again at Sterling Junction via the New York, New Haven & Hartford from this city. |
| Kittery (USA) |
09.1907 |
The Emerson Typewriter Company |
Gründung mit einem autorisierten Kapital von 500.000 $. Präsident: H. Mitchel |
| Canaan (Vermont) |
15.09.1907 |
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A head-on collision between the south bound Quebec express and a north bound freight train on the Concord division of the Boston and Maine railroad, occurred four miles north of Canaan Station, early to-day, due to a mistake in train dispatcher's orders.
From a demolished passenger coach there were taken 25 dead and dying and 29 other passengers more or less wounded. Nearly all those who were in the fatal car were returning from a fair at Sherbrooke, Que., 160 miles north.
The conductor of the freight train was given to understand that he had plenty of time to reach a siding by the night operator at Canaan station, receiving, according to the superintendent of the division, a copy of a telegraph order from the train dispatcher at Concord, which confused the train numbers 30 and 34. The wreck occurred just after the express had rounded into a straight stretch of track, but, owing to the early morning mist, neither engineer saw the other's headlight until it was too late. |
| White River Junction (USA) |
15.09.1907 |
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A head-on collision between the south-bound Quebec Express and a north-bound freight train on the Concord division of the Boston & Maine Road occurred four miles north of Canaan Station early to-day, due to a mistake in train dispatcher's orders, and from a demolished passenger coach there were taken out twenty-seven dead passengers, and twenty-seven dead passengers, and twenty-seven others, more or less wounded. Nearly all those who were in the wrecked car were returning from a fair at Sherbrooke, Quebec, 160 miles north.
The conductor of the freight train was given to understand that he had plenty of time to reach a siding by the night operator at Canaan Station, receiving, according to the Superintendent of the division, a copy of a telegraph order from the train dispatcher at Concord, which confused the train numbers 30 and 34. The wreck occurred just after the express had rounded into a straight stretch of track, but owning to the early morning mist neither engineer saw the other's headlight until it was too late. |
| Connecticut |
16.09.1907 |
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An inquiry into the railroad collision at Alling's Siding on the Berkshire division of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad yesterday, was made by Medical Examiner Barnett of West Haven today, but his finding will not be given out until it goes to the coroner.
The facts seemed to point to a slip of memory on the part of Engineer Johnson of the train from Ansonia and who was killed, in not slackening speed as the train came down to the siding, although reminded of the passing point by conductor Barns a short time before.
Johnson was in a wreck some time ago and had only recently been re-instated. Fireman Polton and Baggage master Brennan of the southbound train were in a wreck last spring.
All the persons who were hurt in the wreck yesterday were reported today as being recovered somewhat, none having received any serious wounds. |
| West Brookfield (Massachusetts) |
09.11.1907 |
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The Boston & Albany express from Albany for Boston, struck a freight train which was backing out of a siding near this station today, causing a bad wreck and killing CHARLES HURD, a brakeman on the express.
Several persons were cut and bruised, but none were seriously injured.
The express was an hour late and the engineer was taking advantage of the ten miles of level track before the Charleston grade to make up some of the lost time. A special freight train bound west had been ordered to take a switch about 100 yards west of here, to permit another freight train also going west, to pass it. The special freight was standing on the eastbound track when the express came rushing towards it and before the speed of the latter could effectually be checked, it had plunged head-on into the engine of the freight. The engineers and firemen saw the collision about to occur and jumped, escaping serious injuries. Directly behind the engine of the express was a buffet car which was reduced to fragments. There were not passengers in the car, however. Many persons in the rear cars, however, were severely shaken by the shock of the collision. |
| Waterbury (Conn.) |
29.11.1907 |
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Five factory employes were killed about 6:30 this morning at the West Main street crossing over the Highland division tracks of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, when an extra Hartford-bound freight train crashed into a trolley car containing twenty-five persons bound for the pin factories in Oakville. The car was struck with great force in the middle, and the passengers killed were badly mangled. Five others were badly injured and had to be carried to their homes. It is customary to drop the gates at the railroad crossing on the approach of a train, but in this instance, it is said, the gates were up. The flagman, it is alleged, waved his flag, showing a clear track. It is also alleged that the conductor failed to go ahead of his car and see if a train was approaching.
Car Smashed To Splinters.
Although the engineer applied the brakes, the train crashed into the trolley car, smashing it to splinters and throwing the occupants in all directions. |
| Arlington (Massachusetts) |
04.12.1907 |
Arlington Pumping Station |
Inbetriebnahme |
| Worcester (Mass.) |
14.12.1907 |
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During the worst period of the building snowstorm this afternoon, the New York express on the Boston & Albany crashed into a train of coal cars in New Worcester. More than 45 passenger were more or less hurt, their injuries being fixed up on the spot by the corps of surgeons and doctors rushed to the scene of the accident.
Immediately after the collision the boiler of the passenger engine exploded, wrecking four near-by houses, and destroying the glass in fifteen more.
Every car left the rails, the mail car toppling over. The engine was driven half way through the baggage car by the explosion. The wreck is said to be the worst in years on the Boston & Albany. Traffic will be delayed for more than a day.
The express was running fifteen minutes late out of Brookfield, and was pounding along at full speed, making up time. The engineer thought he had a clear track. When his engine swung around the curve and cleared the big electric power plant, he saw a switch engine on the siding but evidently did not see the low steel cars it had pushed on to the main line.
The railway officials are to-night looking for a flagman, Charles H. Prior. He was stationed a half mile west of the scene of the crash, and it was his duty to flag the express. Agent Charles Firth says Prior disappeared after the accident and cannot now be found. |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1908 |
North Metropolitan Sewage Pumping Station |
Das Werk wird bei dem Feuer in Chelsea stark beschädigt |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1908 |
The Emerson Typewriter Company |
Verlegung der Hauptverwaltung von Boston nach Chicago |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1908 |
The Gillette Company |
Es gibt in Deutschland eine Anzahl deutscher Konkurrenten die ebenfalls Rasierapparate und zweischneidige, dünne Rasierklingen anbieten. |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1908 |
The Gillette Company |
Es tauchen die ersten Abziehapparate auf, um die ursprünglich als Wegwerfartikel vorgesehenen Klingen nachschärfen zu können. |
| Bridgeport (Conn.) |
1908 |
American Typewriter Co. |
Die Gesellschaft bezieht ihre eigene Fabrik in Bridgeport, Conn. |
| Foxboro (Massachusetts) |
1908 |
The Foxboro Company |
Gründung |
| Kittery (USA) |
1908 |
The Emerson Typewriter Company |
Verlegung der Fabrik nach Momence |
| Kittery (USA) |
1908 |
The Emerson Typewriter Company |
Verlegung der Hauptverwaltung von Boston nach Chicago |
| Kittery (USA) |
1908 |
The Emerson Typewriter Company |
Verlegung der Fabrik von Kittery |
| New Haven (Conn.) |
1908 |
Index Visible |
Prof. Irving Fisher von der Yale University erfindet sein Karteikartensystem |
| Jewett City (Connecticut) |
27.01.1908 |
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By the ditching of the combination mail and express and the combination baggage and smoking cars of a Central Vermont passenger train at Jewett's Crossing, two miles below State Line, late to-day, several person were injured. The accident was due to a broken rail, which derailed the two coaches. The mail and smoking cars plunged down an embankment into a swamp.
The most severely hurt were William Parks of Stafford, broken arm and injuries about the head; David Robertson, Stafford, two ribs broken; Albert Dennett of Springfield, Mass., badly shaken up. The conductor of the train, Daniel W. Patch, was hurt about the head.
Immediately after the accident the locomotive was sent ahead to Monson, Mass., for medical aid. |
| Haverhill (New Hampshire) |
20.03.1908 |
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Three or four trainmen were injured and many freight cars demolished, in a head-on collision between two freight trains on the White Mountains division of the Boston & Maine road, a mile and a half south of Haverhill station, today. The extent of the injuries of the victims is not yet known for the wires were carried down by the cars.
It was later learned the four trainmen were killed. ELMER E. GROSS, of Concord, and GUY DOW, of Woodsville, engineers; and FRED A. BROWN, of Concord and ALLAN T. DAVIS, of Woodsville, firemen. WILFRED NOONAN of Woodsville, a brakeman, was seriously injured. It is alleged some mistake in the dispatch or receipt of train orders was responsible for the wreck. The trains met on a curve and neither engine crew had time to jump. The tracks will be blocked all day. |
| Derby (Conn.) |
09.04.1908 |
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When making a trip from Bridgeport to Waterbury early to-day over the tracks of the New York, Hew Haven & Hartford Railroad, Freight Engine 468 of the mogul type, blew up at Wheeler's Farms, three miles below Derby. The engine was drawing a train of thirty-five loaded cars, and the three forward cars were destroyed.
Some of the trainment[sic] jumped, and one of them, James Templeton, a brakeman of New Haven, suffered a fractured skull. Harry W. Kowe, the fireman, of Winsted, although badly scalded about the back and suffering extreme pain, walked from the scene of the accident to Naugatuck Junction, from which place he was taken to the hospital at Bridgeport. Frank Gilbert, engineers of Waterbury, was scalded about the hands.
The locomotive was completely wrecked, and the debris strewn about over the tracks, while the roadbed was also torn up for some distance. The accident is said to have been caused either by a flaw in the engine or low water in the boiler.
The wreck is said to be the worst in years on this division, shipments of freight for Ansonia and points in the Nautatuck[sic] Valley are damaged, and the loss will be heavy. |
| Palmer (Massachusetts) |
20.07.1908 |
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Cars Derailed at Bad Place Saturday Morning.
Traffic was tied up on the Boston and Albany, railroad for over three hours, Saturday morning on account of two freight cars being derailed under the railroad bridge just east of the union station in Palmer. The accident happened about 6:30 in the morning. Two freights that were running east came into Palmer about 6 o'clock. The first switched off on to the west-bound track and the other on to the Ware River line so as to let train No. 20, which is due in Palmer at 6.18, pass. When the passenger train had gone east the freight on the Ware River branch attempted to draw out, when it jumped the switch point, derailing two cars. This cut off traffic on the Ware River road as well as all trains on the west-bound tracks, and the only traffic was carried on by single track to North Wilbraham. The wrecker did not arrive in Palmer until about 9 o'clock and in a short time had the two cars on the iron again. The track was also torn up for a distance of 100 feet or more. |
| Middletown (Conn.) |
Herbst 1908 |
Noiseless Typewriter Company |
Gleichzeitig mit der Erwerbung der Fabrik im Herbst in Middletown, Conn., wird der Name aus "Silent Writing Machine Co." geändert |
| Middletown (Conn.) |
Herbst 1908 |
Silent Writing Machine Company |
Die Firma erwirbt im Herbst eine große Fabrik in Middletown, Conn. |
| Windsor (Conn) |
11.1908 |
The Terry Steam Turbine Co. |
Die "Terry Steam Turbine Co." erhält Aufträge von der United States Navy für Turbinen mit senkrechten Wellen zum Antrieb von Saugzug-Ventilatoren auf Zerstörern und neuen Torpedobooten. - Für einen beträchtlichen Zeitraum stammen mindestens 90% der Ventilator-Antriebsturbinen auf Schiffen der U.S. Navy von Terry. |
| Bridgeport (Conn.) |
12.1908 |
Yost Writing Machine Co. |
Die Erste "Yost"-Schreibmaschine mit Vorderanschlag erscheint |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1909 |
The Gillette Company |
Es werden 134,4 Mio. Rasierklingen produziert. |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1909 |
The Gillette Company |
Es werden 386.000 Rasierapparate verkauft |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1909 |
The Gillette Company |
Gillette verkauft weltweit 386 000 Rasierer. |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1909 |
The Gillette Company |
Produktion von 134.4 Millionen Rasierklingen im Jahr |
| Derby (Conn.) |
1909 |
Williams Typewriter Co. |
Die "Secor Typewriter Company" wird Nachfolger der Firma |
| Derby (Conn.) |
1909 |
Williams Typewriter Co. |
Einstellung der Schreibmaschinenproduktion |
| Norwich (Conn) |
1909 |
American Thermos Bottle Company |
"Thermos" gewinnt den "Grand Prize Award" auf der Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposition und wird auf sieben weiteren Weltausstellungen ausgezeichnet. |
| Norwich (Conn) |
1909 |
American Thermos Bottle Company |
Die internationalen Rechte der "Thermos-Gesellschaft GmbH" werden gekauft |
| Providence (R.I.) |
1909 |
American Ship Windlass Co. |
Tod von Frank Stead Manton |
| Springfield (Mass.) |
1909 |
Robert Bosch GmbH |
Errichtung des Metallwerks in Feuerbach und einer Fabrik der Bosch Magneto Company in Springfield/USA |
| North Wilbraham (USA) |
1943 |
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The Modoc Express from the West, on the Boston and Albany, was wrecked today near North Wilbraham, the engine, five coaches and a sleeper going down an embankment. One man is reported kill outright and many injured. A special wrecking train, with doctors and nurses, has been sent from this city. The train left Chicago yesterday on the Lake Shore, passing through Buffalo about midnight and reached Albany about 4 o'clock this morning. |
| Palmer (Massachusetts) |
29.04.1909 |
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Passengers on three sleepers, the diner and a passenger coach on the east-bound Chicago express on the Boston & Albany division of the New York Central railroad were severely shaken up and half a dozen sustained cuts and bruises when a broken rail sent five of the eight cars off the track about a mile west of the station at 8:20 a.m. today. The derailed cars came to a stop leaning against a high ledge which it was thought prevented a more serious accident.
The train was on time and the engineer had just shut off steam in preparation for a stop here when the bad rail was encountered. The engine and first three cars slid over without trouble, but the rail fell as the fourth car struck it. There was a crash, a trembling of the cars behind as the wheels bumped along the ledge. The next moment the cars stopped and the passengers picked themselves up from the corners and from under the seats where many of them had been thrown by the sudden stop. There was some groaning, but it was soon discovered that no one had been killed and that all the injured had dragged themselves out and were rubbing their bruises or staunching their cuts without assistance.
The local officials at once sent for medical aid from this town and Springfield but when the doctors arrived they found that first aid had been rendered the injured and that their services were required in binding up wounds more professionally.
The west-bound track was soon cleared and a following train was switched over onto it, and picking up the passengers from the wrecked train started on to Boston with about an hour's delay. The division superintendent was of the opinion that it would take all day to clear the east-bound track. |
| Portsmouth (N.H., USA) |
03.05.1909 |
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One of the worst train wrecks that has taken place for many years occurred shortly after noon today, in the Boston and Maine railroad yard, at the foot of Langdon steet.
The crash was between passenger train No. 29, which leaves Boston at 10 o'clock, due here at 12:10, and a switching engine, No. 483. The locomotives came together with such a crash that the noise could be heard nearly a mile away. Engine No. 483 of the passenger train was completely wrecked, and the tender of the engine pushed nearly half way through the baggage car. The locomotive of the passenger train tipped over, and immediately started to burn. An alarm was rung in from Box 46, at the corner of Bridge and Hanover streets and chemical engine No. 5 soon had a stream on the wreck.
The switching engine, in charge of a hostler crew from the roundhouse, was just backing up on the inward main line, after coming from the coal shed and was nearly clear of the switch, when the Boston train, running at a fair rate of speed, came across from the outward track, and in a fearful crash both engines and the baggage car of the train were piled up in a pile of distorted iron and wood.
The crash came so sudden that none of the men on either engine had a chance to jump. Both engineers reversed the machines, but not in time to reduce the speed to any extent. |
| Cambridge (Mass.) |
22.06.1909 |
Harvard University |
Im Stadion der Harvard-Universität (US-Bundesstaat Massachusetts) führen mehr als 2000 Mitwirkende Friedrich von Schillers "Jungfrau von Orleans" in englischer Sprache auf. Dem Schauspiel wohnen mehr als 12.000 Zuschauer bei. |
| South Egremont (USA) |
05.11.1909 |
Dalzell Axle Company |
Beschluß der Direktoren zur Schließung des Unternehmens |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1910 |
Curtis, Charles Gordon |
Curtis wird der Rumford Prize der "American Society of Arts and Sciences" verliehen |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1910 |
East Boston Steam Pump Station |
Erweitert |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1910 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Abner Doble beginnt sein Studium am Massachusetts Institute of Technology. - Er bricht das Studium nach einem Semester ab, um mit seinen Brüdern weiter am Dampfautomobil zu bauen. |
| Fall River (Mass.) |
1910 |
---- |
In den Baumwollspinnereien sind 3.931.464 Spindeln vorhanden |
| Fall River (Mass.) |
1910 |
Ashworth Bros. Inc. |
Eintragung mit R. C. Ashworth als Präsident und Henry Ashworth als Finanzleiter und Generalmanager |
| Guilford (Conn., USA) |
1910 |
I. S. Spencer's Sons |
Anbau an der Südseite mit einem Eckturm |
| Norwich (Conn) |
1910 |
American Thermos Bottle Company |
Die "American Thermos Bottle Company" zieht von Brooklyn, NY nach Manhattan und verdreifacht die Produktion |
| Norwich (Taftville) |
1910 |
Ponemah Mill |
Bau einer Weberei (Shedbau), bezeicnet als "Werk 4" |
| Providence (R.I.) |
1910 |
Providence Machine Co. |
Kauf durch die "Whitin Machine Company" in Whitinsville, Massachusetts |
| Springfield (Mass.) |
1910 |
Robert Bosch GmbH |
Bosch eröffnet in Springfield (Mass.) die erste Fabrik in den USA zur Fertigung von Magnetzündern. Alsbald übersteigt die Kapazität dieser Fabrik sogar die Leistungsfähigkeit der deutschen Werke |
| Taftville (USA) |
1910 |
Ponemah Mill |
Bau einer Weberei (Shedbau), bezeicnet als "Werk 4" |
| Torrington (Connecticut) |
1910 |
Hendey Machine Co. |
Bau einer viergeschossigen Maschinenwerkstatt |
| Wolcottville (Torrington) |
1910 |
Hendey Machine Co. |
Bau einer viergeschossigen Maschinenwerkstatt |
| South Norwalk (USA) |
25.01.1910 |
Buchanan, William |
Tod von William Buchanan in South Norwalk (USA) |
| Dalton (Massachusetts) |
09.02.1910 |
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A whirlwind of public indignation that has already resulted in summary official action and that may sweep the Pittsfield street railway out of existence is the sequel of the accident today in which a big double-trucked electric car of the company ran wild down a steep grade at Dalton and crashed into a railway bridge abutment at the foot, killing one passenger and injuring fifty-seven others.
Two Branches Closed.
Two of the branch lines operated by the company were closed by order of the Pittsfield Board of Aldermen at a special meeting held tonight. In Dalton, a special town meeting called for Feb. 21 will consider a proposition looking toward the ousting of the Pittsfield Street Railway Company from Dalton for poor service and inadequate equipment. |
| Charlestown (Mass.) |
26.03.1910 |
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Patrick McGloin, a car sealer, living at 58 Chapman street, Charlestown, was so badly crushed between freight cars in the Fitchburg yard of the Boston and Maine railroad in Charlestown shortly before 6 o'clock last night, when an engine backed down on him, that he died a few minutes later in the arms of Patrolman Landrigan of the Charlestown station. McGloin's wife is in a serious condition, suffering from pneumonia. |
| Bennington (Vt.) |
30.05.1910 |
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A driving rainstorm that obscured the view of an automobile driver and an electric car motorman to-day caused a collision, in which Henry L. Knapp, 40 years of age, a local saloon keeper, who was in the automobile, was killed, and his companion, Miss Kate McGuire, 38 years old, a cousin of Knapp, and William Newton, a local garage keeper, and owner and driver of the machine, were seriously injured and may die.
The accident happened at an electric railway crossing opposite the Vermont Soldiers' Home. The automobile party were returning from Troy, N. Y., while the electric car was going in the opposite direction, bound from Bennington to Hoosic Falls, N. Y.
The automobile was smashed to pieces. The trolley car and its passengers were unharmed. |
| Boston (Mass.) |
Juni 1910 |
United Shoe Machinery Comp. |
Carl Benscheidt in Alfeld beginnt Verhandlungen, um seine geplante Schuhleistenfabrik zu finanzieren. |
| Ashley Falls (USA) |
18.08.1910 |
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A large automobile containing a party of five from Bristol, Conn. Collided in terrible violence with the New York-Pittsfield express at Ashley Falls, six miles south of this village today, with the result that three of the motoring party are dead, one is dying and the other is painfully injured. According to the engineer and Conductor of the express, Mr. Root had been apparently racing with the train, the tracks running almost parallel with the road for some distance. The accident occurred at a grade crossing of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad, just north of the Ashley Falls station. As the train does not stop here, it was running at high speed. The motor car struck the tender of the engine at an angle, the violence of the impact being shown by the fact that the car was smashed to bits. The five occupants were hurled many yards to the earth. The express was stopped as quickly as possible and the train crew hurried to the victims of the accident, two of whom, Mr. Root and his aunt, Miss Roberts, were found dead. Mrs. Root and Miss Mary Root were taken aboard the train and to the hospital at Pittsfield, but the former died before the city was reached. Miss Catherine Root was brought to the home of a friend here where it was learned tonight that her recovery is expected. Miss Mary Root was reported at the Pittsfield hospital as likely to not live until morning. She has a compound fracture of the hip, her shoulder is crushed and there are serious internal injuries. |
| Northfield (Vermont) |
22.08.1910 |
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Seven bodies, most of them burned beyond recognition, have been recovered from the charred and tangled mass of wreckage which marks the spot where two freight trains of the Central Vermont system met head-on at Northfield Falls at 8:15 yesterday morning.
Three other men were injured, one probably fatally. The accident happened on a sharp curve two miles from here at the most dreaded spot on the line, between St. Albans and White River Junction. It was only a few hundred feet away from the place where a disastrous head-on collision occurred a few years ago in which several trainmen were killed.
The southbound train, it is said, had the right of way over the single track, and the northbound train was to stop at Northfield to let it pass. |
| Boston (Mass.) |
10.10.1910 |
United Shoe Machinery Comp. |
Carl Benscheidt verläßt Alfeld in Begleitung seines ältesten Sohnes Karl. Sie beginnen in Boston mit den Verhandlungen mit der "United Shoe Co." |
| New Britain (Conn.) |
11.10.1910 |
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In a head-on collision tonight between two trolley cars at White Oak, a pleasure resort near here, twenty-one persons were injured, three of whom may die. The seriously injured are:
ALBERT L. ELY, Southington, reporter on the New Britain Herald; concussion of the brain, and chest and legs crushed.
EDWARD FAITH, New Britain, motorman; right leg crushed and internal injuries.
MISS HELEN WHEELER, East Hartford; both legs broken and internal injuries.
The cars came together at a sharp curve, the view of each motorman being shut off by a car barn, which stands on the inside of the curve a few feet from the tracks. The vestibules of both cars were driven through the front doors, and the motormen, FAITH and E. J. KURTZ, had to be chopped out. The passengers were thrown in heaps in the forward parts of the cars.
The blame for the accident has not been apportioned, but it is understood that the car from New Britain was punctual and that the Plainville train was trying to make up lost time. The spot where the collision occurred was three years ago the scene of a similar accident, in which thirty persons were injured. |
| Plantsville (Connecticut) |
31.10.1910 |
H. D. Smith & Co. |
Ein Feuer zerstört die gesamte Fabrik |
| Somerville (Mass.) |
25.12.1910 |
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One death resulted to-night from a Christmas morning railroad wreck in the Somerville yard of the Boston & Maine Railroad. A freight train, a shifting engine, and a Haverhill bound passenger train met in collision. William J. Noyes, the fireman of the passenger locomotive, died at the Relief Hospital of a broken neck, and seven passengers of the Haverhill train were slightly injured but were able to get to their homes.
The shifting engine struck a frog the wrong way and crashed into the end of an inbound train from Portland. This swung a number of freight cars about, so that the engine of the passenger train hit them. The people in the first passenger car were badly shaken and the passenger engine toppled over and several cars were smashed. |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1911 |
Chestnut Hill Pumping Station |
In der Low-Service Pumping Station wird eine vierte Holly-Gaskill Triplex-Maschine aufgestellt |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1911 |
The Gillette Company |
Produktion von 356.4 Millionen Rasierklingen im Jahr |
| Fall River (Mass.) |
1911 |
---- |
In den Baumwollspinnereien sind 3.899.092 Spindeln vorhanden |
| Plantsville (Connecticut) |
1911 |
H. D. Smith & Co. |
Wiederaufbau als Stahl- und Ziegelkonstruktion |
| Malden (Massachusetts) |
06.01.1911 |
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With the woodwork of the cab ablaze and a shower of sparks streaming behind, Engineer Goodwin drove a Boston & Maine locomotive with six crowded passenger cars attached into the Faulkner station to-night. The passengers had no inkling of trouble until they heard the fire engines. Firemen extinguished the blaze and the train proceeded.
The engineer said that a broken pipe had allowed water to fall into the firebox, causing a small explosion, which threw hot coals back into the cab. Although burned about the face and hands, the engineer stuck to his post. |
| Waterbury (Conn.) |
03.1911 |
The Zalmon G. Sholes Typewriter Company |
Gründung im März mit einem Kapital von 1.000.000 $ von Leuten aus Waterbury |
| Hartford (Conn.) |
05.1911 |
Underwood Typewriter Co. |
Im Mai wird durch eine erneute Ergänzung der Fabrik in Hartford eine Gesamtfläche von 575.000 sq.ft. erreicht |
| Hartford (Conn.) |
04.05.1911 |
Royal Typewriter Company Inc. |
Erster Spatenstich für die neue Schreibmaschinenfabrik in Hartford |
| Boston (Mass.) |
27.05.1911 |
Boston & Maine Railroad Machine Shop |
Für den Betrieb im Hoosac Tunnel (4,75 Meilen lang) der "Boston and Maine Railroad" werden elektrische Lokomotiven gebaut, nachdem die Rauchbelästigung die Leistungsfähigkeit des Tunnels einschränkte. Den elektrischen Teil liefert Westinghouse, den mechanischen Baldwin. Aufnahme des elektrischen Betriebs mit 11 kV und 25 Hz Wechselstrom am 27. Mai. |
| North Adams (Massachusetts) |
27.05.1911 |
Boston & Maine Railroad Machine Shop |
Für den Betrieb im Hoosac Tunnel (4,75 Meilen lang) der "Boston and Maine Railroad" werden elektrische Lokomotiven gebaut, nachdem die Rauchbelästigung die Leistungsfähigkeit des Tunnels einschränkte. Den elektrischen Teil liefert Westinghouse, den mechanischen Baldwin. Aufnahme des elektrischen Betriebs mit 11 kV und 25 Hz Wechselstrom am 27. Mai. |
| Fairfield (Conn.) |
07.06.1911 |
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One of the most, disastrous freight wrecks in the history of the New Haven railroad occurred near here early today, when four freight trains piled into each other, killing five men, injuring at least seven, two fatally, and leaving two unaccounted for. The dead:
WILLIAM LAFRIE, engineer; Hartford, Conn.
Fireman, name unknown; scalded to death.
ROBERT GATES, fireman; London.
ROBERT BEACHY, engineer; London.
______ HOFFMAN, brakeman.
The accident happened a few minutes after midnight in an isolated spot. The trains in the wreck were three extras and the regular New York fast freight. One of the extras jumped the east-bound track and crashed into a second train which was passing on the west-bound track. Trains running close behind each of the two extras crashed into the wreckage almost immediately. Crash followed crash. Two boilers exploded simultaneously, and the wreckage caught fire.
The accident is attributed to the failure of an engineer to observe a signal. |
| Stamford (Connecticut) |
03.07.1911 |
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James Coyle of 471 East 130th Street, New York, an engineer on a New Haven Railroad train, was fatally burned on the New Canaan branch of the road this morning.
In throwing a switch to divert the electric current from one track to another Coyle used a wooden paddle that was, apparently, too short. It appears that his hand slipped off and came in contact with a wire carrying a heavy current. There were a few lurid flashes and Coyle fell out of the locomotive, his clothing on fire. The flames were beaten out quickly and Coyle was hurried to the Stamford Hospital. He died there at 8 o'clock to-night. |
| Warwick (Rhode Island) |
04.07.1911 |
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His view cut off by dense bushes growing on both sides of the crossing, GUSTAV MENSEL, of Riverside drove his automobile directly in front of a trolley car this afternoon and as a result three of the occupants of the automobile are dead and MENSEL and the fifth occupant are badly injured.
The dead:
MRS. EVA HARTLEY, 50 years old of Providence.
MISS MILLIE J. HARTLEY, 18, Mrs. Hartley's daughter.
MISS ELLA M. BIDWELL, 25, of Providence.
RAYMOND HARTLEY, 10 year old son of Mrs. Hartley was badly bruised.
All the injured persons were alive when the trolley car was stopped. MISS HARTLEY died on the way to a hospital and MISS BIDWELL and MRS. HARTLEY a few minutes later.
The injured:
MRS. GEORGE CRUITT, will lose an eye.
VIOLA, nine year old daughter of E. E. METTLER, leg broken.
Infant Daughter of FRANK SUNDERMAN, are broken.
AUGUST HATTENDORT, leg broken.
Son of NATHAN ENGLAND, age 12, both legs and arms badly burned.
J. N. BINCKLEY, hands burned.
MRS. FANNIE SHELLENBERGER, leg broken.
The victims all live in Lancaster. |
| Bridgeport (Conn.) |
14.07.1911 |
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Twelve persons were killed and fifty injured in one of the most disastrous wrecks on the New Haven railroad when the heavy night train, known as the Fedral[sic] Express running between Washington and Boston, left the rails at the Fairfield street embankment while running at fifty miles an hour or more, and crashed down twenty-five feet into a stone abutment. Of the train, which consisted of six Pullmans, a day coach and one baggage coach, only three cars were left on the track. Some of the Pullmans were smashed to pieces and caught fire, and the bodies of some of the dead were burned almost beyond recognition.
Among the passengers were twenty-two members of the St. Louis National League baseball team on the was from Philadelphia to Boston. They were in two Pullmans at the rear of the rain which remained on the track. None of the players was injured.
At least 150 persons were on the train at the time. Some of them were from Washington, some from Philadelphia, and some from New York.
When the wreck occurred six of the nine sleeping cars composing the train rolled off a viaduct thirty feet in height at Fairfield avenue. One of the cars fell squarely on top of another and crushed it as hough[sic] it had been an egg shell.
All of the 150 passengers had been injured to some extent. Most of those on board were promnent[sic] in one way or another. |
| Grindstone (Maine) |
28.07.1911 |
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Fifteen persons were reported killed in a head-on collision late tonight, between a crowded excursion train on the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad and the midnight train from Van Buren to Bangor. Thirty of 40 people are known to have been injured, and it is thought that several others are beneath the wreckage.
The excursion train contained about 150 people, and it is reported that few, if any of them, escaped death or serious injury. The excursion train was bound from Kidders Point, on the Penobscot Bay,near Searsport, for points in northern Maine. It was late and is reported to have been making good speed when the crash came.
What caused the accident is not known. A heavy storm prevailed throughout Maine tonight, and it is believed thick weather conditions had much to do with the disaster. The Van Buren train was known as No. 511. At first it was erroneously reported that one of the wrecked trains was the midnight express from St. John for Boston. |
| Boston (Mass.) |
04.09.1911 |
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One Boy Thrown From Seat to Running Board, Thence to Pavement.
Two heavily loaded surface cars collided at Washington and Waltham streets yesterday afternoon, a number of passengers being severely shaken up and one boy being thrown from his seat to the street, although not injured seriously.
According to the Elevated officials the accident was probably due to a green motorman on a City Point car which was behind a Grove Hall car.
The Grove Hall car stopped suddenly to take on a passenger and the rear car struck it, the motorman apparently not applying his brake the headlight on the South Boston car, but did no other damage, the impact being sustained by the bumpers, which met squarely.
Six-year-old Arthur E. Lawler of 30 Ray street, who was on an end seat of the Grove Hall car, was thrown to the running board and from there fell into the street.
He was thought to be seriously injured at first and was sent to the City Hospital in an ambulance from the East Dedham street station, but was found to have escaped with slight bruises. |
| Boston (Mass.) |
19.11.1911 |
Hall, Thomas |
Thomas Hall stirbt im Alter von 77 Jahren |
| Boston (Mass.) |
19.11.1911 |
National Typewriter Co. |
Thomas Hall stirbt im Alter von 77 Jahren |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1912 |
Walworth Manufacturing Co. |
Wahl von Howard Coonley aus Chicago zum neuen Präsidenten. Unter ihn wird das Unternehmen umorganisiert |
| Bridgeport (Conn.) |
1912 |
Yost Writing Machine Co. |
Die verbesserte "Yost"-Schreibmaschine 20 erscheint |
| Fall River (Mass.) |
1912 |
---- |
In den Baumwollspinnereien sind 3.959.040 Spindeln vorhanden |
| New Britain (Conn.) |
1912 |
Corbin |
Produktionseinstellung von Personenkraftwagen |
| New Haven (Conn.) |
1912 |
Index Visible |
Irving Fisher läßt sich sein Karteikartensystem patentieren und beginnt die Produktion in einer kleinen Fabrik |
| Somerville (Mass.) |
1912 |
Mystic Water Works |
Stillegung |
| North Adams (Massachusetts) |
23.02.1912 |
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Four trainmen were killed and Hoosac tunnel was choked with burning debris as the result of the collision of an eastbound Boston and Maine express train and a string of freight cars.
With the exception of the electric locomotive the passenger train was not damaged, but fifteen freight cars were burned in the tunnel and the feat has caused large rocks to fall from the roof.
About 4:30 in the afternoon a watchman at the eastern portal of the tunnel noticed smoke pouring out and realized a train was afire. He went into the tunnel to investigate, but was only able to penetrate far enough to see that there had been a collision. The watchman notified railroad officials and the local fire department sent Chief MONTGOMERY with forty men. They were taken on flat cars into the tunnel, but the smoke and heat were so intense that they were unable to get near the wreck.
The freight train consisting of thirty-two cars, for some reason yet to be learned came to a standstill in the tunnel. Brakeman KENT was ordered back with a red lantern, Engineer SIMONDS of the passenger train saw KENT'S danger signal and slowed down to let KEMP jump aboard the electric locomotive. The passenger train was proceeding slowly ahead, apparently under control, when from some unknown cause the electric locomotive gathered headway and crashed into the freight. There was a brilliant display of electric fireworks and the wreckage was ignited. |
| Lynn (Mass.) |
04.04.1912 |
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Three adults and a baby were hurt slightly, principally by flying glass, when two trolleys bumped at Euclid avenue and Chatham street at 4 o'clock this afternoon. The injured:
Conductor Patrick Corocoran.
Mrs. Clarence Stimpson of 125 Maple street and her 1-year-old baby.
A. F. Furbush of 581 Chatham street.
The vestibule of one car was wrecked and both cars were derailed, tying up traffic three hours. The accident was caused when the brakes on one of the cars just out of the repair shop refused to work. |
| New Britain (Conn.) |
25.04.1912 |
Landers, Frary & Clark |
Die Firma erhält das Patent Nr. 272850 für ein Pätteisen mit abnehmbarem Griff |
| Cambridge (Mass.) |
1912 |
Spencer, Percy |
Beeindruckt durch die Titanic-Katastrophe geht Percy Spencer zur US-Marine und wird Funker. - Nebenbei arbeitet er bei der "Wireless Specialty Apparatus", einem der führenden Funkgerätehersteller in den USA während des Ersten Weltkrieges |
| Cambridge (Mass.) |
08.06.1912 |
Harvard University |
In Anwesenheit zahlreicher Ehrengäste aus dem Deutschen Reich findet auf dem Gelände der US-amerikanischen Harvard Universität in Cambridge die Grundsteinlegung für ein neues Germanisches Museum statt. |
| Barre (Vermont) |
15.06.1912 |
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A Central Vermont Railroad engine, running light, toppled over as it was crossing a bridge this afternoon, landing bottom up in the street, fifteen feet below. BENJAMIN WILLIAMS, aged 21, of Montpelier, fireman of the engine, was so badly scalded that he died to-night at a local hospital; JAMES SMITH, 28, a brakeman, had his back broken and is not expected to recover, and Joseph Derry, the engineer, received scalp wounds. |
| Stonington (Connecticut) |
23.07.1912 |
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An express train bound east over the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad crashed into a freight engine at the railroad yards at Stonington Junction, reducing both locomotives practically to scrap iron and considerably damaging rolling stock. Three men were killed and four seriously injured.
The dead are J. F. Conley of Boston, head brakeman on the freight train:
Cecil Cheney of Midway, an engine cleaner, and an unidentified man, believed to be a tramp.
The injured are Frederick G. Hadley of New Haven, fireman on the express, right hand and part of left hand cut off; Charles H. Mansfield of New Haven, engineer of the express, right side scalded; James Martinsen of Patterson, N. Y., a jockey, cuts and bruises, and Patrick Connell, a jockey, of Patterson, N. Y., cuts and bruises.
A part of the wreckage struck the signal tower, tearing out one corner and forcing Fred E. Wilbur of Stonington, the tower man, to jump for safety. The wreckage took fire.
In one of the wrecked cars were a number of polo ponies consigned to the Point Judith Polo Club at Narragansett Pier, and two of these were so badly injured that they had to be killed. In the other wrecked car of the express were three or four automobiles, and these were ruined.
Engineer Mansfield said that the first he knew of an impending collision was when his fireman yelled to him that the home signal was red, and told him he had better "pull up." He did so, and just before the crash they jumped.
An investigation of the signal apparatus showed that a wire between signals had broken, preventing the tower man from setting the distance signal against the express. |
| Fairfield (Conn.) |
10.1912 |
Albertson Folding Typewriter Company |
Albertson beginnt im Oktober, Kapital zu suchen |
| Westport (Conn.) |
03.10.1912 |
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Twelve persons are known to have been burned or crushed to death, three others were reported missing by relatives and fifty others injured, some of them mortally, when the engineer of a New York, New Haven and Hartford express train which left Boston at noon attempted to take a cross-over 200 feet west of the Westport-Saugatuck station at fifty miles an hour, disregarding two signals.
The road rules provide that such cross-overs shall not be taken at a greater speed than fifteen miles an hour. In an official statement issued by the railroad company it is said that one of the road's oldest engineers was at the throttle of the locomotive. |
| Fitchburg (Mass.) |
16.11.1912 |
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One railroad employe[sic] was killed, another probably fatally injured, and six passengers slightly hurt when passenger train No. 2 from Rotterdam, N. Y., for Boston, over the Fitchburg Division of the Boston & Maine Railroad, ran into a light engine near the station here to-night.
Israel Sarkey, aged 30, an employe[sic] in the Boston & Maine machine shops, who was riding on the light engine, received wounds that caused his death. R. W. Rines, fireman of the light engine, was probably fatally hurt. The injuries of the passengers were confined to cuts and bruises.
After a delay of an hour and forty minutes traffic was resumed. |
| Fitchburg (Mass.) |
1913 |
Putnam Machine Co. |
Manning, Maxwell, and Moore Co. (eine große Eisenbahnbedarfs-Firma in New York City) kauft die restlichen im Besitz der Familie Putnam befindlichen Anteile. |
| Fitchburg (Mass.) |
1913-1915 |
Putnam Machine Co. |
Bau von neuen Stahlfachwerksgebäuden an der Broad Street |
| Fore River (Quincy) |
1913 |
Fore River Ship and Engine Company |
Die "Bethlehem Steel Corporation" erwirbt die Werft für 4,8 Millionen Dollar, da Charles Schwab bestrebt ist, sein Unternehmen zu diversifizieren. |
| Fore River (Quincy) |
1913 |
Fore River Ship and Engine Company |
Die Werft baut 23 Schiffe in einem Wert von 20 Millionen Dollar |
| Norwich (Conn) |
1913 |
American Thermos Bottle Company |
Die "American Thermos Bottle Company" wird von New York nach Norwich (Con) verlegt und ändert ihren Namen in "Thermos Bottle Company" |
| Providence (R.I.) |
1913 |
Providence Water-Works, Hope Pumping Station |
Aufstellung eines 344-PS-Kessels von Babcock & Wilcox als Ersatz für den ursprünglichen 200-PS-Kessel |
| Quincy (Mass) |
1913 |
Fore River Ship and Engine Company |
Die "Bethlehem Steel Corporation" erwirbt die Werft für 4,8 Millionen Dollar, da Charles Schwab bestrebt ist, sein Unternehmen zu diversifizieren. |
| Quincy (Mass) |
1913 |
Fore River Ship and Engine Company |
Die Werft baut 23 Schiffe in einem Wert von 20 Millionen Dollar |
| Waterbury (Conn.) |
1913 |
The Zalmon G. Sholes Typewriter Company |
Zalmon G. Sholes kommt nach England, wo er unter der Firma "Zal. G. Sholes Typewriter Co." in 28, Victoria Street, Westminster, London eine britische Gesellschaft zur Ausbeutung seines mitgebrachten Schreibmaschinenmodells gründet |
| Stamford (Connecticut) |
12.06.1913 |
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Five persons were killed them dangerously, when the second section of the westbound Boston Express on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad crashed into the rear of the first section, which had stopped here at 5:03 o'clock this afternoon, waiting to be coupled to an electric locomotive.
The collision occurred in broad daylight on a straight stretch of track. C. J. Dougherty, engineer of the second section, who was jamming on his airbrakes. Railroad men who saw the collision from the yards attributed it to the fact that the sections were running too closely. The official New Haven statement declares the engineer ran past the stop signal. |
| Canaan (Connecticut) |
23.06.1913 |
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Two milk cars shunted against a passenger coach on the New Haven Road a the station here at 2 o'clock this afternoon, sent the coach crashing into a local freight train of the Central New England Road, as the latter was backing over a crossover. One aged woman was seriously injured, and six other persons sustained injuries more or less painful.
The milk train was bound from Pittsfield, Mass., to Bridgeport, Conn., and the freight train was going from Canaan to Winsted. The milk train locomotive ran past the station to pick up two milk cars, shunted back, struck the passenger coach with such force as to send it against the freight. It is reported that faulty brakes or faulty braking was the cause of the accident. The passenger car was overturned and badly crushed, while one of the cars of the freight train was practically demolished. |
| New Haven (Conn.) |
02.09.1913 |
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Twenty-one persons were killed and nearly 50 injured, some of whom may die, in a rear-end collision shortly before 7 o'clock this morning on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, 6 miles north of here. The White Mountain Express crashed through two cars of the Bar Harbor Express. Der auffahrende Lokomotive wird im Bereich der Pufferbohle und der Rauchkammertür beschädigt; mindestens ein Wagen fällt auf die Seite.
Danger Signal Passed.
The first section of the White Mountain Express, bound for New York, speeding along at probably 40 miles an hour in a thick fog, rushed by a danger signal, it is said, and crashed into the rear of the second section of the Bar Harbor Express, standing 100 feet beyond the signal block.
Plows Through Cars.
The White Mountain engine cleaved through the two rear Pullman cars, both of wood, splitting them in two, and tossing their wreckage and threescore of mangled human beings, some alive, some dead, on either side of the track. |
| Norwich (Conn) |
13.09.1913 |
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Central Vermont train running from Brattleboro to New London to connect with a boat for New York, was derailed near Norwich, at 9 o'clock to-night. The locomotive left the rails and plunged down an embankment, but the cars remained on the track.
Only one passenger was badly injured. She is Mrs. Marie Cram, a nurse, residing at Norwich.
The other passengers were transferred to trolley cars and sent to New London. |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1914 |
The Gillette Company |
Der Konzern verkauft 529,6 Mio. Rasierklingen. |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1914 |
The Gillette Company |
Produktion von 529.6 Millionen Rasierklingen im Jahr |
| Bridgeport (Conn.) |
01.1914 |
Yost Writing Machine Co. |
Anfang 1914 erscheint die "Yost"-Buchungsschreibmaschine |
| Hartford (Conn.) |
01.01.1914 |
Royal Typewriter Company Inc. |
Am 1.1. kommt das 100-$-Modell der "Royal"-Schreibmaschine heraus |
| Milford (Conn.) |
28.04.1914 |
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With the engine cab a mess of flames and the engineer and fireman sticking pluckily to their posts, and eastbound express on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad to-night raced into Milford, where local firemen, previously notified, put out the fire. Both the engineer and the fireman were burned, but not seriously.
A back draught caused the blaze. At Naugatuck Junction word was telephoned ahead to have the local fire department at the depot.
The train was delayed for an hour, the passengers swarming out of the cars and watching the work of the firemen. The train later proceeded to New Haven, its destination. |
| Stamford (Connecticut) |
1. Weltkrieg |
Gebrüder Stollwerck Aktiengesellschaft |
Der Erste Weltkrieg stürzt die "Gebr. Stollwerck" in eine langjährige Krise, von der sie sich nie wieder vollständig erholen wird. Es kommt zu Zwangsenteignungen unter anderem in den USA: Dort ist das Werk in Stamford Werk betroffen, das bis zum Kriege die zweitgrößte Schokoladenfabrik der USA war. |
| Chicopee (Mass.) |
1915 |
Stevens-Duryea |
1915 oder danach verkauft Frank Duryea seinen Aktienanteil |
| Fall River (Mass.) |
1915 |
---- |
In den Baumwollspinnereien sind 3.795.324 Spindeln vorhanden |
| Torrington (Connecticut) |
1915 |
Hendey Machine Co. |
Es kommen Shaping-Maschinen mit Kurbelantrieb (an Stelle von Friktionsantrieb) heraus |
| Watertown (Massachusetts) |
1915 |
Stanley Motor Carriage Company |
Die Stanley-Dampfmotoren werden mit einem Kondensator ausgerüstet |
| Wolcottville (Torrington) |
1915 |
Hendey Machine Co. |
Es kommen Shaping-Maschinen mit Kurbelantrieb (an Stelle von Friktionsantrieb) heraus |
| Brookline (Mass.) |
02.03.1915 |
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Quick Work of Motorman Saves Life of Mrs. D. P. Lovejoy.
Mrs. D. P. Lovejoy, an elderly woman residing at 1589 Beacon street, Brookline, is suffering from severe injuries sustained yesterday when she was struck by an inward bound car on Beacon street, opposite Jordan Steps, shortly after noon. It was the quick work of the motorman that saved her from being instantly killed as she was under the fender when he brought the car to an abrupt stop.
According to the witnesses the woman attempted to cross the tracks, which at this point are on the reservation on the south side of the street. She had passer[sic] the outward bound car safely, but failed to notice the car bound the opposite direction. The fender was raised and the car backed, while passengers assisted the woman from the tracks. She was removed to her home. |
| Bristol (R.I.) |
07.10.1915 |
Herreshoff, Nathanael Greene |
Zweite Eheschließung (mit Anne Roebuck) |
| Cambridge (Mass.) |
1916 |
Blake & Knowles Steam Pump Works |
Das Unternehmen wird Teil der "Worthington Pump and Machinery Corporation" und firmiert als "Blake & Knowles Works". |
| East Cambridge (Cambridge) |
1916 |
Blake & Knowles Steam Pump Works |
Das Unternehmen wird Teil der "Worthington Pump and Machinery Corporation" und firmiert als "Blake & Knowles Works". |
| Fore River (Quincy) |
1916 |
Fore River Ship and Engine Company |
Die Werft erhält 19 Aufträge, davon acht für U-Boote der O-Klasse, und zehn weitere U-Boote werden für die Royal Navy aufgelegt. |
| Quincy (Mass) |
1916 |
Fore River Ship and Engine Company |
Die Werft erhält 19 Aufträge, davon acht für U-Boote der O-Klasse, und zehn weitere U-Boote werden für die Royal Navy aufgelegt. |
| Milford (Conn.) |
23.02.1916 |
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An investigation to ascertain the cause of the train wreck near Milford, in which nine persons were killed and scores injured, was begun by the Connecticut public utilities commission.
MR. ELWELL said that he was confident of finding out the cause and whose was the responsibility despite the fact that the engineer, the fireman and the flagman, the persons most intimately connected with the collision, were killed.
A westbound local passenger train crashed into the rear of a westbound express stalled ahead of it, and the two trains, jumping from the rails, were sideswiped by a long freight train moving westward on the adjacent track.
Wooden and steel cars of all three trains were tangled and mixed in a great pile of wreckage, under which killed and injured persons were scattered. The exploding of the boiler of the engine on the local train caused the death of several. Of those injured eight are expected to die. |
| Milford (Massachusetts) |
23.02.1916 |
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Passengers who had been in the New Haven wreck near Milford, some of whom had been injured, arrived at New York yesterday on various trains from shortly after 3 o'clock in the afternoon, when the relief special drew into Grand Central Terminal from Bridgeport, until late at night.
The survivors agreed on one point, namely, that the steel coaches prevented a much greater loss of life. When the trains crashed there was a tremendous shock, which threw the coach at the rear of the express across the track into the rear of the freight train on the next track, and hurled the firebox of the locomotive underneath the coach. The iron sides of the car withstood the impact, and though many passengers were hurt, there was little of the general danger from fire and splintered cars that has marked wrecking of wooden coaches.
Comments on the New Haven management were not especially unfavorable, the most severe being directed a the way in which the medical aid had been given. It was declared that while every doctor near Milford was summoned at once to the accident, the injured were just as quickly piled into two undamaged cars and hauled to Milford, where they were forced to lie without medical attention until the surgeons could get back. |
| Wallingford |
23.02.1916 |
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While swinging through Yalesville, a village in Wallingford, just south of Meriden, tonight, train No. 53 on the New Haven Railroad, and express running from Boston to New York and due to New York at 9 o'clock, had a narrow escape from derailment and 200 passengers became alarmed, in view of the Milford wreck.
The pistonrod on one of the locomotive's cylinders suddenly snapped in two, and before the engineer could stop his train, it bumped along for a quarter of a mile, ripping up the ties and road-bed. Some of the women passengers became hysterical. The engine stayed on the rails, and after delay the whole train was run back to Meriden, where another engine was submitted and the trip to New York resumed about two hours behind schedule.
The New Haven officials at once began, a rigid investigation and experts went to Meriden to examine the damaged piston rod, which had been inspected recently and pronounced in good condition. |
| Yalesville (Connecticut) |
23.02.1916 |
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While swinging through Yalesville, a village in Wallingford, just south of Meriden, tonight, train No. 53 on the New Haven Railroad, and express running from Boston to New York and due to New York at 9 o'clock, had a narrow escape from derailment and 200 passengers became alarmed, in view of the Milford wreck.
The pistonrod on one of the locomotive's cylinders suddenly snapped in two, and before the engineer could stop his train, it bumped along for a quarter of a mile, ripping up the ties and road-bed. Some of the women passengers became hysterical. The engine stayed on the rails, and after delay the whole train was run back to Meriden, where another engine was submitted and the trip to New York resumed about two hours behind schedule.
The New Haven officials at once began, a rigid investigation and experts went to Meriden to examine the damaged piston rod, which had been inspected recently and pronounced in good condition. |
| Cambridge (Mass.) |
11.03.1916 |
Leavitt, Erasmus Darwin |
Tod von E. D. Leavitt in Cambridge (Mass.) |
| Boston (Mass.) |
07.11.1916 |
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An inbound electric street-car on Summer Street crashed through a barricade and plunged through and open draw-bridge into the Fort Point Channel, killing 52 riders. Only 7 riders and the motorman and conductor survived. |
| Bath (Maine) |
1917 |
Bath Iron Works |
Nach dem Tode von John Hyde wird BIW an ein Syndikat von Investoren aus Maine verkauft |
| Boston (Mass.) |
1917 |
Walworth Manufacturing Co. |
Die "Walworth Manufacturing Co." kauft eine Fabrik von der "National Tube Company" in Kewanee, Illionois |
| Cambridge (Mass.) |
1917 |
Blake & Knowles Steam Pump Works |
Bau der zweiten Maschinenwerkstätte |
| East Cambridge (Cambridge) |
1917 |
Blake & Knowles Steam Pump Works |
Bau der zweiten Maschinenwerkstätte |
| Fore River (Quincy) |
1917 |
Fore River Ship and Engine Company |
Die Werkserweiterungen Squantum Point und das Victory-Zerstörer-Werk gehen in Betrieb |
| Middletown (Conn.) |
1917 |
Noiseless Typewriter Company |
Das Schreibmaschinen-Modell 4 kommt heraus |
| Quincy (Mass) |
1917 |
Fore River Ship and Engine Company |
Die Werkserweiterungen Squantum Point und das Victory-Zerstörer-Werk gehen in Betrieb |
| Springfield (Mass.) |
1917 |
Robert Bosch GmbH |
Die amerikanische Regierung beschlagnahmt die Bosch Magneto Company, Springfield. |
| Stamford (Connecticut) |
15.08.1917 |
Blickensderfer, G. C. |
Der Erfinder G. C. Bickensderfer stirbt |
| Stamford (Connecticut) |
15.08.1917 |
The Blickensderfer Mfg. Co. |
Der Erfinder G. C. Bickensderfer stirbt |
| Waterbury (Conn.) |
09.10.1917 |
Sholes, Zalmon G. |
Tod von Zalmon G. Sholes |
| Waterbury (Conn.) |
09.10.1917 |
Sholes, Zalmon G. |
Z. G. Sholes stirbt |
| Waterbury (Conn.) |
09.10.1917 |
The Zalmon G. Sholes Typewriter Company |
Z. G. Sholes stirbt |
