| Ort |
Zeit |
Firma |
Ereignis |
| Bethlehem (Penns) |
1901 |
The Lehigh Zinc Co. |
Die 16 Dampfkessel werden von Friedensville nach South Bethlehem durch die "New Jersey Zinc Company" umgesetzt, mit der Absicht, sie auf anderen dortigen Zinkgruben einzusetzen |
| Brooklyn (New York) |
1901 |
Edison Electric Illuminating Company of New York |
Zusammenschluß mit der "Gas & Electric Light, Heat & Power Company" zur "New York Edison Company" |
| Brooklyn (New York) |
1901 |
James H. Williams, Drop Forging |
Der frühere Teilhaber William H. Brock eröffnet ein Schmiedeunternehmen in Queens. |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
1901 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Bau der 19.000sten Lokomotive |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
1901 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
In diesem Jahr werden Lokomotiven an die Union Pacific; die Chicago, Burlington and Quincy; die Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf; die Toledo, St. Louis and Western; die Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe; die Chicago and Alton; die Missouri, Kansas and Texas; die Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul und die and Southern Pacific Railroads geliefert. die Pennsylvania Railroad bestellt in diesem Jahr 150 Lokomotiven verschiedener Typen, und die Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bestellt über 100 Lokomotiven. |
| Endicott (N.Y.) |
1901 |
International Time Recording Company |
Die Firma erwirbt die Chicago Time-Register Co., die erste Gesellschaft für selbstschreibende Zeiterfassungsgeräte in der Welt und Herteller von selbstschreibenden Stempeluhren für Beschäftigte |
| Gibbsboro (USA) |
1901 |
Gibbsboro Paint & Color Works, John Lucas & Co. |
John Lucas stirbt in Atlantic City. |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
1901 |
Dairymen's Manufacturing Company |
Umzug von der Ecke Warren und Bay Streets zum Häuserblock Warren, Bay und Morgan Streets |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
1901 |
Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company |
Eintragung |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
1901 |
Halstead & Co. |
Übernahme der "Central Lard Company" in New York |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
1901 |
Merchants' Refrigerating Company |
Gründung |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
1901 |
Mutual Chemical Company of America |
Die Fachwerkgebäude werden durch Feuer zerstört |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
1901 |
Truslow & Fulle |
Auflösung der Partnerschaft zwischen L. Truslow und Chas. A. Fulle |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
1901 |
Truslow & Fulle |
Eintragung unter den Gesetzen von New Jersey |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
um 1901 |
West Pulverizing Machine Company |
Verlegung des Unternehmens nach Jersey City |
| Manhattan (New York) |
1901 |
Metropolitan Street Railway Company |
Es werden 33 Meilen Gleis mit unterirdischer Stromzuführung gebaut |
| Nether Providence (USA) |
1901 |
Rose Valley Mills, Inc. |
Der Architekt William Lightfood Price (1861-1916) aus Philadelphia und M. Hawley McLanahan (1865-1929) kaufen 80 acres (320.000 qm) Land rund um die früheren Rose Valley Mills und gründet die "Rose Valley Association" 29.04. |
| Nether Providence (USA) |
1901 |
Rose Valley Mills, Inc. |
Eintragung der "Rose Valley Association" 17.07. |
| New York (Brooklyn) |
1901 |
Edison Electric Illuminating Company of New York |
Zusammenschluß mit der "Gas & Electric Light, Heat & Power Company" zur "New York Edison Company" |
| New York (Brooklyn) |
1901 |
James H. Williams, Drop Forging |
Der frühere Teilhaber William H. Brock eröffnet ein Schmiedeunternehmen in Queens. |
| New York City |
1901 |
American Typewriter Co. |
Die "American"-Schreibmaschine wird auf den Markt gebracht. Sie wird anfangs bei Williams, Derby, Conn., gebaut |
| New York City |
1901 |
F. W. Woolworth Co. |
Frank Winfield Woolworth betreibt schon 600 Läden. Kurz darauf bekommen sie offiziell den Namen "Woolworth" |
| New York City |
1901 |
Metropolitan Street Railway Company |
Es werden 33 Meilen Gleis mit unterirdischer Stromzuführung gebaut |
| New York City |
1901 |
Nabisco Company |
Der Name "Nabisco" wird erstmals genutzt als Teil des Namens für eine Zuckerwaffel |
| New York City |
1901 |
Sun Typewriter Co. |
Die erste Vorderanschlag-Schreibmaschine kommt auf den Markt |
| New York City |
1901 |
The Elliott & Hatch Book Typewriter Co. |
Ab 1901 wird die "Elliott & Hatch" mit einer besonderen Formular-Durchschreibe-Vorrichtung geliefert |
| New York City |
1901 |
Underwood Typewriter Co. |
Auszeichnung durch das Grand Diplome d'honneur in Venedig und durch die Goldene Medaille in Buffalo |
| New York City |
1901 |
Underwood Typewriter Co. |
Kauf der Hartford Cycle Works zum Zwecke der Schreibmaschinenfabrikation in Hartford, Conn. |
| New York City |
1901 |
Underwood Typewriter Co. |
Verlegung der Schreibmaschinenfabrikation von Bayonne, N.J., nach Hartford, Conn. |
| Paterson (N.J.) |
1901 |
Rogers Locomotive Company |
Ein Syndikat, geleitet von Elliot C. Smith und Francis H. Halloran aus New York, erwirbt das Werk und führt es unter der Firma "Rogers Locomotiv Works" fort. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1901 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Bau der 19.000sten Lokomotive |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1901 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
In diesem Jahr werden Lokomotiven an die Union Pacific; die Chicago, Burlington and Quincy; die Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf; die Toledo, St. Louis and Western; die Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe; die Chicago and Alton; die Missouri, Kansas and Texas; die Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul und die and Southern Pacific Railroads geliefert. die Pennsylvania Railroad bestellt in diesem Jahr 150 Lokomotiven verschiedener Typen, und die Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bestellt über 100 Lokomotiven. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1901-1902 |
Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company |
Bau neuer Werkstätten |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1901 |
Brashear, John Alfred |
Brashear wird Kanzler der "Western University of Pennsylvania" in Pittsburgh. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1901 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Als Carnegie sich 1901 zur Ruhe setzt, kann er sein Unternehmen für $250 (oder 350) Millionen verkaufen. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1901 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Der Konzern geht an die "United Steel Group" über |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1901 |
Diescher, Samuel |
Bau der Jumonville Incline, Uniontown |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1901 |
Diescher, Samuel |
Samuel Diescher nimmt seine Söhne in das Unternehmen auf. Umfirmierung in "S. Diescher & Sons" |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1901 |
Rust Boiler Company |
Gründung durch E. G. und H. B. Rust |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1901 |
Westinghouse Machine Company |
Es werden bereits Dampfturbinen von 2700 PS ausgeführt |
| Princeton (New Jersey) |
1901 |
Einstein, Albert |
Einstein verrichtet Aushilfstätigkeiten am Technikum Winterthur und am Knabenpensionat in Schaffhausen |
| Reading (Pennsylvania) |
1901 |
Millerts & Kinsey, West Reading Boiler and Machine Works |
Übernahme durch Jacob S. Peipher (Reading Scale and Machine Co.) |
| Reading (Pennsylvania) |
1901 |
Reading Iron Company |
Ende der Präsidentschaft von George F. Baer |
| Reading (Pennsylvania) |
1901 |
Reading Iron Company |
Umbau des Montour-Walzwerks in Danville |
| Reading (Pennsylvania) |
1901-1902 |
Reading Iron Company |
Bau der Schmiede in der North Ninth Street mit elektrischen Kranen. Sie ersetzt die alte, 1850 gebaute Schmiede |
| Red Hook (Brooklyn) |
1901 |
James H. Williams, Drop Forging |
Der frühere Teilhaber William H. Brock eröffnet ein Schmiedeunternehmen in Queens. |
| Syracuse (N.Y.) |
1901 |
Franklin |
H. H. Franklin, Besitzer eines gutgehenden Unternehmes, das Spritzgußerzeugnisse herstellt, lernt John Wilkinson kennen, der einen luftgekühlten Motor entworfen hat. |
| Laurel Run (Pennsylvania) |
08.01.1901 |
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The whole of this valley was shaken at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Windows rattled, loose articles fell, some panes of glass were broken and there was a great deal of excitement. It was believed for some time that the powder mills of Gen. P. A. Oliver at Laurel Run, over the brow of the mountain, had blown up, but it transpired that a car of black powder on the Central Railroad of New Jersey, near Laurel Run, had exploded. The car was so close to the dynamite mill that it is a wonder the concussion did not blow that up.
Train No. 424 was pulling up the mountain when engine 407, running empty, dashed around a curve and into her. Engine 407 is one of the heaviest engines on the road. She ploughed through the caboose, knocked over a car of beer and then struck the car loaded with black powder. She must have sent some sparks into the powder, for it exploded almost instantly after the collision, tore up the front of the engine to shreds and piled up a dozen cars in a heap.
The collision just gave the engineer and firemen on 407 time to jump. They leaped 20 feet from the point of the collision and the two men in the caboose and the rear brakeman on 424 jumped at the same time. Knowing there was a car of powder in the train they wasted no time in getting as far as possible away from the wreck, and this saved their lives. No one was injured, despite the fearful force of the explosion. |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
Febr. 1901 |
William Bender Company |
Die "William Bender Company" wird mit einem Kapital von $250.000 als Nachfolgerin des Vorgänger-Unternehmens eingetragen. |
| Catasauqua (USA) |
05.02.1901 |
Lehigh Car, Wheel and Axle Works, McKee, Fuller & Co. |
Eintragung unter der Firma "Lehigh Car, Wheel and Axle Works" |
| Hurleyville (New York) |
06.02.1901 |
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A fatal collision occurred on the Ontario and Western Railroad at Hurleyville, Sullivan County, to-day. An engine with a snow flange used to clear the rails of snow, crashed into a passenger coach attached to a milk train, which had stopped at a siding to allow another train to pass. Howard R Scofield of Fishkill Landing, a traveling salesman and a member of the firm of John G. Turnbull & Co., of 294 Pearl Street, New York City, died from inhalation of steam and the effects of scalds about the body.
The injured are: Ontario and Western Division Carpenter Daniel C. Lamont, Ontario and Western Supervisor Robert Brock; Daniel H. Webster, grain commission merchant of the firm of Howell & Webster; Sayor Fancher, wholesale grocer of the firm of Snyder & Fancher, this city; Henry C. Koppes, Calicoon Centre; H.D. Percher, Albany; Dr. H.P Deady, Liberty. These were all so severely scalded by steam that the flesh peeled from their faces and hands. Some of them may have been fatally injured from escaping steam.
Both the passenger coach and the express car ahead were provided with coal stoves and these overturning, set the cars on fire. The train crew and the uninjured passengers worked heroically to extricate the injured passengers. Dr. Deady, although severely injured, assisted Dr. De Kay of Hurleyville in caring for the injured. The injured were brought to this city on a relief train.
The wreck is said to have been due to a misunderstanding of train orders. |
| Greenville (Pennsylvania) |
07.02.1901 |
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Train No. 5, The Hew York-Chicago limited on the Erie railroad, was wrecked this morning within town limits. Five passengers were dead when taken from the wreck, several are missing and there are many badly injured.
It was on the smoking department that death laid a ruthless hand, for there was not one of the sixteen occupants escaped being killed or injured. This car was completely telescoped by the steel mail car ahead, which went through at as it was paper tearing, crushing, maiming and carrying death. The only wonder is that the occupants were not all killed outright.
The scene of the wreck is on a sharp curve. On one side forth feet below, flows the Shenango river, on the other is a steep curve and before it had gone two car lengths plowed into the steep hill where it fell on its side and was half buried.
The train was running about two hours late and the accident happened at 7:10 a.m., just about the time when the occupants of the sleeper had finished dressing. |
| Fore River (Weymouth) |
15.02.1901 |
Fore River Engine Company |
Eintragung unter der Firma "Fore River Ship and Engine Company" |
| Weymouth (Mass.) |
15.02.1901 |
Fore River Engine Company |
Eintragung unter der Firma "Fore River Ship and Engine Company" |
| New Arlington (New Jersey) |
19.02.1901 |
John Schuyler |
Am 19. Februar wird von der New York Börse offensichtlich da letzte Mal berichtet, daß die Aktie der Arlington Copper einen Wert von $4 habe. |
| Princeton (New Jersey) |
21.02.1901 |
Einstein, Albert |
Einstein erwirbt die Schweizer Staatsangehörigkeit |
| Bordentown (USA) |
23.02.1901 |
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One of the worst collisions in the history of the Amboy division of the Pennsylvania railroad occurred at about 5:30 o'clock last night at Ruslings Siding, near Bordentown, and about eight miles south of Trenton.
"The Nellie Bly" express from New York for Atlantic City collided with passenger train No. 330, running from Camden to Trenton.
The number of dead so far known is ten, and the injured upward of twenty-five.
A special train at about 9 o'clock from the scene of the wreck brought four dead bodies and eighteen wounded persons to Trenton. The wounded were distributed among the three Trenton hospitals. Other wounded passengers were taken to Cooper hospital at Camden. Among the killed was WALTER EARL, engineer of the express, and JAMES BIRMINGHAM, baggagemaster of the local train. Most of the killed were Italians. |
| Westfield (New Jersey) |
14.03.1901 |
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Nine persons were injured in a trolley accident just outside of Westfield, N. J., last evening. That all who were in the car escaped with their lives is wonderful. The car leaped from the rails, turned a somersault down an embankment, and landed upside down.
The accident occurred on the Elizabeth and Plainfield Traction Company's oute between the two cities from which the company takes its name. The car was a sixty-foot one, and was bound from Plainfield to Elizabeth. One of the cars on the road was withdrawn from service last Fall, and it is said the remaining cars had to make the same number of trips as before. This necessitated very high speed in the country district, owing to the speed restrictions in Plainfield, Westfield and Elizabeth.
The accident occurred at Prospect Street just west of Westfield. The car was running on an embankment and attempted to round a curve at full speed. The forward trucks appear to have leaped from the rails at the sharpest point of the curve and, striking against the sleepers, brought the forward end to a stop, and the rear end flew into the air and the car turned completely over, going down into a ditch. |
| Hazleton (Pennsylvania) |
25.03.1901 |
Clark, David |
Tod von David Clark in Hazleton. Er wird auf dem Vine Street Cemetery begraben |
| Newton (New Jersey) |
26.03.1901 |
H. W. Merriam Shoe Company |
Kauf des stilliegenden Gebäudes der "Sussex Shoe Company" in der Mill Street |
| Manhattan (New York) |
April 1901 |
Metropolitan Street Railway Company |
Der Versuch mit Druckluftbetrieb auf der Linie in den 28th and 20th Streets wird nach zwei Jahren nach Fehlern, Unfällen und Unregelmäßigkeiten im Betrieb und allgemeiner Unzufriedenheit bei der Öffentlichkeit und den kommunalen Behörden eingestellt, und der Pferdebahnbetrieb wird eingeführt. |
| New York City |
April 1901 |
Metropolitan Street Railway Company |
Der Versuch mit Druckluftbetrieb auf der Linie in den 28th and 20th Streets wird nach zwei Jahren nach Fehlern, Unfällen und Unregelmäßigkeiten im Betrieb und allgemeiner Unzufriedenheit bei der Öffentlichkeit und den kommunalen Behörden eingestellt, und der Pferdebahnbetrieb wird eingeführt. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
01.04.1901 |
American Bridge Company |
Übernahme durch die "United States Steel Corporation" |
| Camden (N.J.) |
05.04.1901 |
New York Shipbuilding Co. |
Das erste Schiff, der Tanker "MS Dollar", läuft vom Stapel |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
01.05.1901 |
Pan-American Exposition |
Eröffnung der Ausstellung |
| New York City |
Mai 1901 |
American Society of Mechanical Engineers |
Auf der Mai-Sitzung der ASME legt Earnest Foster ("Power Specialty Co.") ein Papier mit dem Titel "Superheated Steam" vor, in dem er die Arbeit europäischer Ingenieure und die Tausende dort ausgeführter Anlagen herausstellt |
| New York City |
Mai 1901 |
Power Specialty Company |
Auf der Mai-Sitzung der "American Society of Mechanical Engineers" (ASME) legt Earnest Foster ein Papier mit dem Titel "Superheated Steam" vor, in dem er die Arbeit europäischer Ingenieure und die Tausende dort ausgeführter Anlagen herausstellt |
| New York City |
03.05.1901 |
The Singer Manufacturing Company |
Das Unternehmen zeigt Interesse für den Ankauf des angebotenen Areals zum Bau einer Zweigfabrik in Wittenberge |
| College Point (New York) |
11.05.1901 |
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Of twenty-six young peoople who set out joyously from College Point for a starlight ride in a wagon on Saturday night, two were carried home dead yesterday morning, five are lying in Jamaica Hospital suffering from more or less serious injuries, and all the others are nursing cuts or bruises as the result of a collision with a trolley car which crashed into the wagon almost at full speed. One the car were twenty-five passengers. All were badly shaken up, and one woman fainted, but none was injured. Those killed were MICHAEL SCHNEIR, twenty-three years old, of 97 Seventh Avenue, College Point, and JOSEPH PICKET, twenty years old, Eleventh Street and Fifth Avenue, College Point.
Starlight outing parties have been very popular for some months in College Point, being held almost every evening when the weather permitted. The usual plan was to drive to some report ten or so miles from home, and after a couple of hours of dancing and a supper, to drive back in the early morning hours. For these trips the farm wagons in which truck gardeners carry their produce to market have been used.
The party in last night's accident left College Point somewhat late. A wagon had been hired from DERESCHEIN Brothers truck gardeners. JOHN ROGERS, one of their emplooyes, was driving. Cushions had been placed along the seats on the sides, and the bottom of the wagon was filled with straw.
The trip was made to Jamaica by way of the Hoffman Boulevard. ROGERS says he was going at a trot when he turned into Fulton Street in Jamaica. It was getting toward midnight. His objective point was Distler's Hotel, in Fulton Street, near Van Wyck Avenue, on the border line between Jamaica and Richmond Hill. |
| New York City |
16.05.1901 |
Schneider, Charles Conrad |
Charles Conrad Schneider wird zum Direktor und Vizepräsidenten der "American Bridge Company" gewählt |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
16.05.1901 |
American Bridge Company |
Verlegung der "American Bridge Co." von New York nach Philadelphia |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
16.05.1901 |
American Bridge Company |
Charles Conrad Schneider wird zum Direktor und Vizepräsidenten der "American Bridge Company" gewählt |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
16.05.1901 |
American Bridge Company |
Verlegung der "American Bridge Co." von New York nach Philadelphia |
| Greenbush (New York) |
27.05.1901 |
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Two crowded electric cars racing toward each other for a switch while running at the rate of forty miles an hour collided near Greenbush in the afternoon with terrific force. Five persons were killed and more than a score injured, at least two fatally and others seriously. The passengers on the cars, which run on the Albany and Hudson railway, were pleasure seekers bound for various resorts and many of them were of rich and fashionable families. The point on the single track where the collision occurred was at a sharp curve. So sudden was the collision that the motormen did not have time to put on the brakes before south-bound car No. 22 had gone almost clean through north-bound car No. 17 and hung on the edge of a high bluff with its load of shrieking, maimed humanity. One motorman was pinioned up against the smashed front of the platform with both legs severed. He was killed instantly, while the other motorman lived but a few minutes. Fully 120 men, women and children formed a struggling, screaming pyramid, mixed with blood, detached portions of human bodies and the wreckage of the cars. |
| New York City |
27.05.1901 |
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FRANK SALZMAN, 35 years old, a brakesman living at 238 Huron street, died this morning at the Eastern District Hospital from injuries received by being run over yesterday afternoon by a freight car in the yards of LOWELL M. PALMER at Kent avenue and North Seventh street. SALZMAN was employed in the freight yard and was engaged in transferring cars from the float to the yard. At the time of the accident he was standing on the rear platform of a car which was being pushed ahead while he waved signals to the engineer. He lost his footing and fell in from of the moving car and before he could escape the wheel passed over his hips. The engineer, who saw him fall, attempted to stop the cars but the momentum was too great and SALZMAN was caught beneath the second wheel. In spite of his shocking injuries he retained his senses and directed the movements of the train for his release. He was removed to the hospital by DR. KNIPE, and as his injuries were recognized as being of a fatal character his family was notified. In the meantime both legs were amputated at the thighs. His wife was at his bedside when he revived from the effects of the operation and an affecting scene followed. MRS. SALZMAN became hysterical and it was found necessary to remove her from the room. While she was being quieted. DR. KNIPE brought a stimulant to SALZMAN, who was sinking rapidly and his last words were that he was a poor judge of whisky[sic] as he never indulged. He swallowed the draught[sic] and as his wife was again brought to his bedside, he expired. The dead man was described as a careful employee. (Brooklyn) |
| McKeesport (USA) |
02.06.1901 |
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A collision between a car on the United Traction company's line and a train on the McKeesport and Belle Vernon branch of the Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroad at McKeesport to-day nine people were more or less seriously injured, one perhaps fatally. The injured are: A three months-old child of James Monetville, of McKeesport, contusion of the right temple; Edna Foy, aged six years, of Duquesne, badly cut about the head; Tony Jordan of McKeesport, severely cut about the head; James McQuaid, of McKeesport, badly bruised about the body.
Conductor Irwin Montgomery, spine injured, bruised and cut about the head and body, contusion of right arm and left leg cut, may die. |
| Syracuse (N.Y.) |
05.06.1901 |
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A north bound trolley car on the Syracuse, Lakeside and Baldwinsville road, with forty-eight passengers, including six of the Syracuse Eastern league base ball team and six policeman, jumped the track on a sharp curve this afternoon, went across the south bound track and toppled over, injuring more than twenty people seriously. Five of the Syracuse players were hurt,---DEMONTREVILLE, LYNCH, HORTON, WHITE and MCMANUS. DEMONTREVILLE and WHITE each had the left leg broken; LYNCH and HORTON were badly cut, and MCMANUS had two fingers broken. WHITE and DEMONTREVILLE will be out of the game will be out of the game for months. The others will probably be all right in a week. Today's game with Toronto was postponed. |
| Vestal (New York) |
09.06.1901 |
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Rescuers and wrecking crews worked until after noon to-day at Vestal, ten miles west of here, where an explosion of dynamite in a Delaware, Lackawanna and Western freight car wrecked two colliding trains, killed five trainmen, and injured several others. Late this afternoon parts of the last body to be accounted for were found a quarter of a mile away from the scene of the explosion. The dynamite was in a car of freight train No. 61, which was taking water when a double-header wildcat freight train crashed into the stationary train. The impact exploded the dynamite, and both trains were wrecked, and pieces of the locomotives of the wildcat train were found to-day half a mile distant. The tracks were blocked until after midday. Aside from the damage to railroad property, much minor damage is reported. Nearly every house in the villages of Vestal and Union, which is across the Susquehanna from the wreck, lost more or less of its window glass, while houses and barns near the scene were badly shattered. None of the inmates, however, was injured. |
| New York City |
20.06.1901 |
74th Street Power Plant |
Der Aufbau der Maschinen beginnt |
| Allegheny City (Pa.) |
24.06.1901 |
Pittsburgh Locomotive and Car Works |
Zusammenschluß zu "American Locomotive Company" |
| Paterson (N.J.) |
24.06.1901 |
Cooke Locomotive and Machine Co. |
Zusammenschluß zu "American Locomotive Company" |
| Pittsburgh (Allegheny City) |
24.06.1901 |
Pittsburgh Locomotive and Car Works |
Zusammenschluß zu "American Locomotive Company" |
| Schenectady (USA) |
24.06.1901 |
American Locomotive Company |
Erwerbung der "Richmond Locomotive and Machine Works" für $3.000.000 |
| Schenectady (USA) |
24.06.1901 |
American Locomotive Company |
Zusammenschluß von sieben Lokomotivfabriken in den USA zu "American Locomotive Company" |
| Schenectady (USA) |
24.06.1901 |
Schenectady Locomotive Works |
Zusammenschluß zu "American Locomotive Company" |
| Scranton (Penns.) |
24.06.1901 |
Dickson Manufacturing Company |
Zusammenschluß zu "American Locomotive Company" |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
26.06.1901 |
Philadelphia Water Works, Belmont Pumping Station |
Vertragsabschluß zum Bau des neuen Belmont Reservoir und der Filterstation an den Belmont und City Line Avenues mit der Firma "Ryan & Kelley" in Philadelphia |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
10.07.1901 |
Philadelphia Water Works, Belmont Pumping Station |
Baubeginn der Filteranlage |
| Springfield (Erie, Pa.) |
11.07.1901 |
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Nine men were killed as the result of the collapse of a Nickel Plate Railroad bridge, which was undergoing repairs here. The accident occurred while a local freight train, bound west, containing two cars of stone to be left at the bridge, went through it.
The entire train, with its crew and a gang of workmen on the bridge, were carried down in the wreck. P. A. MOORE of Conneaut, the conductor, was instantly killed. The others killed were unknown Italian laborers.
The structure was thought to be unsafe, and the men were filling in the ravine which it spanned. The train had backed on to the bridge. Three cars loaded with broken rock were standing on the span, ready to be dumped. Conductor MOORE was on one of the cars, while the crew of workmen was waiting underneath to level the stone as it was dropped. Without a warning the bridge gave way, and the three cars with their heavy loads were hurled into the gully, a distance of about eighty feet. Fifteen minutes before the bridge collapsed a heavy passenger train had rushed over it. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
01.08.1901 |
Philadelphia Water Works, Belmont Pumping Station |
Baubeginn des Speicherbeckens für die Filteranlage |
| North Leroy (USA) |
09.08.1901 |
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Two rear cars of the Lehigh Valley Railroad?s ?Black Diamond Express,? which left this city at noon for New York and Philadelphia, jumped the track and broke loose from the rest of the train near North Leroy, ten miles east of Batavia, at 12:53 o?clock this afternoon. The train was making over fifty miles an hour at the time.
One of the derailed cars was a Pullman observation coach, the other a parlor car. The latter remained on the cross-ties and nobody in it was hurt. The observation coach plunged down an embankment and dropped over into a ditch on its side, eight of its occupants being injured, none of them seriously.
Up to a late hour to-night the cause of the accident had not been determined. Officials of the railroad said they did not know why the cars had left the track, an examination of the rails having failed to explain the matter.
The train was in charge of Engineer McIntire of Sayre, Penn., and Conductor R. Mack of Easton, Penn. The ?Black Diamond? was put in service in 1893, and this is said to be the first accident that has befallen it. |
| Fairville (New York) |
29.08.1901 |
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The worst wreck in the history of the Sodus Bay division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, occurred at about 5:20 o'clock this afternoon, when part of the southbound passenger train, due in this village at 5:40 o'clock, left the track in the gravel cut about six miles north of Newark, between the Fairville and Zurich stations, and piled up the engine, tender, baggage car and two coaches.
The engine and tender were turned bottom side up between the smoker and the first coach and the escaping steam poured in among more than a hundred passengers, who occupied the two cars, burning most of them severely.
Not one escaped from either of these two cars without more or less injury.
A great many who were not so injured that they could not take care of themselves left the train which brought them to this village without giving their names.
Among those who were seriously injured are REV. and MRS. A. PARK BURGESS of Syracuse.
As a great many people were having an outing at Sodus Bay, where the train was made up and from which it brought most of the passengers who were aboard, there may be Syracusans among those who did not give their names.
While but two are dead at a late hour tonight, several others are in a critical condition. |
| Roaring Branch (USA) |
29.08.1901 |
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The breaking of a coupling pin caused a wreck at Roaring Branch, Pa., on the Northern Central railroad, yesterday morning, which resulted in the death of Engineer J. C. McKAY, of Elmira. Fireman C. F. ARTLY leaped from the engine in time to avoid the crash, which derailed several cars and demolished engine No. 3,186 (could read 3,136). |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
14.09.1901 |
Pan-American Exposition |
Präsident William McKinley wird vor dem "Temple of Music" von dem Anarchisten Leon Czolgosz erschossen. Man traut sich nicht das auf der Ausstellung gezeigte Röntgengerät zum Suchen des Projektils im Körper zu verwenden. Ironischerweise hat der Operartionssaal der Ausstellung kein elektrisches Licht, während die eigentliche Ausstellung im Glanz von Tausenden von elektrischen Lampen erstrahlt. - McKinley stirbt acht Tage später am 14. September, und Vizepräsident Theodore Roosevelt wird sein Nachfolger. Czolgosz wird am 29. Oktober in Auburn auf dem elektrischen Stuhl hingerichtet. |
| Duquesne (Pittsburgh) |
03.10.1901 |
Carnegie Steel Co., Duquesne Works |
Das Walzwerk (10 und 13 inch) für Handelseisen auf dem Gelände der früheren "Duquesne Tube Works Company" geht in Betrieb. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
03.10.1901 |
Carnegie Steel Co., Duquesne Works |
Das Walzwerk (10 und 13 inch) für Handelseisen auf dem Gelände der früheren "Duquesne Tube Works Company" geht in Betrieb. |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
29.10.1901 |
The Snow Steam Pump Works |
Patenterteilung (vmtl. für eine Dampfpumpe) |
| New Arlington (New Jersey) |
11.1901 |
John Schuyler |
Es werden alle Aktivitäten eingestellt. Kein Kupfer wird produziert. |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
02.11.1901 |
Pan-American Exposition |
Ende der Ausstellung |
| Washington (Washington, Pa.) |
08.11.1901 |
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A wreck occurred on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad east of Brady's tunnel, a short distance east of Washington, which resulted in the death of three men and the injury of ten more, two of whom may die. The wreck was caused by a head-end collision between a freight engine and the westbound Wheeling accommodation train. The stories of the cause of the wreck are conflicting, and it will take a coroner's jury to determine who is responsible for it. The engine was on its way from Washington loaded with road officials going to render assistance at a freight wreck near Vance's Station, and was struck by the passenger train just as the engine emerged from the tunnel, both going at high speed. |
| Mount Airy (Philadelphia) |
01.12.1901 |
Mount Airy Water Works |
Das Pumpwerk wird seitdem kaum noch benutzt: Die Pumpen 1 und 2 arbeiten nur noch einige Male im Jahr, und die Nr. 3 bleibt unbenutzt |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
01.12.1901 |
Mount Airy Water Works |
Das Pumpwerk wird seitdem kaum noch benutzt: Die Pumpen 1 und 2 arbeiten nur noch einige Male im Jahr, und die Nr. 3 bleibt unbenutzt |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
04.12.1901 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Hochofen "D" erhält einen elektrischen Gichtaufzug mit Kippvorrichtung. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
04.12.1901 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Hochofen "D" erhält als sechster einen elektrisch betriebenen Kippaufzug für die Begichtung. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
04.12.1901 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Hochofen "D" erhält einen elektrischen Gichtaufzug mit Kippvorrichtung. |
| Middletown (N.Y.) |
15.12.1901 |
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Several large landslides on the Erie Railroad between this city and Pondeddy were caused by last night's storm. In a collision between two trains one man was killed and several injured. The wreck occurred at Black Rock Cut, near Port Jervis, and was caused by a broken journal. A car of the east-bound freight was thrown to the west-bound track just as a freight going west came along.
Martin Ryan, head brakeman of the west-bound train, was instantly killed, and several other members of the train crew were injured. Twenty-six coal cars left the track, going down an embankment. Owing to the dangerous condition of the Erie bridge over the Neversink River, near the scene of the wreck, traffic is suspended.
There was a large washout on the Ontario and Western Railroad near Parksville. It caused a slight wreck and suspension of traffic to-day.
The gale continued to-day, and did much damage throughout this section. A barn on the Cummings farm, owned by James W. Sproul of New York, was blown down, killing forty-five head of blooded cattle. The structure was the largest of its kind in the county. |
| New York City |
19.12.1901 |
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Trolley Car No. 168 of the Broadway line, loaded to the doors with passengers, suddenly burst into flames shortly before 5 o'clock last evening just as the car was opposite the Hotel Marlborough, Thirty-seventh Street and Broadway. There was a panic among the passengers and a crush of frightened men and hysterical women before the fire could be gotten under control. The car was completely wrecked, but no one was injured.
The spectacular sight of a blazing trolley car dashing up Broadway at top speed, making for the car barns, attracted a large crowd which tried to keep pace, and added to the confusion. The car was headed for the barns at Fiftieth Street and Seventh Avenue, but the flames, fanned by the draft of the speed, enveloped the vehicle completely, and the firemen had to be called to extinguish the flames. |
| Coopersburg (USA) |
23.12.1901 |
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Six persons were killed and a number injured tonight in an electric car that jumped tht track on a sharp curve at the foot of Lehigh Mountain, between here and Coopersburg. The accident was due to the wet rails and snow. The dead are:
REV. TOBIAS KESSLER, aged sixty, an unattached Reformed Church clergyman.
FRANK WESLEY of Allentown.
ALBERT YEAGER of Allentown, aged forty.
MRS. DR. JACOB FETZER of Coopersburg, aged thirty-five.
AMBROSE REINHARD of Freedensville, aged fifty.
IRWIN RENNER of Zion Hill, farmer, fifty-five years old.
Eleven were injured.
Motorman STOCKER tried hard to stop the car when it slipped on the steep grade, but it flew around the curve and swung against a guy pole, which tore off one side and roof. Those killed had been sitting along the broken side of the car and were crushed by the post. The new Coopersburg line, on which the accident occurred, opened only last Wednesday. |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
Weihnachten 1901 |
Conrad Motor Carriage Co. |
Ein Dampf-Lieferwagen ist für eine Woche im Einsatz. Er macht die Arbeit von drei Pferdewagen ohne Schwierigkeiten. |
| Goshen (New York) |
28.12.1901 |
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In the Ontario and Western's disastrous wreck near Starlight on Friday, when four men were killed and an engine and forty-four loaded cars of coal were derailed and flung down an embankment. William Sawyer, a thirteen-year-old tramp, had a narrow escape from death. He was riding on the rear end of the tender, and was almost asleep when he was aroused suddenly by the swaying motion of the train as the engine dashed down the mountain. The tender was whirled far out and the boy's hold was broken. He was flung about fifty feet, but in some miraculous manner escaped injury. Tons of coal from the wrecked cars were piled up behind and almost over him. |
| Apollo (USA) |
1902 |
Apollo Iron and Steel Company |
Das Werk zieht von Apollo in das Werk der "Vandergrift Steel Sheet & Tin Plate Company", und die Anlage in Apollo wird abgerissen. |
| Binghamton (N.Y.) |
1902 |
Ansco |
Gebildet durch den Zusammenschluß von E. & H. T. Anthony Co. und Scovill & Adams |
| Binghamton (N.Y.) |
1902 |
E. & H. T. Anthony & Co. |
Zusammenschluß mit Scovill & Adams Co. zu Anthony & Scovill (später Ansco) |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
1902 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Das Kesselhaus "H und I" wird umgebaut. |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
1902 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Die alte Buntgießerei wird abgerissen, und das alte Maschinenhaus wird in eine Buntgießerei umgewandelt. |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
1902/1903 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Das Kesselhaus "J und K" wird umgebaut. |
| Brooklyn (New York) |
1902 |
South Brooklyn Steam Engine and Boiler Works |
Übernahme des Gebäudes durch die "American Air Compressor Works" |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
1902 |
Conrad Motor Carriage Co. |
Beginn der Produktion von benzingetriebenen Autos |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
1902 |
Edwin Ross Thomas |
Edwin Ross Thomas steigt in die Automobilherstellung mit zwei leichten Modellen ein |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
1902 |
Pierce-Arrow |
Pierce präsentiert den Arrow, einen Zweizylinder mit 15 PS |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
1902 |
Samuel Born Co. |
Saumel Born trennt sich vom Getreidehandel und verlegt sich auf den Kohlen- und Eishandel |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
1902 |
The Snow Steam Pump Works |
Zusammenschluß mit "Holly Manufacturing" (Nachfolge vmtl. "Snow Holly Works"; in York Water Company, Pa.) |
| Burnham (Pennsylvania) |
1902 |
Standard Steel Works Co. |
Bau des Stahlwerks nach dem Offen-Herd-Verfahren Nr. 2 mit einem 50-t-Konverter |
| Burnham (Pennsylvania) |
1902 |
Standard Steel Works Co. |
Das 1898 gebaute Schmiedewerk wird erstmals vergrößert |
| Camden (N.J.) |
01.01.1902 |
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WILLIAM B. DICK, aged eighty-two years, a retired farmer, and his sister, Emily HOROTAGE, seventy-six years old, were killed to-day by an express train on the Reading Railway, near here, while crossing the tracks in a carriage.
Whether the aged couple attempted to cross the tracks before the train reached the crossing or failed to observe its approach is not known. The engineer tried to stop the express, but it was running at too high speed to prevent the accident. |
| Christiana (Penn.) |
1902 |
Christiana Machine Company |
Eintragung des Unternehmens |
| Erie (Pa.) |
1902 |
Skinner Engine Company |
Ein großer Ergänzungsbau zu den Werkstätten wird vollendet |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
1902 |
Alphaduct Company |
Eintragung unter den Gesetzen von New Jersey |
| Lackawanna (USA) |
1902 |
Lackawanna Steel Company |
Verlegung nach von Scranton (Pa.) |
| Lockport (New York) |
1902 |
Holly Manufacturing Co. |
Verlegung des Unternehmens von Lockport nach Buffalo und Zusammenschluß mit "The Snow Steam Pump Works" |
| Manhattan (New York) |
1902 |
Metropolitan Street Railway Company |
Es werden 14 Meilen Gleis mit unterirdischer Stromzuführung gebaut |
| Morningside (New York) |
1902 |
Columbia University in the City of New York |
Der New Yorker Zeitungsmagnat Joseph Pulitzer spendet eine hohe Summe an die Universität gespendet, um einen Fachbereich für Journalismus einzurichten. |
| New Jersey |
1902 |
American Car and Foundry Co. |
Die "Lackawanna & Western Railroad" verhandelt über das aufgegebene Werk der "Union Car Company" |
| New York (Brooklyn) |
1902 |
South Brooklyn Steam Engine and Boiler Works |
Übernahme des Gebäudes durch die "American Air Compressor Works" |
| New York City |
1902 |
74th Street Power Plant |
Das Werk ist voll in Betrieb |
| New York City |
1902-03 |
American Society of Mechanical Engineers |
Edwin Reynolds wird Präsident der American Society of Mechanical Engineers (bis 1903) |
| New York City |
1902 |
Columbia University in the City of New York |
Der New Yorker Zeitungsmagnat Joseph Pulitzer spendet eine hohe Summe an die Universität gespendet, um einen Fachbereich für Journalismus einzurichten. |
| New York City |
1902 |
General Electric Company |
Die AEG sichert sich um 1902 die Rechte zur Nutzung der Patente von Curtis aus den USA. Im Gegenzug erwirbt "General Electric" die Nutzungsrechte an den Riedler-Patenten (nach diesen Baut die AEG seit 1902 Turbinen) für den amerikanischen Markt. |
| New York City |
1902 |
General Electric Company |
Die Lampenproduktion wird auf 10.000 Stück pro Tag gesteigert. |
| New York City |
1902 |
Ingersoll-Rand Co. |
Der transportable Kompressor, Typ X, wird von Rand eingeführt |
| New York City |
1902 |
Ingersoll-Rand Co. |
Umsiedelung von Bochum nach Herne |
| New York City |
1902 |
International Steam Pump Company |
Worthington entwickelt den ersten gasmaschinen-betriebenen Kompressor |
| New York City |
1902 |
Metropolitan Street Railway Company |
Es werden 14 Meilen Gleis mit unterirdischer Stromzuführung gebaut |
| New York City |
1902 |
Postal Typewriter Co. |
Gründung |
| New York City |
1902 |
Rose Typewriter Co. |
Frank S. Rose beginnt mit der Konstruktion der "Standard Folding" |
| New York City |
1902 |
Scovill Manufactoring Co. |
Firma: Anthony & Scovill |
| New York City |
1902 |
The Singer Manufacturing Company |
Eröffnung einer Singer-Nähmaschinenfabrik in Podolsk (Rußland) |
| New York City |
1902 |
Underwood Typewriter Co. |
Auszeichnung durch den Gran Prix und Medaille d'or in Rom |
| Paterson (N.J.) |
1902 |
Rogers Locomotive Company |
Francis J. Cole wechselt von den "Rogers Locomotive Works" zu ALCO |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1902 |
Fairmount Water Works |
Nur 6,5 Prozent des Wassers werden mit Wasserkraft gepumpt. Es werden 30 Gallonen Wasser benötigt, um 1 Gallone in die Behälter zu pumpen. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1902 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Ersatz der alten Röhrenkessel der Hochofenanlage H - I gegen Cahall-Wasserrohrkessel |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1902/03 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Ersatz der alten Röhrenkessel der Hochofenanlage J - K gegen Cahall-Wasserrohrkessel |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1902 |
Diescher, Samuel |
Bau der Gießerei der "Morgan Construction Co.", Wooster, Mass |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1902 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Das Kesselhaus "H und I" wird umgebaut. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1902 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Die alte Buntgießerei wird abgerissen, und das alte Maschinenhaus wird in eine Buntgießerei umgewandelt. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1902/1903 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Das Kesselhaus "J und K" wird umgebaut. |
| Princeton (New Jersey) |
1902 |
Einstein, Albert |
Geburt der Tochter "Lieserl" |
| Princeton (New Jersey) |
1902-1905 |
Einstein, Albert |
Arbeiten über die klassisch-statistische Mechanik (bis 1905) |
| Rochester (N.Y.) |
1902-1905 |
Eastman, George |
George Eastman läßt eine Villa nach seinen Vorstellungen bauen. Jeder Abschnitt wird fotograpisch festgehalten. |
| Royersford (USA) |
1902-1909 |
Buckwalter Stove Co. |
Erwerbung der Anlagen der "Gas Light Company", der "Home Water Company" und der "Royal Gas Stove Works". Die Gebäude der beiden ersteren Gesellschaften werden abgebrochen, und die Anlagen der Gas Stove Works werden zur Fabrik bzw. Gießerei No. 2 umgebaut. |
| Schenectady (USA) |
1902 |
American Locomotive Company |
Anschluß der Lokomotivfabrik "Locomotive & Machine Co. of Montreal" (später: "Montreal Locomotive Works") |
| Schenectady (USA) |
1902 |
American Locomotive Company |
Der vorher bei den "Rogers Locomotive Works" tätige Francis J. Cole wechselt zu ALCO |
| Schenectady (USA) |
1902 |
American Locomotive Company |
Mit der Verschmelzung der "Richmond Locomotive Works" wechselt Carl J. Mellin als Konstruktionsingenieur zu ALCO in Schenectady |
| Scranton (Penns.) |
1902 |
Lackawanna Furnaces |
Verlegung nach Lackawanna (NY) |
| Spring Garden (Philadelphia) |
1902 |
Fairmount Water Works |
Nur 6,5 Prozent des Wassers werden mit Wasserkraft gepumpt. Es werden 30 Gallonen Wasser benötigt, um 1 Gallone in die Behälter zu pumpen. |
| Syracuse (N.Y.) |
1902 |
Franklin |
Beginn des Automobilbaues |
| Syracuse (N.Y.) |
1902 |
Straight Line Engine Co. |
Es sind 718 Straight-Line-Dampfmaschinen in Betrieb |
| Watertown (N.Y.) |
1902 |
The New York Air Brake Co. |
Das Unternehmen kaust die 268 acre große Poole Farm in Watertown, NY, und beginnt mit dem Umzug nach dort. Die neuen Werke werden als Modell-Unternehmen geplant, sie sehen Wohnung, Arbeit und Erholungsstätten für 1.000 Beschäftigte auf dem Gelände vor. Die Arbeiter entscheiden sich aber dafür, da´sie nicht in Nachbarschaft ihrer Arbeitsstätte wohnen wollen, und der Plan wird aufgegeben. |
| Erie (Pa.) |
02.01.1902 |
Skinner Engine Company |
Dampfmaschinenpatent |
| Seward (Pennsylvania) |
04.01.1902 |
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Three men were killed and four seriously injured in a wreck on the Pennsylvania road a half mile west of Sand Hollow last night. Two trains were in the smash-up, No. 14, a fast mail eastbound, ran into the rear end of a freight train ahead of it blocking all four tracks. This wreck had hardly occurred when a fast westbound freight train chashed[sic] inito the wreck. The engine and a dozen cars went down the bank into the Conemaugh river and carried the engineer and fireman and a brakeman with them. The dead are:
MERLE PAUL, engineer of the westbound freight.
JAMES NOLAN, fireman of the westbound train.
Engineer JAMES BLACK, taken from Connemaugh river, though[sic] to have been drowned.
The injured are JAMES WINTERS, engineer of the eastbound freight, arm broken; JOHN GALLAGHER, brakeman on the eastbound freight train, leg broken; brakeman of the westbound freight name unknown, badly scalded.
Four other trainmen were injured and were sent to Pittsburg.
It is the first wreck of serious character on the Pennsylvania in some time. The cause was a mistake in train orders. |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
08.01.1902 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Ein zweiter 800-kW-Compoundgenerator wird in Betrieb genommen. |
| New York City |
08.01.1902 |
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Fifteen persons were killed and two score severely injured as a result of a rear-end collision in the Park Avenue railroad tunnel, at Fifty-sixth Street, yesterday morning at 8:20 o'clock. Unaccountable blunders of an engineer, who disregarded signals, which he says he did not see, are held to be responsible for the accident -- the worst railroad disaster that ever occurred on Manhattan Island...
...That a terrible tragedy had occurred was evident immediately. Above the hissing of escaping steam could be heard shrieks and groans of pain. There was a din of breaking glass and crackling woodwork. The boiler of the engine was inside the wrecked car. Dead and wounded were on each side and in front of this boiler, filled as it was with boiling water and steam.
The force of the engines' impact had telescoped the rear car on to the car ahead. The passengers who were sitting in the forward portion of the car, therefore, were pushed backward. Those sitting in the rear were plunged upward and forward. Only a space of some nine feet remained between the headlight of the engine and the platform of the second car... |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
08.01.1902 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Anbau an die Kraftzentrale: Ein 800-kW-Gleichstromgenerator mit Doppelwicklung, angetrieben durch eine senkrechte Zweikurbel-Verbunddampfmaschine wird aufgestellt. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
08.01.1902 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Ein zweiter 800-kW-Compoundgenerator wird in Betrieb genommen. |
| Glencoe (Pennsylvania) |
10.01.1902 |
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Baltimore and Ohio Railroad passenger train No. 6, drawn by engine 888, was wrecked while rounding a curve about one and one-half miles east of here. The engine and train were entirely destroyed by fire, leaving only the trucks and iron parts.
The engineer and fireman of the train were killed and 21 injured.
Just what caused the wreck is not known. The train was coming down a steep grade at a lively rate when the engine suddenly left the track and buried itself in the mountain side, almost completely clearing the tracks and flattening itself against the mountain. The front of the engine, including the cylinders and side robs, were completely driven into the mountain. The mail car struck the engine tank and swung around beside the engine, while other cars of the train, consisting of a baggage car, smoker, day coach and two Pullmans, jumped the track and ran on the ties the full length of the train beyond the engine.
The engine and postal car immediately causht fire, the gas lights in the latter car causing the blaze, and the flames being communicated from there to the rear Pullman, spread through to the baggage car, the entire wreck burning like tinder. All the cars were more or less wrecked by the sudden stop, the chairs in the Pullman being torn from their places and thrown around the cars. The tracks were badly torn up. |
| New York City |
28.01.1902 |
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With a roar that was heard for miles and a concussion that badly damaged two big hotels, the Murray Hill and the Grand Union, shook the walls of scores of houses and smashed windows and crockery in scores of others, two tons of dynamite exploded in the Rapid Transit subway at Park avenue and Forty-first street at noon to-day. So far as known eight men are dead as the result of the accident, sixty are more or less seriously injured, while at least a hundred are suffering from slighter wounds inflicted by falling glass. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
30.01.1902 |
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Three persons were killed, two fatally hurt and a score of others more of less injured by two runaway cars on the Monongahela branch of the Pittsburg Railway Company last night. The dead are:
JOHN McFADDEN and MARY KINKAID of East McKeesport and ROBERT TRUSH, conductor.
The seriously injured are:
CHARLES WRIGHT, motorman, arms broken, hurt internally, will die;
ALEXANDER SANDERS, colored, both legs broken, will die;
JAMES F. RYNE, motorman, severely cut and bruised;
FRANK SMALL, leg broken in two places, badly cut;
THOMAS CAMPBELL, teller Farmers National bank, Pittsburg, cut and bruised all over body, and
JACOB SMITH, severely cut about head.
The accident happened at the foot of the long hill running into Wildmerding from McKeesport. A car without passengers got beyond control of the motorman and dashed down the hill, one and a quarter miles long, at a terrific speed. At the bottom it jumped into the Pennsylvania railroad station, carrying away the side of the station and tearing up the platform.
A large crowd gathered about the wreck and twelve minutes later a second runaway came tearing down the hill and plowing into the crowd with death-dealing force. On the way down the hill the second car struck a carriage containing JAMES BROWN and LIZZIE MINNER, on their way to McKeesport to be married. The carriage was completely wrecked and the driver, ALEXANDER SANDERS, was fatally hurt.
The young couple escaped with comparatively slight injuries and later were married.
A blinding sleet storm prevailed at the time and it is said the two cars skated down the hill with brakes tightly set. |
| Arlington (N.J.) |
Febr. 1902 |
Standard Railroad Signal Co. |
Das Unternehmen geht in der "Pneumatic Signal Co." auf |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
Febr. 1902 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Bau der 20.000sten Lokomotive, eine 2'C-Verbundmaschine mit neu angeordneten Vauclain-Zylindern: Die Zylinder sind ineiner gemeinsamen Querebene, und die Hochdruckzylinder sind zwischen den Rahmenwangen |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
Febr. 1902 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Bau der 20.000sten Lokomotive, eine 2'C-Verbundmaschine mit neu angeordneten Vauclain-Zylindern: Die Zylinder sind ineiner gemeinsamen Querebene, und die Hochdruckzylinder sind zwischen den Rahmenwangen |
| Rochester (N.Y.) |
Febr. 1902 |
Pneumatic Railway Signal Co. |
Das Unternehmen geht in der "Pneumatic Signal Co." auf |
| Rochester (N.Y.) |
Febr. 1902 |
Pneumatic Signal Co. |
Bildung aus der"Pneumatic Railway Signal Co." und der "Standard Railroad Signal Co." (Troy, N.Y.) |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
13.02.1902 |
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James Welsh, the switchman, who was run over by a train on the Pennsylvania Railroad in this city yesterday, died at the Delaware Hospital this morning. There have been five accidental deaths in Wilmington so far this month, which is a very high average. |
| Round Bottom (Pennsylvania) |
17.02.1902 |
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Engineer T. W. LYONS of McKees Rocks, and his fireman, P. W. DOSWOT, were killed in a head-end collision of freight trains on the Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroad at Round Bottom. The trains came together as the result of disobeying orders. The victims were pinned under the wreckage four hours. |
| New York City |
20.02.1902 |
74th Street Power Plant |
Die meisten Maschinen sind bereits aufgestellt. |
| Altoona (Pa.) |
21.02.1902 |
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Three men killed, four probably fatally injured, two seriously injured, one freight train a complete wreck and another train nearly so, are the results of an accident on the Pennsylvania Railroad on the steep grade a few miles above the Horseshoe Curve.
Control of the second section of an east-bound freight train was lost soon after emerging from the Gallitzin tunnel, and two miles west of Allegrippas, it ran into the rear of the first section. Ten cars, the caboose and two engines were wrecked.
Engineer FLUKE and his fireman jumped when they saw the train ahead of them. FLUKE was found unconscious 50 feet away from the track. |
| Madley (USA |
24.02.1902 |
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A serious freight wreck occurred on the Bedford division Tuesday night. Train No 15, composed of 105 empty coal cars, parted while passing over Buffalo summit and the two sections came together with a crash near Madley. Forty-one cars were thrown from the track and many of them were badly damaged. Twelve or thirteen were reduced to kindling and formed fuel for a big bon fire built by the employees of the road. The other cars, all of which were more or less broken, will be repaired and again put in service. The wreckage was scattered on both sides of the track for a distance of half a mile. The wrecking crews from Bedford and State Line arrived at Madley about 10.30 and at midnight had the track cleared. The railroaders expect to have the wreck cleaned up by to-morrow evening. Brakeman Leonard, who was on the rear of the front section of the broken train, saved his life by leaping from the cars just before the two sections came together. |
| Paterson (N.J.) |
20.03.1902 |
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Dewitt Simonton, the 8-year-old son of Fire Captain Simonton, was killed last evening before his mother's eyes and in the presence of an excited crowd. They had been on a trolley car going to Riverside, and the car was on the Erie railroad crossing when the trolley pole slipped from the feed wire and the car came to a stop.
There was a cry raised that an express train was coming and the passengers made a rush from the car. Mrs. Simonton and her boy were the last to get out of the car. Meanwhile Conductor Frederick Lister had succeeded in getting the trolley pole back on the wire. Motorman Hugh McKinsey had not shut off the power, and as the express train whizzed by on the westbound track the trolley car bounced back. It struck Mrs. Simonton and threw her to one side.
Her boy had seen the car move backward and in an effort to get out of the way slipped and fell on the rail. The wheel of the car passed over his neck and decapitated him. |
| New York City |
04.1902 |
Manhattan Railway Co. |
Die "Interborough Rapid Transit Company", Betreiber der ersten New Yorker U-Bahn ab 1903, pachtet die "Manhattan Railway". |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
Mai 1902 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Bau einer Dekapod-Lokomotive für die "Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway" mit Tandem-Verbundtriebwerk für den Güterzugbetrieb auf großen Steigungen |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
Mai 1902 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Bau einer Dekapod-Lokomotive für die "Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway" mit Tandem-Verbundtriebwerk für den Güterzugbetrieb auf großen Steigungen |
| Rockwood (Somerset, Pa.) |
05.05.1902 |
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Two were killed and forty-five injured, two probably fatally in a bad head on collision between an emigrant train and a fast freight near Rockwood, on the Connellsville division of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad yesterday. The two trains dashed towards each other on a straight stretch of track and this fact alone averted what would have been the worst wreck in the history of the road. The cause of the wreck, as rumored among railroaders here, is that the freight was running a lap on the passenger train's time when the collision occurred but this has not been proven. |
| New York City |
06.05.1902 |
Interborough Rapid Transit Company |
Gründung durch den Bankier August Belmont jr. (vergl. 1900) |
| Slate Run (USA) |
21.05.1902 |
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Andrew Quinn, aged 33, was killed Saturday by the cars near Slate Run. While on his was to the woods to work for Weed & Co., he had boarded a log train on the narrow gauge road. Where he was killed he had failed in an attempt to jump aboard a rapidly moving car and fell beneath its wheels. His neck and back were broken, and his body was mangled frightfully from head to foot. Quinn's parents live in Campton, N.Y. |
| Easton (Pennsylvania) |
23.05.1902 |
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Two men were killed and many men and women injured in a trolley wreck a few miles below Easton at midnight last night.
EDWARD COMMODORE of Nazereth and JOSEPH DEHRIEMMER of Easton were killed.
On a steep hill the brakes refused to work, and the car ran away, descending the incline at a terrific rate of speed, and at the foot of the hill, on a sharp curve, the car jumped the track, throwing 30 passengers into a confused mass with the above result. |
| Highland (New York) |
30.05.1902 |
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Open Trolley Car No. 6 of the New Paltz and Poughkeepsie Traction Company had a head-on collision with a coupled freight and passenger car near Pratts Mills this afternoon and about thirty people were more or less injured.
Twelve of the passengers had legs broken, and Motorman EMORY AGER is at Vassar Hospital with one leg broken, severe scalp wounds, and suffering from shock. He may not live.
Car No. 6 was on its way to New Paltz with sixty passengers, including about twenty New York and Brooklyn people, who came north on the day boat to go into the interior of Ulster County. None of these people were badly injured, although many of them sustained slight cuts on the face and hands from flying glass and pieces of the wreck.
The accident occurred at the sharp curve and near the foot of a steep hill. The freight car, with a passenger car trailing, was coming east, and the loaded open car was going west. Both cars met at the curve, and before the motormen realized the danger the crash came. The open car was almost telescoped. |
| Princeton (New Jersey) |
16.06.1902 |
Einstein, Albert |
Tod des Vaters von Albert Einstein |
| Princeton (New Jersey) |
23.06.1902 |
Einstein, Albert |
Der Physiker Albert Einstein tritt beim Eidgenössischen Amt für geistiges Eigentum in Bern eine Stelle als technischer Experte III. Klasse an; Jahrsgehalt: 3.500 Franken. Vater und Sohn Grossmann setzten sich beim Direktor für ihn ein. Einstein wird bald zum engsten Vertrauten von Michele Besso (1873-1955). |
| Apollo (USA) |
28.06.1902 |
Apollo Iron and Steel Company |
Die "American Sheet Steel Company" walzt das letzte Eisen in Apollo. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
28.06.1902 |
Stead & Miller |
Ein kleiner Brand verursacht $100.000 Schaden durch Löschwasser der automatischen Löschanlage. Praktisch der gesamte Lagerbestand wird beschädigt. Die rd. 200 beschäftigten Mädchen geraten in Panik, können aber sicher herausgebracht werden. [N.Y. Times, 29.06.1902] |
| Gloversville (New York) |
05.07.1902 |
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A wreck which occurred on the Mountain Lake Railroad late last night caused the almost instant death of eleven persons and one victim died in the hospital here early today. It is believed that several other victims will succumb to their wounds. The accident occurred at a sharp curve, where the track turns to make the climb up the steep mountainside. A day of pleasure had been spent at the resort at the top of the mountain and the cars were loaded with excursionists. The car on which the dead and injured persons were riding was an open one, in charge of Motorman Arthur Perkins and Conductor James Cameron, and the car which was responsible for the wreck was in charge of Motorman William Dodge. |
| Lake George (New York) |
09.07.1902 |
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A trolley car accident in which one woman, MRS. MAUDE STOCKWELL of Stillwater, was killed and about twenty persons were injured, took place this afternoon at 5:30 o'clock on the Hudson Valley Electric line directly in front of the Casino of the Fort William Henry Hotel.
An express car from Glens Falls, bound for Warrensburg, and a special car, which was carrying a party of excursionists, who were returning from Warrensburg to Stillwater, came together with terrific foce[sic]. The car carrying the excursionists, which was running on a down grade at the moment of the collision, was going at the rate of thirty miles an hour, according to the estimate of those who were on it.
The force of the collision was such that the two cars were wedged together for a space of fully two feet, and every seat in the passenger car was broken. The passenger car was carrying about sixty passengers. |
| Philadelphia |
10.07.1902 |
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The Blairsville accommodation train on the West Penn railroad sideswiped a freight car at Willow Grove, causing a serious wreck. S. B. Taylor, the engineer, was fatally injured, and six passengers were seriously hurt. Their names are: Frank Call, Mrs. Frank Call, D. Smith, S. E. Matthews, Calvin Ray and S. T. Powers. |
| Willow Grove (Pa.) |
10.07.1902 |
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The Blairsville accommodation train on the West Penn railroad sideswiped a freight car at Willow Grove, causing a serious wreck. S. B. Taylor, the engineer, was fatally injured, and six passengers were seriously hurt. Their names are: Frank Call, Mrs. Frank Call, D. Smith, S. E. Matthews, Calvin Ray and S. T. Powers. |
| Hortons (USA) |
04.08.1902 |
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A head-on collision between milk trains on the Ontario and Western railroad at Hortons, Delaware county, resulted in the death of four persons, the wrecking of two engines and the ditching of several cars.
The dead:
ANDY O'NEAL, Norwich, engineer of the southbound train;
ROBERT REESE, this city, fireman of the same train;
MICHAEL TULLY, trainman;
FRANK E. MONROE, this city, trainman;
BENJAMIN ST. JOHN, the engineer of the other train, jumped from the cab, escaping injury. |
| Sharon (Mercer, Pa.) |
27.08.1902 |
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In a head-end collision on the electric line of the Youngstown and Sharon railway at 6 o'clock this morning between Sharon and Hubbard, seventeen persons were injured, some seriously but none fatally. The cars were conveying workmen to their labors.
It is now said that Conductor Joseph Farrager and Motorman Joseph Thomas, who were injured in the electric car collision were fatally hurt. Thomas is reported to have fractured his skull, and is internally injured. Conductor Farrager was caught in the wreck and crushed. The other injured will recover. |
| New York City |
02.09.1902 |
The Columbia Typewriter Mfg. Co. |
Patent-Ausgabe für die "Columbia-Barlock"-Schreibmaschine (austauschbarer Wagen) |
| Butler (Pennsylvania) |
19.09.1902 |
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Five trainmen were killed and two seriously injured as a result of a head-on collision between Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg and Pittsburg and Western passenger trains at Wilmer station, on the Pittsburg and Western Railroad, about 10 o'clock to-day. A number of passengers were cut and bruised by flying splinters and broken glass, but none was seriously hurt. The accident, it is alleged, was due to the failure to flag the passenger trains. The Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg and the Pittsburg and Western Railroads occupy the same tracks to Butler, Pa. About a half mile this side of Witmer Station is a long curve. A freight train became disabled on the westbound track on the curve this morning, and, as work is being done on a new tunnel, it necessitated all trains being run on the other track. By some mistake, it is said, the trains were allowed to come together instead of holding the one until the other had passed.
The impact was terrific and both engines were wrecked and the baggage cars reduced to kindling wood. The passengers were thrown from their seats and cut and bruised, but none were hurt severely enough to necessitate their being sent to a hospital. |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
30.09.1902 |
The Snow Steam Pump Works |
Patenterteilung (vmtl. für eine Dampfpumpe) |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
Spätjahr 1902 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Bau der 21.000sten Lokomotive |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
Spätjahr 1902 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Bau der 21.000sten Lokomotive |
| Port Elizabeth (USA) |
04.10.1902 |
Singer Co., Werk Port Elizabeth |
Der Magistrat der Stadt Wittenberge beschließt, der Firma "Singer & Co., Nähmaschinen Aktiengesellschaft" (Hamburg), vertreten durch Georg Neidlinger, 4,67 ha Gelände zwischen Eisenbahn und Stepenitz für 32.000,00 Mark zu verkaufen. Der Käuferin wird das Recht eingeräumt, das von ihr erworbene Terrain an "The Singer Manufacturing Company, Elizabeth/N.Y. (USA)", dem Singer Stammunternehmen, weiterzuverkaufen. |
| Chittenango (USA) |
30.10.1902 |
Daniel Walrath |
Tod von Peter Walrath im Krankenhaus "Good Shepherd" in Syracuse. - Er litt seit Jahren an einer schlechten Gesundheit und war sieben Monate im Krankenhaus. Beerdigung am 3. November |
| Syracuse (N.Y.) |
30.10.1902 |
Daniel Walrath |
Tod von Peter Walrath im Krankenhaus "Good Shepherd" in Syracuse. - Er litt seit Jahren an einer schlechten Gesundheit und war sieben Monate im Krankenhaus. Beerdigung am 3. November |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
01.11.1902 |
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad |
Zusammenschluß der PW&B mit der "Baltimore and Potomac Railroad". Die neue Gesellschaft heißt "Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Railroad" |
| New York City |
04.11.1902 |
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15 Menschen sterben bei einer Explosion im New Yorker »Madison Square Garden«. Ursache des Unglücks war das Abbrennen von Feuerwerkskörpern während einer Siegesfeier der Republikaner anläßlich der US-amerikanischen Kongreßwahlen. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
04.11.1902 |
Westinghouse Machine Company |
Erteilung des US-Patents 712.626 für eine "rotary engine" (radiale vmtl. Dampfturbine) |
| New York City |
29.11.1902 |
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NICHOLAS THOMPSON, 52 years old, of Bay Nineteenth street and Benson avenue, Bath Beach, was run over and killed about noon to-day by one of the motor trains on the Bath Beach line. The accident occurred within a few feet of Benson avenue, and a crowd of 300 people gathered around before the body of the victim could be removed from under the car.
THOMPSON was employed by Wolf & Moore, grocers, and was driving a wagon across the car track when it was struck by car No. 490, in charge of Motorman GEORGE PHILLIPS of 208 Fifty-eighth street. The car was on its way to the bridge. The wagon was totally demolished and THOMPSON'S body was wedged in between the car and the truck. He was considerably mangled.
It was necessary to send to Gravesend Beach for a wrecking train, and the car was jacked up and the body of the driver removed.
Roundsman McGUIRE and a squad of policemen were called from the Nineteenth avenue police station, and the motorman was placed under arrest. |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
05.12.1902 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Hochofen "K" (90'10" hoch) wird angeblasen. |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
05.12.1902 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Hochofen "K" erhält einen elektrischen Gichtaufzug mit Kippvorrichtung. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
05.12.1902 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Hochofen "K" wird angeblasen. Er erhält als siebter einen elektrisch betriebenen Kippaufzug für die Begichtung. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
05.12.1902 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Hochofen "K" (90'10" hoch) wird angeblasen. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
05.12.1902 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Hochofen "K" erhält einen elektrischen Gichtaufzug mit Kippvorrichtung. |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
15.12.1902 |
Spencer Kellogg Company |
Kiellegung für eine Dampfyacht für Spencer Kellogg bei der Jacob-Werft in City Island (N.Y.) mit 38,63 m Länge und einer Dreifachexpansionsdampfmaschine. |
| City Island (USA) |
15.12.1902 |
Spencer Kellogg Company |
Kiellegung für eine Dampfyacht für Spencer Kellogg bei der Jacob-Werft in City Island (N.Y.) mit 38,63 m Länge und einer Dreifachexpansionsdampfmaschine. |
| New York City |
15.12.1902 |
Power Specialty Company |
Das Papier Earnest Fosters "Superheated Steam" über die Entwicklung und Verwendung von Überhitzern in Europa wird im Herbst der "Engine Builder's Association" vorgelegt und am 15. Dezember in der Zeitschrift "The Engineer" veröffentlicht |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
1903 |
Sterling Engine Co. |
Gründung |
| Burnham (Pennsylvania) |
1903 |
Standard Steel Works Co. |
Bau einer Federnfabrik mit den neuesten und bewährtesten Maschinen |
| Burnham (Pennsylvania) |
1903 |
Standard Steel Works Co. |
Bau von zwei großen Eisengießereien zur Herstellung von verschiedenen Gußwaren |
| Connellsville (USA) |
1903 |
Boyts, Porter & Co. |
Auszeichnung durch eine Ehrenmedaille und ein Verdienstdiplom auf der Columbianischen Ausstellung |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
1903 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Bau der 22.000sten Lokomotive |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
1903 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Bau der ersten Lokomotive der Santa Fe-Type (Achsfolge 1'E1') für die "Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway". - Es wird noch rd. zehn Jahre dauern, bis sich diese Bauart durchsetzt |
| Franklin (Venango, Pa.) |
1903 |
Alfred Preiz Schmucker |
U.S.-Patent Nr. 25.832 auf eine "Verbesserte Dampfmaschine mit Drehbewegung" |
| Ilion (USA) |
1903 |
E. Remington & Sons |
Annahme des Namens "Remington Typewriter Company" (oder 1913) |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
1903 |
C. A. Woolsey Paint and Color Company |
Reorganisation |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
1903 |
Everett & Malone |
Tod von John Malone, und sein Sohn James C. Malone übernimmt seinen Anteil unter der Firma "Everett & Malone". |
| Manhattan (New York) |
1903 |
Metropolitan Street Railway Company |
Es werden 15 Meilen Gleis mit unterirdischer Stromzuführung gebaut |
| Menlo Park (N.J.) |
1903 |
Edison, Thomas Alpha |
Um das Weihnachtsgeschäft anzukurbeln tut sich Ludwig Stollwerck in Köln mit dem Phonographen-Erfinder Th. A. Edison zusammen. Ergebnis: ein Gerät ("Sprechende Schokolade"), auf dem sich Schokoladen-Schallplatten abspielen lassen. |
| New York City |
1903 |
Interborough Rapid Transit Company |
Die "Power Specialty Co." installiert Überhitzer im Kraftwerk der Gesellschaft |
| New York City |
1903 |
Metropolitan Street Railway Company |
Es werden 15 Meilen Gleis mit unterirdischer Stromzuführung gebaut |
| New York City |
1903 |
Power Specialty Company |
Foster installiert Überhitzer im Kraftwerk der "Interboro Rapid Transit Co." |
| New York City |
1903 |
Remington Typewriter Company |
Annahme des Namens "Remington Typewriter Company" |
| New York City |
1903 |
The Folmer & Schwing Mfg. Co. |
Umbenennung in "Folmer & Schwing Mfg. Co. of New York" |
| New York City |
1903 |
The Singer Manufacturing Company |
Es werden weltweit 1,35 Millionen Nähmaschinen verkauft. |
| New York City |
1903 |
Underwood Typewriter Co. |
Auszeichnung durch den Grand Prix in Limoges |
| New York City |
1903 |
Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict |
Der gemeinsame Name "Remington Typewriter Co." wird angenommen |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1903 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Bau der 22.000sten Lokomotive |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1903 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Bau der ersten Lokomotive der Santa Fe-Type (Achsfolge 1'E1') für die "Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway". - Es wird noch rd. zehn Jahre dauern, bis sich diese Bauart durchsetzt |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1903 |
Haas, Otto |
Otto Haas lernt den bei der Stuttgarter Gasanstalt angestellten hoffnungsvollen Chemiker Otto Röhm kennen; eine Begegnung mit einschneidenden Folgen. Zwar geht Haas zunächst für die Firma Siegle in die USA |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1903 |
Philadelphia Scale und Testing Machine Works, Riehlé Bros. |
Eintragung unter der Firma "Riehlé Bros. Testing Machine Co." |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1903 |
Philadelphia Water Works, Belmont Pumping Station |
Aufstellung von zwei dampfbetriebenen Zentrifugalpumpen in der Filteranlage für die Sandwäsche der Vorfilter. Leistung: 5 Millionen Gallonen, Druckhöhe: 45 Fuß |
| Phillipsburg (N.J.) |
1903 |
Tippett & Wood |
Ende der Amtszeit von J. W. Wood als Präsident |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1903 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Chas. E. Dinkey wird Assistent des General-Superintendent |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1903 |
Diescher, Samuel |
Bau der Kohlenwaschanlage der "Penn Gass Coal Co.", Irwin |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1903 |
Diescher, Samuel |
Bau der Kohlenwaschanlage der "Valley Falls Coal and Coke Co.", Valley Falls, W.Va. |
| Rochester (N.Y.) |
1903 |
Junius Judson & Son |
Tod von John Lee Judson und Übernahme der Firma durch Junius Judson II. Letzterer tritt auch in das Direktorium der "Rochester Gas & Electricty Company" ein. - Junius II ist Rechtsanwalt und überläßt das Tagesgeschäft der Judson Steam Governor Company Frank Collinan bis zur dessen Rücktritt 1941. |
| Rochester (N.Y.) |
1903 |
Rochester Optical & Camera Co. |
Kauf durch George Eastman |
| Rochester (N.Y.) |
1903 |
Rochester Optical & Camera Co. |
Verkürzung in "Rochester Optical Co." |
| Rochester (N.Y.) |
1903 |
Rochester Optical Co. |
Verkürzung aus "Rochester Optical & Camera Co." |
| Sayre (Penns.) |
1903 |
Cayuta Wheel and Foundry Company |
Verschmelzung mit anderen Eisenbahnräder-Herstellern im Osten der USA zur "National Car Wheel Company" |
| Schenectady (USA) |
1903 |
American Locomotive Company |
Alco baut Pacific-Lokomotiven für die New York Central Railroad (Class Kg) mit 200 psi = 14 atm Dampfdruck, 75" = 1905 mm Treibraddurchmesser und Zylindern mit 22" x 28" = 559 x 711 mm. Es ist die erste Anwendung des von Francis J. Cole entwickelten führenden Drehgestells. Cole ist einer der einflußreichsten Ingenieure bei Alco. |
| Watertown (N.Y.) |
1903 |
The New York Air Brake Co. |
Die Gießerei geht als erster Teil der neuen Fabrik in Betrieb. |
| Princeton (New Jersey) |
06.01.1903 |
Einstein, Albert |
Einstein heiratet gegen die Einwände ihrer Familien Mileva Mariç, eine Mitschülerin am Polytechnikum. Das Paar hat zwei Söhne, läßt sich jedoch später wieder scheiden; Einstein heiratet nochmals. |
| Longfellow (Pennsylvania) |
26.01.1903 |
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A fatal rear-end collision occurred last night at 10:30 o'clock, at Longfellow, sixty-two miles east of Altoona.
Extra 1965 ran into the Mifflin wreck train, which was loaded with the wreck crew, and C. A. Fasick, one of the wreckers, was so badly injured that he died at 2:25 o'clock this morning in the hospital at Mifflin.
S. W. Hoffman, foreman of the 1965, was seriously injured, among other hurts being a broken jaw.
The wreck train had stopped at Longfellow to take water, and while it was standing at the plug the freight train ran into it. The blame has not yet been placed by the companyâ??s officials.
The one engine and several cars were smashed up, the debris being scattered over the tracks, blocking them and delaying both the freight and passenger movement.
Hoffman is aged 35 tears, is married and his home is in Patterson. Fasick's home is at Mifflin. |
| Syracuse (N.Y.) |
27.01.1903 |
L. C. Smith & Bros. Typewriter Co. |
Bekanntmachung der Organisation der L. C. Smith & Bros. |
| Kenilworth (New Jersey) |
28.01.1903 |
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Up to noon today the total loss of life by last night's train wreck on the Central railroad of New Jersey, at Graceland, N. J., was believed to be 23. Of these 13 bodies had been identified and 10 were held at Plainfield for identification. From the wreckage 21 bodies were taken, and two men, W. E. DAVIS, engineer of the Reading express, and THOMAS McCARTHY, fireman, died in a hospital today. More than 50 persons were injured, some of them very severely. The hospital reports today, however, that with perhaps one or two exceptions, all will recover.
The blame for the accident is placed by the railroad officials on Engineer Davis of the Philadelphia & Reading express. |
| Latrobe (Pennsylvania) |
11.02.1903 |
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Charles Henry of Indians, a fireman on the Pennsylvania Railroad attempted to board a rapidly moving train at Latrobe station yesterday and was dragged to Alexandria street where he lodged in the bridge and was struck by every car of the entire train in passing. He died on the way to a hospital. |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
15.02.1903 |
Kiernan-Hughes Company |
Gründung (Eintragung) |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
16.02.1903 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Hochofen "J" (90'10" hoch) wird angeblasen. |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
16.02.1903 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Hochofen "J" erhält einen elektrischen Gichtaufzug mit Kippvorrichtung. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
16.02.1903 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Hochofen "J" wird angeblasen. Er erhält als achter und letzter einen elektrisch betriebenen Kippaufzug für die Begichtung. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
16.02.1903 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Hochofen "J" (90'10" hoch) wird angeblasen. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
16.02.1903 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Hochofen "J" erhält einen elektrischen Gichtaufzug mit Kippvorrichtung. |
| Hoboken (N.J.) |
11.03.1903 |
W. & A. Fletcher, North River Iron Works |
Streik von ca. 150 Kesselschmieden und Schiffsbauern |
| Trenton (New Jersey) |
12.03.1903 |
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Charles Cyphers a fireman for the Central Railroad of New Jersey had his shoulder blade broken in falling through the bridge here a few days ago The injured man was removed to the Easton hospital. |
| Olean (N.Y.) |
13.03.1903 |
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Fifteen were killed and forty persons were burned or bruised by an explosion of oil following a wreck of the Erie Railroad north of this city. Some of the bodies were incinerated and some were blown into the creek by the explosion.
It was about 9 o'clock p. m. when an Erie freight train west-bound broke in two on the hill two miles north of the city. At first the forward part of the train sprang forward with increased speed. Brakes were applied and the front portion was brought almost to a standstill at the iron bridge across Olean Creek. The rear cars, gathering momentum as they came down the hill, crashed into the front end of the train. Most of the cars were tank cars filled with refined oil or gasoline. One of the tanks caught fire soon after the collision. |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
31.03.1903 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Unfall am Hochofen "I": Der Hochofen "rutscht", und der Staubsammler bläst aus. Neun Tote und fünf Schwerverletzte |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
31.03.1903 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Unfall am Hochofen "I". Der Hochofen rutscht, und der Staubsammler bläst aus. Neun Personen werden getötet und fünf schwer verletzt. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
31.03.1903 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Unfall am Hochofen "I": Der Hochofen "rutscht", und der Staubsammler bläst aus. Neun Tote und fünf Schwerverletzte |
| New York City |
01.04.1903 |
Interborough Rapid Transit Company |
Die IRT pachtet die schon existierende Hochbahn "Manhattan Railway" und hat somit ein Monopol für den Schnellverkehr in Manhattan |
| New York City |
20.04.1903 |
Schneider, Charles Conrad |
Ende der Amtszeit von Charles Conrad Schneider als Direktor und Vizepräsidenten der "American Bridge Company". Er ist danach asls beratender Ingenieur für die Gesellschaft tätig |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
20.04.1903 |
American Bridge Company |
Ende der Amtszeit von Charles Conrad Schneider als Direktor und Vizepräsidenten der "American Bridge Company". Er ist danach asls beratender Ingenieur für die Gesellschaft tätig |
| New York City |
1903 |
Schneider, Charles Conrad |
Charles Conrad Schneider und Theodore Cooper erhalten von der Japanischen Staatsbahn den Auftrag zur Erstellung von Standard-Plänen für Brücken |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
01.06.1903 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Chas. E. Dinkey wird Nachfolger von Thomas Morrison. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
01.06.1903 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Chas. E. Dinkey wird Nachfolger von Thomas Morrison im mittlerweile zur "United States Steel Corporation" gehörenden Werk. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
01.06.1903 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Chas. E. Dinkey wird Nachfolger von Thomas Morrison. |
| Orange (N.J.) |
Juli 1903 |
Edison Manufacturing Company |
Beginn eines Rechtsstreits mit der "Battery Supplies Company" wegen Patentverletzung |
| Portage (Pennsylvania) |
28.07.1903 |
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The Collision Occurred Half Mile West of Portage Early This Morning. Fireman Ramsey, of Altoona, Has Toes Crushed. Tie On Wire Held Down Distance Signal, and Engineer Fleck Thought He Had Clear Block. Express Train Was Composed of Six Carloads of Thoroughbreds.
The sixth section of train 19, on the Pennsylvania, ran into the rear end of a freight train half a mile west of Portage this morning at 7:30 o'clock, wrecking ten cars of the freight and the engine of 19. One man was injured â?? Fireman J. R. RAMSEY, aged 27, of 1307 Sixteenth street, this city. His left foot was caught by a wheel after the run-in, crushing his great, second and third toes so badly that the great toe will have to be amputated and the two others will lose their ends. He also sustained a slight laceration of the scalp.
Train 19 was composed of six cars of horses. It was being hauled west by Engineer W. L. FLECK, aged 42, of 1311 Seventeenth street, and was in charge of conductor GOODMAN, of Pittsburg.
The freight train was being hauled by engine 1830, and was composed ob sixty empty cars. The freight had been stopped by a train ahead.
Evidently the man in the tower at Portage had set the block signal right, but it showed up white.
Investigation afterwards revealed the fact that the distance signal was held by a railroad tie, which had been thrown on the wire last night, when it was unloaded with a lot of other ties along the track.
Engineer FLECK, when he saw the white block, supposed he had a clear track. When he came upon the freight train there was little time to stop, and the collision resulted, although train 19 was almost stopped when the crash came.
The engine of 19 was hurled to the side of the track, and the front part went over the bank, the end of the tender remaining on the rails. |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
08.1903 |
Conrad Motor Carriage Co. |
Die Firma geht in Konkurs |
| Newton (New Jersey) |
08.1903 |
H. W. Merriam Shoe Company |
Ein Sturm zerstört den eisernen Fabrikschornstein von 1894 teilweise. |
| Rouses Point (USA) |
01.08.1903 |
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One of the worst freight wrecks in years in Northern New York occurred at Coopersville, between this city and Rouse's Point, N. Y., on the Delaware and Hudson Railroad, to-day when a freight train plunged at full speed through an open draw, killing the fireman, Ed Braw, and seriously injuring Homer Elliott, the engineer, both of Whitehall, N. Y.
The drawbridge spanning the Chazy Fiver[sic] at Coopersville was being closed after having been opened to allow a steam yacht owned by James Averill, Jr., President of the First National Bank of Champlain, N. Y., to pass through, and was being closed when the freight train came in sight. Before the draw could be completely closed the engine crashed into it, hurling the drawbridge into the river, bottom upward. Eight of the twelve cars that plunged into the river were loaded with livestock, calves, cows, and sheep, and the bellowing of the dying animals could be heard for miles.
Wrecking crews were sent from here and from Rouse's Point. It will take three days or more before the wreck can be cleared up and a temporary bridge erected. In the meantime all trains are running over the Rutland Road to Moore's Junction and from there to this city over a branch of the Delaware and Hudson Road.
The Delaware and Hudson officials were straining every nerve to complete the job of changing the gauge on the Adirondack Branch, from Lyon Mountain to Lake Placid, to-morrow from narrow to standard gauge, and this wreck, coming just at this time, causes serious inconvenience. |
| Beaver Falls (Penns.) |
09.1903 |
Keystone Driller Company |
Das Patent Nr. 785.352 auf ein Ölquellen-Bohrgerät wird eingereicht |
| Manhattan (New York) |
Sept. 1903 |
Metropolitan Street Railway Company |
Einstellung des Versuchs mit Chlorid-Akkumulatorenbetrieb auf der 34th Street-Linie nach häufigen Fehlern, Unannehmlichkeiten durch ausgasende Batterien und hohe Betriebskosten. Die Strecke wird auf Betrieb mit unterirdischer Stromzuführung umgestellt, und der Verkehr steigt in einem solchen Maße, daß sich die Verbesserung rechtfertigt. |
| New York City |
Sept. 1903 |
Metropolitan Street Railway Company |
Einstellung des Versuchs mit Chlorid-Akkumulatorenbetrieb auf der 34th Street-Linie nach häufigen Fehlern, Unannehmlichkeiten durch ausgasende Batterien und hohe Betriebskosten. Die Strecke wird auf Betrieb mit unterirdischer Stromzuführung umgestellt, und der Verkehr steigt in einem solchen Maße, daß sich die Verbesserung rechtfertigt. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
03.09.1903 |
Philadelphia Water Works, Belmont Pumping Station |
Das erste Wasser wird in die Filteranlage gepumpt. |
| New York City |
Herbst 1903 |
General 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." |
| New Arlington (New Jersey) |
30.09.1903 |
John Schuyler |
Der Besitz der Mine, der 93 acres beträgt wird am 30. September zugunsten der Gläubiger und Obligationsinhaber auf einer Auktion verkauft. Der Käufer ist James E. Pope aus New York. |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
Spätjahr 1903 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Bau der 23.000sten Lokomotive |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
Spätjahr 1903 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Bau der 23.000sten Lokomotive |
| Schenectady (USA) |
15.10.1903 |
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Zerstörung (Verschiebung) der Eisenbahn- und Straßenbrücke über den Mohawk-Fluß durch Verschiebung des Strompfeilers infolge Hochwasser bei Schenectady |
| Somerset (New Jersey) |
23.10.1903 |
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Men Employed to Repair Flood Damage on Pennsylvania Railroad Maimed and Mangled on Their Way to Work â?? Sixteen Lives Instantly Crushed Out and Nearly Two Score Persons Badly Hurt.
The lives of sixteen men were snuffed out in the twinkling of an eye near Summerset [sic] by a rear end collision of work trains on the Belvidere division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. One unfortunate fellow survived his injuries a few hours and expired in St. Francis' Hospital, this city. Besides the dead thirty-five are injured. All of he killed and injured were track laborers, nearly all of them Italians, and identifications have been difficult.
The repair train which was wrecked consisted of two passenger coaches. In which were crowded more than a hundred laborers, a derrick car and a flat car. It was at Washington's Crossing awaiting orders for passing a south-bound train. Running behind it was a gravel train that left this city about 7 o'clock a. m. There was a drizzling rain which obscured the vision of Engineer AUGUST CONNOR, of the gravel train, which was running at fair speed. It is said that he had not been notified of the stopping of the repair train. He failed to see it in time to even slow down, and his engine crashed through the flat car and the derrick car and telescoped the passenger coaches with their living freight. |
| Orange (N.J.) |
26.10.1903 |
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Several people were injured -- none dangerously, however, as by a miracle -- in a railroad smashup that occurred in the Orange station of the Lackawanna Railroad this morning at 8:30 o'clock just as the rush of commuters to the metropolis was at its height. The swift Passaic and Delaware Express crashed into the Hackettstown local train as it was moving out of the station. The rear train was the same that hit the trolley car full of school children at the Clifton Avenue crossing in Newark last February. |
| Newton (New Jersey) |
11.1903 |
H. W. Merriam Shoe Company |
Fertigstellung eines neuen, massiven Fabrikschornsteins mit 90' Höhe |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
03.11.1903 |
Gordon, Strobel & Laureau, Ltd. |
Patentstreit mit der "Carnegie Steel Co." wegen des Patents Nr. 358.604 (Schutz der Ausmauerung von Hochöfen durch Wasserkühlung) |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
03.11.1903 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Patentstreit mit "Gordon, Strobel & Laureau", Philadelphia, wegen deren Patent Nr. 358.604 (Schutz der Ausmauerung von Hochöfen durch Wasserkühlung) |
| New York City |
09.11.1903 |
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Eight persons were more or less hurt in a collision of trolley cars at the crossing of Fifth Avenue, Broadway, and Twenty-third Street, at 10:30 o'clock yesterday morning.
The accident seems to have been due to a misunderstanding by the motormen of the signals of the men who with red and white flags in the day time and similar colored lanterns at night preserve safety and prevent confusion at the corner. A cross-town car, bound east, in charge of Motorman Myer Markowitz, and crowded with women, stopped on the down-town tracks of the Broadway line. Martin Kane, the motorman of a Broadway car had been signaled to go ahead. Wishing to clear the cross-town tracks he put on power and shut it off at once, seeing the crowded car just ahead of him. He applied the brakes, but a watering cart had just passed and the car slid so that it hit the one in its way, throwing many of the passengers from their feet. The windows of the colliding cars were smashed and the glass cut several of the passengers.
Policeman Purcell of the West Thirtieth-Street Station, on duty there, aided by other policemen in the neighborhood, succeeded in getting the wounded passengers out of the cars. Two ambulances arrived from the New York Hospital. The doctors found that it was necessary to take Lydia Miller of 9 West Twenty-first Street, and Albert Blackwell of 372 Pulaski Street, Brooklyn, to the hospital. Both, were suffering from shock and cuts from the broken glass. Later in the day they were sent to their homes.
Edwin Des Monireaux and his wife were bruised, but refused medical attention and went to their home, 9 West Twenty-first Street. Mrs. J. Duncan of 157 East Fifty-fifth Street, John Entwiste of 578 West One Hundred and Eighty-third Street, Mrs. Margaret Meade of Mount Vernon, and Henry Kegeler of 328 East Twenty-seventh Street, suffered slight cuts and bruises, and after treatment by the ambulance surgeons went to their homes. |
| New York City |
17.11.1903 |
Power Specialty Company |
Erteilung des Patents für den "Foster Patent Superheater" |
| New York City |
21.11.1903 |
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Theory That Brooklyn Motorman Was Stricken at His Post.
Red Lights on Rear of Stalled Train Were Plainly Visible, Signalman Says - Probable Cause of the Fire.
The theory that Motorman Cahill of the Bay Ridge train, which ran into another train on the Fifth Avenue Elevated Railroad in Brooklyn on Thursday night, fell dead at his post from heart disease or apoplexy a moment or two before the collision occurred was advanced yesterday in efforts to explain the cause of the accident. This peculiar idea was suggested in view of certain circumstances of the fatal wreck.
There is a signal tower at Thirty-sixth Street, a few blocks from where the accident happened, and the signalman who was on duty there at the time says that he distinctly saw the red lights on the rear of the stalled train. It is claimed that the mechanism of the Bay Ridge train was in proper working order, as it had been tested before the train left the Sixty-fifth Street terminal on the fatal trip. Motorman Cahill was an old employe of the road, and was considered one of the most experienced and careful motor car operators in the company's service. |
| Syracuse (N.Y.) |
10.12.1903 |
L. C. Smith & Bros. Typewriter Co. |
Das Fabrikgebäude in der East Washington Street wird bezogen |
| Laurel Run (Pennsylvania) |
23.12.1903 |
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One of the worst wrecks in the history of the Balitmore and Ohio Railroad occurred at 7:45 o'clock to-night at Laurel Run, eight miles west of Connellsville, on the Pittsburg Division of the Baltimore and Ohio. The "Duquesne Limited," the fasted train on the road, was wrecked, killing sixty outright, fatally injuring eighteen, and slightly injuring more than fifty.
The wreck was caused by the breaking of the casings on a carload of bridge timbers on a freight train that passed Laurel Run not more than fifteen minutes before the arrival of the limited. The freight proceeded without noticing the accident, and the express train, running at a speed of more than sixty miles and hour, crashed into the timbers before the engineer even had time to apply the emergency brakes.
The baggage car was thrown over the embankment into the Youghiogheny River, and the smoker, which contained more than forty passengers, was thrown over the engine. The steam dome of the engine was broken, and the escaping steam and water filled the car, scalding the passengers. |
| Erie (Pa.) |
29.12.1903 |
Skinner Engine Company |
Dampfmaschinenpatent |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
1903 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
In diesem Jahr werden 2022 Lokomotiven gebaut |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1903 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
In diesem Jahr werden 2022 Lokomotiven gebaut |
| Berwick (Penn.) |
1904 |
Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Co. |
ACF Berwick liefert die ersten Ganzstahl-Wagen an die U-Bahn in New York |
| Bethlehem (Penns) |
1904 |
Bethlehem Steel Corporation |
Chales M. Schwab, einer der Haupt-Kommissare von Andrew Carnegie, organisiert die Bethlehem Steel Co. und übernimmt ihre Leitung als Präsident und Ratsvorsitzender. |
| Brooklyn (New York) |
1904 |
James H. Williams, Drop Forging |
Tod von James H. Williams |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
1904 |
Parker Machine Company |
Gründung, um das Kidder-Schreibmaschinenmodell ("Noiseless") frabrikationsreif zu machen |
| Burnham (Pennsylvania) |
1904 |
Standard Steel Works Co. |
Beginn der Herstellung von "Standard" aus einem Stück gewalzten und geschmiedeten Stahlrädern beginnt. Das ist die Einführung dieses Rad-Typs in Amerika. Es ersetzt das gegossene und gehärtete Rad, das sich für den modernen Eisenbahnbetrieb als ungeeignet erweist. |
| Danville (Pennsylvania) |
1904 |
State Hospital for Insane |
Bau eines Toilettengebäudes |
| East Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh) |
1904 |
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. |
Das Hauptwerk in Pittsburgh hat 9.000 Mitarbeiter, und in Zweigwerken sind weitere 3.000 beschäftigt. |
| East Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh) |
1904 |
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. |
Erwerbung der "Bryant Electric", Hersteller von Installationsmaterial wie Schalter und Fassungen |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
1904 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Baldwin baut 16 Tenderlokomotiven für die "Imperial Goverment Railways" in Japan mit der Achsfolge C1'. - Im folgenden Jahr werden 150 Lokomotiven dieses Typs gebaut |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
1904 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Bau der 24.000sten Lokomotive |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
1904 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Es werden drei Mallet-Verbundlokomotiven für Meterspur für die "American Railroad" in Puerto Rico gebaut: Achsfolge C'C, D= 37" = 940 mm. Es sind die ersten Mallet-Loks, die bei Baldwin gebaut werden |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
1904 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Grafton Greenough wird übernimmt die Leitung des Verkaufsbüros in St. Louis, später die Verkaufsorganisation in Philadelphia als General-Verkaufsleiter |
| Elizabeth (N.J.) |
1904 |
Elizabethtown Water Company |
Kauf der "Somerville Water Company" |
| Elmira (N.Y.) |
1904 |
B. W. Payne & Sons |
Bis 1904 Produktion, bis die Arbeitskämpfe beginnen |
| Jackson (McAlevys Fort) |
1904 |
Greenwood Furnaces |
Das Werk geht außer Betrieb. |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
1904 |
Atlantic Chemical Company |
Eintragung |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
1904 |
Brunswick Laundry |
Eingetragen unter den Gesetzen des Staates New Jersey mit William Siemenski als Präsident und Henry Siemenski als
Sekretär, Finanzleiter und Hauptbetriebsleiter, mit einem genehmigten Kapital von $75.000. |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
1904 |
Dairymen's Manufacturing Company |
Bau einer fünfgeschossigen Fabrik in Ziegelbauweise mit 35.000 square feet Grundfläche |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
1904 |
Truslow & Fulle |
Verlegung an die Washington und Morgan Streets |
| Lockport (New York) |
1904 |
Holly Manufacturing Co. |
Der Gebäudekomplex der Holly Company in Lockport brennt ab. Da das Unternehmen jedoch eine Fabrik in Buffalo besitzt, wird die Produktion dort fortgesetzt. |
| Manhattan (New York) |
1904 |
Kingsbridge Power Station |
Fertigstellung. Das Werk ist 1902 mit acht Westinghouse-Maschinensätzen zu je 4500 PS angegeben. |
| McAlevys Fort (USA) |
1904 |
Greenwood Furnaces |
Das Werk geht außer Betrieb. |
| New Jersey |
1904 |
American Car and Foundry Co. |
Das Werk Berwick liefert die ersten Ganzstahl-Wagen an die U-Bahn in New York |
| New York (Brooklyn) |
1904 |
James H. Williams, Drop Forging |
Tod von James H. Williams |
| New York City |
1904/05 |
Babcock & Wilcox Co. |
Auszeichnung durch eine goldene Medaille auf der Industrie- und Ackerbau-Ausstellung in Bombay |
| New York City |
1904 |
Goldschmidt Thermit Co. |
Für die globale Verbreitung des Thermit-Verfahrens gründet Goldschmidt in New York die Tochtergesellschaft "Goldschmidt Thermit Co." |
| New York City |
1904 |
Kingsbridge Power Station |
Fertigstellung. Das Werk ist 1902 mit acht Westinghouse-Maschinensätzen zu je 4500 PS angegeben. |
| New York City |
1904 |
Postal Typewriter Co. |
Verlegung der Firma nach Norwalk, Conn. |
| New York City |
1904 |
Postal Typewriter Co. |
Verlegung der Firma von New York |
| New York City |
1904 - 1911 |
Schneider, Charles Conrad |
Ch. C. Schneider wird Vorsitzender des Committee on Concrete and Reinforced Concrete |
| New York City |
1904 |
Smith & Mabley Simplex |
Beginn des Automobilbaues, indem er Luxuswagen im europäischen Stil baut, um die 1904 erhobene Einfuhrsteuer zu umgehen |
| New York City |
1904 |
Sprague, Frank Julian |
Sprague erhält den Großen Preis auf der St. Louis Exhibition |
| New York City |
1904 |
The Postal Typewriter Company |
Verlegung der Firma von New York |
| New York City |
1904 |
The Singer Manufacturing Company |
Die "Singer Sewing Machine Company" wird die Handels- und Vertriebsorganisation der "Singer Manufacturing Company". |
| New York City |
1904 |
The Singer Manufacturing Company |
Eröffnung einer neuen Singer-Nähmaschinenfabrik in Wittenberge |
| New York City |
1904 |
Underwood Typewriter Co. |
Auszeichnung durch den einzigen Grand Prix auf der Weltausstellung in St. Louis |
| New York City |
1904 |
Vanderbilt, William Kissam |
William Kissam Vanderbilt (II) gründet den "Vanderbilt Cup", den ersten größeren Preis im amerikanischen Autorennen |
| Paterson (N.J.) |
1904/05 |
Rogers Locomotive Company |
Die "American Locomotive Co." erwirbt fast die gesamten Aktien |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1904 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Baldwin baut 16 Tenderlokomotiven für die "Imperial Goverment Railways" in Japan mit der Achsfolge C1'. - Im folgenden Jahr werden 150 Lokomotiven dieses Typs gebaut |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1904 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Bau der 24.000sten Lokomotive |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1904 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Es werden drei Mallet-Verbundlokomotiven für Meterspur für die "American Railroad" in Puerto Rico gebaut: Achsfolge C'C, D= 37" = 940 mm. Es sind die ersten Mallet-Loks, die bei Baldwin gebaut werden |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1904 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Grafton Greenough wird übernimmt die Leitung des Verkaufsbüros in St. Louis, später die Verkaufsorganisation in Philadelphia als General-Verkaufsleiter |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1904-1906 |
Fairmount Water Works |
Es werden $25.000 für Reparaturen am Damm aufgewendet. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1904 |
Philadelphia Water Works, Belmont Pumping Station |
Umbau der alten Pumpen No. 1 - 4 auf kleinere Plungerdurchmesser, da die Druckhöhe in das neue Belmont Reservoir ca. 67 feet größer ist als in das bisherige George's Hill-Reservoir. Deren Fördermengen reduzieren sich daher auf 4,5 (Pumpen No. 1 und 2) bzw. 6,5 bzw. 17 Millionen Gallonen/Tag. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1904 |
Brashear, John Alfred |
Brashear ist bis 1904 Kanzler der "Western University of Pennsylvania" in Pittsburgh. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1904-1905 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
James Gayley ist Präsident des "American Institute of Mining Engineers" |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1904 |
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. |
Das Hauptwerk in Pittsburgh hat 9.000 Mitarbeiter, und in Zweigwerken sind weitere 3.000 beschäftigt. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1904 |
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. |
Erwerbung der "Bryant Electric", Hersteller von Installationsmaterial wie Schalter und Fassungen |
| Princeton (New Jersey) |
1904 |
Einstein, Albert |
Diskussion der Idee der Speziellen Relativitätstheorie mit Arbeitskollegen Michele Angelo Besso und Joseph Sautter. |
| Reading (Pennsylvania) |
1904 |
A. H. Yokum & Company |
Beginn der Herstellung von "Speed-well"-Fahrzeugmotoren |
| Red Hook (Brooklyn) |
1904 |
James H. Williams, Drop Forging |
Tod von James H. Williams |
| Schenectady (USA) |
1904 |
American Locomotive Company |
Die von Carl J. Mellin konstruierte "größte Lokomotive der Welt" wird auf der Weltausstellung in St. Louis ausgestellt |
| Schenectady (USA) |
1904 |
American Locomotive Company |
Übernahme der Kontrolle über die "Locomotive & Machine Company of Montreal Ltd." |
| Schenectady (USA) |
1904/05 |
American Locomotive Company |
Alco erwirbt fast die gesamten Aktien der "Rogers Locomotiv Works" in Paterson |
| South Bethlehem (Bethlehem) |
1904 |
Bethlehem Steel Corporation |
Chales M. Schwab, einer der Haupt-Kommissare von Andrew Carnegie, organisiert die Bethlehem Steel Co. und übernimmt ihre Leitung als Präsident und Ratsvorsitzender. |
| Spring Garden (Philadelphia) |
1904-1906 |
Fairmount Water Works |
Es werden $25.000 für Reparaturen am Damm aufgewendet. |
| Syracuse (N.Y.) |
1904 |
The Monarch Typewriter Company |
Die Scheibmaschinen erscheint |
| Waynesboro (Pa.) |
1904 |
Frick Company Inc. |
A. O. Frick, Sohn von George Frick, wird Präsident der Firma |
| New York City |
08.01.1904 |
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Three were killed and many injured in a rear-end collision on the Kings County Eelevated [sic] Railroad in Brooklyn yesterday morning. The colliding cars caught fire, and others were hurt in the panic which ensued.
A four-car train of the Fulton Street Division drawn by a steam locomotive pulled out of the East New York yard at Alabama and Pitkins Avenues yesterday morning at 7:20, bound for Manhattan. A few moments after it had reached the main line of the elevated tracks the steam coupling apparatus between the locomotive and the first car became disarranged and the train stopped. Three minutes later, while repairs were being made, a five-car motor train of the City Line Division, carrying about 300 passengers bound for Manhattan, crashed into the rear car of the steam train, which carried no passengers.
The motor train was running at the rate of eleven miles an hour, and the result of the sudden and violent impact was the death of three men. About twenty were injured. |
| Hancock (New York) |
11.01.1904 |
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The second section of the Chicago and New York limited express, on the Erie Railroad, was plunged into the Delaware River just west of this place at 2:50 this afternoon. The train was four and a half hours behind schedule time, and was going at a high rate of speed, when it struck a sharp curve and a broken rail, which threw the whole train, except the engine and the combination coach, down a fifteen-foot embankment and into the icy waters of the Delaware.
Only forty passengers were on the train. None was killed outright, although fifteen persons were injured, four of whom are porters or dining cars cooks. The train was in charge of Conductor Robert H. Barnes of Binghamton and Engineer George Werth of Susquehanna, who both escaped injury. |
| Rankin (Pennsylvania) |
27.01.1904 |
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An east-bound car on the Rankin and Swissvale branch of the Pittsburg Railways company jumped the track at Third street and Kenmawr avenue, Rankin. It plunged over a 25-foot embankment, and in the resulting wreck 20 of the 23 passengers were injured. An official statement issued by the company puts the number of passengers at not more than 19 and the number of injured at 15. Medical attention was rendered, however, to the larger number.
Three of the injured may die. All of these were employes of the company: SAMUEL CALLAHAN, a motorman; P. C. STARKEY, a conductor; and JOHN FRAZIER, a conductor.
The car left the track at a sharp curve. The rails were slippery from the rain, and although a safety stop is always made just before cars reach the curve the brakes refused to work last night. The result was that car 1057 hit the curve at a much higher rate of speed than it had been running a moment before.
When the car left the track it leaped to the curbstone, a distance of about 10 feet, tore down a fence surmounting the stone wall along Kenmawr avenue, plunged over the wall and down the 25-foot embankment. |
| Altoona (Pa.) |
29.01.1904 |
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Patrick Hughes, one of the oldest engineers in point of service in the employ of the Pennsylvania railroad in this city, was killed at 12:05 this afternoon in the yard at Fourth street. He lived but a few minutes after the accident, the blame for which is yet undetermined.
Mr. Hughes, who was 63 years old, and lived at 1703 Third avenue, was running engine No. 1507 down the yard at the time mentioned and had a straight track ahead. At Fourth street a car had been shifted on a switch for the Hoster Brewing company, but had not entirely cleared the switch. Hughesâ?? engine, which was drawing several freight cars, die not keep the track, but picked the switch and crashed into the rear of the car.
The end of the car and the forepart of the engine were demolished. Mr. Hughes was thrown from his cab against the sharp picket fence, adjoining the track, and his skull was fractured. The back of his head was crushed and he never recovered consciousness, dying a few minutes after the accident.
Brakemen Smith and Lindemuth were on the engine, and while the former escaped injury the latter suffered several severe lacerations which he had dressed at home.
The remains were turned over to Undertaker Thomas J. Lynch for interment. The dead man is survived by a wife, three sons and one daughter.
The funeral arrangements have not yet been determined. |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
Febr. 1904 |
Vanderbeek & Sons |
Tod von William E. Pearson |
| New York City |
Febr. 1904 |
General Electric Company |
Die AEG-Generalversammlung stimmt der Fusion mit der UEG zu. Durch die Fusion mit der AEG kann diese nun auch auf GE-Patente zurückgreifen und zu dem amerikanischen Konzern mit eigenen Entwicklungen in Konkurrenz treten, wodurch die Interessen von GE auf das äußerste gefährdet sind. |
| Sonestown (USA) |
05.02.1904 |
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A wreck in which two railroaders lost their lives occurred on the Eagle's Mere railroad, a mile above Sonestown about 5:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The dead are G. T. SIMMONS, the engineer, who was aged about 32 years was married and leaves a wife and one child at Sonestown, and CHARLES DARLING, the fireman, aged about 35 years, who also lived at Sonestown, and leaves a wife and several children. No one else was hurt. It was a mixed, or accommodation train known as No. 3, and had started from Sonestown for Eagle's Mere about 5:15 o'clock. The train is made up of passenger and flat cars. On reaching the old splash dam used some years ago by the Lyon Lumber company a mile above Sonestown the engine for some unaccountable reason suddenly left the rails and rolled about thirty feet down the bank. The Williamsport and North Branch officers at Hughesville stated last night that the acacident was unaccountable, as they could discover nothing about the wreck that would account for it. It was just one of those accidents that no one can tell how they happen. The rails were not broken or the track damaged. |
| Braddock (Pennsylvania) |
06.02.1904 |
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While crossing the Pennsylvania railroad tracks at Braddock, FREDERICK BACON, aged 58 years and HENRY MITCHELL, aged 48 years, were struck by an engine and instantly killed The men were going in the opposite directions Bacon hurrying to catch the train that Mitchell had just left and they collided in front of a rapidly moving freight engine running light. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
20.02.1904 |
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A blazing Larimer avenue electric car with all brakes off and carrying twenty passengers raced madly down Fifth avenue early today from Grant almost to Market street. For fifteen minutes after the car came to a stop, it blazed like a furnace. Four of the passengers were seriously hurt. They are: John Jones, and Dorothy Greenup, internally injured, unconscious and may die, Stanly Skasson and E. J. Thompson, internally injured.
As Grant street was reached eastbound, the front motor blew out. The motorman rushed to the rear and attempted to hold the car from that end. The second motor also exploded, and in an instant the rear end of the car was in flames.
PANIC FOLLOWS.
In the panic that followed, some one released the air brake that held the car at the top of the hill. The flight back toward Market street began, the passengers crowded wildly toward the motorman's platform to escape the flames.
One woman, Dorothy Greenup, leaped over the high wire gate at the side of the front platform. Others attempted to follow, but the crowd was packed too tightly. When Market street was reached and the car stopped of itself, several people were still aboard although the car was more than half ablaze. E. J. Thompson broke through a window and dragged with him an unknown woman. He was severely hurt. Miss Greenup and John Jones were taken to the homeopathic hospital. The car was almost entirely consumed. |
| Harrisburg (Penns.) |
03.1904 |
Elliott-Fisher Typewriter Co. |
Die Firma entsteht im März Zusammenschluß von "Fisher Book Typewriter Co." und Elliott-Hatch Book Typewriter Co." |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
01.03.1904 |
Vanderbeek & Sons |
Bildung von "Vanderbeek & Sons", bestehend aus Isaac P. Vanderbeek, einem Neffen des verstorbenen Isaac I. Vanderbeek, seinem Sohn, Stuart M. Vanderbeek, und S. Henry Baldwin, der mit dem Unternehmen seit fast 20 Jahren verbunden ist. |
| New York City |
03.1904 |
The Elliott & Hatch Book Typewriter Co. |
Die Firma geht im März durch Zusammenschluß von "Fisher Book Typewriter Co." und Elliott-Hatch Book Typewriter Co." in "Elliott-Fisher" auf |
| New York City |
03.03.1904 |
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Terribly crushed by a trolley car on the Brooklyn Bridge last night while he was on duty, Policeman JAMES J. McHUGH of the bridge squad lies dying in the Brooklyn Hospital. About 8:30 o'clock McHUGH stepped across the trolley tracks on the south roadway to speak to Roundsman SIMONSTAD on the promenade. He was midway between the Brooklyn tower and the anchorage.
Car 2,040 of the Seventh Avenue line came along at a swift clip from Manhattan. McHUGH tried to get away, but the car bore down upon him and crushed him against the stanchions which separate the trolley tracks from those on which the elevated railroad is operated.
Roundsman SIMONSTAD condemned the motorman, LAWRENCE RAPJO, for speeding his car so that he did not have control of it.
In a rush of the crowd at the loop at the Manhattan end of the bridge about 6 o'clock, JAMES FAULKNER, a middle-aged man of 1,481 Gates Avenue, Brooklyn, was crushed against a car. Several of his ribs and his breast bone were fractured. He was severely bruised. |
| Blakely (Pennsylvania) |
25.03.1904 |
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Six persons were injured in a street car wreck at Blakely to-day, when a car left the tracks and ran into a telephone pole. The motorman saved himself by jumping. Those injured were:
Mrs. James Gilgallon, Archbald, hurt about head;
Mrs. Gillespie, of Peckville, head and face cut and bruised about body;
Miss Cecilia Crane, of Scranton, injured about face and body;
Alfred Boyer, of Archbald;
Mrs. George Reed, Peckville. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
01.04.1904 |
American Bridge Company |
Verlegung der "American Bridge Co." von Philadelphia nach Pittsburgh |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
01.04.1904 |
Philadelphia Water Works, Belmont Pumping Station |
Das erste gefilterte Wasser wird an die Stadt abgegeben |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
01.04.1904 |
American Bridge Company |
Verlegung der "American Bridge Co." von Philadelphia nach Pittsburgh |
| New York City |
22.04.1904 |
Harvard University |
Geburt von Jacob Robert Oppenheimer in New York. Oppenheimer studiert Physik und Chemie an der Harvard University. |
| New York City |
22.04.1904 |
Oppenheimer, Jacob Robert |
Geburt von Jacob Robert Oppenheimer in New York. Oppenheimer studiert Physik und Chemie an der Harvard University. |
| Newark (New Jersey) |
24.04.1904 |
Lansden Company |
Gründung |
| Braddock (Pennsylvania) |
27.04.1904 |
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A locomotive of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad exploded early to-day while passing Tenth street, Braddock. Three men were fatally injured, three others dangerously hurt, and five buildings were wrecked. Two of the houses caught fire and were destroyed.
The fatally injured are: M. A. HUNTER, engineer, Connellsville; I. J. CORN, fireman, Connellsville; FRED I. DENGLE, Mars, Pa.
Three others are seriously hurt.
The engine was pulling a long freight train and was moving with considerable speed when the boiler exploded. A cloud of steam, cinders and flame continued to be propelled into the air until the engine reached Eleventh street, a block away. Here it left the tracks, the boiler being blown twenty-five feet, striking the St. Paul Polish Church and nearly demolishing it. |
| Elizabeth (N.J.) |
29.04.1904 |
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In a rear-end collision, which occurred a short distance west of the Pennsylvania Railroad station here, when the Long Branch Express, heavily laden, ran into the rear of the Florida Special, one man was killed and twenty-seven persons were injured. Most of the injured received only slight wounds.
The collision was due to an accident to the Southern train, and could have been avoided, it is asserted, had the engineer of the Long Branch train heeded the signal, which was set for his direction. The Florida Express is composed of eight Pullman coaches. It had not gone far from the station in Jersey City when the air tube connecting the forward coach to the engine parted.
That caused the automatic air brakes to be applied at once to the train. The extra strain on the engine caused by the application of the brakes caused the coupling pin between the tender and the first car to break, and the engine darted ahead, while the cars stopped within a short distance.
The engineer at once applied the brakes to the locomotive, and as soon as he was able started back to pick up his train. He had just reached the coaches and was about to recouple them, when the accident occurred. |
| Newton (New Jersey) |
05.1904 |
H. W. Merriam Shoe Company |
Die Firma "O'Donnell & McManiman" erhält den Auftrag für zwei zweigeschossige Erweiterungsbauten (58 x 20' und 85 x 20') |
| Princeton (New Jersey) |
14.05.1904 |
Einstein, Albert |
Geburt des ersten Sohnes, Hans-Albert |
| New York City |
04.06.1904 |
De La Vergne Refrigerating Machine Co. |
George Richmond wird nach seinem Selbstmord durch Gasvergiftung tot in seinem privaten Büro im Carr Building, 138. Straße und 3. Avenue gefunden. Der Grund für die Tat ist unbekannt. |
| Albany (N.Y.) |
13.06.1904 |
Federal Signal Co. |
Zusammenschluß mit der "Taylor Signal Co." und der "Pneumatic Signal Co." zur "General Railway Signal Company", Rochester (eingetragen am 13.06.1904). |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
13.06.1904 |
Taylor Signal Co. |
Zusammenschluß mit der "Pneumatic Signal Co." und der "Federal Signal Co." zur "General Railway Signal Company", Rochester (eingetragen am 13.06.1904). |
| Rochester (N.Y.) |
13.06.1904 |
General Railway Signal Co. |
Gründung durch Zusammenschluß der "Taylor Signal Co.", der "Federal Signal Co." und der "Pneumatic Signal Co."; eingetragen am 13. Juni |
| Rochester (N.Y.) |
13.06.1904 |
Pneumatic Signal Co. |
Zusammenschluß mit der "Taylor Signal Co." und der "Federal Signal Co." zur "General Railway Signal Company", Rochester (eingetragen am 13.06.1904). |
| New York City |
15.06.1904 |
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Bei einem Brand auf dem Ausflugsdampfer "General Slocum" kommen auf dem East River in New York mehr als 1000 deutsche Einwanderer ums Leben. Das ist auch das Ende des New Yorker Stadtviertels "Kleindeutschland". Das Unglück ist die schlimmste aller New Yorker Katastrophen vor dem Anschlag auf das World Trade Centre. Der Dampfer sollte die Gemeinde der St. Mark's Lutheran Church vom 3rd Street Pier zu einem Picknick am Sund von Long Island bringen. Wenige Minuten nach dem Ablegen um 9.40 Uhr entdeckt ein Junge Rauch: Vmtl. eine achtlos weggeworfende Zigarette hatte Strohballen in Brand gesetzt. Kapitän Van Schaick legt wegen der Öl- und Holzlager nicht am East River an, sondern nimmt Kurs auf Brother Island. Die Flammen schlagen zum Oberdeck, es bricht eine Panik aus, die Mannschaft flüchtet anstatt zu helfen. Der Kork der Schwimmwesten ist porös. Vor der Insel verkantet sich der Bug im Sand. Die Menge am Heck steht vor einem Abgrund im vier Meter tiefen Wasser. Nur ein paar Hundert werden gerettet. |
| New York City |
15.06.1904 |
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Brand auf dem mit 1342 Personen (davon 745 Kinder) besetzten Raddampfer "General Slocum" auf dem East River. Das Schiff wird vom Kapitän vor North Brother Island in flaches Wasser gefahren, wo es sinkt. Ca. 1021 Menschen kommen ums Leben (teils verbrannt, teils ertrunken). Die Opfer sind zumeist deutsche Auswanderer auf einem Ausflug der St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church im Bezirk Little Germany (Manhattan). Durch eine weggeworfene Zigarette oder ein Streichholz im Lampenraum entsteht der Brand. Infolge brüchiger Feuerwehrschläuche, nicht ausgebildeter Besatzung und maroder Rettungsringe breitet sich das Feuer schnell aus. - Der Kapitän Van Schaick wird zu zehn Jahren Haft verurteilt, aber nach 3 Jahren und 6 Monaten begnadigt. Die Leitung der "Knickerbocker Steamboat Co." geht straffrei aus. |
| West Hoboken (USA) |
06.07.1904 |
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Over twenty persons were hurt as the result of a trolley accident in West Hoboken last night. Those who were hurt were those who lost their heads and jumped from the open car. Those who remained on it escaped injury.
A car bound from North Bergen to Hoboken had reached Clinton Avenue and Cortlandt Street, West Hoboken, when, with a flash, the controller box burned out. The car at that moment was traveling at full speed. When the controller box burned the smoke and flames were carried back into the car. Instantly there was a panic, and before the motorman, himself badly injured, could bring the car to a stop, thirty or more, fully half those on the car, had jumped. Those who jumped first were the worst injured. The last to jump escaped with little hurts.
The worst injured were: LAZAR SHATTIZEN, 311 Grand Street, Hoboken, skull fractured; CHARLES KATZE, 800 Park Avenue, Hoboken, head cut, shoulder blade broken, internal injuries; MRS. E. LANDOLT, 1,507 Clinton Street, Hoboken, cut on the head, wrist broken.
MRS. M. GRAHAM, 103 Ninth Street, Hoboken, head cut, internal injuries; MRS. MARGARET BECKER, 129 Spring Street, West Hoboken, face lacerated, hands torn; JOHN TUARA, 310 Hudson Street, Hoboken, cut about the face and head; FREDERICK GOEBEL, motorman, burned about the hands and face.
Several of the injured were taken to Christ Hospital, Jersey City.
Ambulances, the West Hoboken Police and Fire Departments, and all the available doctors were summoned. Many who were hurt went home, refusing to give their names. |
| Staten Island (USA) |
07.07.1904 |
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Two cars of the Richmond Light and Railroad Company collided on Castleton Avenue, near Bard Avenue, S. I., last night and fifty passengers on one of the cars received a severe shaking up and some of them were severely Injured. One man, John F. Riley, was so badly hurt internally that he probably will die. Car No. 40, with George Scott as motorman and Frank Smith conductor, was running from St. George to West Brighton, crowded with passengers. Car 30, with George Merritt as motorman and John Madigan conductor, had preceded Car No. 40 over the line. It was Car 30's last trip and no passengers were carried on the return. The greater part of the Castleton Avenue line is single track. There is a turnout at the Sailors' Snug Harbor property, and then not another until near West Brighton. Car No. 30. it is claimed, should have stopped and waited for No. 40 to pass it. Both were traveling at full speed when they met. The accident occurred close to St. Vincent's Hospital. |
| Neptune City (USA) |
12.07.1904 |
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Max Thater, a Whitesville farmer, and his fourteen-year old son, Max, Jr., this morning attempted to cross the trolley track at Monmouth Avenue, Neptune City. Thater drove his horse and buggy directly in front of a crowded car in charge of Motorman Reynolds. The buggy was crushed and father and son were thrown forward upon the tracks. The car passed over both of them, killing the boy and so injuring the father that it is believed he will die.
Several witnesses living in the neighborhood of the accident are positive In their assertion that the motorman neglected to ring his gong. Reynolds asserts that the horse stopped when on the tracks and began to rear. |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
25.07.1904 |
Lembeck & Betz Eagle Brewing Company |
Tod von Henry Lembeck, und seine Söhne Gustav und Otto übernehmen die Brauerei |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
Aug. 1904 |
Union Terminal Cold Storage Company |
Eingetragen |
| Altoona (Pa.) |
11.08.1904 |
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A 5-year-old boy, named Charles Edgar Wolf, narrowly escaped serious injury by falling from a street car at Eleventh avenue and Eleventh street yesterday afternoon about 3:30 o'clock. The boy's mother had placed him on a seat in the front end of the car, and the sudden lurch in turning the corner threw him to the floor. He slipped through the screen on the side of the car, falling to the ground, but fortunately away from the track. The car was quickly stopped and the boy picked up. He was only slightly bruised. The screams of the woman on the car attracted a large crowd to see the scene. |
| Altoona (Pa.) |
11.08.1904 |
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David Snyder, train receiver at Seventeenth street, was struck by an engine yesterday afternoon, receiving bruises and cuts of the face and hands. He stepped from the office onto the track, when engine 2405 struck and hurled him to the side of the track. His injuries are not serious. |
| Altoona (Pa.) |
11.08.1904 |
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W. E. Numer, a Middle division fireman, while leaning out the engine cab window yesterday morning, was struck by a mail post on the left temple. A deep gash was cut in the temple. The accident occurred near Union Furnace and Numer was taken to Huntingdon, where his injuries were dressed. He was later brought to his boarding house, at 809 Eighth avenue, this city. |
| Altoona (Pa.) |
11.08.1904 |
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We are speaking of an Italian who was aboard a trolley car speeding out to Lakemont park about 6 o'clock last evening. He was noticed getting on the running board just as The Oaks was reached and the conductor gave a bell for Llyswen. As the car did not immediately slacken speed, the "Ikey" thought that he was in for a jump or be carried too far, so he let go of the hand rail, lit on his feet for the smallest part of a second, then turned in the air sideways several times and finished up his acrobatic stunt by landing on the broad of his back, making a hole in the cinders between the tracks with his head as he did so. In the meantime the car had stopped about seventy-five feet beyond where the Italian lay. The conductor quickly got off and went back to see how badly the man was hurt and get his name. After laying quiet for the space of about an minute, the victim of the accident got up, rubbed his head and began to gather up various bundles and the contents of his pockets, which had been separated from him in his flight through space. When the conductor reached him, though he was staggering yet from the shock of the fall, the Italian refused to be interviewed and started to leave as rapidly as he could. Questioned as to his name, he merely muttered, "Dat's all right," and with his face bleeding from many scratches made by the cinders, and his belongings tightly clutched in his hands, the man started back towards the city and really acted as though he was afraid he would be arrested for getting off the car before it stopped. |
| Lovett (Pennsylvania) |
17.08.1904 |
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Four persons were killed, another fatally hurt, and twenty-three severely injured in a collision late this afternoon between an express train on the Chicago Great Western Railroad and a train of three trolley cars bound for the Hawthorne race track. The dead are MRS. FRANCES RAUTMAN, WILLIAM IRVING, MRS. JEREMIAH SHUCKROW of Danville, Ill., and an unidentified woman, about thirty years of age.
MICHAEL RYAN, motorman of the trolley car, is fatally injured, his skull having been fractured.
The accident occurred at the crossing of Forty-eighth Avenue and the Chicago Great Western tracks. The train was coming into the city, and, according to some witnesses of the accident, was running at a high rate of speed. Others, and the train crew, declare that it was not going over twenty miles an hour.
The trolley train, which was made up of a motor car and two trailers, in charge of Conductor W. H. CONDON and Motorman MICHAEL RYAN, approached the crossing at a rapid rate, just as the train came around a sharp curve to the west of the crossing.
RYAN tried to put on the brakes, but they refused to work, and with undiminished speed the motor car ran upon the tracks at the same time that the locomotive came up. The car struck the train just between the engine and the tender.
The motor was torn to splinters, the car immediately behind it was knocked over, smashed nearly to pieces, and dragged along the track for 100 feet. The third car was not dragged from the tracks, and but for the fact that the couplings between it and the second trailer broke the list of injured would probably be much larger. |
| New York City |
03.09.1904 |
Christie |
Beginn des Automobilbaues |
| New York City |
19.09.1904 |
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Martin Ceizke, 39- years old, who lived on Twentieth Street, near Sixth Avenue, College Point, L. I., was struck by a train at the Sieden Avenue station in that place last night and instantly killed.
Ceizke went to the station with his wife, who was to see him off. The gates were about to be lowered, and Mrs. Ceizke urged her husband not to attempt to cross the track. Not heeding her advice, he stepped on the track and the next moment the train struck him. |
| New York City |
27.10.1904 |
Interborough Rapid Transit Company |
Eröffnung der ersten U-Bahn-Strecke zwischen City Hall und der 145th Street am Broadway |
| Thomas' Crossing (USA) |
28.10.1904 |
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In the damage suit of Myrtle Dugan, child, and Howard Dugan, parent, against the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, the jury Saturday decided in favor of the plaintiff, and awarded damages to the extent of $5300.
On October 28, 1904, Miss Dugan, in company with a young man, was driving to a dance when, on reaching Thomas' Crossing. Lycoming county, which had been torn up in making repairs, they were overtaken by a train and narrowly escaped being struck. In her effort to escape, Miss Dugan jumped from the carriage, striking the ties and fracturing three ribs, besides sustaining internal injuries.
No fixed amount of damages was asked, the amount being left to the jury. |
| New York City |
01.11.1904 |
Whyte, Frederick Methvan |
Beförderung zum Chefingenieur bei der New York Central and Hudson River Railroad (bis 1910) |
| Orange (N.J.) |
Nov. 1904 |
Edison Manufacturing Company |
Vergleich im Rechtsstreit mit der "Battery Supplies Company" wegen der Patentverletzung |
| Syracuse (N.Y.) |
26.11.1904 |
L. C. Smith & Bros. Typewriter Co. |
Das erste Schreibmaschinenmodell 2 wird in den Handel gebracht |
| Bethlehem (Penns) |
10.12.1904 |
Bethlehem Steel Corporation |
Die Gesellschaft wird eingetragen |
| South Bethlehem (Bethlehem) |
10.12.1904 |
Bethlehem Steel Corporation |
Die Gesellschaft wird eingetragen |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
13.12.1904 |
Philadelphia Water Works, Belmont Pumping Station |
Die volle Leistung der Filteranlage für West Philadelphia wird erreicht. |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
1904 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Vorübergehender Rückgang der Lokomotivproduktion: Es werden 1485 Stück gebaut |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1904 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Vorübergehender Rückgang der Lokomotivproduktion: Es werden 1485 Stück gebaut |
