| Ort |
Zeit |
Firma |
Ereignis |
| Angelica (N.Y.) |
1905 |
Pittsburg, Shawmut and Northern Railroad |
Konkurs |
| Berwick (Penn.) |
1905 |
Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Co. |
ACF Berwick baut die ersten Ganzstahl-Eisenbahn-Reisezugwagen |
| Brooklyn (New York) |
1905 |
James H. Williams, Drop Forging |
Ergänzung durch einen vierstöckigen Ziegelbau 50 x 200 ft. |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
1905 |
Pierce-Arrow |
Price gewinnt die Glidden Tour |
| Burnham (Pennsylvania) |
1905 |
Standard Steel Works Co. |
Im Stahlwerk Nr. 2 wird ein zweiter Offen-Herd-Konverter für 50 tons aufgestellt |
| Cape May (USA) |
1905 |
Congress Hall Hotel |
Schließung des Hotels nach einem heftigen Streit zwischen der Besitzerin Annie Knight und dem Stadtrat. - Nach einer Einigung über die Erneuerung des Straßenbelags rund um das Hotel wird es Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts wieder eröffnet. |
| Corry (Pa.) |
1905 |
Ajax Iron Works |
Ajax baut Tandem-Gasmaschinen |
| East Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh) |
1905 |
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. |
Die erste Wechselstrom-Lokomotive wird vorgestellt. |
| East Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh) |
1905 |
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. |
Siemens sucht den Kontakt zum Konkurrenten "Westinghouse" und schließt einen Vertrag zur weltweiten Marktaufteilung. |
| East Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh) |
1905 |
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. |
Vorführung der ersten Hauptstrecken-Wechselstromlokomotive |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
1905 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Einführung der Walschaerts-Steuerung bei verschiedenen amerikanischen Eisenbahnen, so bei einer großen Zahl der von Baldwin gebauten Lokomotiven der Pennsylvania Railroad und bei 38 Lokomotiven fünfachsigen Lokomotiven der "Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway" |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
1905 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Entwicklung des Vauclain-Rauchkammerüberhitzers bei Baldwin. - Er wird um 1911 nur noch in gewissem Maße eingebaut, da sich der Rauchrohrüberhitzer als wirtschaftlicher herausgestellt hat. |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
1905 |
Alphaduct Company |
Verlegung von New York nach Jersey City |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
1905 |
Brown Drydock Co. |
Joel W. Brown verkauft seinen Mehrheitsanteil an "Alex. Miller & Brother" |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
1905 |
Butler Brothers |
Seither in den Gebäuden an den Warren, Morgan, Washington und Bay Streets |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
1905 |
C. A. Woolsey Paint and Color Company |
Bau einer neuen Lackfabrik |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
1905 |
Truslow & Fulle |
Die Anteilshälfte von E. L. Truslow wird von Chas. A. Fulle, dem späteren Alleineigentümer (um 1909), übernommen. |
| Koppel (USA) |
1905 |
Arthur Koppel Company |
Arthur Koppel geht in die USA, wo Koppel im folgenden Jahr im Beaver County, über dem Beaver River 558 Hektar Land erwirbt, um eine Fabrik zu bauen. |
| Koppel (USA) |
1905 |
Koppel, Arthur |
Arthur Koppel geht in die USA, wo Koppel im folgenden Jahr im Beaver County, über dem Beaver River 558 Hektar Land erwirbt, um eine Fabrik zu bauen. |
| New Jersey |
1905 |
American Car and Foundry Co. |
Das Werk Berwick baut die ersten Ganzstahl-Eisenbahn-Reisezugwagen |
| New Jersey |
1905/06 |
American Car and Foundry Co. |
Bau des ersten Ganzstahlwagens im Werk Huntington |
| New York (Brooklyn) |
1905 |
James H. Williams, Drop Forging |
Ergänzung durch einen vierstöckigen Ziegelbau 50 x 200 ft. |
| New York (USA) |
1905/06 |
Società Italiana Automobili Darracq |
Darracq-Automobile gewinnen den Vanderbilt Cup auf Long Island sowie das Rennen von Kuba in Havanna |
| New York City |
1905 |
Coolidge, William |
William Coolidge tritt in das Forschungslaboratorium von General Electric ein |
| New York City |
1905 |
D. Appleton & Company |
"Appleton's Magazine" wird in "Appleton's Booklovers Magazine" umbenannt |
| New York City |
1905 |
Edison Manufacturing Company |
Die Film-Aktivitäten von Edison werden von Manhattan in ein Studio in die Bronx verlegt |
| New York City |
1905 |
F. Hoffmann-La Roche & Co. |
Hoffmann-La Roche gründet eine Tochtergesellschaft in New York unter dem Namen "The Hoffmann-La Roche Chemical Works Inc." als erste Filiale in den USA. |
| New York City |
1905 |
General Electric Company |
Die AEG richtet bei GE ein Verbindungsbüro ein, das - mit Unterbrechungen - bis in die achtziger Jahre existieren wird. |
| New York City |
1905 |
General Electric Company |
William Coolidge tritt in das Forschungslaboratorium von General Electric ein |
| New York City |
1905 |
Ingersoll-Rand Co. |
Die "Ingersoll-Sergeant" schließt sich mit "Rand Drill" zusammen, um die "Ingersoll-Rand" zu bilden, mit dem Firmensitz in New York City |
| New York City |
1905 |
Krajewski-Pesant Corporation |
Bau der Fabrik in der 53 Jay Street (auch bekannt als 201 Water Street) in Brooklyn |
| New York City |
1905 |
Rose Typewriter Co. |
Frank S. Rose stirbt |
| New York City |
1905 |
Rose Typewriter Co. |
George F. Rose, der Sohn von Frank S. Rose, setzt die Entwicklung fort |
| New York City |
1905 |
Rose, Frank S. |
Frank S. Rose stirbt |
| New York City |
1905 |
Schneider, Charles Conrad |
Schneider erhält die Norman Medal von der American Society of Civil Ingineers für seine Publikation "The Structural Design of Buildings" |
| New York City |
1905 |
The Folmer & Schwing Mfg. Co. |
Übernahme durch Eastman Kodak und Umbenennung in "Folmer & Schwing, Rochester" |
| New York City |
1905 |
The Hammond Typewriter Co. |
Es wird ein "Hammond"-Schreibmaschinen-Sondermodell harausgebracht, welches drei Umschaltungen und vier Typenreihen auf dem Schiffchen enthält |
| New York City |
1905 |
The Ingersoll-Sergeant Drill Co. |
Die "Ingersoll-Sergeant" schließt sich mit "Rand Drill" zusammen, um die "Ingersoll-Rand" zu bilden, mit dem Firmensitz in New York City |
| New York City |
1905 |
The Singer Manufacturing Company |
Singer erwirbt die "Wheeler and Wilson Manufacturing Company" |
| New York City |
1905 |
Underwood Typewriter Co. |
Auszeichnung durch den einzigen Grand Prix auf der Weltausstellung in Lüttich und durch zwei Goldene Medaillen in Portland-Oregon |
| Newark (New Jersey) |
1905 |
Blake Typewriter Co. |
Gründung mit einem Kapital von 1.000.000 $ |
| Niagara Falls (USA) |
1905 |
La Mont, Walter Douglas |
W. D. La Mont macht seinen Abschluß an der High School in Niagara Falls |
| North Bloomfield (New York) |
1905 |
W. P. Davis |
Die Firma baut und eröffnet ihre eigene Fabrik in der St. Paul Street auf einem Grundstück, das als "Falls Field" bekannt ist, wo einige hundert Leuter bei der Herstellung von Werkzeugmaschinen beschäftigt sind. |
| Oneida (N.Y.) |
1905 |
Oneida Iron Works |
Firma außer Betrieb |
| Orange (N.J.) |
1905 |
Edison Manufacturing Company |
Die Film-Aktivitäten von Edison werden von Manhattan in ein Studio in die Bronx verlegt |
| Orange (N.J.) |
1905 |
Edison Manufacturing Company |
Übernahme der "Battery Supplies Company". - Sie wird bis 1908 aufgelöst. |
| Painted Post (USA) |
1905 |
Rand Drill Co. |
Die "Ingersoll-Sergeant" schließt sich mit "Rand Drill" zusammen, um die "Ingersoll-Rand" zu bilden, mit dem Firmensitz in New York City |
| Paterson (N.J.) |
1905 |
Rogers Locomotive Company |
Anschluß an "American Locomotive Co." |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1905 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Einführung der Walschaerts-Steuerung bei verschiedenen amerikanischen Eisenbahnen, so bei einer großen Zahl der von Baldwin gebauten Lokomotiven der Pennsylvania Railroad und bei 38 Lokomotiven fünfachsigen Lokomotiven der "Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway" |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1905 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Entwicklung des Vauclain-Rauchkammerüberhitzers bei Baldwin. - Er wird um 1911 nur noch in gewissem Maße eingebaut, da sich der Rauchrohrüberhitzer als wirtschaftlicher herausgestellt hat. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1905-1906 |
Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company |
Verdoppelung der Werkstätten seit 1901/02 |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1905 |
Philadelphia Water Works, Schuylkill Works |
Durch den Bau des Pumpwerks Lardner's Point geht erstmals die Menge des geförderten Wassers zurück |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1905 |
Vauclain, Samuel Matthew |
Entwicklung des Vauclain-Rauchkammerüberhitzers bei Baldwin. - Er wird um 1911 nur noch in gewissem Maße eingebaut, da sich der Rauchrohrüberhitzer als wirtschaftlicher herausgestellt hat. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1905 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
James Gayley ist Präsident des Rats der Direktoren |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1905 |
Chadwick |
Gründung |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1905 |
Diescher, Samuel |
Bau von Häusern für die "Cochran Coal Company" in Salina |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1905 |
Pennsylvania Railroad |
Einführung der Walschaerts-Steuerung bei verschiedenen amerikanischen Eisenbahnen, so bei einer großen Zahl der von Baldwin gebauten Lokomotiven der Pennsylvania Railroad und bei 38 Lokomotiven fünfachsigen Lokomotiven der "Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway" |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1905 |
The Rust Engineering Co. |
Gründung der "Rust Engineering Company" in Birmingham (Alabama) durch Ellsworth Marshall Rust (E. M. Rust), Edmund Jennings Lee Rust (Lee Rust), and Stirling Murray Rust (S. M. Rust) aus Virginia |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1905 |
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. |
Die erste Wechselstrom-Lokomotive wird vorgestellt. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1905 |
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. |
Siemens sucht den Kontakt zum Konkurrenten "Westinghouse" und schließt einen Vertrag zur weltweiten Marktaufteilung. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1905 |
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. |
Vorführung der ersten Hauptstrecken-Wechselstromlokomotive |
| Plattsburgh (N.Y.) |
1905 |
Lozier Manufacturing Company |
Umzug nach Plattsburg |
| Plattsburgh (N.Y.) |
1905 |
Lozier Motor Company |
Beginn des Automobilbaues |
| Plattsburgh (N.Y.) |
1905 |
Lozier Motor Company |
Umzug von Toledo (Ohio) |
| Princeton (New Jersey) |
1905 |
Einstein, Albert |
Einstein veröffentlicht in den "Annalen der Physik" drei theoretische Artikel, die für die Entwicklung der Physik im 20. Jahrhundert von zentraler Bedeutung sind. Im ersten dieser Artikel, der die Brown'sche Molekularbewegung untersucht, gibt Einstein eine Erklärung für die irreguläre Bewegung kleiner Teilchen in einer Flüssigkeit: Unregelmäßige Stöße der umgebenden Atome und Moleküle verursachen diese Bewegung. Diese Voraussagen werden später durch Experimente bestätigt. |
| Princeton (New Jersey) |
1905 |
Einstein, Albert |
Einstein veröffentlicht in den "Annalen der Physik" einen zweiten Artikel, der sich mit dem photoelektrischen Effekt befaßt, enthält eine revolutionäre Hypothese über das Wesen des Lichtes. Einstein geht nicht nur davon aus, dass Licht unter bestimmten Umständen so betrachtet werden könne, als ob es aus Teilchen bestehe. Er vermutet außerdem, daß die jedem Lichtteilchen (das man Photon nennt) innewohnende Energie der Strahlungsfrequenz proportional sei. Die Formel dafür lautet E = hu, wobei E die Strahlungsenergie, h eine universelle Konstante, das so genannte Planck'sche Wirkungsquantum, und u die Strahlungsfrequenz ist. Die Annahme, daß die in einem Lichtstrahl enthaltene Energie in einzelnen Einheiten (oder Quanten) übertragen werde, steht im Widerspruch zu der vorherrschenden Vorstellung, Licht als Wellenerscheinung zu betrachten. Einsteins Theorie stieß zunächst auf einhellige Ablehnung. Er ist selbst überrascht, als der amerikanische Physiker Robert Andrews Millikan die Theorie fast ein Jahrzehnt später experimentell bestätigt. |
| Princeton (New Jersey) |
1905 |
Einstein, Albert |
Einsteins dritter bedeutender Artikel "Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper" enthält das, was man später als spezielle Relativitätstheorie bezeichnet. Die Entwicklung der Physik im 19. Jahrhundert war von einer mechanistischen Auffassung geprägt. Optische und elektromagnetische Phänomene wurden in Analogie zur Elektrizitätslehre gedeutet, wobei ein absolut ruhender "Äther" das Medium darstellte. Die Vorstellung widersprach der seit Galileo Galilei bekannten Tatsache, dass zwischen gleichförmig bewegten Körpern nur Relativgeschwindigkeiten beobachtbar sind. Die Gleichungen der Elektrodynamik genügen aber nicht den Transformationen, welche die Umrechnung von einem gleichförmig bewegten Bezugssystem (Inertialsystem) in ein anderes ermöglichen, zumindest nicht innerhalb der Grenzen der Mechanik Isaac Newtons. Nach Einsteins Theorie hat die Äquivalenz (Gleichwertigkeit) aller gleichförmig bewegten Bezugssysteme universelle Gültigkeit. Als zweites Prinzip postulierte er die Konstanz der Lichtgeschwindigkeit in allen gleichförmig zueinander bewegten Bezugssystemen. Er ist dadurch in der Lage, eine widerspruchsfreie und korrekte Beschreibung physikalischer Ereignisse in verschiedenen Inertialsystemen zu liefern, ohne spezielle Annahmen über das Wesen von Materie oder Strahlung zu treffen, oder darüber, wie sie miteinander in Wechselwirkung stehen. |
| Reading (Pennsylvania) |
1905-1906 |
Reading Iron Company |
Umbau der Scott Foundry (Ursprung von 1854) |
| Red Hook (Brooklyn) |
1905 |
James H. Williams, Drop Forging |
Ergänzung durch einen vierstöckigen Ziegelbau 50 x 200 ft. |
| Schenectady (USA) |
1905 |
American Locomotive Company |
Anschluß der "Rogers Locomotive Works" in Patterson |
| Williamsburgh (New York) |
1905 |
D. Appleton & Company |
"Appleton's Magazine" wird in "Appleton's Booklovers Magazine" umbenannt |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
24.01.1905 |
Sellers, William |
Tod von William Sellers im University Hospital von Philadelphia |
| Catasauqua (USA) |
28.01.1905 |
Lehigh Car, Wheel and Axle Works, McKee, Fuller & Co. |
Tod von William W. McKee |
| Syracuse (N.Y.) |
02.02.1905 |
L. C. Smith & Bros. Typewriter Co. |
Das Schreibmaschinenmodell 1 wird in den Handel gebracht |
| Port Henry (USA) |
16.02.1905 |
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Entlaufener Güterzug nach Versagen des Lokomotivreglers bei Port Henry, N.Y. Der Zug, welcher aus einer Lokomotive
und sieben stählernen, mit je 45 t Erz beladenen Güterwagen bestand, war auf dem Wege von den Gruben zu Mineville N.Y. nach Port Henry. Kurz nach Abfahrt des Zuges von den Gruben versagte der Regulator der Lokomotive, und da der Zug sich auf einer Bahn von etwa 200 Fuß Neigung auf die englische Meile (rund 1 :26,4) befand, sprang die Mannschaft aus dem immer schneller fahrenden Zug heraus in die neben den Geleisen vorhandenen Schneebänke, so daß niemand verletzt wurde. Der Zug lief noch etwa 3,2 km weiter, wobei er wahrscheinlich eine Geschwindigkeit von etwa 160 km in der Stunde erreichte, und sprang dann von dem Ende des Geleises einen Abhang hinunter, wobei er den
Boden an einem etwa 15 m tiefer liegenden Punkt wieder erreichte. Der letzte Wagen des Zuges berührte den Boden in einer horizontalen Entfernung von 52,4 m. Die außerordentliche Wucht des Stoßes trieb ihn noch über 48 m vorwärts. Man nimmt an, daß die Lokomotive mit dem vollen Zug einen horizontalen Sprung von 103,6 m durch die Luft gemacht
hat, bevor sie den Boden erreichte, auf welchem sie sich noch volle 45,7 m vorwärts arbeitete. Nach dem Aussehen der zertrümmerten Wagen schien es fast unmöglich, daß diese noch irgend einen ändern als Schrottwert besitzen könnten. Doch hat sich die Pressed Steel Car Company, welche sie für die Lake Champlain- und Morinh-Eisenbahn geliefert hatte, verpflichtet, die Reparatur zu übernehmen, und versichert, daß die Kosten den Betrag von 200 bis 500 $ für die
Wagen nicht überschreiten würden. Die Eisenbahnverwaltung ist der Ansicht, daß, wenn die Mannschaft auf dem Zuge verblieben und die Wagenbremsen in Tätigkeit gesetzt hätte, der Unfall vermieden worden wäre, da die Bremsen für Fahrten auf stark geneigter Bahn konstruiert waren. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
24.02.1905 |
Longstreth, Edward |
Tod von Edward Longstreth in Philadelphia in seinem Haus in der 1410 Spruce Street. Er wird am 27. Februar auf dem Laurel Hill Cemetry (Sektion M, Parzelle 117) begraben |
| Whitesboro (New York) |
04.03.1905 |
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Two railroad employes[sic] were killed and Supreme Court Justice Warren B. Hooker, was among over a score of persons more or less seriously injured in a remarkable accident to two trains that occurred at Whitesborough, three miles west of this city, at an early hour this morning.
As the Chicago express was passing the special from Buffalo, both going at full speed, the west-bound engine exploded. A sleeping car of the other train, which was exactly opposite, was hurled from the track a distance of 100 feet, tumbling over and over in its flight, while the engine, tender, and twelve remaining cars were blown from the rails as if the whole had been a toy train.
The rear Pullmans were toppled into a ditch to the side of the track, but the forward cars had been hurled into an adjoining field at distances varying from ten to forty feet. Several flew from the supporting trucks and wheels and plowed deep into snow banks, while the engine's boiler went hurtling through the air and landed on the east track just behind the point where the Buffalo special had stopped. |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
20.04.1905 |
George Stratford Oakum Company |
Nach dem Tod seines Vaters am 20. April wird Herbert Ridley Stratford Präsident und Finanzleiter und ein anderer Sohn, Arthur G. Stratford, tritt als Direktor und Sekretär ein, und Frank Burnett Stratford und Edwin H. Stratford werden Teil des Direktoriums. |
| Oswego (N.Y.) |
29.04.1905 |
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Schiffbruch bei Oswego, N.Y., in späterem Sturm zerbrochen |
| Harrisburg (Penns.) |
11.05.1905 |
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Twenty persons are known to be dead and more than 100 others were injured in the railroad wreck and dynamite explosion which occurred early to-day on the Pennsylvania Railroad in the southern part of this city. That not more persons were killed is considered remarkable by the Pennsylvania Railroad officials, as a full boxcar of dynamite exploded directly at the middle of the heavy express train. There are various stories of how the wreck occurred, but the official version is as follows: About 1:40 o'clock the engine on an eastbount freight train was flagged by the crew of a shifting engine ahead on the same track. The engineer quickly put on his air brakes, and the train, an unusually long one, came to a sudden halt. The strain on the air valves was a severe one, and a connecting air hose in the middle of the train blew out. This caused the middle of the train to "buckle," and the damaged cars fell over on the passenger tracks.
Just as this happened the Cleveland Express came thundering up and "side swiped" the wreck. The express was stopped within its own length, and the third sleeper was opposite the wrecked cars. Before any one could leave the passenger train, which was not very badly damaged, a few slight explosion occurred, and then there was one great flash and roar that shook the earth. The whole affair occurred within the period of a few seconds. |
| Allentown (Penns.) |
13.05.1905 |
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An unknown boy, about 16 years of age, who had followed the Barnum & Bailey circus several days, was instantly killed at 3 o'clock Sunday morning on the Perkiomen Railroad, near Allentown. He had worked at the lemonade stand. When the circus left town he boarded the last section. While the train was passing Chestnut Street in the Jersey Central yards the boy in moving about fell between the cars and rolled to the track, almost the entire train passing over his body. The body as was taken the undertaker Burkholder's morgue was in a horrible condition. The head and two arms and one hand were cut off and the upper and lower sections of his trunk, made by the passage of the carwheels, hung together simply by shreds. Chief George Smith, of Allentown, notified the Brooklyn police to make a search for the boy's relatives. The name of the boy is unknown, he going by the name of â??KIDâ? at the circus. Coroner Scheirer investigated but found an inquest unnecessary. |
| Erie (Pa.) |
22.05.1905 |
Skinner Engine Company |
Dampfmaschinenpatent |
| Erie (Pa.) |
23.05.1905 |
Skinner Engine Company |
Dampfmaschinenpatent |
| Lawrenceville (N.J.) |
10.06.1905 |
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Seventeen persons were hurt, two perhaps mortally, this evening when two trolley cars of the Johnson system crashed head-on just east of Lawrenceville. One was en route from the Princeton--Yale baseball game and was loaded with collegians and their friends. General Manager H. D. Honnecker of the trolley company late tonight made the following statement:
"The company is investigating the cause of the wreck. It looks as if a green motorman had run past a red light, although we are not now in position to declare positively that such was the case. The whole affair will be sifted to the bottom, to place the responsibility for the deplorable accident."
It is somewhat remarkable that neither motorman was injured, although passengers say both stuck to their posts. The Princeton bound car was of the Winter pattern and was not badly damaged. The Trenton bound car was a Summer car and the whole front caved in. Farmers living in the vicinity did good work in rescue and giving temporary shelter.
LANGBORN JOHNSON, who is the worst injured, was widely known as a decorator of buildings. He had been to Princeton to trim some of the college structures and was returning home.
The wrecked cars were shoved for a considerable distance by the force of the collision, and when finally brought to a standstill there ensued a terrible struggle among passengers to escape. Women were thrown down and trampled in the confusion. Several fainted and others had clothing torn almost off. |
| Coney Island (Kings, N.Y.) |
13.06.1905 |
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A Franklin Avenue car, dashing over slippery rails at high speed last evening, collided with a wagon containing SIMON MICHAELS, a Gravesend fruit vendor, and his wife and three daughters, at Avenue V and Coney Island Avenue. The wagon was smashed and the occupants thrown out. SADIE MICHAELS, one of the girls, was so severely injured that she died a few minutes after the accident.
MICHAELS and his family left the Gravesend race track about 6 o'clock for their home, on Avenue T, near East Seventeenth Street, Homecrest, Coney Island, in their one-horse wagon. MR. MICHAELS drove down Avenue V, and when he came to Coney Island Avenue, turned east, to drive across the tracks, remembering that all cars are required to come to a stop just before reaching this crossing. He was in the middle of the south-bound track when Car No. 318, in charge of Motorman WILLIAM HANSEN and Conductor JAMES WALL, came along. The car did not stop, and a moment later crashed with a terrific impact into the wagon.
The horse was killed instantly, the wagon literally demolished, and the occupants thrown in all directions. |
| New York City |
14.06.1905 |
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He Lay Pinned Under a Car Until Wrecking Wagon Arrived.
Albert Guttmann, a boy who lived at 314 East One Hundred and Nineteenth Street, was run over by a Third Avenue car last night at One Hundred and Twenty-third Street while playing in the street. He ran directly in front of the car and was caught under the forward truck. His screams could be heard for blocks, while hurry calls were sent to Harlem Hospital and to the wrecking station of the car company.
The surgeon, Dr. Dimmick, who arrived within a few minutes, crawled under the car and administered stimulants to the dying lad until the wrecking wagon arrived and the car was lifted. While the wrecking crew was lifting the car the boy would cry "Easier, easier," as the wheels lurched. After being taken from under the car he was carried to a drug store and died a few minutes.
Patrick Bauer, the motorman, was arrested, but released on bond. |
| East Rochester (New York) |
18.07.1905 |
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A fast train, No. 23, the Chicago and Detroit special on the New York Central Railroad, was wrecked in East Rochester today by striking a freight train. Engineer James Clark was fatally injured, and Fireman Flossey of Buffalo was seriously scalded. Several passengers were severely cut and bruised. |
| Cuba (N.Y.) |
05.08.1905 |
Stone, Roy |
Roy Stone stirbt in Mendham (N.J.) und wird auf dem Arilington National Cemetery (Virginia) begraben |
| Mendham (USA) |
05.08.1905 |
Stone, Roy |
Roy Stone stirbt in Mendham (N.J.) und wird auf dem Arilington National Cemetery (Virginia) begraben |
| Bernardsville (USA) |
07.08.1905 |
W. & A. Fletcher, North River Iron Works |
Tod von Andrew Fletcher in Bernardsville, N.J. |
| Hoboken (N.J.) |
07.08.1905 |
W. & A. Fletcher, North River Iron Works |
Tod von Andrew Fletcher in Bernardsville, N.J. |
| New York City |
23.08.1905 |
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One man was killed and four others hurt in a collision between trolley cars of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company yesterday morning on the Brooklyn Bridge. The accident was the most serious the Brooklyn Rapid Transit has had for some time. It happend on the south roadway of the bridge about 250 feet east of the Brooklyn tower.
A Fulton Street car was some distance ahead of an open car of the Gates Avenue line, which was in charge of Motorman CHARLES GUSTAFSON. For some reason the Fulton Street car came to a full stop. In spite of the efforts of GUSTAFSON his car sped on and crashed into the rear platform of the car ahead. The platform was demolished.
Several men were standing on the rear platform of the first car and were pinned in the wreck. FREDERICK TRIPP, fifty-five years old of 691 Wendover Avenue, the Bronx, was picked up dead. In his pockets were a number of cards inscribed with his name as representative of the Jewish News Publishing Company. He also carried a check for $25, payable to the Hebrew Educational Society of Harlem. The body was taken to the Morgue, where late last night it was identified by his son-in-law, ISIDOR TECKLER of 4,815 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn. TRIPP was thrown against the rear end of the Fulton Street car, and his head was crushed. |
| Jenkintown (USA) |
26.08.1905 |
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As a fast freight train passed out of the Jenkintown yard on Sunday noon a man about 30 years of age, wearing a plaid coat and cap, attempted to board the locomotive. He slipped and fell under the wheels and his head was completely severed from his body. The coroner was summoned to investigate. An employes[sic] trip pass bearing the name of C. H. GROLL was found on the body and tattoed on the right arm were the initials "C.G." |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
09.09.1905 |
Samuel Born Co. |
Tod von Samuel Born |
| York (Penns) |
09.09.1905 |
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Five persons were killed and seventy-five injured in a collision between a passenger and freight trolley car today on the York and Dallastown Electric Railway, near Stableys Switch, about six miles from here. Two victims were killed instantly and three died later at a hospital in York. Although the cause of the accident has not been explained, it is supposed to have been due to a mistake in signals.
The wrecked passenger car left York at 4 o'clock for Dallastown, Red Lion, and Windsor. It was in charge of "Semp" MEAISENHELDER, motorman, and CALVIN SNYDER, conductor. The car was crowded, the register showing 102 fares. When Stabley's switch was reached the motorman saw the freight car not more than 100 feet away approaching at a rapid rate. This car was in charge of AARON LEHMAN and SALEM SPIES, with ROBERT BOSE as baggage master.
MEAISENHELDER applied the brakes, and with a warning cry, jumped for his life. He was followed by Conductor SNYDER. Both escaped serious injury. But the passengers inside were unable to help themselves. They became panic stricken and made desperate efforts to escape, but before one of them could jump from the car the crash came. |
| New York City |
11.09.1905 |
---- |
Bei einem Hochbahnunglück in New York werden zehn Menschen getötet und 40 verletzt. |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
Herbst 1905 |
Brown Drydock Co. |
Sägewerk und Büros werden durch Feuer zerstört. |
| Paoli (Penn.) |
29.09.1905 |
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Five men were killed and more than twenty injured in a collision at 2:45 o'clock p. m., between the New York Limited, from the West, and a local passenger train at Paoli, on the main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, nineteen miles out of Philadelphia.
The limited ran through an open switch and plunged into a siding on which stood the local. The last coach of the local, was a special car belonging to W. W. ATTERBURY, general manager of the Pennsylvania Railroad. It was new and was being tested. In it were some friends of MR. ATTERBURY and a number of employes[sic] of the road.
The only damage to the limited was a broken pilot and some broken windows. The local train was smashed. |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
ab 10.10.1905 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Für die Pennyslvania Railroad werden bis zum 22. November des Jahres 160 "Consolidation"-Lokomotiven gebaut |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
ab 10.10.1905 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Für die Pennyslvania Railroad werden bis zum 22. November des Jahres 160 "Consolidation"-Lokomotiven gebaut |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
ab 10.10.1905 |
Pennsylvania Railroad |
Baldwin baut bis zum 22. November des Jahres 160 "Consolidation"-Lokomotiven für die Bahn |
| New York City |
Nov. 1905 |
Knoll AG |
Ernst Frederick Bilhuber eröffnet gemeinsam mit Richard Lauxmann ein Vertriebsbüro in New York, Fulton Street 106-108 als "American branch" der "Knoll & Co.", Ludwigshafen. |
| Syracuse (N.Y.) |
11.1905 |
E. C. Stearns & Company |
Beginn des Schreibmaschinenbaues durch John E. Thomas von der Typewriter Inspection Co. und August Schneeloch |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
03.11.1905 |
Philadelphia Water Works, Belmont Pumping Station |
Vertrag zum Bau eines neuen Kesselhauses für zehn neue Kessel südlich der Pumpstation. |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
13.11.1905 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Inbetriebnahme einer liegenden 21 3/4" x 30" Tandem-Westinghouse-Viertaktgasmaschine. Sie ist direkt mit einem 250-kW-Generator verbunden und versorgt die Gießerei mit Elektrizität. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
13.11.1905 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Die erste Gasmaschine, eine liegende Viertakt-Tandemmaschine von Westinghouse, geht in Betrieb. Sie wird mit Gichtgas betrieben. Zylindermaße: 21 1/2" x 30". Sie ist direkt mit einem 200-kW-Generator verbunden. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
13.11.1905 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Inbetriebnahme einer liegenden 21 3/4" x 30" Tandem-Westinghouse-Viertaktgasmaschine. Sie ist direkt mit einem 250-kW-Generator verbunden und versorgt die Gießerei mit Elektrizität. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
12.12.1905 |
Westinghouse Machine Company |
Erteilung des US-Patents 807.146 für eine "elastic fluid turbine" |
| Plainfield (New Jersey) |
12.12.1905 |
Kinsman Block System Co. |
F. E. Kinsman erhält das US-Patent Nr. 807.386 für eine Zugeeinflussungseinrichung |
| Plainfield (New Jersey) |
12.12.1905 |
Kinsman, Frank Eugene |
F. E. Kinsman erhält das US-Patent Nr. 807.386 für eine Zugeeinflussungseinrichung |
| New York City |
25.12.1905 |
Metropolitan Opera |
An der Metropolitan Opera in New York wird Richard Wagners Oper »Parsifal« erstmals außerhalb von Bayreuth aufgeführt. |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
1905 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Die Anzahl der im Jahre 1905 gebauten Lokomotiven beträgt 2250. Darunter sind 572 Lokomotiven für das Netz der Pennyslvania Railroad, einschließlich der Strecken östlich und westlich von Pittsburgh. In dieses Jahr fällt die Fertigstellung der 25.000sten, 26.000sten und 27.000 Lokomotive seit Bestehen des Werks. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1905 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Die Anzahl der im Jahre 1905 gebauten Lokomotiven beträgt 2250. Darunter sind 572 Lokomotiven für das Netz der Pennyslvania Railroad, einschließlich der Strecken östlich und westlich von Pittsburgh. In dieses Jahr fällt die Fertigstellung der 25.000sten, 26.000sten und 27.000 Lokomotive seit Bestehen des Werks. |
| Angelica (N.Y.) |
1906 |
Pittsburg, Shawmut and Northern Railroad |
Die "Pittsburg & Shawmut Railroad" wird bis 1916 gepachtet. Danach arbeiten die Gesellschaften getrennt. |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
1906 |
Edwin Ross Thomas |
Alle Thomas-Flyer werden neu gestylt |
| Danville (Pennsylvania) |
1906 |
State Hospital for Insane |
Umbau der Heizungsanlage in ein Niederdrucksystem, Aufstellung von vier 330-PS-Wasserrohrkesseln und einer elektrischen Beleuchtungsanlage |
| East Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh) |
1906 |
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. |
Formelle Einrichtung einer Forschungsabteilung |
| Eddystone (Penn.) |
1906 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Baldwin erwirbt ein Grundstück mit 184 acres (= 744.622 qm) in Eddystone (Pa.), 12 Meilen von der Stadt entfernt, wo große Gießereien und Schmieden errichtet werden. Der Umzug von Philadelphia erlaubt die Aufstellung von zusätzlichen Maschinen- und Montagewerkstätten. Das Werk hat Verbindung zu drei Bahngesellschaften: Washington Main Line und an einem Zweig des Pennsylvania Railroad Systems, der Hauptstrecke der Baltimore & Ohio Railroad und der Philadelphia & Reading Railway. |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
1906 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Baldwin erwirbt ein Grundstück mit 184 acres (= 744.622 qm) in Eddystone (Pa.), 12 Meilen von der Stadt entfernt, wo große Gießereien und Schmieden errichtet werden. Der Umzug von Philadelphia erlaubt die Aufstellung von zusätzlichen Maschinen- und Montagewerkstätten. Das Werk hat Verbindung zu drei Bahngesellschaften: Washington Main Line und an einem Zweig des Pennsylvania Railroad Systems, der Hauptstrecke der Baltimore & Ohio Railroad und der Philadelphia & Reading Railway. |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
1906 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Bau der 28.000sten und der 29.000sten Lokomotive |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
1906 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Bau einer Anzahl großer Elektrolokomotiven für die "New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company" zum Ersatz von Dampflokomotiven im Bereich von New York. Es sind Drehgestellokomotiven mit vier Einphasen-Wechselstrommotoren als Achsmotoren (ohne Getriebe). Leistung je 1000 PS |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
1906 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Bau von 10 Personenzuglokomotiven der Achsfolge 2'C und 10 "Consolidation"-Güterzuglokomotiven (1'D) für die Italienische Staatsbahn |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
1906 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Bau von 57 "Prairie"-Verbundlokomotiven (Achsfolge 1'C1") für die Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad für den Güterzugverkehr. Sie haben innenliegende Hochdruckzylinder, die um 7° geneigt sind, damit das Triebwerk über der Achse des ersten Kuppelradsatzes liegt.. Ihr Dienstgewicht beträgt 248.000 pound und das Reibungsgewicht 174.000 pounds. - 31 ähnliche Lokomotiven werden 1907 gebaut. |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
1906 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Die "Great Northern Railway" erhält fünf Mallet-Lokomotiven (Achsfolge (1'C)C) zu dieser Zeit die schwersten. Ihr Gewicht beträgt 355.000 pound, mit 316.000 pound Reibungsgewicht |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
Anfang 1906 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Bau einer Werkstatt zur Herstellung von elektrischen Triebdrehgestellen Es hat eine Kapazität von 100 Drehgestellen pro Woche |
| Endicott (N.Y.) |
1906 |
International Time Recording Company |
Die Firma ist der zweiten Fabrik in Binghamton entwachsen und baut eine moderne Fabrik aus Stahlbeton in Endicott, New York. Sie wird noch lange als IBM-Fabrik genutzt |
| Frankford (Philadelphia) |
1906 |
Lardner's Point Water Pumping Station |
Erbaut |
| Gibbsboro (USA) |
um 1906 |
Gibbsboro Paint & Color Works, John Lucas & Co. |
Nach dem Tod von William H. Lucas und Albert Lucas übernehmen die anderen Söhne von John Lucas, William E. und H. Spencer Lucas, die Leitung. |
| Hackensack (N.J.) |
1906 |
Hackensack Water Works, New Milford Plant |
Inbetriebnahme des neuen Pumpwerks |
| Koppel (USA) |
1906 |
Arthur Koppel Company |
Arthur Koppel erwirbt im Beaver County, über dem Beaver River, 680 acres (558 Hektar) Land und errichtet eine Fabrik. Unterstützt (insbesondere beim schwierigen Landerwerb von zahlreichen Eigentümern) wird er von H. Alfred Ellis (*22.03.1871 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; + 1909). |
| Koppel (USA) |
Jan. 1906 |
Arthur Koppel Company |
Inbetriebnahme der "Arthur Koppel Car Company" |
| Lockport (New York) |
1906 |
Holly Manufacturing Co. |
Die "Holly Co." stimmt zu, ihre Besitztümer in Lockport an die "Amazon Rubber Company" vom 1. Dezember 1906 bis 1. Mai 1910 für eine Summe von 6.000 im Monat zu verpachten, einschließlich der gesamten Einrichtung, aber ohne deren Patente. Damit ist die Option verbunden, das Gebäude in Lockport für 150.000 bis zum 1. Dezember 1909 zu kaufen. |
| Manhattan (New York) |
1906 |
Manhattan Opera House |
Erbaut durch Oscar Hammerstein I |
| New Arlington (New Jersey) |
1906 |
John Schuyler |
Die Aktie der Arlington Copper wird als wertlos gemeldet. |
| New Milford (Hackensack) |
1906 |
Hackensack Water Works, New Milford Plant |
Inbetriebnahme des neuen Pumpwerks |
| New York City |
1904/05 |
Babcock & Wilcox Co. |
Ehrung durch den Grand Prix auf der Internationalen Weltausstellung in Mailand |
| New York City |
1906 |
International Steam Pump Company |
Eine von Benjamin Guggenheim 1903 gegründete Firma zur Herstellung von Bergwerksmaschinen in Milwaukee wird mit der ISPC verschmolzen |
| New York City |
1906 |
Manhattan Opera House |
Erbaut durch Oscar Hammerstein I |
| New York City |
1906 |
Rose Typewriter Co. |
George F. Rose gründet zusammen mit William Hazan die "Rose Typewriter Co." |
| New York City |
1906 |
Sun Typewriter Co. |
Die Gesellschaft bringt eine Reiseschreibmaschine aus Aluminium heraus |
| New York City |
1906 |
The Hammond Typewriter Co. |
Die "Hammond"-Schreibmaschine schreibt völlig sichtbar |
| New York City |
1906 |
Underwood Typewriter Co. |
Auszeichnung durch den Grand Prix in Mailand |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1906 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Baldwin erwirbt ein Grundstück mit 184 acres (= 744.622 qm) in Eddystone (Pa.), 12 Meilen von der Stadt entfernt, wo große Gießereien und Schmieden errichtet werden. Der Umzug von Philadelphia erlaubt die Aufstellung von zusätzlichen Maschinen- und Montagewerkstätten. Das Werk hat Verbindung zu drei Bahngesellschaften: Washington Main Line und an einem Zweig des Pennsylvania Railroad Systems, der Hauptstrecke der Baltimore & Ohio Railroad und der Philadelphia & Reading Railway. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1906 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Bau der 28.000sten und der 29.000sten Lokomotive |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1906 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Bau einer Anzahl großer Elektrolokomotiven für die "New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company" zum Ersatz von Dampflokomotiven im Bereich von New York. Es sind Drehgestellokomotiven mit vier Einphasen-Wechselstrommotoren als Achsmotoren (ohne Getriebe). Leistung je 1000 PS |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1906 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Bau von 10 Personenzuglokomotiven der Achsfolge 2'C und 10 "Consolidation"-Güterzuglokomotiven (1'D) für die Italienische Staatsbahn |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1906 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Bau von 57 "Prairie"-Verbundlokomotiven (Achsfolge 1'C1") für die Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad für den Güterzugverkehr. Sie haben innenliegende Hochdruckzylinder, die um 7° geneigt sind, damit das Triebwerk über der Achse des ersten Kuppelradsatzes liegt.. Ihr Dienstgewicht beträgt 248.000 pound und das Reibungsgewicht 174.000 pounds. - 31 ähnliche Lokomotiven werden 1907 gebaut. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1906 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Die "Great Northern Railway" erhält fünf Mallet-Lokomotiven (Achsfolge (1'C)C) zu dieser Zeit die schwersten. Ihr Gewicht beträgt 355.000 pound, mit 316.000 pound Reibungsgewicht |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
Anfang 1906 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Bau einer Werkstatt zur Herstellung von elektrischen Triebdrehgestellen Es hat eine Kapazität von 100 Drehgestellen pro Woche |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1906 |
Lardner's Point Water Pumping Station |
Erbaut |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1906 |
Philadelphia Water Works, Belmont Pumping Station |
Der George's Hill-Speicher wird gründlich gereinigt |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1906 |
Diescher, Samuel |
Bau der Kohlenwaschanlage der "Keystone Coal and Coke Co.", Allsworth |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1906 |
Diescher, Samuel |
Bau der Sandzerkleinerungsanlage der "Franklin Silica Sand Co." in Franklin |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1906 |
Rust Boiler Company |
Bau einer Fabrik in Midland am Fluß, südlich der Gießerei |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1906 |
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. |
Formelle Einrichtung einer Forschungsabteilung |
| Princeton (New Jersey) |
1906 |
Einstein, Albert |
Als Einstein 1905 seine Abhandlung "Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper" veröffentlicht, macht Planck auf eine formale Unvollständigkeit in Einsteins Darstellung der Dynamik eines Massenpunktes aufmerksam und gibt gleichzeitig eine vollständige Übertragung der Prinzipien der Mechanik in die Relativitätstheorie ("Das Prinzip der Relativität und die Grundgleichungen der Mechanik") |
| Princeton (New Jersey) |
1906-1907 |
Einstein, Albert |
Noch bevor Einstein 1907 seine Tätigkeit am Patentamt aufgibt, beginnt er, an der Erweiterung und Verallgemeinerung der Relativitätstheorie auf alle Koordinatensysteme zu arbeiten. Er formuliert anfangs das Äquivalenzprinzip - ein Postulat, dass Gravitationsfelder den Beschleunigungen des Bezugssystems äquivalent sind. Beispielsweise können Menschen, die sich in einem fahrenden Aufzug befinden, prinzipiell nicht unterscheiden, ob die auf sie wirkende Kraft durch die Schwerkraft oder durch eine konstante Beschleunigung des Aufzugs verursacht wird. |
| Syracuse (N.Y.) |
1906 |
Smith Premier Typewriter Co. |
Das Modell 9 "Smith Premier"-Schreibmaschine erscheint |
| Trenton (New Jersey) |
1906 |
Mercer |
Beginn des Automobilbaues unter dem Markenzeichen Roeblin-Planche, den Familiennamen der Firmeninhaber (bis 1909) |
| White Creek (Rensselaer, N.Y.) |
06.01.1906 |
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The fast express bound from Montreal to New York City by way of the Rutland, Boston and Maine and the New York Central Railroads, was deliberately wrecked early this morning. The engineer and fireman of the train were badly hurt and several passengers were shaken up and bruised.
The wreck occurred at Wallomsac Station, near White Creek, N. Y., on the Bennington Branch of the Boston and Maine Railroad. Only the presence of two freight cars on a siding, upon which the express train was switched, saved the train from a far more serious accident, it is believed.
After the wreck it was found that the switch near the Walloomsac station had been deliberately set and locked against the express, so that it would have to take the siding. The train was moving at a fair rate of speed when the accident occurred, and the locomotive, baggage, and express cars were badly wrecked. |
| Princeton (New Jersey) |
25.01.1906 |
Einstein, Albert |
Einstein erhält von der Universität Zürich seine Doktorwürde für eine theoretische Dissertation über Moleküle: "Für eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen"; Veröffentlichung in den "Annalen der Physik Ende 1906. |
| New York City |
18.02.1906 |
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There was a rear-end collision on the Williamsburg Bridge just before noon yesterday, between two trolley cars, one containing sixty passengers and the other ten. A car of the Reid Avenue line, in charge of Motorman Clarence Kander, preceded a Broadway car in charge of William Ottle. The Broadway car was crowded. Both were crossing to the Manhattan terminal.
According to the police, the brake of the Broadway car refused to work when the motorman tried to check the car's speed at the Brooklyn tower. Passengers, however, said that the motorman of the Reid Avenue car, on reaching the Brooklyn tower, suddenly decreased the speed, and the Broadway car, which was about 100 feet behind and going at a fast clip, crashed with great force into the rear platform of the Reid Avenue car, crushing the platform. The conductor was inside the car, and he and the passengers were knocked against each other. Wild scrambles to get out of the car followed. Policeman Bruggman, who was at the tower, rushed to the aid of the passengers and helped them out of the wrecked car.
Both cars were firmly locked together by the collision. David Murray of 1,916 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn; A. Prinsky of 141 Clinton Street, Manhattan, and Daniel Murray of 15 Auburn Place, passengers of the Reid Avenue car, suffered from shock and contusions. The wreck caused a blockade that involved twelve lines of cars, and extended for nearly a mile. |
| New York City |
19.02.1906 |
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Antonio Rossi of 505 East 150th Street, a laborer employed in the Subway to keep the tracks clear of rubbish, was killed by a train yesterday at his work between the Fourteenth Street and Astor Place stations. No one saw the accident, and the motorman of the train which struck the workman evidentially knew nothing of it, for no report was made of it.
Daniel Donovan, foreman of the "trash gang", as the rubbish scavengers are called, missed Rossi when his time was up, and, fearing that an accident had befallen him, sent a gang of men on a search of his beat. Fragments of the body were found strewn between the two stations.
The sight of Donovan depositing parts of the body on the platform of the Fourteenth Street Station caused several women to faint, and a rumor spread that there had been a collision in the Subway with many victims. Those on the platform rushed out horrified, and as they told the story outside the curious rushed down.
So great did the crush of the morbid become that there was danger of some of the people being pushed on to the tracks. The police reserves from the Fifth Street Station were called to clear the station. They had to poke the crowd with their clubs to drive it away. The Coroner will make an investigation into the death. |
| Saratoga Springs (New York) |
07.03.1906 |
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Two persons were killed, another will probably die before morning, and several were injured in an accident this afternoon on the Delaware & Hudson Railway. George Foster Peabody was hurt.
Soon after 5 o'clock a freight train in the yard at the bottom of Church Street ran off the track at the switch. The engine and three cars left the rails and effectually blocked the track. The passenger train from Rutland, due at Saratoga at 5:30 o'clock, was unable to pass and came to a halt.
The Montreal express was due in five minutes on a sharp curve, and a brakeman, according to the regulations, was hurried back along the line to flag it. The engineer of the express could not see the flag at any distance, but, as soon as he did, put on the brakes.
The speed was reduced, but it was impossible to stop the train before the engine of the Montreal train hit the rear car of the Rutland, driving it into the one just ahead and telescoping it. |
| Whitney Point (USA) |
10.03.1906 |
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Mrs. Ellen Bliss was instantly killed yesterday by the 9 o'clock accommodation train, her head being entirely severed from her body. She was walking on the track and the engineer blew the signal, but she seemed to crouch down in front of the train and it passed over her. She is survived by two children, DeForest and Miss Kate Bliss of this place. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
Juni 1906 |
Philadelphia Water Works, Belmont Pumping Station |
Das neue Kesselhauses südlich der Pumpstation geht in Betrieb. |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
02.06.1906 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Enthüllung einer lebensgroßen Statue von Matthew Baldwin, das von den Baldwin Locomotive Works der Park Commission von Philadelphia geschenkt wird. Sie steht an einer herausragenden Stelle vor der Hauptverwaltung |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
02.06.1906 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Enthüllung einer lebensgroßen Statue von Matthew Baldwin, das von den Baldwin Locomotive Works der Park Commission von Philadelphia geschenkt wird. Sie steht an einer herausragenden Stelle vor der Hauptverwaltung |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
02.06.1906 |
Baldwin, Mathias W. |
Enthüllung einer lebensgroßen Statue von Matthew Baldwin, das von den Baldwin Locomotive Works der Park Commission von Philadelphia geschenkt wird. Sie steht an einer herausragenden Stelle vor der Hauptverwaltung |
| Pavilion (New York) |
09.06.1906 |
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A big elm tree eighty feet tall and three feet in diameter, which was blown down during a severe storm last night, and across the tracks of the B. R. & P. railroad caused a fatal wreck at Gayton's Curve, one mile north of Pavilion at 3:52 o'clock this morning. A double-header freight train of thirty-nine cars going south, crashed into the obstruction, and Fireman LOUIS FRANKS of Salamanca was killed. Engineer THOMAS DONALDSON of the same place, probably fatally injured, and LOUIS LEWIS, a brakeman seriously hurt by being caught between two cars.
The freight train was running at a rate of fifty miles an hour as it rounded the curve, and the night being dark owing to the storm, it was impossible to see far ahead down the tracks. As the big tree was discovered, Engineer Donaldson reversed the lever, and made a desperate attempt to check the speed but slightly, and the crash came with great violence. Fireman FRANKS was thrown from the cab of the first engine, No 127, and under the wreckage. His body was not recovered until some time later. It was horribly crushed and beyond recognition. Engineer DONALDSON was pinned under the debris, but was still alive when extricated. When the crash came he was thrown high into the air, the wreckage falling upon him. |
| Eatontown (USA) |
12.06.1906 |
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Speeding at fifty miles an hour, the Atlantic City Express, over the Central Railroad of New Jersey, was wrecked at 10:15 o'clock yesterday morning at Eatontown, N. J. The train was on its way to this city. One of the passengers, G. W. Van Duzer, a vaudeville actor, of 221 West 133d Street, this city, was killed and at least twenty-five of the 150 passengers were more or less seriously injured. Otto Mesloh, a musician, of 310 East Eighty-seventh Street, was the most seriously hurt of the passengers.
Despite the fact that the big mogul locomotive pulling the train plowed a rut its own depth and thrice its length in the morase between the embankments of the track over which it should have continued, and the side track, the open switch of which led to the accident, the engineer, Elisha Egbert, and the fireman Robert Hackett, stuck to their posts and escaped without serious injury. They were both buried in mud and somewhat scalded by escaping steam from the engine. |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
Spätjahr 1907 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
In diesem Jahr auch Bau der 31.000sten und der 32.000sten Lokomotive |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
Spätjahr 1907 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
In diesem Jahr auch Bau der 31.000sten und der 32.000sten Lokomotive |
| Ballston (New York) |
03.07.1906 |
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The Saratoga limited on the Delaware & Hudson railroad was wrecked here today, and although the train was completely demolished not a passenger was killed or hurt. The wreck was due to an open switch. |
| Altoona (Pa.) |
05.07.1906 |
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A runaway car, flying like the wind down a mine-branch track that runs between Puritan and Portage, just before midnight, jumped the track a short distance west of Portage and crashed into a party of 20 foreigners who were holding a celebration along the track. Thirteen were killed. Several others were injured. The car was smashed to kindling wood and the tracks were torn up for 100 feet.
The car was loaded with a motor consigned to the Puritan Coal company and had been left standing on a siding near the mine shaft. Mine officials give it as their opinion that striking foreigners loosened the brake and started the car down the precipitins spur, although another theory is that malicious boys sent the car off. |
| Wilkes-Barre (USA) |
01.08.1906 |
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Joseph Shincot, aged about 18 years, a popular young man of Moyallen street, employed as a laborer at the South Wilkes-Barre colliery of the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Company, was killed shortly before 7 o'clock this morning while going to his work in the mines.
He was caught between a car and the rib of the gangway and fatally squeezed. Medical aid was summoned, but he died before any relief could be afforded him.
The remains were removed to the home on Moyallen street, from where the funeral will be held. Announcement later. The young man was well known in the vicinity of his home and much sorrow is expressed over his untimely death. |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
07.08.1906 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Westinghouse-Viertaktgasmaschine geht zur Durchführung von Verbesserungen an den Hersteller zurück. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
07.08.1906 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Westinghouse-Viertaktgasmaschine geht zur Durchführung von Verbesserungen an den Hersteller zurück. |
| Shamokin (Pennsylvania) |
14.08.1906 |
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Two cars on the Shamokin Extension Trolley line collided head-on near Uniontown tonight. Lewis Latsha, motorman, had legs crushed so badly that they will have to be amputated. Irvin Campbell, another employe [sic], was seriously injured by jumping. A number of passengers were badly shaken up. |
| Milton (Pennsylvania) |
18.08.1906 |
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With Both Legs Broken and is in a Serious But Not Dangerous Condition. He Forgot to Wait at the Switch on the Other Car Motorman Thornton Saw the impending Crash, and Jumping, escaped injury. A Lady Passenger Sprained an Ankle.
Walter Bubb, of Milton, a motorman on the trolley line in that place, was brought to the Williamsport Hospital last night badly injured, the result of a head on collision of cars, which occurred about two miles above Milton, on a sharp curve, along the river, about 7:20 oâ??clock in the evening. Bubb is a married man.
Went by the switch
Bubb was on his way to Milton with his car, and no doubt forgot that he had to wait at the switch for the car bound for Watsontown. The result was a head-on collision. George Thornton, the motorman on the other car, saw Bubbâ??s car coming, and, realizing that a collision was inevitable, reversed the lever and jumped, escaping uninjured. A lady passenger also jumped and sprained an ankle
Both Legs Broken
Motorman Bubb, however, was caught in the wreck, and both bones of his right leg at the ankle were fractured, while the left leg was broken at the knee. He is in a serious but not dangerous condition.
Both cars were badly smashed, one car running up onto the other to about the third seat. They were open cars. |
| Wilmerding (USA) |
29.08.1906 |
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F. C. VAWN, well-known in this vicinity, was killed near Wilmerding Wednesday. He was struck by a train, but the particulars have not yet been made known to his family. At the time of this death he was but 27 years old. He was married to Miss Elizabeth S. Kustaborder, March 20, 1905. Just five weeks ago they began housekeeping at Pitcairn. He was liked by all who knew him. His body was removed to his home in East Waterford and he will be buried from there Friday morning at 10 o'clock. He is survived by his father, mother and two sisters. |
| Tyrone (Pennsylvania) |
30.08.1906 |
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Joseph Eidler, aged 23 years, residing at Tyrone, was injured this morning about 5 o'clock, while walking on the railroad track near his home town. The young man failed to notice the approach of an east bound train and he was struck and hurled to one side of the track, luckily falling clear of the wheels. He sustained a compound fracture of the right arm and lacerations of the face. |
| Brooklyn (New York) |
16.09.1906 |
Pioneer Iron Works |
Ein Feuer zerstört das Eisenwerk vollständig. |
| New York (Brooklyn) |
16.09.1906 |
Pioneer Iron Works |
Ein Feuer zerstört das Eisenwerk vollständig. |
| South Brooklyn (Brooklyn) |
16.09.1906 |
Pioneer Iron Works |
Ein Feuer zerstört das Eisenwerk vollständig. |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
21.09.1906 |
Burt & Mitchell Company |
Tod von William Brown. William W. Gearhart wird sein Nachfolger. |
| Lansingburg (USA) |
04.10.1906 |
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Five persons were killed and about twenty-five injured by a rear-end collision on the Boston & Maine Road at the Lansingburg Station this afternoon. An excursion train from Boston, due in troy at 3:18 o'clock, had stopped at the station for Boston that leaves Troy at 4:20. The brakeman had received orders to go back to flag a special train conveying four troops of the Fifteenth Cavalry and their horses from Fort Ethan Allen on their way to Cuba. It would appear that he failed to perform this duty, for a few moments later the soldier's train came around the curve at great speed, and the engineer and fireman, seeing that the crash was inevitable, jumped off and escaped injury.
Two Pullman cars were split completely in two and the third car from the rear was telescoped. The two Pullmans were swept from the track and rolled down the steep embankment houses located along the track. The engine of the special kept right on for a dozen yards and then turned turtle, the front end plowing into the ground and the tender backing into the care behind and telescoping it. Many passengers of the waiting train had decoded to walk up and down beside the track and thus escaped injury. |
| Altoona (Pa.) |
06.10.1906 |
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A. G. Kipple, a 14 year old messenger boy at the Twelfth street offices, while slighting from an engine at Fourth street on his way home, 409 Second avenue, was thrown, dislocating his right knee cap. |
| Altoona (Pa.) |
06.10.1906 |
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Israel Zeigler, aged 23 years, of 1811 Eleventh avenue, while at work in the East Altoona round house, was caught in a burst of steam, sustaining burns of the face.
James Rettig, of 2021 Third avenue, while working at the Logan Valley power house yesterday had his left hand caught underneath a car, sustaining a bad contusion. |
| Altoona (Pa.) |
06.10.1906 |
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W. R. Franks, of 205 East Walnut avenue, was painfully injured last night at 9 o'clock in the Altoona yard. He is a brakeman and while riding a draft of cars down a track at WN office his brake club slipped and he was thrown off, alighting in the six foot clear of the rails. He sustained injuries of the back and right shoulder. He was taken to his home, where his injuries were dressed. |
| Atlantic City (N.J.) |
28.10.1906 |
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At least fifty persons lost their lives this afternoon when a three-car train of the Pennsylvania Railroad's newly equipped electric service from Camden to this resort plunged into the water from a drawbridge. The exact number of the dead will not be known until to-morrow, when divers are expected to reach the car, now submerged.
The accident occurred at the Thoroughfare, a stream something like the Coney Island Creek at New York's resort, and similarly situated.
Whether the accident resulted from the spreading of rail or from the failure of overlapping rails to meet nicely at the drawbridge has not been determined yet. The latter theory seems to be held by most of those who have looked into the conditions.
Two of the cars of the train lie thirty feet below the surface of the Thoroughfare late to-night, while the third car hangs from the abutment of the bridge, its front end submerged in the swift-running tide. |
| Wildwood (New Jersey) |
14.11.1906 |
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Twelve persons were injured, though none fatally, in the wreck of the passenger train on the Anglesea branch of the West Jersey & Seashore Railroad this afternoon about 2,500 yards north of the Grassy Sound Drawbridge. This is the branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad on which the recent wreck occurred at Thoroughfare Creek, near Atlantic City. The most seriously injured is Harry Newcomb, a brakeman.
The train was on its way to the junction from Wildwood to meet the Cape May Express, which left Camden at 9:08. While running at twenty-five miles an hour the engine and tender left the track, dragging all of the passenger coaches with them.
The jolting over the ties threw all the passengers from their seats, and amid the cries of excitement a combination car just back of the locomotive and the next coach broke their couplings and rolled down the embankment.
After running a short distance the last two cars ran down the embankment and lodged against telegraph poles. |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
16.11.1906 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Nach dem Ausscheiden von David F. Melville als assistierender Chefangestellter wird F. A. Power aus der Gießereiabteilung als sein Nachfolger bestimmt. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
16.11.1906 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Nach dem Ausscheiden von David F. Melville als assistierender Chefangestellter wird F. A. Power aus der Gießereiabteilung als sein Nachfolger bestimmt. |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
01.12.1906 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Eine neue Erz-Brücke geht auf dem neuen Platz in Betrieb. |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
12.1906 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Aufstellung einer zweiten Gasmaschine |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
01.12.1906 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Inbetriebnahme einer Waggon-Entladebrücke |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
Dez. 1906 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Aufstellung einer zweiten Gasmaschine für Gichtgas-Betrieb |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
01.12.1906 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Eine neue Erz-Brücke geht auf dem neuen Platz in Betrieb. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
12.1906 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Aufstellung einer zweiten Gasmaschine |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
12.12.1906 |
Philadelphia Water Works, Schuylkill Works |
Vertrag zum Umbau der Gaskill-Maschine Nr. 11 mit neuen Pumpen |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
31.12.1906 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
George Burnham Jr., der seit 1896 im Unternehmen tätig ist, scheidet als Teilhaber bei Baldwin aus |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
31.12.1906 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
George Burnham Jr., der seit 1896 im Unternehmen tätig ist, scheidet als Teilhaber bei Baldwin aus |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
31.12.1906 |
Burnham, George |
George Burnham Jr., der seit 1896 im Unternehmen tätig ist, scheidet als Teilhaber bei Baldwin aus |
| Beaver Falls (Penns.) |
1907 |
Keystone Driller Company |
Die Gesellschaft erwirbt die etablierte "Downie Pump Company" und verlegt diese in ihr Werk. Große Mengen von Tiefbrunnenpumpen werden unter ihrem eigenen Namen produziert und in die ganze Welt geliefert. |
| Beaver Falls (Penns.) |
1907 |
The Downie Pump Company |
Die "Keystone Driller Co." erwirbt das etablierte Unternehmen und verlegt es in ihr Werk. Große Mengen von Tiefbrunnenpumpen werden unter ihrem eigenen Namen produziert und in die ganze Welt geliefert. |
| Blauvelt (USA) |
um 1907 |
Kuhler, Otto |
Der 13jährige Otto Kuhler erhält den Auftrag, einen Katalog von Dampflokomobilen zu illustrieren. |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
1907 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Inbetriebnahme eines Waggonkippers |
| Brooklyn (New York) |
1907 |
Columbia Iron Works, D. & J. McNeil |
Tod von John McNeil, und sein Sohn John R. tritt ein. |
| Brooklyn (New York) |
1907 |
Edison Electric Illuminating Company of New York |
Die "Terry Steam Turbine Co." baut die ersten direkt gekuppelten kleinen Dampfturbinen, um Kreisel-Kesselspeisepumpen in der Kraftstation von Edison in New York anzutreiben. |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
1907 |
Colonel Ward Pumping Station |
Der Staat überträgt 12 acres Land am Fuß der Jersey und Porter Streets an die Stadt zum Bau eines neuen Wasserpumpwerks |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
1907 |
Colonel Ward Pumping Station |
Vertrag zum Bau eines neuen Wasserentnahmetunnels mund einer neune Wasserentnahmestelle vom Emerald Channel. - Während der Tunnel gebaut wird, laufen die Fundamentierungsarbeiten für die neue Pumpstation |
| Burnham (Pennsylvania) |
1907 |
Standard Steel Works Co. |
Im Stahlwerk Nr. 2 wird ein dritter Offen-Herd-Konverter für 50 tons aufgestellt |
| Burnham (Pennsylvania) |
1907 |
Standard Steel Works Co. |
John P. Sykes verläßt die Muttergesellschaft ("The Baldwin Locomotive Works") und wird Hauptbetriebsleiter des Werks in Burnham. - Später kehrt er zu Baldwin zurück und wird Assistent des General-Betriebsleiters. |
| Chester (Pa.) |
1907 |
Delaware River Iron Shipbuilding & Engine Works |
Ende der Firma. - Sie wird im Ersten Weltkrieg als "Chester Shipbuilding Co." reaktiviert. |
| Dover (N.J.) |
1907 |
Morris County Machine and Iron Co. |
Das Unternehmen gerät in wirtschaftliche Schwierigkeiten. |
| Dunkirk (New York) |
1907 |
Dunkirk Engineering Co. |
Umwandlung der "Dunkirk Engineering Co." in "Heisler Locomotive Works" |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
1907 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
20 "Consolidation"-Lokomotiven und zwei Inspektionswagen (alle Normalspur) werden von Baldwin in Philadelphia für die Südmandschurische Eisenbahn geliefert. |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
1907 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Auf der Jamestown Ter-Centennial Expsition in Norfolk (Va.) stellt Baldwin fünf Dampflokomotiven aus, ferner drei Baldwin-Westinghouse elektrische Lokomotiven und drei elektrische Drehgestelle |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
1907 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
John P. Sykes verläßt die Muttergesellschaft Baldwin und wird Hauptbetriebsleiter der "Standard Steel Works Company" in Burnham. - Später kehrt er zu Baldwin zurück und wird Assistent des General-Betriebsleiters. |
| Endicott (N.Y.) |
1907 |
International Time Recording Company |
Erwerbung der Dey Time Register Company |
| Erie (Pa.) |
1907 |
Heisler Locomotive Works |
Umwandlung der "Dunkirk Engineering Co." in "Heisler Locomotive Works" |
| Franklin (Franklin Springs) |
1907 |
Franklin Iron Works |
Schließung |
| Franklin Springs (N.Y.) |
1907 |
Franklin Iron Works |
Schließung |
| Hudson City (Jersey City) |
1907 |
John Mehl & Company |
Bau einer riesigen Fabrik im Häuserblock, der durch die Webster und New York Avenues bzw. Griffith und Hutton Streets begrenzt wird. |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
1907 |
Arthur L. Perkins Company |
Umwandlung in eine Aktiengesellschaft unter der Firma "Arthur L. Perkins Company" |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
01.01.1907 |
Causse Manufacturing and Importing Company |
Umwandlung der "A. L. Causse Co." in "Causse Manufacturing and Importing Co." mit einem genehmigten Kapital von $100.000 |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
1907 |
Collins, Lavery & Co. |
Bau einer Kistenfabrik |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
1907 |
John Mehl & Company |
Bau einer riesigen Fabrik im Häuserblock, der durch die Webster und New York Avenues bzw. Griffith und Hutton Streets begrenzt wird. |
| New York (Brooklyn) |
1907 |
Columbia Iron Works, D. & J. McNeil |
Tod von John McNeil, und sein Sohn John R. tritt ein. |
| New York (Brooklyn) |
1907 |
Edison Electric Illuminating Company of New York |
Die "Terry Steam Turbine Co." baut die ersten direkt gekuppelten kleinen Dampfturbinen, um Kreisel-Kesselspeisepumpen in der Kraftstation von Edison in New York anzutreiben. |
| New York City |
1907 |
American Thermos Bottle Company |
Gründung der "American Thermos Bottle Company" durch William Walker in Brooklyn, New York |
| New York City |
1907 |
Densmore Typewriter Co. |
Übernahme durch die "American Writing Machine Co." |
| New York City |
1907 |
Ericsson, John |
Gründung der "John Ericsson Society" in New York |
| New York City |
1907 |
General Electric Company |
Die Fabrik wird erweitert, die damit eine Grundfläche auf 100.000 square feet (9.290 qm) hat |
| New York City |
1907 |
Rose Typewriter Co. |
Die "Standard Folding"-Schreibmaschine kommt auf den Markt |
| New York City |
1907 |
Scovill Manufactoring Co. |
Firma: Ansco |
| New York City |
1907 |
Sun Typewriter Co. |
Das Modell 6 der "Sun"-Schreibmaschine erscheint |
| New York City |
1907 |
The Columbia Typewriter Mfg. Co. |
Die "Columbia-Barlock"-Schreibmaschine No. 12 wird herausgebracht |
| New York City |
1907 |
The Folmer & Schwing Mfg. Co. |
Umbenennung in "Folmer & Schwing, Div. of Eastman Kodak Co." |
| New York City |
1907 |
The Singer Manufacturing Company |
Eröffnung einer Singer-Fabrik in Bridgeport, Connecticut. |
| New York City |
01.1907 |
Underwood Typewriter Co. |
Die "Underwood"-Fakturmaschine No. 5 wird auf den Markt gebracht |
| New York City |
1907 |
Underwood Typewriter Co. |
Infolge Expansion: Umzug der Hauptverwaltung vom Broadway 218-220 zum Broadway 241-243 |
| New York City |
1907 |
Vanderbilt, William Kissam |
Gründung des "Long Island Motor Parkway" durch W. K. Vanderbilt zum Bau einer maut-pflichtigen Straße. - Sie wird nie wirtschaftlich |
| Newark (New Jersey) |
1907 |
National Red Oil & Soap Company |
Gründung. Als erste Produkte bringt die Firma sulfonierte Pflanzenöle für die Textilfärbung auf den Markt. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1907 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
20 "Consolidation"-Lokomotiven und zwei Inspektionswagen (alle Normalspur) werden von Baldwin in Philadelphia für die Südmandschurische Eisenbahn geliefert. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1907 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Auf der Jamestown Ter-Centennial Expsition in Norfolk (Va.) stellt Baldwin fünf Dampflokomotiven aus, ferner drei Baldwin-Westinghouse elektrische Lokomotiven und drei elektrische Drehgestelle |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1907 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
John P. Sykes verläßt die Muttergesellschaft Baldwin und wird Hauptbetriebsleiter der "Standard Steel Works Company" in Burnham. - Später kehrt er zu Baldwin zurück und wird Assistent des General-Betriebsleiters. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1907 |
Haas, Otto |
Zur Vermarktung enzymatischen Lederbeize gründet Otto Röhm gemeinsam mit dem Kaufmann Otto Haas die Firma Röhm & Haas in Esslingen, die bald das neue Produkt OROPON mit großem Erfolg auf den Markt bringt. Das Erfolgsprodukt OROPON ersetzt die in der Lederindustrie überlieferte Beizmethode mit Hundekot. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1907 |
Philadelphia Water Works, Belmont Pumping Station |
In den George's Hill-Speicher wird gefiltertes Wasser eingeleitet. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1907 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Installation eines Wagenkippers |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1907 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Überholung des Schienenwalzwerks Nr. 1 |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1907 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Inbetriebnahme eines Waggonkippers |
| Princeton (New Jersey) |
1907 |
Einstein, Albert |
Einstein legt weitere Ergebinnse zur Quanten- und Relativitätstheorie vor. |
| Rochester (N.Y.) |
1907 |
Century Camera Co. |
Änderung des Names in "Century CXamara Div. Eastman Kodak Co." |
| Rochester (N.Y.) |
1907 |
Cunningham Son & Co. |
Beginn des Automobilbaues, die ersten Autos hatten Elektroantrieb |
| Rochester (N.Y.) |
1907 |
Rochester Optical Co. |
Umbennunung in "Rochester Optical Div., EKC" (Teil von Eastman-Kodak) |
| Schenectady (USA) |
1907 |
American Locomotive Company |
Schießung des Werks in Rhode Island |
| Syracuse (N.Y.) |
1907 |
Franklin |
Einführung der automatischen Zündverstellung |
| York (Penns) |
1907 |
York Manufacturing Company |
Tod von P. H. Glatfelter. Sein Sohn William Glatfelter wirdd sein Nachfolger und fünfter Präsident des Unternehmens |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
04.01.1907 |
William Bender Company |
Tod von William Bender |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
05.01.1907 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Eine neue Erz-Brücke geht auf dem alten Platz in Betrieb. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
05.01.1907 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Eine neue Erz-Brücke geht auf dem alten Platz in Betrieb. |
| Warsaw (New York) |
12.01.1907 |
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Two freight trains were wrecked on the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railroad, near Warsaw, early today, in a head on collision.
Conductor JOHN F. O'BRIEN, of Rochester, who was riding in an engine, was killed. |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
29.01.1907 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Ein Feuer zerstört teilweise das Werkstattgebäude an der Südost-Ecke der 15th und Spring Garden Street. Die davon betroffenen Abteilungen ziehen in andere Bereiche, und die Arbeit wird mit nur kleiner Verspätung fortgesetzt |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
29.01.1907 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Ein Feuer zerstört teilweise das Werkstattgebäude an der Südost-Ecke der 15th und Spring Garden Street. Die davon betroffenen Abteilungen ziehen in andere Bereiche, und die Arbeit wird mit nur kleiner Verspätung fortgesetzt |
| Angelica (N.Y.) |
Febr. 1907 |
Pittsburg, Shawmut and Northern Railroad |
Baldwin liefert seine 30.000 Lokomotive, eine Santa Fe-Type (Achsfolge 1'E1') mit einfacher Dampfdehnung und Rauchkammerüberhitzer, an die PSN |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
Febr. 1907 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Fertigstellung der 30.000 Lokomotive, eine Santa Fe-Type (Achsfolge 1'E1') mit einfacher Dampfdehnung und Rauchkammerüberhitzer. Sie wird an die "Pittsburg, Shawmut and Nothern Railroad Company" geliefert |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
Febr. 1907 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Fertigstellung der 30.000 Lokomotive, eine Santa Fe-Type (Achsfolge 1'E1') mit einfacher Dampfdehnung und Rauchkammerüberhitzer. Sie wird an die "Pittsburg, Shawmut and Nothern Railroad Company" geliefert |
| Neshanic (USA) |
07.02.1907 |
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The boiler of a Lehigh Valley locomotive exploded between Fernwood and Neshanic, causing the death of one man and the injury of two others. The man who was fatally scalded was WILLIAM MESHER, 32 years old. He died in the Easton hospital. The others injured are SOREN HANSON, the fireman, and SAMUEL DONNELLY, the engineer. All the men resided at Perth Amboy. |
| Easton (Pennsylvania) |
12.02.1907 |
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In a collision between trolley cars on the Northampton Traction company's line, just beyond the city limits, EDWARD HOPKINS, a motorman, was probably fatally injured, and PETER WILLIAMS, a constable of Belfast, and QUINTUS HEITZMAN, of Palmer township, were dangerously hurt. HOPKINS' legs were crushed so that they will have to be amputated; several of Constable WILLIAMS' ribs were broken, and HEITZMAN sustained internal injuries. Several other passengers were slightly hurt. |
| Easton (Pennsylvania) |
12.02.1907 |
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In a collision between trolley cars on the Northampton Traction Co.'s line just beyond the city limits EDWARD HOPKINS, a motorman, was probably fatally injured and PETER WILLIAMS, a constable of Belfast and QUINTUS HELTZMAN of Palmer township were dangerously hurt. HOPKINS legs were crushed so that they will have to be amputated. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
13.02.1907 |
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Seven persons were seriously injured and a number of others slightly hurt in a collision to-day between a heavy double-truck traction car on the West Wilkinsburg line and a trolley pole. The names:
D. L. Henry, conductor, ribs fractured and head cut Joseph Hess, motorman jaw fractured and badly bruised John Kirkpatrick, passenger, left leg broken and head cut James Walker, colored, left leg broken William Wilkins, school boy, aged fourteen, nose broken and cut and bruised Margaret Braun, aged twenty, right arm broken and cut by glass Hattie Martin colored, shoulder hurt Anna Bell Jackson, colored skull fractured.
The car got beyond the control of the motorman at Penn and Trenton avenues, and, dashing down the heavy grade, jumped the rails and crashed into the pole. The passengers were thrown in a heap on the floor by the impact, and Margaret Braun was hurled through the car window. The injured were removed to a hospital. |
| New York City |
16.02.1907 |
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he White Plains and Brewster express, a six-car electric train on the Harlem division on the New York Central & Hudson River railroad, jumped the track at a curve near Woodlawn road, in the Bronx, bringing either death or injury to probably three score of its 150 or more passengers.
At 9:45 o'clock the police reported that they had recovered seventeen bodies from the wreckage and that there might be other victims in the ruins of the train. Of those removed to hospitals it was said that a dozen and perhaps double that number would die of their injuries.
The train -- No. 25 -- left the Grand Central station at 6:13 o'clock, drawn by two heavy electric motors and loaded with a matinee crowd and commuters on their way home from business, it was made up of the combination and smoking car and five passenger coaches. At Woodlawn road the four tracks run through a rocky cut and take a sharp curve. When the train reached the curve it was, according to the passengers, running at a very high speed, estimated by some at sixty miles an hour. Both motors and the smoking car swung safely around the curve, but the cars following left the rails and plunged over on their sides with a terrific crash and tore up the tracks and after sliding a hundred yards, collapsed in one mass. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
16.02.1907 |
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The Congressional Limited train on the Pennsylvania railroad which leaves Washington for New York at four o'clock, ran through this city Wednesday night at terrific speed with the engineer, JOSEPH TOMS, dead at the throttle.
Shortly after the train left West Philadelphia, the fireman, HARRY MICHNER, noticed the speed of the train was unusual. MICHNER called to TOMS but received no answer and when the train rushed through Fairmount Park and neared North Philadelphia, the fireman climbed over the big boiler into the engineer's cab to find TOMS dead with his hand on the throttle. His head was hanging out of the cab window and had been crushed by striking some object along the road. |
| New Florence (Pennsylvania) |
18.02.1907 |
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Thursday morning, about 3:20 a west bound freight train, in charge of Jesse C. Dudley, engineman, and Edward B. McKelvey, conductor, was wrecked near New Florence, the engine and 11 cars having been piled up blocking both No.1 and No. 2 tracks.
The cause of the wreck is said to have been a spreading or broken rail. Fortunately no one was injured, although both the west bound tracks were completely blocked. |
| New York City |
18.02.1907 |
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Bei der Entgleisung eines elektrischen Vorortzugs in New York werden 20 Menschen getötet und über 50 verletzt. |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
19.02.1907 |
Josiah Ross |
Josiah Ross begeht Selbstmord wegen seiner schlechten Gesundheit. Er wird in seinem Büro mit einer Kugel im Kopf gefunden. Sein Juniorpartner Aloysius S. McGarry wird des Mordes angeklagt, jedoch am 29. April freigesprochen. McGarry hatte noch nicht den Anteil am Unternehmen erworben. |
| Black Diamond (Pennsylvania) |
23.02.1907 |
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The Pennsylvania railroad's eighteen hour special west bound train was wrecked at Black Diamond, seven miles east of Johnstown, shortly after midnight.
There were fifty-four passengers on the train and nearly every one of them was injured. JOHN F. KLINE, postmaster at Joliet, Ill., was badly crushed about the head and is probably fatally injured.
The train was running about fifty miles an hour and was thirty-five minutes late. When rounding a sharp curve the Pullman coaches left the rails and plunged over a sixty-foot embankment into the river.
All attempts to obtain information from the railroad officials met with rebuffs at every hand.
The accident was caused by a brake rigging on the first Pullman dropping down and tearing up the rails for 300 yards.
The engine and combination coach did not leave the rails, but the four Pullmans following plunged down over the embankment to the river over 100 feet below, overturning when they reached the bottom. Some of the seriously injured were brought to this city and others were taken to Altoona. The greater number, whose injuries were slight, continued the west bound journey on a special train. |
| Mineral Point (Pa.) |
23.02.1907 |
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A smash-up occurred at Mineral Point, Pa., when the westbound Pennsylvania's eighteen-hour train was derailed. Most of the passengers were injured, but none were killed. |
| New York City |
23.02.1907 |
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Sixteen passengers were killed outright, four others had died of their injuries in the wreck of the White Plains & Brewster express on the Harlem division of the New York Central & Hudson River railroad near Woodlawn road in the Bronx borough of Greater New York Saturday night.
A sheet of electric flame that signaled the disaster enveloped the rear car and for a moment threatened to roast the victims pinioned in the debris. The flames did not, however, spread, and the horror of a holocaust was averted. As the cars fell they smashed the third rail, breaking the current and ending danger from this source. In the crash, however, there was death for many, while practically everyone in the four coaches received injuries of some sort. Many were ground to pieces and for hours identification was almost hopeless. As the cars went over, many of the passengers were thrown into or through the windows and cur or maimed.
After stopping at One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street the train was scheduled to run express to White Plains. At Woodlawn road the four tracks run through a rocky cut and take a sharp curve.
When the train reached the curve it was running at a speed estimated by some at sixty miles an hour.
Both motors and the smoking car swung safely around the curve. But the other cars left the rails, plunging over on their sides with a terrific crash and tearing up the tracks for 100 yards before they collapsed. Of those instantly killed by far the greater number were women. Many were mangled beyond recognition. |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
27.02.1907 |
George Stratford Oakum Company |
Tod von Herbert Ridley Stratford an den Folgen einer Blinddarmoperation |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
03.1907 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Aufstellung einer dritten Gasmaschine |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
März 1907 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Aufstellung einer dritten Gasmaschine für Gichtgas-Betrieb |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
03.1907 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Aufstellung einer dritten Gasmaschine |
| New York City |
08.03.1907 |
Underwood Typewriter Co. |
Der Schreibmaschinen-Erfinder Franz Wagner stirbt |
| New York City |
08.03.1907 |
Wagner, Franz |
Der Schreibmaschinen-Erfinder Franz Wagner stirbt |
| Niagara Falls (USA) |
12.03.1907 |
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An icicle [Eiszapfen] that became detached from the high bank below the railway bridge at the Whirlpool Rapids this afternoon caused the death of JOSEPH MENZER, a conductor on a belt line car, injured Motorman HYATT, wreck the electric car, and injured these passengers: S. S. LINDSEY, Pittsburg, Penn., arm broken, and MRS. LINDSEY, badly shocked; DR. and MRS. J. E. NEWIG of Sioux City, Iowa, both shocked and bruised.
After the washout of last January the Gorge road opened a single temporary track along the rapids. At the upper end a switch opens to the old double track. Conductor MENZER went ahead to throw this switch, but as he found it clogged by ice, Motorman HYATT jumped off to help him. While they were clearing the switch the ice came rushing down the slope of the bank, which is very steep at that point. Both MENZER and HYATT ran to get away from the path of the ice, but MENZER was caught and crushed. HYATT had a narrow escape from death.
Great pieces of ice weighing tons struck and crushed the car, but the seven passengers were able to escape with cuts and bruises to the roadbed.
DR. and MRS. NEWIG are on their honeymoon trip. |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
14.03.1907 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Schweres Hochwasser des Monongahela River |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
14.03.1907 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Schweres Hochwasser des Monongahela River |
| Lockport (Westmoreland, Pa.) |
15.03.1907 |
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ALBERT KISSLER, aged about 25, died at Bolivar on Wednesday morning of injuries received by falling from his train over the P.R.R. Bridge at Lockport, between 4 and 5 o'clock.
KISSLER was standing on the deck of a boxcar, watching for signals from the rear end, when his footing slipped and he fell 35 feet to the bank of the river, a portion of his body being submerged.
Fellow trainmen witnessed the manâ??s fall and hurried to the bank of the stream, where they found their friend unconscious. He was taken to Bolivar and a physician was summoned, but the injured man died in a short time.
KISSLER was employed by the P. R. R. for several years and made his home in Youngwood. |
| Derry (Westmorel., Pa.) |
16.03.1907 |
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Grover Lease, a Pennsylvania brakeman, fell from an engine here tonight and was so badly crushed that he will die. He is at the Westmoreland hospital. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
22.03.1907 |
Philadelphia Water Works, Belmont Pumping Station |
Wiederaufnahme der Arbeiten an der Vorfilteranlage |
| New York City |
04.1907 |
Victor Typewriter Co. |
Gründung |
| Youngwood (USA) |
30.04.1907 |
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E. G. Woolford, formerly of West Lebanon, who was employed as an engineer on the Southwest branch of the P. R. R., was killed, as was also his fireman, at Youngwood this morning.
They were running their engine around the Y, and in an attempt to get out of the way of another engine were run down, by their own engine, Woolford's body being cut in two.
He was married, and aged about 40 years. He was a son of Mrs. Nancy Woolford, who formerly lived at West Lebanon.
The funeral will be held at Greensburg on Thursday afternoon. |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
Mai/Juni 1907 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Fertigstellung von 20 Verbundlokomotiven, Achsfolge 2'C, Bauart De Glehn, mit Belpaire-Stehkesseln, mit Massenausgleich für die Paris-Orléans-Bahn in Frankreich. Die Loks werden nach Plänen, die von der Bahngesellschaft geliefert werden, im metrischen Maßsystem gebaut. |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
01.05.1907 |
Halstead & Co. |
Zusammenschluß der "Central Lard Company" und der "Halstead & Company" unter der Firma "Halstead & Company of New Jersey" |
| Lyons (New York) |
01.05.1907 |
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Patrick Murphy, a New York Central engine fire cleaner, had a narrow escape from being ground up by the Fast Mail this afternoon. Murphy had hoed out an engine and was crossing track No. 2 when he happened to see the Fast Mail almost upon him. He gave a jump, caught his foot, stumbled and fell between tracks 1 and 2, fracturing his left collarbone.
He lay between the tracks partly unconscious as the Fast Mail passed within a few inches of his body. After the train passed by he was picked up, taken into the baggage room, where he was attended by Dr. James W. Putnam. |
| McKeever (New York) |
01.05.1907 |
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By reason of a misconception or disregard of orders, there was a head-on collision between two passenger trains on the Mohawk & Malone road, about three miles north of McKeever Saturday afternoon at 3:15.
As a result three railroad men are dead, and quite a number or railroad men and passengers are injured, some seriously. The accident is one of the most serious that has occurred on railroads in this vicinity for years. Where the responsibility for it belongs will be determined by the coroner's inquest. Report places it on those in charge of the south bound train, but the conductor and engineer decline to make any statement in regard to the matter at present. The accident will no doubt be fully investigated.
The Trains.
The trains which collided were No. 651, known as the Adirondack express, which left Utica at 1:05 P. M., north bound, and the south bound train, No. 650, due in Utica, at 4:30 P. M. Train No. 651 was made up of four freight cars, one palace car and three passenger coaches. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
Mai/Juni 1907 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Fertigstellung von 20 Verbundlokomotiven, Achsfolge 2'C, Bauart De Glehn, mit Belpaire-Stehkesseln, mit Massenausgleich für die Paris-Orléans-Bahn in Frankreich. Die Loks werden nach Plänen, die von der Bahngesellschaft geliefert werden, im metrischen Maßsystem gebaut. |
| Ohiopyle (USA) |
12.05.1907 |
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A freight wreck in which a caboose and two cars were smashed to pieces and several trainmen narrowly escaped serious injury, occurred at Ohiopyle yesterday. Conductor Joe Zipp was in the caboose at the time of the accident and received a bad cut on the head. His train had been flagged and had just started out when another freight with Engineer George Rote at the throttle crashed into it.
The engineer shut his engine off as quickly as possible, but not before it had gone through the caboose and smashed two cars in the rear of the train. Conductor Zipp is a Johnstown man. He has been running on the Connellsville division. Traffic was not delayed by the smashup. |
| Ohiopyle (USA) |
12.05.1907 |
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The body of Edward Lynch, who was run over and killed by a train at Ohiopyle several nights ago, after he had been put off train No. 10 there for refusing to pay his fare, was taken to McKeesport yesterday on No. 15. A brother-in-law who lives in that city came to Connellsville yesterday morning and identified the remains.
Lynch was well connected in McKeesport. He was the brother-in-law of G. E. Dale, a prominent and well to do citizen of that place who, several years ago, left on a prospecting trip into British Columbia. Dale became lost and nothing has ever been heard of him since. |
| New York City |
17.05.1907 |
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Runaway on Broadway Causes Panic and Injuries-Passengers Flee in Terror, While Persons on the Street Gather in Excited Crowds.
A runaway horse attached to an express wagon came into collision with a northbound Broadway car at Forty-Fourth Street last night, and the result was a panic in the car, during which several persons were hurt, and there was great excitement in the vicinity.
The horse was attached to a wagon belonging to William Jones, who keeps an express stand at Fifty-Third Street and Broadway, and took fright while standing in front of the stand. The animal started down the street with the wagon swaying and lurching, and the reins dragging in the street. At Forty-Fourth Street a northbound car was just slowing up at the corner, when apparently it attracted the attention of the horse, for he slightly changed his course and ran for the car.
The animal in one bound was on the fender of the car, with his forelegs pawing the air where a moment before Eric Bwath, the motorman, had been standing. Bwath, had seen the runaway coming, and had turned off the power, but the car proceeded at least twenty feet before it came to a standstill. |
| Fink Basin (USA) |
23.05.1907 |
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A freight engine, east bound on the New York Central railroad, jumped the track at Finks Basin, east of Little Falls, Tuesday morning at 2 o'clock and the Buffalo & Cleveland special train 29, west bound, crashed into the wreckage.
Baggageman FINLEY, of New York, was instantly killed and Engineer TREMBLY of the passenger train was injured. Engineer HYDE and his fireman of the freight were badly scalded. Others hurt and now in the Little Falls hospital are:
MR. AND MRS. B. W. FOLGER, of Toronto, Can., body and hands injured.
MR. ALLSBURG, New York, feet injured.
Conductor LUDDINGTON was in charge of the passenger train and he said that the freight engine jumped the track just as the passenger train approached, going in the opposite direction.
MR. AND MRS. B. W. FOLGER are well known in Watertown. MRS. FOLGER was MISS MINNIE SHAW, daughter of the late Col. And Mrs. A. D. Shaw. MR. AND MRS. FOLGER reside in Toronto, where MR. FOLGER is the manager of a Toronto and Lewiston steamboat line. |
| Koppel (USA) |
20.06.1907 |
Arthur Koppel Company |
Inbetriebnahme |
| New York City |
07.1907 |
Yetman Typewriter Transmitter Co. |
Gründung im Juli 1907 mit 1.500.000 $ Kapital |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
14.07.1907 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Eines der schlimmsten Hochwasser des Monongahela-Flusses mit einem Pegelstand von 34 ft. 6 inches |
| Sea Isle City (USA) |
20.07.1907 |
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An express train bound from Cape May for Philadelphia and another passenger train south-bound from Philadelphia for Ocean City collided during a heavy thunderstorm to-day at Sea Isle Junction, near here. Both trains were running slowly, and no one was injured seriously enough to need the attention of a physician, although some of the passengers were badly shaken.
The trains had orders to meet at the junction, but the Cape May train ran past its proper stopping place. Both engines are the baggage car of the north-bound train were derailed. |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
Aug. 1907 |
Causse Manufacturing and Importing Company |
Ein Feuer zerstört die Fabrik völlig |
| Kelly (Pennsylvania) |
06.08.1907 |
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Titusville express, southbound, was wrecked near Kelly station, ten miles from here, about 11:30 today, by being sideswiped by a freight car that had broken away from a northbound freight train. The engine was derailed. Two baggage cars, a smoker and a passenger car were wrecked. At least six persons are dead and about eighteen injured. The train on leaving Kittanning was behind time and it is said was running at high speed. The accident occurred at a sharp curve, preventing the engineer from seeing any considerable distance ahead. In some manner a big freight car that formed part of a freight train, northbound, had broken away from the train and had landed some distance from the northbound track. It projected over the southbound track. The express, as it rounded the curve was struck by this car, derailing the engine and wrecking the four cars. The train was well filled. Nearly all the passengers suffered from shock. |
| Magnolia (Camden, N.J.) |
14.08.1907 |
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Hidden from each other by a heavy curtain of fog, two trolley cars running at almost full speed, crashed head on at 6 o'clock this morning at Warrick road, Magnolia, N. J., ten miles from Camden.
Twelve persons were injured, nine seriously, however. There were fully fifty person, mostly men, in the north bound car, running from Clementon to Camden, on the Haddon Heights branch of the Public service corporation trolley road. The other car was almost empty.
It was the north bound car, heavily laden with men going to their work in Camden, that was most injured It was splintered and hurled from its trucks Every passenger was thrown to the floor by the impact, and it was in this way that the injuries were sustained. |
| Sunbury (Pennsylvania) |
14.08.1907 |
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John O'Boyle, son of Robert O'Boyle, of the First Reformed church here, employed in the Pennsy machine shop, was called on yesterday to help in the yards on account of a shortage of men, and getting caught between an engine and car as the latter was
"sideswiped" had his right arm so badly crushed amputation near the shoulder was necessary.
He is in a critical condition from shock and loss of blood, but is expected to recover. |
| New York City |
09.1907 |
Cram Writing Maschine Company |
Geschäftseröffnung |
| Canandaigua (N.Y.) |
06.09.1907 |
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DR. GEORGE WALDRON, a venerable physician of Rochester, took three of his oldest women patients for a health-giving auto jaunt in the country. At the â??Fresh Hour Crossing, four miles from here, the machine was struck by an express trolley car of the Rochester and Easton Railway, and all four were instantly killed.
Another woman patient, who was to have joined the auto party at the crossing, alighted from the trolley car to step upon the body of the doctor. It is said she will die from the shock. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
06.09.1907 |
Haas, Otto |
Dr. Otto Röhm entwickelt ein auf den Enzymen der Pankreasdrüsen basierendes Beiz-Verfahren für tierische Häute und meldet es zum Patent an. Mit seinem Freund, dem Kaufmann Otto Haas gründet der Apotheker und Chemiker am 6. September die Firma "Röhm & Haas OHG" im schwäbischen Esslingen und nimmt die Herstellung und Vermarktung seines Lederbeizmittels OROPON auf. |
| Newton (New Jersey) |
10.1907 |
H. W. Merriam Shoe Company |
"O'Donnell & McManiman" erweitert das Kessel- und Maschinenhaus. Ein neuer Kessel und eine neue Maschine werden aufgestellt. |
| Troy (Pennsylvania) |
12.10.1907 |
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Two trains on the Northern Central division of the Pennsylvania railroad collided near Troy this morning and caused a bad wreck. It is reported that the engineer is dead. JOHN MAXEY, of Elmira, a Northern Central engineer, was killed in a head on collision of two freights in front of the station at Troy, Pa., at 10 o?clock Saturday morning. His body was buried beneath the wreckage.
Maxey was engineer on train 93 a fast freight. Coming down the steep hill the other side of Troy the air brakes refused to work and the train came tearing down the incline. Local 92 stood on the track in front of the Troy station. The two engines came together with a terrific crash. Both engines were demolished and the cars in the forward part of the trains were badly wrecked.
Maxey, when he saw the air wouldn?t work, rushed out on the train and began setting the hand brakes. He was on the third car when the two trains came together. The others of the train crew were not injured.
The station was slightly damaged by the wreckage. |
| Connellsville (USA) |
16.10.1907 |
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Otis Ryal, freight brakeman on the Coal Lick Run Railroad, was killed in a freight wreck at the East Connellsville coke works. He was 23 years old and lived in Uniontown. |
| Derry (Westmorel., Pa.) |
16.10.1907 |
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Just west of Bradenville the engine crew of a passenger train saw a foreigner run to the railroad track and kneel in the attitude of prayer. The speed of the train was partially slackened, but the man was struck. One leg was cut off, the other was mangled and he was cut and bruised. He was taken on board the train and brought to the Westmoreland hospital, where he died. Before he lost consciousness he told railroad employees he had quarreled with his wife. His name was John Dassa. |
| Perkiomen (USA) |
16.10.1907 |
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A high wind was the cause of a railroad wreck on the Perkiomen branch of the Philadelphia & Reading railway, in which one man was probably fatally injured and another seriously hurt.
A tree was blown across the track and a train of four cars, all crowded, ran into it. The locomotive plunged down an embankment into the Perkiomen creek, and the cars hung on the edge of the embankment.
EDWARD J. MILLER, fireman of the locomotive, received injuries that probably will prove fatal, and the engineer, M. L. GEISSENHAINER, sustained a broken leg. No passengers were injured. |
| Pottstown (Pennsylvania) |
18.10.1907 |
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Four persons from Kimberton, a village near Phoenixville, were killed and another was fatally hurt when the Reading express from Philadelphia to Pottsville, passing through Pottstown at great speed, ground an automobile to splinters at the Keim street crossing, not far from the Pottstown station.
The dead are: MRS. A. WAYNE EMERY and her baby girl, VELVA; JACOB REESE, her brother, and MRS. REESE. A. WAYNE EMERY, owner of the machine, forty-five, has a broken thigh and fatal internal injuries.
The party visited MR. EMERY'S sister, MRS. JOSEPH MARCH, of this place. They left for Kimberton shortly before 5 o'clock p. m. and were speeding at a lively rate down Keim street to cross the Reading tracks when the accident occurred.
Train No. 7 reached the crossing simultaneously with the party and struck the machine fairly on the side. The two men were hurled high into the air and dropped at the bottom of one embankment along the tracks at the place, fifty feet away. The little girl, torn from her mother's arms, landed near them. The women were carried on the cowcatcher until the train was stopped, three or four blocks away.
Workmen from adjoining plants, many of whom had seen the collision, hurried out, but all the victims were past aid except MR. EMERY and the little girl. They were taken to the Pottstown Hospital. MR. EMERY remained conscious most of the time, but could not talk coherently. The bodies were placed on the train and brought into town. The automobile was destroyed.
The Keim street crossing, a grade affair, has proved a deathtrap many times. It is approached by a slight rise, preceded by a long, heavy down grade, and the only protection is a gong rung mechanically by a passing train. The supposition is that MR. EMERY had been running too fast, the crossing being a constant temptation to autoists to speed down grade. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
23.10.1907 |
Philadelphia Water Works, Belmont Pumping Station |
Inbetriebnahme der Vorfilteranlage |
| Berwick (Penn.) |
Nov. 1907 |
Jackson & Woodin Manufacturing Co. |
Innerhalb von 25 Arbeitstagen werden im ACF-Werk Berwick 2.550 Waggons gebaut. Das sind durchschnittlich 102 pro Werktag |
| New Jersey |
Nov. 1907 |
American Car and Foundry Co. |
Innerhalb von 25 Arbeitstagen werden im Werk Berwick 2.550 Waggons gebaut. Das sind durchschnittlich 102 pro Werktag |
| Brooklyn (New York) |
04.12.1907 |
Havemeyer & Elder |
Tod von Henry Osborne Havemeyer nach kurzem Leiden auf der Merrivale Farm in Commack, Long Island |
| Commack (USA) |
04.12.1907 |
Havemeyer & Elder |
Tod von Henry Osborne Havemeyer nach kurzem Leiden auf der Merrivale Farm in Commack, Long Island |
| New York (Brooklyn) |
04.12.1907 |
Havemeyer & Elder |
Tod von Henry Osborne Havemeyer nach kurzem Leiden auf der Merrivale Farm in Commack, Long Island |
| Bolivar (Pennsylvania) |
18.12.1907 |
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Joseph Easly, a former well-known resident of Johnstown, who had been employed at Bolivar for some years was so badly injured there Saturday night the he died while being taken to Johnstown for treatment. Easly was 50 years old and was a son of Former Associated Judge George Easly, a famous Civil War veteran, of Johnstown.
While attempting to dismount from a freight train to Bolivar, Easly was hurled to the track and his neck was broken, in addition to which he received other injuries. His death was not instantaneous and he was found by railroad men, who made arrangements to have him admitted to a Johnstown hospital. Easly died before reaching the institution.
It is said Easly had made a trip to Johnstown and was bound for his home when he met his death. |
| Sayre (Penns.) |
18.12.1907 |
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James M. Robinson, a yard fireman for the Lehigh railroad at Sayre, was run over by a locomotive in the Sayre yard on Wednesday morning and died late in the afternoon. He was frightfully mangled, and how he lived the number of hours he did is a mystery to the hospital physicians. |
| Sunbury (Pennsylvania) |
18.12.1907 |
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Harry Meniel would have bled to death the other night at Sunbury had not his military training been called into play. Two months ago he was honorably discharged from the army. While employed as brakeman on a Pennsylvania railroad freight train he fell under the cars sustaining a terrible laceration of the head. He quietly directed the men how to close the arteries to shut off the flow of blood. |
| Bolivar (Pennsylvania) |
25.12.1907 |
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Twelve persons were injured, a score jolted and bruised and seven cars loaded with Christmas presents narrowly escaped destruction in a collision between Chicago Mail, No. 18, eastbound, and extra freight train, train No. 3084, on the Pennsylvania railroad, near Bolivar, at 7 o'clock Sunday evening.
The freight wreck occurred a few hundred yards west of Bolivar station and was the result of the freight being derailed.
The mail drawn by two locomotives, crashed into the wreckage before warning was given, the debris from the freight being thrown upon the eastbound passenger track in the path of the flyer. The mail was going at the rate of 45 miles an hour. |
| Camden (N.J.) |
27.12.1907 |
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Three persons were killed and seventeen injured in a collision on the elevated tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad just outside the station here today, with a Pemberton accommodation train ran into the rear of an Atlantic City express. A heavy fog was the principal cause of the accident. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
28.12.1907 |
Sellers, Colemann William |
Tod von Colemann William Sellers jr. in Philadelphia |
| Beaver Falls (Penns.) |
1908 |
Keystone Driller Company |
Einführung des elektrischen Antriebs |
| Bethlehem (Penns) |
1908 |
Bethlehem Steel Corporation |
Schwab führt die Grey Mill, ein Walzwerk zur Herstellung von Breitflanschträgern, ein. |
| Braddock (Pittsburgh) |
01.01.1908 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Durch eine Explosion bei den Stahlkonvertern kommen drei Leute ums Leben. |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
1908-1909 |
Parker Machine Company |
1908 oder 1909: Umwandlung in "Silent Writing Machine Co." |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
1908-1909 |
Silent Writing Machine Company |
1908 oder 1909: Umwandlung aus "Parker Machine Co." |
| Carteret (USA) |
1908 |
Goldschmidt Detinning Co. |
Die Goldschmidt OHG gründet die "Goldschmidt Detinning Co." in Chrome/New York. Dieses wichtige Tochterunternehmen beherrscht mit seinen großen und modernen Entzinnungskapazitäten bald den gesamten nordamerikanischen Markt. |
| Chrome (Carteret) |
1908 |
Goldschmidt Detinning Co. |
Die Goldschmidt OHG gründet die "Goldschmidt Detinning Co." in Chrome/New York. Dieses wichtige Tochterunternehmen beherrscht mit seinen großen und modernen Entzinnungskapazitäten bald den gesamten nordamerikanischen Markt. |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
1908 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Bau der 33.000sten Lokomotive |
| Endicott (N.Y.) |
1908 |
International Time Recording Company |
Erwerbung der Syracuse Time Recording Company |
| Montandon (USA) |
01.01.1908 |
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The Pennsylvania Railroad express, which left Buffalo at 9 o'clock last night and which was due in Philadelphia at 7:32 a. m. to-day, was wrecked at Montandon, ten miles west of here, early to-day, and more than a dozen passenger were injured. The express, which carried many passengers, was approaching Montandon on time, when a light locomotive crossed from a siding to the main track. The engineer of the express was so close that he was unable to bring his heavy train to a stop, and it crashed into the shifting engine. Both locomotives were completely distroyed and a combination car, a day coach, and a Pullman sleeper so badly damaged that the passengers had to be transferred to other coaches and the wrecked cars cut out. |
| New York City |
1908 |
Addograph Co. |
Auch Vertrieb des "Addograph" von Berlin aus |
| New York City |
1908 |
American Typewriter Co. |
Die Gesellschaft bezieht ihre eigene Fabrik in Bridgeport, Conn. |
| New York City |
1908 |
Babcock & Wilcox Co. |
Übernahme der "Rust Boiler Company"" in Pittsburgh |
| New York City |
01.01.1908 |
Metropolitan Opera |
Der österreichische Komponist Gustav Mahler tritt sein Engagement als Dirigent der Metropolitan Opera in New York mit einer Aufführung von Richard Wagners Oper »Tristan und Isolde« an. - Bis Ende 1907 leitete Mahler die Wiener Hofoper. Sein Nachfolger dort wird der Dirigent Felix von Weingartner. |
| New York City |
1908 |
The Singer Manufacturing Company |
Das Singer Building am 149 Broadway in New York City wird eröffnet. Es ist der erste Wolkenkratzer und das höchste Gebäude der Welt mit 47 Stockwerken, 186,7 m hoch. - Dort ist die Hauptverwaltung 54 Jahre lang ansässig. |
| New York City |
1908 |
William Colgate & Company |
Die Zahnpasta wird in Tuben verpackt |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1908 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Bau der 33.000sten Lokomotive |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1908 |
Philadelphia Water Works, Schuylkill Works |
Die geförderte Wassermenge beträgt nur noch 23 Prozent derer von 1907 |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1908 |
Spreckels' Sugar Refinery |
Tod von Claus Spreckels in San Francisco 26.12. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
01.01.1908 |
Carnegie Steel Co. |
Bei einer Explosion in der Stahlkonverteranlage kommen drei Menschen ums Leben und acht werden ernsthaft verletzt |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1908 |
Diescher, Samuel |
Samuel Diescher zieht sich aus seinem Unternehmen zurück |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
01.01.1908 |
Edgar Thomson Steel Company Ltd. |
Durch eine Explosion bei den Stahlkonvertern kommen drei Leute ums Leben. |
| Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
1908 |
Rust Boiler Company |
Übernahme durch "Babcock & Wilcox" |
| Princeton (New Jersey) |
1908 |
Einstein, Albert |
Einstein beginnt mit Arbeiten zum Ausbau und zur Fortbildung der Relativitätstheorie |
| Royersford (USA) |
1908 |
Buckwalter Stove Co. |
Beginn der Herstellung emaillierter Öfen/Herde |
| Schenectady (USA) |
1908 |
American Locomotive Company |
Unter der Lizenz eines französischen Herstellers wird ein erstes Automobil entwickelt und gebaut. |
| South Bethlehem (Bethlehem) |
1908 |
Bethlehem Steel Corporation |
Schwab führt die Grey Mill, ein Walzwerk zur Herstellung von Breitflanschträgern, ein. |
| Stewartsville (N.J.) |
1908 |
Edison Portland Cement Company |
Die Patente werden in der "North American Portland Cement Company" zusammengefaßt |
| Syracuse (N.Y.) |
1908 |
Syracuse Time Recording Company |
Erwerbung durch die International Time Recording Company |
| Trenton (New Jersey) |
1908 |
The College of New Jersey |
Umbenennung aus "New Jersey State Normal School" in "New Jersey State Normal School in Trenton" |
| Goldsboro (Pennsylvania) |
02.01.1908 |
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JOSHUA FLURY, a resident of Newberry township, York county, was killed Friday morning about 9 o'clock on the N. C. railway by being struck by the northbound York local. The accident occurred about a fourth of a mile above Goldsboro, and in sight of his home. MR. FLURY attempted to cross the railway tracks and apparently did not notice the approaching train. He was struck by the engine and his body hurled aside. The trainmen picked him up and carried him to Goldsboro, but when they reached the station, MR. FLURY was found to be dead. MR. FLURY was a veteran of the civil war. He was employed for many years by the N. C. company as a track walker, but has been living a retired life for the past ten years. He is survived by his wife and three children. |
| Harrisburg (Penns.) |
02.01.1908 |
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A trolley car struck the cart on which Lewis Ginsburg, of Harrisburg, was riding, throwing him to the ground The horse became frightened and trampled Ginsburg so badly that his skull was crushed and he died on the way to the hospital. |
| York Haven (USA) |
02.01.1908 |
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Charles Miller, who resides with his sister, Mrs. Wolf at York Haven, met with a serious accident Thursday while celebrating his twenty fifth birthday. He tried to jump from a rapidly moving freight train, was thrown under a car and had his left leg cut off and the right foot mangled. He sustained internal injuries. The injured man was taken to York hospital where his injuries were dressed. Miller is employed at the York Haven paper mills, and was celebrating his birthday by taking a vacation. With two companions he walked to Falls Station. In returning, one of the young men suggested that they jump a freight train which was passing. All boarded the train in safety. They were discovered by a brakeman when near York Haven. He ordered them to leave the train as soon as it slowed up. It is thought that Miller was somewhat scared and he tried to get off opposite the paper mill while the train was running rapidly. The suction of the cars drew his body to the track and he was run over.
Charles Miller is a son of the late Cyrus miller and was reared on the farm in Mountpleasant township, near this place. It is now thought that the young manâ??s life will be saved. |
| Newton (New Jersey) |
08.01.1908 |
H. W. Merriam Shoe Company |
Tod von William L. Dutcher |
| New York City |
14.01.1908 |
Forney, Matthias Nace |
Tod von Matthias Nace Forney in New York |
| Princeton (New Jersey) |
02.1908 |
Einstein, Albert |
Einstein habilitiert sich im Februar an der Universität Bern mit der Arbeit "Folgerungen aus dem Energieverteilungsgesetz der Strahlung schwarzer Körper, die Konstitution der Strahlung betreffend". |
| Newton (New Jersey) |
08.02.1908 |
H. W. Merriam Shoe Company |
Es wird folgende Firmenleitung gewählt: John Tozer, Präsident; E. M. Dutcher, Vizepräsident; George L. Dutcher, zweiter Vizepräsident; Edwin W. Merriam, Finanzleiter; Joseph E. Warbasse, Sekretär. |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
12.02.1908 |
Edwin Ross Thomas |
Beginn des New York-Paris-Rennens, an dem Thomas mit einem 60-PS-Wagen teilnimmt |
| Elkins Park (Pennsylvania) |
18.03.1908 |
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Thomas N. Burns, of 2266 North Leithgow street, Philadelphia, came to Jenkintown late last evening and identified the body of the boy killed on the Reading Railway at Elkins Park, Sunday evening last, as that of his son, Joseph Thomas Burns, aged about 14 years. According to the father, the boy started out from his home on Sunday morning, presumably to go to church, and that was the last heard of him until the parents read of the death of the unknown boy at Elkins Park. The body was sent to Philadelphia for interment. |
| Hanover (York, Penns.) |
18.03.1908 |
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Struck by a passenger train on the Northern Central Railroad near Hanover this morning, Jacob Samuel Bechtel, the 10-year-old son of Albert Bechtel, was instantly killed within sight of home. |
| New York City |
18.03.1908 |
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Der Dampfer "Kronprinz Wilhelm" wird unter Kapitän Nierich morgens um 7.25 Uhr bei der Einfahrt in die Upper New York Bay nahe Robbins Reef Lighthouse von dem britischen Frachter Crown of Castile gerammt. Nur 1 Verletzter. Beide Schiffsführungen tragen Schuld. |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
19.03.1908 |
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Jammed together on the front platform of a south-bound Elmwood avenue car and unable to force their way into its crowded interior, three young women and a man, returning home from work, were injured when a Market street car collided with it early last evening at Twelfth and Market streets. All sustained severe bruises and shock and were taken to the Halnemann Hospital. |
| Hornell (USA) |
03.04.1908 |
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The westbound Wells-Fargo express train on the Erie Railroad, crashed into an eastbound freight at Hornell. Two were killed and four were injured. The dead are: L. H. HELMER, engineer of the express train, of Hornell, and JAMES CANNON, fireman of the express, of Andover.
The injured include the fireman of the freight train, a man named McGEE, of Salamanca; JOHN FIELD, conductor of the express train, of Binghamton; W. H. POST, head messenger, of Hoboken, N. J., and WILLIAM HUBERTON, of Wellsville. The express, which carried no passengers, was running forty-five minutes late. The trains had orders to meet and pass at 'Jx' tower. It is asserted that the freight train failed to get out of the way of the express in time. The wreck occurred near a curve, and the heavy express train, running down a steep grade with seven cars, hit the freight head-on. Both locomotives were wrecked and about fifteen cars were piled up. HELMER was burned and mangled under the wreckage. The wreck took fire and some of the derailed cars were partly consumed. When HELMER'S wife was told of the wreck she suffered a nervous shock. |
| Stewartsville (N.J.) |
28.04.1908 |
North Jersey Paint Company |
Eintragung |
| Harrisburg (Penns.) |
01.05.1908 |
Elliott-Fisher Typewriter Co. |
Das Hauptbüro wird von New York in die Fabrik nach Harrisburg verlagert |
| New York City |
01.05.1908 |
Elliott-Fisher Typewriter Co. |
Das Hauptbüro wird von New York in die Fabrik nach Harrisburg verlagert |
| New York City |
05.1908 |
General Electric Company |
Plan zur Erweiterung auf 1.000 Beschäftige, was an den örtlichen Wohnverhältnissen scheitert |
| New York City |
01.05.1908 |
The Monarch Typewriter Company |
Umzug der Verwaltung nach New York, Broadway 300 |
| Syracuse (N.Y.) |
01.05.1908 |
The Monarch Typewriter Company |
Umzug der Verwaltung nach New York, Broadway 300 |
| Newton (New Jersey) |
09.05.1908 |
H. W. Merriam Shoe Company |
Die Arbeit muß wegen eines gerissenen Zylinderkopfs an der Dampfmaschine eingestellt werden. |
| Brooklyn (New York) |
16.06.1908 |
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company |
Eröffnung der ersten kurzen U-Bahnstrecke, die nur aus einer unterirdischen Endstation am Fuße der Williamsburg Bridge an der Delancey und Essex Street in Manhattan besteht. |
| New York (Brooklyn) |
16.06.1908 |
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company |
Eröffnung der ersten kurzen U-Bahnstrecke, die nur aus einer unterirdischen Endstation am Fuße der Williamsburg Bridge an der Delancey und Essex Street in Manhattan besteht. |
| Saegertown (USA) |
19.06.1908 |
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Twenty passengers were injured, one fatally and several seriously, today in an accident on the Meadville & Cambridge Springs street car line near Baker Town. A passenger car telescoped a freight car at a sharp curve. The fatally injured person is M. C. MILLS, superintendent of the traction line. |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
01.07.1908 |
Jersey City Spike and Rivet Works, W. Ames & Co. |
Umwandlung in eine Gesellschaft mit J. W. Ames als Präsident, C. W. Hungerford als Vizepräsident und A. S. Ames als Sekretär und Finanzleiter; alle in Montclair, N.J., wohnhaft. |
| New York City |
01.07.1908 |
Lauder, Estée |
Geburt von Estée Lauder in Queens, New York, als Josephine Esther Mentzer. Ihr genaues Geburtsdatum ist unbekannt, vermutlich jedoch der 1. Juli 1908. (Die Familie ließ durchblicken, daß Lauder auch zwei Jahre älter gewesen sein könnte.) Sie ist die Tochter von Max und Rose Schotz Mentzer |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
09.07.1908 |
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Two men were injured, several others had narrow escapes and traffic was delayed for nearly and hour yesterday as the result of a collision between a trolley car and a wagon belonging to the Bureau of Water on Arch street near Fifteenth, yesterday afternoon.
The employees of the Water Bureau had dug a large hole in the street on Arch street. A wagon with some material for the men were crossing the tracks near the hole when it was struck by the car and turned upon its side.
Stephen White, the driver of the wagon, was hurled from his seat and had his neck injured, while Charles Jones, a caulker, who was working in the hole, was struck by the wheel of the wagon. The injured men were taken to the Hahnemann Hospital. |
| Bogota (New Jersey) |
02.08.1908 |
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One man, was instantly killed and five seriously injured, two of whom are likely to die, when an automobile was struck by a train on the Susquehanna railroad crossing in Bogota, N. J., late tonight.
A long shed shuts off the view down the track at the crossing and the automobile was almost upon the ties before the train was seen. The engine struck the car, but did not hurl it from the track, as the train had slowed down to stop at the station, a short distance beyond the crossing. Holmes was thrown beneath the car and his body mangled. |
| Newark (New Jersey) |
Sept. 1908 |
Lansden Company |
Edison wird beherrschender Anteilseigner |
| Orange (N.J.) |
Sept. 1908 |
Edison Manufacturing Company |
Edison wird beherrschender Anteilseigner an der "Lansden Company" in Newark, N.J. (Hersteller von Elektrofahrzeugen) |
| Hyndman (USA) |
03.09.1908 |
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Wreck Near Hyndman Demolishes Train and Injures Brakeman
While going around a curve at Red Rock, one half a mile west of Hyndman a B & O train of 13 cars loaded with coal this morning jumped the track, almost completely demolishing several of the cars. A broken wheel is said to have been the cause.
With the exception of A. M. Lockwood a brakeman nobody was injured. Engineer J. Schwartz and Conductor A. Swomen were in charge
of the train and both escaped with slight minor injuries. On account of the wreck trains No. 6 and 17 are making a detour around by the way of Pahmont. As soon as news oft he wreck reached Connellsville a wrecking rain went to the scene and is now busily engaged [illegible] the wreck. |
| Sidney (New York) |
03.09.1908 |
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A southbound Delaware and Hudson train left the tracks just east of Sidney this fore noon and the fireman and engineer were seriously, though not fatally injured. Engine, tender and baggage car went down the bank, the baggage car landing on top of the engine, the smoking car was also derailed but did not go over the bank. |
| New York City |
19.09.1908 |
Pratt Institute |
Eine Curtis-Turbine mit 150 kW geht in Betrieb |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
Herbst 1908 |
Silent Writing Machine Company |
Die Firma erwirbt im Herbst eine große Fabrik in Middletown, Conn. |
| Buffalo (N.Y.) |
Herbst 1908 |
Silent Writing Machine Company |
Gleichzeitig mit der Erwerbung der Fabrik im Herbst in Middletown, Conn., wird der Name in "Noiseless Typewriter Co." geändert |
| Princeton (New Jersey) |
01.10.1908 bis 01.04.1909 |
Einstein, Albert |
Einstein ist im Wintersemester Privatdozent an der Universität Bern. |
| Rochester (N.Y.) |
Okt. 1908 |
Luitwieler Pumping Engine Co. |
Das Hauptwerk wird nach Rochester verlegt. |
| Melrose (Rensselaer; N.Y.) |
16.10.1908 |
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Four persons were killed and two were injured at 6:30 o'clock p. m., in a grade crossing accident on the Boston and Maine tracks about a mile north of Melrose, when a train from Rutland struck a wagon containing six persons. MR. And MRS. FRANK LUTHER, of Schaghticoke; FRANK ROBERTS, of Melrose, and a two-year-old child of the LUTHERS were killed. The injured are JAMES LUTHER, five years old, and AIDEN LUTHER, six years old. The fatalities were caused by the deafness of FRANK ROBERTS, who was driving and failed to hear the train.
FRANK ROBERTS was a brother of MRS. LUTHER and had been to Schaghticoke visiting his sister's family. He was driving to his home, in Melrose, accompanied by the LUTHER'S, who were going to his home to attend a family reunion. The train hit the wagon squarely and four of its occupants were instantly killed. Two of the victims were carried along on the cowcatcher. The other two were tossed down the embankment. One of the horses was killed. The wagon was shattered.
The bodies of the victims were horribly crushed. Coroner HUTTON, of Valley Falls, viewed the bodies, but reserved decision pending an inquest. The injured children were brought to the Troy hospital. DR. HERRICK found that one had sustained a broken thigh and both have scalp wounds. They will recover. |
| Bloomsburg (Columbia, Pa.) |
31.10.1908 |
Bell Locomotive Works Inc. |
Gründung zum Bau der im selben Jahr von Harvey Bell in Yonkers, N.Y., erfundenen Lokomotivbauart mit im Ölbad laufenden, staubdicht geschlossenenen Dampfmaschinen, die in der Mitte der Treibachswelle angreifen. |
| Syracuse (N.Y.) |
11.1908 |
Smith Premier Typewriter Co. |
Die "Smith Premier"-Schreibmaschine No. 10 kommt heraus. |
| Jersey City (N.J.) |
04.11.1908 |
Boynton Furnace Company |
Eingetragen unter den Gesetzen von New Jersey mit einem Kapital von 400.000, geteilt in 4.000 Anteile mit einem Wert von je 100 |
| Lafayette Sction (Jersey City) |
04.11.1908 |
Boynton Furnace Company |
Eingetragen unter den Gesetzen von New Jersey mit einem Kapital von 400.000, geteilt in 4.000 Anteile mit einem Wert von je 100 |
| New York City |
16.11.1908 |
Metropolitan Opera |
Mit einer Aufführung von Giuseppe Verdis Oper »Aida« debütiert der italienische Dirigent Arturo Toscanini an der Metropolitan Opera in New York. Gemeinsam mit Gustav Mahler hat er die Leitung des Opernorchesters übernommen. |
| Syracuse (N.Y.) |
12.1908 |
E. C. Stearns & Company |
Verkauf der ersten Schreibmaschinen |
| Newton (New Jersey) |
06.12.1908 |
H. W. Merriam Shoe Company |
Erster Spatenstich für ein zweigeschossiges Ziegelgebäude (30 x 55') an der Ostseite als Kohlen- und Lagerhaus |
| Eddystone (Philadelphia) |
1908 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Bedingt durch die im Herbst 1907 einsetzende wirtschaftliche Depression werden 1908 nur 617 Lokomotiven gebaut, von denen 147 exportiert werden. Unter letzten ist eine Mallet-Lok für eine Plantage in San Domingo, Achsfolge (1'C)C1' für eine Spurweite von 2' 6" (= 762 mm) |
| Philadelphia (Penns.) |
1908 |
Baldwin Locomotive Works |
Bedingt durch die im Herbst 1907 einsetzende wirtschaftliche Depression werden 1908 nur 617 Lokomotiven gebaut, von denen 147 exportiert werden. Unter letzten ist eine Mallet-Lok für eine Plantage in San Domingo, Achsfolge (1'C)C1' für eine Spurweite von 2' 6" (= 762 mm) |
