Electrical Industry Stories
These featured stories are a testament to the difference that people and companies can make when we come together to create lasting change.
Featured Story - Manufacturer
Allen-Bradley
When recording the history of the Allen-Bradley Company, it seems appropriate that I introduce a character who played a short, but important role, and then passed from notice. This was Ralph Skidmore, a schoolmate at the 18th district school of Milwaukee, in 1893. He was just a typical, freckled, irresponsible healthy kid, like thousands of other American school kids...
Featured Story - Contractor
Continental Electrical Construction Company
From high rises to hospitals, factories to financial centers, laboratories to convention centers, retail malls and tenant spaces, from a single receptacle, telephone or data location to an entire mission critical data center, the Continental Electrical Construction Company is energy personified – powering up the City of Chicago...
Featured Story - Representative
KGA Engineering
Don Watson graduated from University of Wisconsin as a BSEE in 1957 and went to work for Allen-Bradley (A-B) where his father Les Watson was Distributor Sales Manager. A-B at that time was a privately owned company by the Bradley family and Les was developing the limited distribution concept combined with factory and in-field training for distributors. That later developed into the "PAGENT OF CONTROLS" where trained distributor personnel put on a pageant for invited customers explaining the features and concepts of the A-B line coupled with displays, dinner, and fellowship...
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