I have acquired one of these old leadholders and am trying to figure out how old it is. It lists patents on the barrel, which is a dark olive color and has ...
Michael The US Patent office has a website. Im not sure the URL excactly but if you go to it you can find the exact date for the patents as well as sketches...
Elton, Yes, I am familiar with the site and that is where I got the information that the patents were pre-1900. Often times the patents dont apply to one...
One note of caution: patent dates are often poor indicators of the actual age. A company might apply for a ptent on a design and then continue to stamp it on...
Hello, I'm new here. I began my career in architecture in 1975. My uncle was one of the first engineers for the LA Highway dept. and gave me all of his old...
Hello fellow drafter. My name is Peter Goodman, and I am a drafter for ASCG in New Mexico. I have been collecting drafting tools for a number of years, and...
Hi there Peter Well, I maybe qualify as an old Drafter, I started work way back in 1963, in a Steelworks Drawing Office in Northern England near Liverpool. I...
Hi there Peter Well, I maybe qualify as an old Drafter, I started work way back in 1963, in a Steelworks Drawing Office in Northern England near Liverpool. I...
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From a true blue, through and through, K+E Paragon junkie,... Enjoy the history, Matt. I hope that is what you were looking to find. Does anyone have...
Thanks for the history document, I'll enjoy reading it. I couldn't find the History Channel DVD copy of program on K+E (YET), dang work inturrupted my search...
Thanks very much for the history document! It should be interesting reading. I've looked at The History Channel's site and have not found a DVD copy of the...
Whoops....sorry for the double post. The first one appeared to crash on me!! Matt B ... From: Matt>B To: DrawingInstruments@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday,...
Interesting history. Now I want to know why such an on-the-cutting- edge-of-technology company like K+E fell apart so quickly. Guess I need to find that...
Matt look in http://www.antiquesurveying.com/K&E%20History.htm there is a K&E history there. I reckon this is just another case of a management that failed to...
I dont think it was so much labor costs as it was ,as you mention, failing to see the writing on the wall. K&E and Dietzgen both failed to see hand held...
K&E marketed TI 57, 58, and 59 programmables in their later catalogs (mid 70's). Dietzgen had at least a desktop with their name on it and the Marchant name...
Ah yes, legendary K+E quality. I just recieved a mint condition Vari- Point lead pointer in it's original box that I bought on ebay for $5.00. The thing...
Right..Dietzgen did market the TI early calcs. Marchant had some handhelds even in the mech models but never made an electronic at all. They were importing a...
Same thing did in electronics pioneers as well. Who remembers WANG, DEC, & PRIME. They modeled themselves on IBM and tried to sell a turn-key package...
Wang? Yes! A single line display word processor that literally you had to "accept" the line as diplayed before proceeding onto the next - no going back! -- ...
Good point Elton, I expect there is a lesson there for all Companies Tony Elton <elton10@...> wrote: I dont think it was so much labor costs as it was...
As you read the history in the Group's files section you'll see that K+E was very good at re-inventing itself. They expanded from being a drafting instrument...
The WANG 2200 minicomputers were extremely under rated. Both the operating system and programming language were an extended BASIC but with matrix algebra in...
Hi: I used a lot of K&E instruments starting in engineering college and at work. And now collect some K&E items. What happened to K&E is a text book case of a...
The Westfield Whip Company is only one example of a preeminent company fell on its face when new technology or changing markets left them behind. There is a...
Phil and everyone, For an interesting perspective of DEC and its demise, see "DEC is Dead, Long Live DEC" by Schein (with DeLish, Kampas, and Sonduck),...
... Just to add another example... My great-great grandfather worked with Thomas Edison to invent the mimeograph. By the mid-twentieth century if you wanted...
