INDUSTRIAL POWERHOUSE Cortland was an industrial powerhouse. Well trained and motivated workers stamped and bent out metalworks, shoveled coal, harvested ice, strung tennis rackets, varnished boats, assembled typewriters, built machine…
Sprague Electric Company, Brown Street, SAVING BROWN SREET PART I INTRODUCTION Sprague Electric’s Brown Street plant (renamed Commonwealth Sprague Capacitor, Inc.) was failing fast in 1989 when I became Vice-President-General…
Walk Up Elm Street Elm Street was a pleasant stroll in the 1950’s. The street was wide and lined with tall graceful elm trees and mature maples. Elm Street was…
Tool makers machined complex dies from hardened tool steel . Crane operators sitting in open cabs above the unheated the steel storage shed swung 20-ton bundles of steel over to…