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Inventions Continue
1890–1903
Employees in the factory 1891.
The Gleason Tool Company Automatic Bevel Gear Planer Factory Expansion and
First Overseas Dealership
In 1889, a fast moving blaze burns In 1893, William and James E.
most of the Genesee Foundry Gleason invent the first Automatic In 1896, an addition is built onto the
Company building and its contents. Bevel Gear Planers with factory at Brown’s Race. This addition
This event is an opportunity for interchangeable templates. provides sufficient space for the
Gleason to expand the company growing company until 1910.
and shift its focus to gear production
equipment. In 1899, the Fenwick Feries firm
of Paris France, becomes the first
1890, the Genesee Foundry and overseas dealership of The Gleason
Kidd Iron Works merge into a new Works, a relationship which is to last
venture, the Gleason Tool Company. for almost one hundred years.
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