who started harbor freight tools?
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Harbor Freight Tools was founded by Alan Smidt.\n\nCentral Purchasing certainly could lay claim to the expression "the right tool for the job." The company, better recognized by its trade name, Harbor Freight Tools, is one of the country's largest tool and equipment catalog retailers. Harbor Freight Tools offers more than 7,000 tools and equipment items, including products marketed under such brands as Central Machinery, Chicago Electric, DeWalt, Makita, Pittsburgh, and Stanley. The company also sells via the Internet and through a network of about 225 retail stores in more than 40 states. It was founded in 1968.\n\nCentral Purchasing, Inc. \n3491 Mission Oaks Blvd.\nCamarillo, CA 93011\n\nPhone: 805-388-1000\nToll Free: 800-423-2567\nFax: 805-445-4925\nhttp://www.harborfreight.com
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mechanics, carpenter, mason, boatman\n\nhttp://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15752
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This question is extremely open. There have been developments in marine machinery ever since the first man went away from shore on the trunk of a fallen tree.\n\nPlease provide more information.
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Grainger\nMotion Industries
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Sunbeam after "Chainsaw Al" took over.  Lucent (previously western electric)\nLevi's restructured a couple of times, going from a typical corporate control structure to a Democratic structure, back to a corporate control.
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Francis W. Davis invented power steering. In the 1920s, Davis was the chief engineer of the truck division of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, and he saw first hand how hard it was to steer heavy vehicles. Davis quit his job and rented a small engineering shop in Waltham, MA. He developed a hydraulic power steering system that led to power steering. Power steering became commercially available by 1951
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Wood & Hughs....New Yorh 1845  1899\nNow Graff Washboune & Dunn
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FIND TRUCKS OR LOADS FREE \n\nhttp://www.freightfinder.com/\n\n:> peace
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John W. Barriger III, a solid railroader, financial expert, transportation visionary and master of public relations. He assumed the presidency of Monon Railroads in 1946.\n\nClieck here for complete information on Barriger and the Monon railroads:http://www.lakemirabel.com/Railroad/Monon1.html
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Let There Be Light" -- The flashlight was invented in 1898, and the biblical quote of "Let There Be Light" was on the cover of the 1899 Eveready catalog.\n\nThe original owner of the American Eveready Battery Company, Joshua Lionel Cowen, abandoned the hardware company to pursue his real passion of trains. Cowen was an inventor of sorts; he developed a fuse to ignite photographic flash powder. Though the invention failed in its intent, the U.S. Navy bought up the fuses to use with underwater explosives.\n\nCowen next came up with an idea for a decorative lighting fixture for potted plants: a metal tube with a light bulb and a dry cell battery that could run the light bulb for 30 days. He passed the idea along to one of his Eveready salespersons, Conrad Hubert, along with his company. Hubert turned the metal tube, light bulb and battery into the world's first flashlight, and began selling the batteries and the flashlight, together and as separate items.\n\nHubert became a multi-millionaire, Eveready became a huge company, and Joshua Lionel Cowen finally achieved the success he really wanted: he was the person who invented toy trains in 1900. As happened with the fuses and the flashlight, Cowen was actually trying to invent something else when he invented toy trains. He originally intended to create a store window display, a battery powered  toy car that travelled on a circle of track. People wanted to buy the display more than the real merchandise for sale. Cowen started Lionel Model Trains.
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Hammer & screwdriver.
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Toothpick\nIn 1872, Silas Noble and J. P. Cooley patented the first toothpick-manufacturing machine.\naccording to Forster Manufacturing, 1869 the commercial toothpick is invented by Charles Forster in his basement in Boston, Massachusetts. \n\nbut toothpicks have been used forever.. i bet cavemen used bone to pick their teeth.
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A lathe, a drill press, and a milling machine would be a good start, although how you plan to use them when you don't even know the names for them is a bit of a mystery to me.  Try Harbor Freight or Northern Tools.\n\nhttp://www.harborfreight.com/\nhttp://www.northerntool.com/
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American Machine and Foundry
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ORIGIN: Founded as a Seattle shoe store with the help of Swedish immigrant John W. Nordstrom's profits from the Klondike gold rush. His three sons, Everett, Elmer and Lloyd, took over between 1928 and 1933. By 1959, they had the nation's largest shoe store and ran shoe departments in 13 department stores. Added apparel in 1961 with purchase of Best Apparel in Seattle.
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The compound machine was realized with ship building. \nA hoist was needed to lift cargo and the sails. The pulleys provided the means in the short space allowed.
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Home Depot Gift Card! I've done this a few times actually! Men love their tools!