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Elliott Brothers. The Museum has acquired the archives and collection of one of the most important instrument manufacturers in Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries. The instruments have now all been added to our online database.
1925 - 1954. History: The Stewart-Warner Corp. began as the Stewart and Clark Co., founded by John Stewart, and made automotive parts, particularly speedometers. In 1912, the Alemite Co. (led by Edgar Bassick) and the Warner Instrument Co. merged with Stewart, forming the Stewart-Warner Speedometer Corp. (later known as the Stewart-Warner ...
The company was founded as Stewart & Clark Company in 1905 by John K. Stewart. Their speedometers were used in the Ford Model T . In 1912 John Stewart joined with Edgar Bassick to make vehicle instruments and horns.
The Waltham Watch Company, also known as the American Waltham Watch Co. and the American Watch Co., was a company that produced about 40 million watches, clocks, speedometers, compasses, time delay fuses, and other precision instruments in the United States of America between 1850 and 1957.
Stewart-Warner's origins go back to 1893 when John K. Stewart formed the Chicago Flexible Shaft Company with his friend Thomas Clark. In 1896 the pair established Sterk Manufacturing Company to produce speedometers and automobile horns.
Inventor Nikola Tesla received the first patent for a type of speedometer that was based on a rotating shaft-speed indicator in 1916. But Arthur P. Warner, the original founder of the many incarnations of Warner Electric, claims the rights to the first invention of a speedometer for the automobile.
Clark killed while demonstrating speedometer in Packard; Stewart acquires Clark’s assets. 1910s Stewart buys rival Warner Instrument Company; forms Stewart-Warner Speedometer corp.
