“The Legend of HONEYWELL”.
It was once in…
• 1885: Alfred BUTZ (born in Switzerland in 1849, immigrates in the United States at the 8 years age) invents and makes patent a regulator of boiler with alarm.
• 1886: (April 23) It creates Butz Thermo Electric Regulator Company in Minneapolis (Minnesota). Then, he invents simple and clever system starting from a thermal switch and of an engine which will operate the shutter of obturation of air of its coal-fired boiler, in order to have a correction of automatic temperature. He names this device the “Flapper Damper” (Patent deposited on May 4, 1886).
• 1898: W.R. SWEATT repurchases the business of A. Butz, become in 1893, the company Electric Heat Regulator Company.
• 1906: M.C. HONEYWELL melts Honeywell Heating Specialty Company, and specializes in the boilers with hot water.
• 1912: W.R. Sweatt changes the name of its company (E.H.R.), which becomes Minneapolis Heat Regulator Company, extends its line of goods and makes patent the first electric motor approved by Underwriters Laboratories.
• 1927: Minneapolis Heat Regulator Company (of W.R. Sweatt) amalgamates with Honeywell Heating Specialty Company (of M.C. Honeywell) to form Minneapolis-Honeywell Company
• 1934: Establishment of the first European subsidiary company in the Netherlands (Amsterdam).
• 1950: Honeywell settles in France, in Paris.
• 1953: The company presents the “Round” Thermostat
• 1956: Honeywell continues its expansion in Europe by installing companies in Denmark, in Germany, in Austria and France (in Amiens).
• 1957: New acquisition, new field with the purchase of a company of detection and alarm sets fire to. World leader today, in North America the red and black sticker “Protected by Honeywell” (Protected by Honeywell) is almost as famous as the “Round” Thermostat.
• 1963: The Minneapolis-Honeywell company changes its name into “Honeywell Inc. ”
• 1969: The Honeywell instruments help the astronauts Neil ARMSTRONG and Edwin “Buzz” ALDRIN to be landed on the moon.
• 1970: General Electric yields part of its credits to Honeywell, which becomes majority of Bull.
• 1986: The personal computer appears and the company melts Honeywell-Bull, a world joint-venture made up of the Company of the Machines Bull de France and company NEC of Japan.
- Honeywell becomes world leader of the systems in the avionics with the purchase of Aerospace Sperry (orders of flights of space vehicles). This new
strategy makes it possible Honeywell to reinforce its offers in the field of the
civil aviation and military.• 1991: After a gradual separation of its shares in the field of data processing, Honeywell gives up this market definitively. It then applies its knowledge of the digital computers to its field of predilection which is control and the industrial and domestic regulation.
• 1998: In term of sales, Honeywell Inc. occupy the 195čme row on the list of the 500 larger American companies in the sector of Industry, with a sales turnover of 8,3 billion dollars. It employs 57.500 people, is present in 95 countries and has 83 subsidiary companies and 13 joint-ventures.
• 1999: (June) Honeywell becomes Honeywell Int after its fusion with AlliedSignal.
The latter,
created in 1920 by the regrouping of 5 American chemical companies established
in the years 1800, was called then Allied Chemical & Dye.