Industry History | Emerson — The Motor Shop That Still Faces Forsyth Boulevard
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Industry History | Emerson — The Motor Shop That Still Faces Forsyth Boulevard
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People treat Emerson as a Clayton office that always sold automation software.
The company began as a motor shop.
On 24 September 1890 John Wesley Emerson, a former Union officer and St. Louis lawyer, put up the capital for The Emerson Electric Manufacturing Company.
Charles and Alexander Meston, brothers from Scotland, brought the motor design.
The first products were alternating-current motors.
In 1892 the firm sold electric fans in North America.
Period company histories put that year's net sales at nearly $60,000 in 1892 dollars.
The works stayed in St. Louis while the line widened to sewing-machine motors, dental drills, and tools.
During the Second World War the same metal shop poured brass shell casings and aircraft gun mounts.
The present headquarters at 8027 Forsyth Boulevard in Clayton is a later campus.
It is the public building that still carries the 1890 name.
Pin the Forsyth frontage.
Describe only what is visible from the sidewalk.
The 1890 rooms are gone.
What survived the product changes is a motor business that learned to sell control as well as rotation: first fans that made tall buildings livable, later process systems wrapped around the same industrial customer.
The Clayton façade is what a visitor can stand in front of without crossing a plant gate.
Photo: attribution pending on the St. Louis skyline plate used as cover; period Emerson fans are in the National Museum of American History.
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