Manufacturing companies based in Connecticut: Xerox, Pratt & Whitney, 454 Life Sciences, Trans-Lux, United Technologies Corporation

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Xerox, Pratt & Whitney, 454 Life Sciences, Trans-Lux, United Technologies Corporation, Stanley Black & Decker, Pitney Bowes, Nathan Manufacturing, Inc., Ovation Guitar Company, Laticrete International, Inc., Carrier Corporation, Pratt & Whitney Measurement Systems, General Signal, Sun Products, Proto, Gems Sensors & Controls, Hexcel, Krell Industries, Ensign-Bickford Company. Excerpt: Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX) ( ) is a Fortune 500 global document management company (founded in 1906) that manufactures and sells a range of color and black-and-white printers, multifunction systems, photo copiers, digital production printing presses, and related consulting services and supplies. Xerox is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut (moved from Stamford, Connecticut in October 2007), though its largest population of employees is based in and around Rochester, New York, the area in which the company was founded. On September 28, 2009, Xerox announced the intended acquisition of Affiliated Computer Services for $6.4 billion. The deal closed on February 8, 2010. Xerox holds a Royal Warrant from HM Queen Elizabeth II and the Prince of Wales. The Xerox 914 was the first one-piece plain paper photocopier, and sold in the thousands.Xerox was founded in 1906 in Rochester as The Haloid Photographic Company, which originally manufactured photographic paper and equipment. The company subsequently changed its name to Haloid Xerox in 1958 and then simply Xerox in 1961. The company came to prominence in 1959 with the introduction of the Xerox 914, the first plain paper photocopier using the process of Electro-photography, (later changed to xerography) developed by Chester Carlson. The 914 was so popular that by the end of 1961, Xerox had almost $60 million in revenue. By 1965, revenues leaped to over $500 million. Before releasing the 91...