Carlisle & Finch is credited as being the inventors of the electric toy train since they were the first American company to introduce electrically powered miniature trains produced in volume. Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, they originally made electric motors, then toy trains, and they also produced nautical equipment (a carbon arc searchlight). The company was founded in 1894 by two electrical engineers, Robert S. Finch and Morten Carlisle. They had purchased a Cincinatti repair shop from GE and renamed it Carlisle & Finch Company. The company repaired electric motors and rewound armatures. The toy trains were first produced in September 1896 as a way to increase revenue and to utilize the small electric motors that they made.
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MoreCarlisle & Finch is credited as being the inventors of the electric toy train since they were the first American company to introduce electrically powered miniature trains produced in volume. Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, they originally made electric motors, then toy trains, and they also produced nautical equipment (a carbon arc searchlight). The company was founded in 1894 by two electrical engineers, Robert S. Finch and Morten Carlisle. They had purchased a Cincinatti repair shop from GE and renamed it Carlisle & Finch Company. The company repaired electric motors and rewound armatures. The toy trains were first produced in September 1896 as a way to increase revenue and to utilize the small electric motors that they made.
Subject ID: 19400
Subject ID: 19400