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Plan of Works
The Brush Electric Company
Mason Street Crossing C. & P. R. R.
Near Euclid Avenue Station
Carbon
Factory

Boiler
Room

Brush Electric
Telegraph Supply was incorporated,
in 1875, with a capital of US$100,000,
with Stockly as vice president and Mortimer D. Leggett, a former major general in the Union Army during the Civil
War and a previous U.S. commissioner
of Patents, as president. In May 1880,
the company's factory was destroyed
by fire, and nothing was saved but the
contents of the iron safe. A larger building, but still a very small one, was soon
found and equipped with manufacturing machinery. The plant churned out
dynamos, arc lamps, and carbons at a
rapid pace, and sales were brisk. Business increased so rapidly that, within a
few months, it was clear that the 1880
facility would be too small. The company purchased a six-acre lot, on which
a larger plant was completed in 1881
(Figure 2). The same year, the capital
of the now Brush Electric Company
was increased to US$3 million.
Revenue came from sales to private
users and subsidiary organizations
formed for furnishing lights from a
central station and from sales of patents
rights. The 1881 plant almost doubled
in size by 1886. Stockly was president
by then. A company report (in American Electrical Dictionary for 1886)
that year claimed that the factory was
" the most extensive electrical works
in the world " and that " it enjoyed the
lion's share of the arc light business. "
Figure 3 shows the very large Brush
factory, circa 1888. In 1889, Thomson-
Houston acquired control of Brush
Electric. The circumstances that led to
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Shop
Ovens

supplemental agreement between Brush
and the Telegraph Supply was signed on
1 July 1880. On 19 August 1880, Telegraph Supply changed its name to Brush
Electric because it had become apparent that its business would be mainly the
manufacture and sale of Brush electric
lighting equipment. An agreement between Brush and the company, signed
27 July 1886, gave Brush a one-time
payment of US$46,666.67 and company
stock with a value of US$500,000, in
return for a full transfer of patent rights
to the company.

Carpenter
Shop
Pattern
Room

Engine
Room

Machine Shop
262 × 120 ft

figure 2. The floorplan of the third Brush factory, which was completed in
1881. (Adapted from The Brush Electric Light. Cleveland, Ohio: Brush Electric
Company, 1881.)

figure 3. The Brush Electric factory in 1888. (Source: Dynamo-Electric Machines
for Arc and Incandescent Lighting, Electric Motors, Electro-Plating Machines, Storage Batteries, Carbons, etc. Cleveland, Ohio: Brush Electric Company, 1888.)
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