Wilhide filed many US patents for Black & Decker. It was used in one form or another from 1912 to 2014. With only $1,200 between them, one of their first jobs was designing machinery for making milk bottle caps and candy dipping.
Decker, who had only a seventh grade education, had met Black in 1906, when they were both 23-year-old workers at the Rowland Telegraph Company. Decker (1884–1956) as a small machine shop in Baltimore in September. 1910 – 'The Black & Decker Manufacturing Company' was founded by S.History A 1920 ad for portable electric drills 1910–1974 It remains a wholly owned subsidiary of that company. In March 2010, Black & Decker merged with Stanley Works to become Stanley Black & Decker. Black+Decker is an American manufacturer of power tools, accessories, hardware, home improvement products, home appliances and fastening systems headquartered in Towson, Maryland, north of Baltimore, where the company was originally established in 1910.
