Bates Manufacturing Company
1890 - 1922
The Bates Manufacturing Company was founded in 1890 and manufactured automatic hand-held numbering machines as well as various office products. The company was absorbed by the Edison Phonograph Works between 1892 and 1897. The Bates Manufacturing Company was dissolved in 1922.
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"Company Records Series," Edison.rutgers.edu, http://edison.rutgers.edu/NamesSearch/glocpage.php3?gloc=CK300 (accessed 06/18/15)
Gordon Smith, "Bates Numbers," Theconglomerate.org, http://www.theconglomerate.org/2006/02/bates_numbers.html (accessed 06/18/15)