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Do you know how the air compressor started? Or do you know the history that lies behind the creation of the said air compressor? Is there any connection between the air compressor and a corn planter?

In 1836, Alexander Campbell started his business of making wagons. Later on, William and James, his brothers, joined him in a black smith shop where they expanded in making carriages, plows, harrows, and cultivators. Campbell brothers lived in a farm country in Harrison, Ohio, so they focused on farm equipment. Being innovative, they were not contented, so they come up with a corn drill in making planting of corn easier and quicker. It took them 22 years on their design to be patent and before they were awarded for the Campbell Corn Planter in 1859. The machine, despite the patent, still has problems and became a discouragement to Alexander, so he decided to sell his share to his brothers, William and James.

Four years later, James and William studied the design and solved the problems and made their first production of the commercial corn drill. James, after many years became the sole owner of the business and called it was called James Campbell Manufacturing Company. Corn drill was originally adapted to use for planting small seeds, dropping cotton and for fertilizing.

By this time, the three sons of James are the successors of the business. Now, they have expanded their company?s operation by making crucible furnaces for the Ohio Pattern Works and Foundry Company owned by Joseph Hausfeld. The teamwork of the two companies is successful. That is why the operation of the company of Hausfeld was moved from Cincinnati to Harrison in 1918. It was in 1920 when these two companies decided to merged. Now, the company is widely known as the Campbell Hausfeld Company.

The company increases the variety of its metal casting and also expanded into sprayers for farmers and business. A new era has been marked in 1940, when the company has entered in air compressor business by purchasing all patterns, tools, dies and fixtures for the manufacture of the Pressure King Air Compressor.

Over 90 years the company evolved from wagons, to corn planters, to crucible doors to air compressors. The company has continued to add new products, especially a lot of tools and sprayers that can be used with the air compressors.

Many categories of air compressors which today the Campbell Hausfeld air compressors have come into making commercial, contractor and residential air compressors and also as oil-less compressors.

The residential Campbell Hausfeld air compressors are the largest category that ranges in price and its size that can best fit to any one?s needs. The largest can hold 60 gallon in capacity, while the smallest compressor I can hold 2 gallons in capacity. Between the two, there are many ranges of capacity also.

But, regardless of what size or why you need an air compressor (and there are many uses for one of these around your home), you know that with Campbell Hausfeld air compressors you are getting history and quality from a company that has been around for over 150 years.

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