Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 262. Not illustrated. Chapters: Companies Established in 1810, Companies Established in 1811, Companies Established in 1812, Companies Established in 1813, Companies Established in 1814, Companies Established in 1815, Companies Established in 1816, Companies Established in 1817, Companies Established in 1818, Companies Established in 1819, Allaire Iron Works, Staten Island Ferry, Remington Arms, Bank of Montreal, Richard Hornsby & Sons, Brooks Brothers, Singapore Post, Harpercollins, Menier Chocolate, Suntrust Banks, Axa, Contigroup Companies, Brewster & Co., Boston Manufacturing Company, Harvey Nichols, the Hartford, Mitre Sports International, James Purdey and Sons, Silas Peirce, Royal Doulton, Chubb Security, E. Remington and Sons, Laurent-Perrier, Colman's, Hazlehurst & Sons, Johnson Matthey, Grinnell, Minturn & Co, Chappell & Co., Thune, Haden Drysys, Swire Group, Wusthof, Armitage Shanks, Chappell of Bond Street, Pacific Fur Company, Oslo Stock Exchange, Scottish Widows, Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace, Breck's, Woodford Reserve, Smiths Dock Company, Grand Junction Waterworks Company, Kongsberg Gruppen, Norges Bank, Bowring Brothers, Holland, Hannen & Cubitts, David Sands, Reclam, Harper & Brothers, Dhl Global Forwarding, Perkins Bacon, Foster, Rastrick and Company, Hutschenreuther, Siebe Plc, Westley Richards, Black Ball Line, Hanna, Donald & Wilson, Barclay Curle, White Glass Company, Agf, Hine Cognac, Carmarthen Journal, Thos. Joh. Heftye & Son, Alexander Gibbs. Excerpt: The Allaire Iron Works was a leading 19th-century American marine engineering company based in New York City. Founded in 1816 by engineer and philanthropist James P. Allaire, the Allaire Works was one of the world's first companies dedicated to the construction of marine steam engines, supplying the engines for more than 50% of all the early steamships bui...