Outdoor Power Equipment, July 1st, 1999
FORTY YEARS AGO -- When Outdoor Power Equipment was first published in 1959, the market for portable power generators was already booming. That's because nearly 40 years earlier, Charles H. Ferguson designed a small, lightweight gasoline engine-driven generator. Since Ferguson's invention was used to light homes in rural areas where regular electric power wasn't available, he called it "Homelite." Homelite, now a division of John Deere Consumer Products, grew into a leading manufacturer of consumer and commercial hand-held and portable power equipment.
In the past, one could find generators...
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