Homer Brooke Detailed Timeline 1900-1909
[Link to Homer Brooke 1890-1899 data]
This data on Homer Brooke was compiled by Dick Roller and provided to this site by Bob Stahr.
| 1899-1901: | Homer Brooke out of business for 2 years. [DR Notes] |
| Jul. 19, 1900: | The Grote Bottle Machine Co., of Jersey City, NJ, has been incorporated to mfr. machines for making glass bottles; capital $500,000. Incorporators: Ludwig Grote, Charles A. Tatum, & William Brookfield, all of Jersey City. [China, Glass & Lamps, Jul. 19, 1900] |
| Jul. 26, 1900: | The Green Bottle Machine Co., of Jersey City, NJ, has been chartered in NJ with $50,000 capital, in $100 shares. Incorporators are: L. Grote, C.A. Tatum, & W. Brookfield. If organized, the company will make fruit jars, bottles, etc. [China, Glass & Lamps, Jul |
| Oct. 19, 1900: | J.F. Buchanan & Co., Philadelphia, PA, writing to Homer Brooke, 44 Barclay St., NYC, about Brookfield & Hemingray combining to set insulator prices. Cohansey said to have made insulators before. Buchanan trying to make a deal for Brooke to mfr. the insulators and they together to sell them. |
| 11/1901-3/1902: |
Standard Flow Glass Co., Homer Brooke, pres., 214 Broadway, NYC. Planned to make insulators, sold 51% of his patent to Andrew H. Green, 214 Broadway, NYC. [1909 Brooke vs. Ball, Vol. V, Letter Books of Homer Brooke, pp. 1986, 1990, & 1991] |
| 1902-1903: | Brooke & Shields, 44 Barclay St., NYC. 214 Broadway torn down. [1909 Brooke vs. Ball, Vol. V, Letter Books of Homer Brooke, pp. 1992 & 2012] |
| Dec. 8, 1902: | Letter from C.S. Knowles, 7 Arch St., Boston to Brooke & Shields, 44 Barclay St., NYC in regard to possible use of Brooke's flowing glass furnace. Letter signed by C.S. Knowles & J.H. Parker, mgr. [1909 Brooke vs. Ball, Vol. V, Letter Books of Homer Brooke, p. 1992] |
| Mar. 31, 1903: | Pat #723,982 for Receptacle for Containing Molten Material issued to Homer Brooke, Jersey City, NJ. Filed Feb. 10, 1898. |
| Mar. 31, 1903: | Pat #723,983 for Device for Cutting Molten Material & Distributing Same issued to Homer Brooke, Jersey City, NJ. Filed Mar. 5, 1898. |
| Sep. 30, 1903: | Homer Brooke talked with R.G. Hemingray, in Muncie, about building a small plant at Covington to try Brooke's device in the mfr., of insulators. |
| Nov. 13, 1903: | Andrew Haswell Green murdered on steps of his home by a Negro. [1909 Brooke vs. Ball, Vol. V, Letter Books of Homer Brooke, p. 2003] |
| Apr. 23, 1904: | Flowing Glass Co., New York, NY, was recently incorporated to mfr. glassware, with $50,000 capital. Incorporators: H. Brooke, Jersey City, NJ; W.W. Gage, NYC; and E. Hopkinson, Orange, NJ. [China, Glass & Lamps, Apr. 23, 1904, p. 16] |
| May 12, 1904: | Homer Brooke, 60 Linden Ave., Jersey City, NJ. [1909 Brooke vs. Ball, Vol. V, Letter Books of Homer Brooke, p. 2010] |
| 1904-1907: | Brooke built other furnaces in a plant in Jersey City . Hopkinson furnished the money [Homer Brooke Glass Co. vs. Ball Brothers Glass Mfg. Co., p. 918 & 942] |
| Apr. 3, 1905: | Letter from Homer Brooke, 60 Linden Ave., Jersey City, NJ, to Ball Brothers Glass Mfg. Co. suggesting they build a small tank to allow him to demonstrate his new gathering device. Stated he had built a 3-ton tank and tried the device. |
| Apr. 5 & 26, 1905: |
After seeing his patent drawings, Ball Brothers Glass Mfg. Co. declined to build a tank for Homer Brooke to demonstrate his device. |
| Dec. 31, 1907: | Homer Brooke assigned patent rights for Pat #723,983 to Homer Brooke Glass Co. |
| Jan. 11, 1908: | Agreement between Homer Brooke & Ernest Hopkinson forming Homer Brooke Glass Co. (Brooke - 500 shares, Hopkinson - 499 shares) |
| Sep. 28, 1908: | Homer Brooke testified that on Sep 28, 1908 he saw, at Ball's Factory #2 at Muncie, 3 glassmaking machines in use with a glass cut-off device similar to the one shown in Fig. 4 of A.L. Bingham's patent application filed Dec. 2, 1907 (US Patent #1,100,345 issued June 10, 1914). [1909 Brooke vs. Ball, Vol. I, Homer Brooke Deposition of Mar. 21, 1910 , p. 22] |
| Sep. 28, 1908: | Homer Brooke entered Factory No. 2 (by climbing over a coal pile in the back) of Ball Brothers Glass Mfg. Co. in Muncie, IN, and saw in operation a machine (Ball-Bingham) using special device. He was given permission to enter Factory No. 3 and saw in operation other (different) fruit jar machines. [1909 Brooke vs. Ball, Vol. I, Homer Brooke Deposition of Mar. 21, 1910 , p. 22] |
| Jun. 22, 1909: | Pat #925,864 for Glass-Furnace issued to Homer Brooke, Jersey City, NJ. Filed May 19, 1898. |
| Sep. 20, 1909: | Bill of Complaint filed by Homer Brooke Glass Co. against Ball Brothers Glass Mfg. Co. filed in U.S. District Court, Indianapolis, IN. |
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