Company names

1851

Kendall & Taylor

     George Taylor (d. 1889) and David Kendall founded the Taylor Instrument Company in Rochester, New York in 1851 under the original name Kendall & Taylor. The general stock and trade of the company was in thermometers and other instruments for monitoring temperature; this focus would continue into the twentieth century. Both Kendall and Taylor had worked independently as thermometer makers before forming the partnership which would found one of the largest manufacturers of thermometers in the United States. Kendall’s father was the pioneer thermometer maker in the United States. The was located in a single room over what was then Post’s Drug Store on Exchange Street, where they designed and produced the thermometers themselves.

1982

First Model Released

     Launched the landmark product series across regional markets.

1995

Archive Digitization

     Historical documentation and catalogs were converted into digital format.