AJR67,1,42 Whereas, the company now known as MAG Giddings & Lewis was founded in
31859 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, as a small machine shop that produced parts and
4provided repairs for Wisconsin's sawmills and gristmills; and

AJR67,1,75 Whereas, over time, the business expanded its shop to include a gray iron
6foundry, the first in Wisconsin, and became the Novelty Iron Works, with a continued
7emphasis on sawmill machinery; and

AJR67,1,108 Whereas, in the 1870s and 1880s, the Novelty Iron Works continued its
9expansion into manufacturing industrial steam engines for clients across the United
10States; and

AJR67,1,1311 Whereas, in the 1870s and 1880s, changes in ownership brought the Novelty
12Iron Works under a partnership of Colonel C. H. DeGroat, George Giddings, and O.
13F. Lewis, leading to a new name, DeGroat, Giddings & Lewis; and

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1Whereas, in 1895, DeGroat sold his interest in the partnership to Giddings and
2Lewis, and the company was incorporated as the Giddings & Lewis Manufacturing
3Company, commonly known as Giddings & Lewis; and

AJR67,2,74 Whereas, as Wisconsin's lumber industry began to decline in the late 1890s and
5early 1900s, Giddings & Lewis began to concentrate on manufacturing machine
6tools, including lathes, gear cutting equipment, shapers, planers, drills, grinders,
7and even shell lathes for the British Ministry of Munitions during World War I; and

AJR67,2,108 Whereas, Giddings & Lewis entered into a sweeping modernization program
9during the 1920s and 1930s, went public in 1934, and, during World War II, operated
10an emergency plant facility under the Department of War; and

AJR67,2,1411 Whereas, in 1955, Giddings & Lewis built and demonstrated the first
12numerical control machine tool, the result of a joint research venture with the
13Massachusetts Institute of Technology that also produced other numerical control
14devices; and

AJR67,2,1615 Whereas, in 2005, MAG Industrial Automation Systems purchased Giddings
16& Lewis, and Giddings & Lewis is now MAG Giddings & Lewis; and

AJR67,2,1917 Whereas, MAG Giddings & Lewis is celebrating 150 years as an important
18industrial manufacturer and employer in the Fond du Lac area; now, therefore, be
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