Founded | January 1897 |
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Founder | Huntington Beard Crouse (1872-1943) and Jesse Lorenzo Hinds (1846-1928) |
Fate | Still operating in name only as a subsidiary of Eaton Corporation, however, traffic products division was divested in 1981 |
Headquarters | , |
Area served | United States |
Products | Industrial, explosionproof electrical equipment, instrumentation, commercial products |
Crouse-Hinds Electric Company, a manufacturer of high grade electrical specialties, was established in 1897 in Syracuse, New York. They later shortened their name to Crouse-Hinds Company and beginning in the early 1920s specialized in the manufacture of traffic signals, controllers and accessories. The company name remained in use as a subsidiary of Cooper Industries; however, the traffic signal production ended in 1981 after Cooper sold the traffic products division. It is now a division under Eaton Corporation.[1]