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American Standard history began in 1872, when John.B Pierce opened a small shop offering enameled iron products in Massachusetts. With his keen mind on business, he developed the store quickly, later he announced the establishment of Pierce Steam Heating. It was merged with two other companies in 1982 and became American Radiator Company afterwards.
In 1929, American Standard and Standard Sanitary manufacturing were merged. Products of these two companies made up a half of market-share in America and Europe markets.
Eighteen years later, American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corporation was known as a famous firm name in business world.
In 1948, the company changed its name to American Standard.
Jame Trane, who later became the co-founder of the company, was a Finland immigrant. In 1964, he moved to LA Crosse Winsconsin to build up his own business. At first, he worked as a steam-engine fitting worker; he then set up his own business specializing in water-supplying system. In 1913, he and his son founded Trane company specialized in home-warming systems and commercial buildings.
According to a legend, in 1867, the train from Troy, New York to Schenetary, which carried George Westinghouse, was derailed. Originally, the two collided trains must be removed to free the traffic. Yet, despite of danger, the train still continued its voyage and could not control its speed even though a personnel jumped from one wagon to another to apply the brake manually. Due to this incident, Westinghouse began to think about solutions that later made remarkable changes. He created a new kind of brake which compressed air to reduce speed of trucks. Then, in 1968, he set up Westinghouse Air Brake( WABCO) specialized in brake systems.
On March 13th, 1914, The New York Newspaper acknowledged that the number of people whom were rescued by air brake of Westinghouse was much more than that of people died in all World Wars.