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1937
Walter B. Schulte, who worked for Burgess for over 30 years, buys the Electronics Division from Burgess.
The MICRO SWITCH Corporation is formed.
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1935
Rock-Ola places a large order for MICRO SWITCH components to be used on automatic phonographs.
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1934
McGall finishes his refinement of the switch and is granted a patent.
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1933
Operations were moved from New York to Freeport, Illinois, and were carried on as part of the Electronics
Division of C.F. Burgess Laboratories.
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1932
Dr. Charles F. Burgess, owner of the C. F. Burgess Laboratories, Inc. of Madison, Wisconsin, secures a
contract to manufacture 10,000 chicken brooders and orders 10,000 switches from an electronics vendor. These
switches prove to have unstable operating characteristics. Unable to find a suitable alternative, Burgess
decides to make his own switches. He assigns the task to Philip K. McGall, a Burgess mechanic. The first
precision snap-action basic switch was invented specifically for the close-tolerance requirements of a
chicken brooder.
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