John K. Stewart - Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

• John K Stewart dictated, onto 18 business phonograph cylinders, instructions for the construction of a 225-foot (69 m) ocean going personal yacht. - This yacht was built and named The Sialia.
• Wm. Cooper & Nephews declined the opportunity to purchase a portion of Stewarts' speedometer company, believing the product was too speculative. - Starting in 1908 Stewart Speedometers were installed in Fords Model-Ts.
• In 1916, Leander H. La Chance, Mrs. Stewart's half-nephew, was president of Chicago Flexible Shaft and in 1910 the company produces its first household appliance the Princess Electric Iron under the brand name of Sunbeam, a brand that still provides appliances today.