Who Founded Honeywell?

Albert Butz was a Swiss-born American inventor whose work is the origin of Honeywell. In 1885 he patented the 'damper flapper', an early automatic thermostat mechanism for controlling indoor temperature. He founded the Butz Thermo-Electric Regulator Company to sell it. His patents and that early business were the starting point of the automated controls company that later became Honeywell.

Albert Butz was born in 1849 in Switzerland.

Butz was born in Switzerland in 1849 and died in 1905. His Butz Thermo-electric Regulator Company became Honeywell through a series of reorganisations, name changes and mergers.

Mark C. Honeywell was an American industrialist who gave the company its name. He was a heating contractor, and in 1906 he founded the Honeywell Heating Specialty Company to make hot water heat generators. In 1927 he merged it with the Minneapolis Heat Regulator Company, the successor to Albert Butz's original firm. He led the combined Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Company, which grew through acquisitions into aerospace, building technologies and industrial automation.

Mark C. Honeywell was born in 1874 in Florida. Education: Eastman Business College.