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SKIL Power Tools is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Robert Bosch GmbH and is a leader in portable electric power tools and accessories serving the do-it-yourself consumer and professional construction markets. SKIL can trace its heritage to the invention of the circular saw by Edmond Michele in 1924, which led to the development of the SKILSAW circular saw ''Model 77'' in 1937. Now referred to as “the saw that built America,” the ''Model 77'' set the industry standard for handheld worm-drive circular saws which remains in production almost unchanged today.〔http://www.wdaz.com/event/article/id/14798〕 In an example of a genericized trademark, portable circular saws are often still called Skilsaws or Skil saws. Skil products include circular saws, cordless drill/drivers, cordless screw drivers, cordless tackers, cordless sealant guns, belt sanders, random orbit sanders, multi-sanders, angle grinders, hammers, drills, mixers, jig saws, lasers and measuring tools, reciprocating saws, routers, and planers. ==History== In the early 1920s, Edmond Michel, a French immigrant in New Orleans with a penchant for tinkering and inventing, watched a group of farmers hack away at sugar cane with large machetes. After observing the painstaking labor the workers went through, Michel began experimenting with how to mechanize the Machete. In 1923, Michel created a motorized machete, which had a 6 in. saw-blade mounted on carved wooden frame and powered with a motor taken from malted milk mixer – the first electric handsaw.〔Frechette, Leon A. "The Great Divide." Asktooltalk.com. http://www.asktooltalk.com/articles/toolhistory/divide.php. Accessed: 2013-01-22. (Archived by WebCite® at http://www.webcitation.org/6Drhmw1Mo)〕 After reading about Michel’s new invention, Joseph Sullivan, a Minneapolis land developer, set out to find the New Orleans inventor. After deciding to go into business together, Michel and Sullivan moved to Chicago and opened the Michel Electric Handsaw Co. in 1924.〔"IEN 75th Anniversary Perspective & Timeline: Skil Power Tools." IEN.com. http://www.ien.com/article/ien-75th-anniversary/134067. Accessed: 2013-01-22. (Archived by WebCite® at ()〕 After forming the company, six production models were made at $1000 each. Michel went to the new Atlantic City's Million Dollar Boardwalk to demonstrate the new tools, where the first portable electric “Skilsaw” was purchased for $160 by the Piers’ developer.〔Herbst, Chris. “Birth of a Saw.” Popular Science. August 1961, pg. 6. Accessed through (Google Books ) on 2013-01-22〕 In 1926, the Skil brand name was born after Michel left the company to pursue other ventures, and Sullivan changed the company name to Skilsaw, Inc. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Skil」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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