![]() Its surveying materials were used in readying the site for the Columbian Exposition of 1893 its special orders have included 10 yard chain markers for officials at University of Chicago football contests and a good part of the equipment used in laying out the area expressway system bore the Dietzgen name.”Īnyone who has spent any significant time around the DePaul University campus in Lincoln Park will also likely recognize the impressive four-story red brick building at the corner of Fullerton and Sheffield Avenue. ![]() As the Chicago Tribune once noted on the occasion of the company’s 75th anniversary in 1960, Dietzgen equipment “played a role in varied aspects of Chicago’s development. While the products of the Eugene Dietzgen Company had a significant global reach for much of the 20th century, you can just as easily measure their impact by keeping the view local. For Dietzgen products are the tools of engineers, the men who plan, design and build the structures, machines and equipment that make history.” -Eugene Dietzgen Company advertisement, 1942 It may be any of a hundred projects that will affect the lives, the safety, the welfare of millions of people. ![]() It may be in far-off Africa where new flying fields or military highways are to take shape amid burning sands for a new turn in war strategy. It may be in a little office in some huge factory where a new high-altitude plane is being born on the drawing board. “Wherever Dietzgen products go, something important is always brewing.
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