Compressed air replaced steam as the power source and by 1905 the Ingersoll-Sergeant drill company took over the Rand Drill co, formingIngersoll Rand. Over the next century the company expanded, ...

For a century, Ingersoll Rand was Phillipsburg. From 1903 to 2000, the company was the town's biggest employer and the biggest taxpayer. It wasn't unusual for multiple generations of a family to ...

later becoming the Ingersoll-Sergeant Drill Co. of New York. But Simon Ingersoll soon ran into stiff competition. In the 1870s the Rand Drill Co., headed by inventor Albert Rand introduced an air ...