• joined with his sons and changed the company name to "J.W. Foster and Sons" in 1910. Foster opened a small factory called Olympic Works, and gradually became...
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    founded his business J.W. Foster in 1900; later he joined with his sons and changed the company name to J.W. Foster and Sons. Foster opened a small factory...
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    Joseph William Foster. Foster's grandfather was the founder of J.W. Foster and Sons and the pioneer of the spiked running shoe. The elder Foster also developed...
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    company J.W. Foster and Sons designed and produced the first shoes designed for running in 1895; the shoes were spiked to allow for greater traction and speed...
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  • Cherry Healey and historian Ruth Goodman who provides a look at how products came to exist as we know them today. Initially both Gregg Wallace and Healey visited...
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    shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days shall thy strength be." For pioneering the use of spikes, J.W. Foster and Sons's revolutionary running...
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  • Becker, J. Becker Bros. Behning & Klix Behning & Sons Behr Brothers Piano Company Bekker Belarus Belehredek Bell Piano & Organ Co. Bellak & Sons Bellman...
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    Beauty (from Anna Sewell's novel) in second with 33%. Bolton company J.W. Foster and Sons's pioneering running spikes appear in the book, Golden Kicks: The...
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    Three Sons' will perform with lyricist Marty Panzer to benefit a nonprofit group for foster children". Walnut Creek Journal. p. 3. Lopez, Robert J. (2012-06-28)...
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    family papers at John J. Burns Library, Boston College Yeats and Mysticism, BBC Radio 4 discussion with Roy Foster, Warwick Gould and Brenda Maddox (In Our...
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