In 1960, the company was sold to Rockwell International. In 1929, Emmons invented the helical drive circular saw, a compact, lightweight design that is still the most widely used circular saw design produced today. Porter-Cable began to develop a niche in portable electric power tools in 1926, when Chief Engineer Art Emmons invented the portable electric belt sander, called the Take-About Sander. Three years later, the company bought a plant on North Salina Street. In 1914, the company began to focus on power tools, starting with a line of lathes. Cable, who invested $2,300 in a jobbing machine and tool shop the trio ran out of a garage. Porter-Cable was founded in 1906 in Syracuse, New York, by R.E.
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