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Honeywell International Inc

A maker of everything from jet-engine parts and cockpit electronics to home thermostats and building controls, Honeywell touches daily life in dozens of countries. Its roots reach back to 1885, when Swiss-born inventor Albert Butz patented an automatic furnace regulator in Minneapolis, and to 1906, when Mark Honeywell founded a heating company in Indiana; the two merged in 1927. Its iconic white Round thermostat, introduced in 1953, became a design classic now held in the Smithsonian's collection.