Lamb Electric Celebrates Its First Hundred Years Founded in 1915, Business Remains a World Leader in Vacuum Motor Technology

AMETEK.’s Lamb Electric business remains a world leader in vacuum motors and blowers one hundred years after its founding. On October 21, 1915, the Domestic Electric Company, the predecessor of Lamb Electric, was launched from rented factory space in Cleveland, Ohio. Over the years, that business grew from a modest punch press shop that turned out steel parts for other manufacturers into a world leader in vacuum motor technology and manufacture.  Although never a household name, Lamb Electric became well-known in American industry and around the world for its state-of-the-art, air-moving