One of the world’s biggest companies is trying to shake up a business dominated for decades by a Central New York firm. Nike is rolling out an app, Nike Fit, that will allow customers shopping online ...
Nike Inc.’s new shoe-sizing technology doesn’t worry the company that’s been measuring feet for 92 years. Brannock Device Co. manufactures the ubiquitous shoe-store contraption that you’ve almost ...
It's a back-to-school tradition: a visit to the neighborhood shoe store, where employees pull out a well-worn metal foot measuring tool from under a seat to measure children's feet, fit them with the ...
On a quiet street in Syracuse, N.Y., a small factory makes an American classic: a flat metallic object that millions of people recognize by sight, but few know by name. It’s the Brannock Device, ...
A clever mother-of-two has shared the genius 'foot measuring' device she made to avoid bringing her children to the shops when they needed new school shoes. Posting to a popular Australian parenting ...
Ever wondered what that foot-measuring gizmo in shoe stores is called? Invented by Charles F. Brannock and patented in 1926, the heel-cupping metal implement, used for generations to torture children ...
LIVERPOOL, N.Y.—Many have tried, but no one has ever come up with a more elegantly simple way to measure the human foot than Charles Brannock, inventor of that ubiquitous metal gadget found in shoe ...
It’s a back-to-school tradition: a visit to the neighborhood shoe store, where employees pull out a well-worn metal foot measuring tool from under a seat to measure children’s feet, fit them with the ...
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