Cooper Industries origins extend back more than 170 years to an iron foundry in Mount Vernon, Ohio, started by brothers Charles and Elias Cooper in 1833. For the first 125 years, it was a one-market company, manufacturing power and compression equipment for the transmission of natural gas. In the 1960s, the company expanded to include petroleum and industrial equipment, electrical products, electrical power equipment, automotive products, tools and hardware. In the 1990s, it sold and spun off businesses to focus on electrical products and tools. Cooper Industries is a worldwide manufacturer of electrical products, tools and hardware. The company operates nine divisions: Cooper B-Line, Cooper Bussmann, Cooper Crouse-Hinds, Cooper Hand Tools, Cooper Lighting, Cooper Menvier, Cooper Power Systems, Cooper Power Tools and Cooper Wiring Devices. Cooper Connection provides a common marketing and selling platform for company sales to electrical distributors. Cooper Industries is incorporated in Bermuda with administrative headquarters in Houston.