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 1946 - This was quite a year - a year of firsts. ENIAC, the first digital computer was unveiled in Philadelphia. The Roosevelt dime was introduced. The Cannes Film Festival made its debut. The word "automation" came into use. The term "World Wide Web" did not exist. And Brooks Rotameter Company, founded by Stephen A. Brooks, opened its doors for business in Lansdale, Pennsylvania.
1946 - Stephen Brooks leases property - at the rate of $75 per month - in Lansdale, Pennsylvania to house his newly formed Brooks Rotameter Company. The new company is built on the strength of an innovative side-plate, dowel-pin principle of rotameter construction, which is, today, the basis of one of the company's more important product lines.
1950 - At age 28, upon the untimely death of his father, Douglas Brooks assumes leadership of Brooks Rotameter, with its annual sales of $100,000.
1951 - Sales reach an all-time high - $348,000!
1956 - The company's accounting records, previously hand posted , go "on-line" with the addition of mechanical data processing. Sales eclipse the 1955 record by a whopping 80%.
1957 - Brooks announces plans to occupy a new plant - 28,000 fully air-conditioned square feet - in Hatfield, PA.
1958 - A new, streamlined laboratory flow meter named Sho-Rate and a new type of full-view rotameter - with an improved packaging seal that represents one of the first innovations for the glass tube rotameter in 20 years - are introduced.
 1959 - The now familiar Brooks "B" logo, a stylized letter accentuated by systems & engineering symbols, is introduced.
 1960 - A flash fire in the Calibration Dept.! Though minor in damage and production losses, employees work through the night to rescue files and equipment and ensure the company's ability to re-open the following day. The European mfg. subsidiary, Brooks Instrument Nederland, N.V. Veenendaal, opens.
1963 - Sales top the $5 million mark.
1964 - Brooks becomes part of the Emerson Electric Company.
1965 - A new calibration lab opens; Brooks establishes license for manufacturing in Japan.
1966 - A mobile lab goes "on the road"; Brooks acquires the Magmeter line from Hays Mfg.
1967 - A direct sale offices opens in Los Angeles, CA; sales for the year reach $10 million.
1970 - Brooks acquires the Measurement & Control Division of Rockwell Mfg. Co., Statesboro, GA.
1974 - Construction of a 30" water calibration facility, one of the largest privately owned testing facilities in the world, begins in Statesboro.
1981 - By agreement with Flow Technologies, Scottsdale, AZ, Brooks purchases technology for the Compact Prover, an industry leader in small volume proving.
1985 - Brooks acquires its Japanese License.
1990 - In response to the need for single source or turnkey products in the petroleum industry, systems production begins in Singapore.
 1996 - On January 7th - the day remembered by many as the "Blizzard of the Century" - Brooks officially turned 50! Brooks spins off Petroleum business segment into newly formed Fisher-Rosemount Petroleum.
1997 - Brooks launches its presence on the World Wide Web.
1998 - Brooks introduces first watertight and explosion proof thermal mass flow controllers.
 1999 - Brooks unveils QUANTIM, its newest mass flow technology.
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