William Fisher, an engineer at the city waterworks in Marshalltown, Iowa, worked continuously for over twenty-four hours to manually maintain constant discharge pressure on a steam-driven water pump to supply water to fight a fire. From this experience, Fisher invented the constant-pressure pump governor and founded the Fisher Controls Company to manufacture his regulator.

Chuck Barber moves from another Fisher representative in Memphis to take over for Jim and renames the company Applied Control Equipment. Applied Control Equipment becomes the new Fisher representative in Denver, CO.

Jack Carey, another Fisher leader from Marshalltown, moves to Denver to lead the company. Jack establishes a customer-centric approach to serving our market and expanded the company’s core capabilities in tandem with the ever-expanding portfolio of premier products from Emerson. In doing so, Jack establishes Applied Control as the leading supplier of process automation solutions in the Rocky Mountain region. 

Emerson launches the Impact Partner Network. The Emerson Impact Partner Network includes 21 North American sales & service companies offering proven solution capabilities, local accessibility & consistent engineering practices that produce measurable business results.

Tad Cahill becomes President of Applied Control. Cahill joined Applied Control in 2012, first serving as a Reliability Solutions expert. Over the course of his career, he served as VP Sales for Applied Control, VP North American Sales (Systems & Solutions) for Emerson, and Chief Operating Officer for Applied Control. Another Marshalltown, Iowa native, Tad comes from a "Fisher Family" and brings the rich Fisher tradition of quality and value with him.