page_title: Trane Technologies
section_title: Early years
hierarchical_section_title: Trane Technologies / History / Early years
caption_attribution_description: English: Figure 7 of 1898 publication called Maryland Geological Survey Volume Two, with caption "Ingersoll-Sergeant steam drill." (see Ingersoll Rand)
context_page_description: Trane Technologies plc is an Irish-domiciled diversified industrial manufacturing company formed in 1905 by the merger of Ingersoll-Sergeant Drill Company and Rand Drill Company. It is headquartered near Dublin, Ireland.
  While known as Ingersoll Rand, the company has been a constituent of the S&P 500 Index since 2010, replacing Pactiv Corporation on 16 November 2010.
context_section_description: In 1871, Simon Ingersoll (1818–1894) founded Ingersoll Rock Drill Company in New York, and in 1888 it combined with Sergeant Drill to form Ingersoll Sergeant Drill Company. Also in 1871, brothers Addison Rand (1841–1900) and Jasper Rand, Jr. (1837–1909) established Rand Drill Company with its main manufacturing plant in Tarrytown, New York. Rand drills cleared New York's treacherous Hell Gate channel and were used in the construction of water aqueducts for New York City and Washington, D.C., and tunnels in Haverstraw and West Point, New York, and in Weehawken, New Jersey. In 1905 Ingersoll-Sergeant Drill Company merged with the Rand Drill Company to form Ingersoll Rand. Ingersoll Rand has grown largely by acquisition since that time.
caption: Ingersoll-Sergeant steam drill used in mining in the late 1800s
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