Product Specialists
name: label: Collection Donor
content: Stansbury, Jacqueline
label: Collection Creator
content: Stansbury, Benjamin H., 1935-1996
setName: label: See more items in
content: Benjamin H. Stansbury Papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1962 - 1971
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1350, Series 5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Product Specialists was formed in 1966 by John Pylant and Benjamin H. Stansbury. Stansbury worked at Product Specialists from 1966-1969. Rudy Hurwich invested in the company as a three-way partner in 1966. The company developed products for clients and worked to create, develop and manufacture a line of proprietary items for the recreation industry. One of the company's first products was Stowboat (US Patent 3,482,368), a portable, foldable boat weighing between 35 and 55 pounds which Stansbury invented.