James Packard '84 opens the Packard Electric Company with his brother in their hometown of Warren, Ohio. Thanks to the company's success at manufacturing electric lightbulbs, transformers and cables, Warren became the first city in the U.S. with incandescent bulb street lamps in 1911. Packard is best known for his formation of the Packard Motor Car Company in 1899, which later gained a reputation as the producer of the finest luxury vehicles in America. In 1929 Packard’s $1.2 million gift to Lehigh led to the construction of Packard Lab, home of the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science.