radio transmitters using alternating current vacuum tubes Rowntree's (now Rowntree Mackintosh, owned by Nestlé), chocolate manufacturer, founded by Quaker Joseph Rowntree S Sandy Spring Bank, founded in 1868 by Quaker farmers, now the largest bank in the state of Maryland, USA Scott Bader Commonwealth, British manufacturer of advanced resins and composites, founded by Ernest Bader in 1951 Sony (formerly Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, or Tokyo Telecommunication Engineering, Co.), TTK's founding board president was Tamon Maeda, a Japanese Quaker, prewar Japanese ambassador to ILO, and postwar Minister of Education Stockton and Darlington Railway, established in 1825 by Quaker Edward Pease, operated the world's first permanent steam locomotive-hauled railway line Strawbridge and Clothier (now part of Macy's), department store chain, USA (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware) T Truth Legal Solicitors, founded in 2012 by Quaker solicitor Andrew Gray. W Waterford Crystal, former producer of crystal glass, founded by Quakers in 1783, closed in 1851; the modern Waterford Wedgwood was not founded by Quakers, being the merger of a separate Waterford Crystal company founded in 1947 by non-Quaker Charles Bacik, and Wedgwood, founded by the Unitarian, Josiah Wedgwood. Western Union, founded by Ezra Cornell. Businesses with no Quaker connection Quaker Oats Company, food manufacturer Quaker State, motor oil brand Quaker Steak & Lube, casual dining restaurant chain based in Sharon, Pennsylvania References External links BBC article on Quakers successes in business Video of a lecture given by James Walvin "Quakers, business and morality" on 25 April 2005 at Gresham College, Barnard’s Inn Hall Further reading The Biographical Dictionary of British Quakers in Commerce and Industry 1775-1920 Businesses Quaker Businesses