The History of Automaton Dominion Products
(excerpted from the official biography, 'Thomas A. Laughlin, The Man, The Myth, The Mystery' by Stella Rae Arbiter)
 "Evolving from a small mechanic business run by a young industrialist by the name of Thomas A. Laughlin, Automaton Dominion Products quickly evolved to fill a specialized niche in the market that the untrained but market-savvy Laughlin exploited - the robot army niche. Automaton Dominion Products quickly expanded to become a fully incorporated company in 1892.
Laughlin's little company formed a vital part of the economy substructure in wartime. The earliest of Laughlin's automatons were used only for the most basic purposes of war, cannon fodder. It was during the trials of World War 1 that Laughlin met and married his first and only wife, Desiderata Jones, who became his business partner. Together, they expanded the company far beyond its original scope, pushing the technology of robotry to the limits. Their only child, a boy, was born in the aftermath of their WW1 expansion, and grew to be a fine engineer, working under his father with a keen analytical mind. It was this son, Joseph Laughlin, who invented the first Automated Dominion Products robo-brain, as it was called then, which has continued, in modified forms, to be used to this very day.
All too soon, Thomas Laughlin died of radiation poisoning, leaving Joseph and his mother to keep the home fires burning. World War 2 started during this period and again, the ADP robots were used, this time with the newly installed robo-brain. This development put ADP far ahead of its competitors, expanding to a global scale. This scale and monopoly on the robot army market continues today, under the steady hand of R. M. Laughlin, Joseph's son.
Perhaps if we were to look back in time, to that sweaty, cramped workhouse where Thomas A. Laughlin first formed the idea of a robot army manufacturing company, we could catch just a spark of the future in his eye, an as-yet unformed dream of what would come to be.'
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