CECILTON, Md. (AP) — Alonzo G. Decker Jr., who turned Black & Decker into an industrial giant by marketing power tools for home use, has died. He was 94.

Decker died Monday of heart failure at his home in Maryland.

Decker, whose father co-founded the company in 1910, helped revolutionize the power tool industry by putting drills, saws, hedge trimmers and DustBusters into the hands of consumers for weekend household chores.

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Decker said he saw the future of his business in 1940 when he learned that female World War II defense workers were stealing his industrial power drills.

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