Frederick Trent Stanley (?-?) was an American industrialist.

He founded Stanley's Bolt Manufactory of New Britain, Connecticut in 1843 to manufacture door bolts and other hardware from wrought iron. In 1920 this company was merged with The Stanley Rule and Level Company, founded by his cousin Henry Stanley in 1857, and the two firms became The Stanley Works.

Stanley is still a well-known brand of tools today and has produced millions of hand planes, saws, rulers, try squares, chisels, screwdrivers, and many other tools for consumer and industrial use. Their innovations include the Bailey hand plane, the Surform shaper, the PowerLock tape measure, and the box-cutter knife. The last is sometimes called a utility knife or in British English, a Stanley knife.

External links

• History of the Stanley Works (http://www.stanleyworks.com/a_history.asp)
• Another history of the Stanley Works (http://stanleytools.com/default.asp?TYPE=STATICLEFT&PAGE=history.htm&LEFT=left_history.htm)