sentences:  In 1878, Howard, with Pardon Armington and Gardiner C. Sims, established the Armington and Sims Engine Company, manufacturing high-speed piston valve steam engines.The consistent output of their engines prompted Thomas Edison to use them for his Pearl Street Station power plant in New York.The company's finances suffered from the depression following the Panic of 1893, and in 1896 it failed entirely, and its assets were sold to the Eastern Engine company.