Founded by wealthy inventor and entrepreneur, Ironcog the Tinkerer in 1891, Saddle Hoof Manufacturing sought to compete with other manufacturing companies established at the time such as Edison Manufacturing Co. Established to years prior in 1889. The company produced a myriad of consumer products in it’s time of operation such as clocks, watches, radios, gramophones, telephones, Television (in later years) and toys. One such toy line being a series of miniature mechachanical horses, that if wound up, mimicked the movement and behavior of their real life counterparts for 1 minute. It was originally produced to celebrate Canterlot proud heritage of Ranching and Horse Breeding, though it had found some popularity among girls.
 
Mechanical innovations weren’t the only ventures this company pursued and it was also known to venture into other avenues such as heavy machinery, pharmaceuticals and chemistry.
 
Having visited the newly constructed Wardenclyffe Laboratories and It’s enormous Wardenclyffe Tower, Ironcog, with the blessing of Nikola Tesla himself, constructed his own version of the Tower at the main production facility of the company in Canterlot under the pretense of experimenting on Wireless telegraphy and the concept of wireless power distribution alongside Tesla. However, whenever the Tower was active, it produced a mysterious aura as well as various other strange atmospheric phenomena.
 
Even after the Tower of Wardenclyffe was demolished in 1919, the Tower in Canterlot continued to Stand. The Company continued to operate well into the 1920’s, 1930’s, 1940’s, 1950’s and 1960’s before shutting down for mysterious reasons in 1970. Strangely enough, coinciding with the disappearance of Ironcog in the same year.
 
Since then the production facility and labs have fallen into disrepair, save for certain buildings and even the Tower mysteriously remaining free of decay. The ruins of old facility have since become a spot for Urban explorers in Canterlot to go to explore the empty and ruined buildings of this once thriving company.
 
However, the place refuses to stay silent. On some night, the strange aura seen on the tower still appears even though power was shut down to the facility decades ago. lights and the sounds of machinery are sometimes seen in the more intact buildings and urban explorers have also reported hearing a strange droning sound coming from the top of the tower as well as having seen strange markings and patterns appearing on the Tower itself whenever it was “Active”. Running up the Frame of the structure.
 
Here The cutie Mark Crusaders have traveled to the old Saddlehoof MFG. Facility to do some urban spelunking around the site. Hoping to catch the aforementioned phenomena on video.
 
Another original location. This time an old factory that was founded by another Equestrian Sorcerer living in the human World. This one’s expertise being around technomagic/technomancy and the use of magic in technology. his time of arrival is much earlier than Arcanis, Emerging in London, England during the mid-1820’s and travelling to America in the 1840’s after spending some time working with inventors and other men of science and technology in Britain in order to gain an understanding of human technology, well at least during this time. His company in Canterlot as well as his tower are meant to be experiments in Magitech as well as him partially attempting to put magic in some of his products and commercializing harmless forms of magitech to the masses. The tower. itself being an example of his magitech, was actually built to link up the factory to the Canterlot Arcane Network as he was part of the Arcane Society of Canterlot as well as provide a source of magic for his magitech experiments.
 
My headcanon: in the Human World, Magic is seen as some form of Mad Science to the Humans. and the Horse imagery seen across Canterlot int he Human world is partially due to it’s heritage as a community of ranchers and Horsebreeders (as well as the fact that it was founded by seven nobodies. In truth Equestrians from the Era of Starswirl and the founding of Equestria trapped in the Human world and fought to survive in the wilderness of the pacific northwest. encountering and working together with Human settlers and founding a city named after the Equestrian capital that they held with Great importance).