As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 25, 1995.
                                              Registration No. 33-        





                  SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                        Washington, D.C.  20549
                            _______________

                               FORM S-8
                        REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                 Under
                      THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                            _______________

                    THE BLACK & DECKER CORPORATION
        (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

            Maryland                                  52-0248090
  (State or other jurisdiction of     (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
  incorporation or organization)

                          701 East Joppa Road
                        Towson, Maryland  21286
               (Address of principal executive offices)

                    The Black & Decker Corporation
           1995 Stock Option Plan for Non-Employee Directors
                                          (Full title of the plan)

                                         Charles E. Fenton, Esquire
                                     Vice President and General Counsel
                                   The Black & Decker Corporation
                                         701 East Joppa Road
                                       Towson, Maryland  21286
                                           (410) 716-3900
                      (Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number,
                                 including area code, of agent for service)

                                                 Copies to:
                                         Glenn C. Campbell, Esquire
                                            Miles & Stockbridge,
                                         a Professional Corporation
                                               10 Light Street
                                         Baltimore, Maryland  21202
                                               _______________
<TABLE>
                                       CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 
<CAPTION>
                                                        Proposed              Proposed                 
                                                         maximum               maximum             Amount of
Title of securities             Amount to be         offering price           aggregate          registration
to be registered                  registered          per share(1)        offering price(1)           fee

<S>                                 <C>                 <C>                 <C>                    <C>
Common Stock, 
par value $0.50 
per share ............              150,000             $29.75              $4,462,500             $1,538.81

Preferred Stock
Purchase Rights(2)....              150,000               (2)                    (2)                   (2)



(1) Computed, pursuant to Rule 457, solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee, based on the average
of the high and low prices of the Common Stock on April 21, 1995.  

(2) The Preferred Stock Purchase Rights are to be issued in tandem with the shares of Common Stock to be purchased from
time to time pursuant to the employee benefit plan described herein.  No separate consideration is to be paid for the
Preferred Stock Purchase Rights. 
</TABLE>


<PAGE>
                                               PART II

                         INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT



Item 3.         Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

        The following documents filed by the Registrant with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") are
incorporated by reference and made a part hereof:

                (a)      The Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for
the year ended December 31, 1994, as amended by the
Registrant's Form 10-K/A (Amendment No. 1) filed with the
Commission on April 24, 1995;

                (b)      The description of the Registrant's Common Stock
contained in the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form
8-A filed with the Commission pursuant to Section 12 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act") on
January 29, 1985, and any amendment or report filed for the
purpose of updating such description; and

                (c)      The description of the Registrant's Preferred
Stock Purchase Rights contained in the Registrant's
Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed with the Commission
pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange Act on April 29, 1986,
and any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating
such description.

        All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant
pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange
Act prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which
indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which
deregisters all securities then remaining unsold shall be
deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration
Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of
such documents.


Item 4.         Description of Securities.

        Not Applicable


Item 5.         Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

        Not Applicable


Item 6.         Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

        The Maryland General Corporation Law authorizes Maryland
corporations to limit the liability of directors and officers
to that corporation and its stockholders for money damages
except (i) to the extent that it is proved that the director or
officer actually received an improper benefit or profit in
money, property or services, for the amount of the benefit or
    <PAGE>
profit actually received, (ii) to the extent that a judgment or
other final adjudication adverse to the director or officer is
entered in a proceeding based on a finding in the proceeding
that the director's or officer's action, or failure to act, was
the result of active and deliberate dishonesty and was material
to the cause of action adjudicated in the proceeding, or (iii)
in respect of certain other actions not applicable to the
Corporation.  The Corporation's Charter limits the liability of
directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted by the
Maryland General Corporation Law.

        The Maryland General Corporation Law also authorizes a
corporation to indemnify present and past directors and
officers of the corporation or of another corporation for which
they may serve at the request of the corporation against
judgments, penalties, fines, settlements and reasonable
expenses (including attorneys' fees) actually incurred in
connection with any threatened, pending, or completed action,
suit, or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative,
or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of
the corporation in respect of which the director or officer is
adjudged to be liable to the corporation) in which they are
made parties by reason of being or having been directors or
officers unless it is proved that (i) the act or omission of
the director or officer was material to the matter giving rise
to the proceeding and was committed in bad faith or was the
result of active and deliberate dishonesty, (ii) the director
or officer actually received an improper personal benefit in
money, property or services, or (iii) in the case of any
criminal proceeding, the director or officer had reasonable
cause to believe that the act or omission was unlawful.  The
Maryland General Corporation Law also provides that, unless
limited by the corporation's charter, the corporation shall
indemnify present and past directors and officers of the
corporation who are successful, on the merits or otherwise, in
the defense of any threatened, pending or completed action,
suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or
investigative, against reasonable expenses (including
attorneys' fees) incurred in connection with the proceeding. 
The Corporation's Charter does not limit the extent of this
indemnity.

        The By-Laws of the Corporation permit indemnification of
directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted by the
Maryland General Corporation Law, and the Corporation's
directors and officers are covered by certain insurance
policies maintained by the Corporation.


Item 7.         Exemption from Registration Claimed.

        Not Applicable


Item 8.         Exhibits.

Exhibit No.              Description of Exhibit

         4               The Black & Decker Corporation 1995 Stock
                         Option Plan for Non-Employee Directors.

         5               Opinion of Miles & Stockbridge, a Professional
                         Corporation.

        23               Consent of Independent Auditors (the consent of
                         counsel is included in Exhibit 5).

        24               Powers of Attorney.


 Item 9.        Undertakings.

        (a)     The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

                (1)      To file, during any period in which offers or
sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this
registration statement:

                       (i)  To include any prospectus required by section
10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;

                      (ii)  To reflect in the prospectus any facts or
events arising after the effective date of the registration
statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof)
which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a
fundamental change in the information set forth in the
registration statement; and

                     (iii)  To include any material information with
respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in
the registration statement or any material change to such
information in the registration statement;

        Provided, however, that subparagraphs (1)(i) and (1)(ii)
do not apply if the information required to be included in a
post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in
periodic reports filed by the registrant pursuant to section 13
or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that
are incorporated by reference in the registration statement.

                (2)      That, for the purpose of determining any
liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-
effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration
statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be
the initial bona fide offering thereof.

                (3)      To remove from registration by means of a post-
effective amendment any of the securities being registered
which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

        (b)     The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that,
for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities
Act of 1933, each filing of the registrant's annual report
pursuant to section 13(a) or section 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an
employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by
reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be
a new registration statement relating to the securities offered
therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall
be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

        (c)     Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising
under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors,
officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to
the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been
advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange
Commission such indemnification is against public policy as
expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the
event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities
(other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred
or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the
registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or
controlling person in connection with the securities being
registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its
counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question
whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as
expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final
adjudication of such issue.

<PAGE>
                                                 SIGNATURES


   Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration
statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of Towson, State of Maryland, on April 25, 1995.


                                               THE BLACK & DECKER CORPORATION

                                               By:/s/ CHARLES E. FENTON
                                                      Charles E. Fenton
                                                      Vice President and 
                                                      General Counsel


         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the date indicated.


     Signature                          Title                   Date

Principal Executive Officer


/s/ NOLAN D. ARCHIBALD
    Nolan D. Archibald            Chairman, President      April 25, 1995
                                  and Chief Executive
                                  Officer


Principal Financial Officer


/s/ THOMAS M. SCHOEWE
    Thomas M. Schoewe             Vice President and       April 25, 1995
                                  Chief Financial Officer


Principal Accounting Officer


/s/ STEPHEN F. REEVES
    Stephen F. Reeves             Corporate Controller     April 25, 1995

<PAGE>
         This Registration Statement also has been signed by the following
Directors, constituting a majority of the Board of Directors, by Charles E.
Fenton, Attorney-in-Fact:

         Nolan D. Archibald*                       J. Dean Muncaster*
         Barbara L. Bowles*                        Mark H. Willes*
         Malcolm Candlish*                         M. Cabell Woodward, Jr.*
         Alonzo G. Decker, Jr.*                    
         Anthony Luiso*





*By:/s/ CHARLES E. FENTON                                April 25, 1995
        Charles E. Fenton
        Attorney-In-Fact
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 25, 1995.
                                              Registration No. 33-        

                  SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                        Washington, D.C.  20549
                            _______________

                               FORM S-8
                        REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                 Under
                      THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
                            _______________

                    THE BLACK & DECKER CORPORATION
        (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

            Maryland                                  52-0248090
  (State or other jurisdiction of     (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
  incorporation or organization)

                          701 East Joppa Road
                        Towson, Maryland  21286
               (Address of principal executive offices)

                    The Black & Decker Corporation
           1995 Stock Option Plan for Non-Employee Directors
                                          (Full title of the plan)

                                         Charles E. Fenton, Esquire
                                     Vice President and General Counsel
                                   The Black & Decker Corporation
                                         701 East Joppa Road
                                       Towson, Maryland  21286
                                           (410) 716-3900
                      (Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number,
                                 including area code, of agent for service)

                                                 Copies to:
                                         Glenn C. Campbell, Esquire
                                            Miles & Stockbridge,
                                         a Professional Corporation
                                               10 Light Street
                                         Baltimore, Maryland  21202
                                               _______________

                                       CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
Proposed              Proposed                 
                                                         maximum               maximum             Amount of
Title of securities             Amount to be         offering price           aggregate          registration
to be registered                  registered          per share(1)        offering price(1)           fee
Common Stock, 
par value $0.50 
per share ............              150,000             $29.75              $4,462,500             $1,538.81

Preferred Stock
Purchase Rights(2)....              150,000               (2)                    (2)                   (2)

(1) Computed, pursuant to Rule 457, solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee, based on the average
of the high and low prices of the Common Stock on April 21, 1995.  

(2) The Preferred Stock Purchase Rights are to be issued in tandem with the shares of Common Stock to be purchased from
time to time pursuant to the employee benefit plan described herein.  No separate consideration is to be paid for the
Preferred Stock Purchase Rights.
PART II

                         INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Item 3.         Incorporation of Documents by Reference.

        The following documents filed by the Registrant with the
Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission") are
incorporated by reference and made a part hereof:

                (a)      The Registrant's Annual Report on Form 10-K for
the year ended December 31, 1994, as amended by the
Registrant's Form 10-K/A (Amendment No. 1) filed with the
Commission on April 24, 1995;

                (b)      The description of the Registrant's Common Stock
contained in the Registrant's Registration Statement on Form
8-A filed with the Commission pursuant to Section 12 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act") on
January 29, 1985, and any amendment or report filed for the
purpose of updating such description; and

                (c)      The description of the Registrant's Preferred
Stock Purchase Rights contained in the Registrant's
Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed with the Commission
pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange Act on April 29, 1986,
and any amendment or report filed for the purpose of updating
such description.

        All documents subsequently filed by the Registrant
pursuant to Section 13(a), 13(c), 14 or 15(d) of the Exchange
Act prior to the filing of a post-effective amendment which
indicates that all securities offered have been sold or which
deregisters all securities then remaining unsold shall be
deemed to be incorporated by reference into this Registration
Statement and to be a part hereof from the date of filing of
such documents.

Item 4.         Description of Securities.

        Not Applicable

Item 5.         Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

        Not Applicable

Item 6.         Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

        The Maryland General Corporation Law authorizes Maryland
corporations to limit the liability of directors and officers
to that corporation and its stockholders for money damages
except (i) to the extent that it is proved that the director or
officer actually received an improper benefit or profit in
money, property or services, for the amount of the benefit or
profit actually received, (ii) to the extent that a judgment or
other final adjudication adverse to the director or officer is
entered in a proceeding based on a finding in the proceeding
that the director's or officer's action, or failure to act, was
the result of active and deliberate dishonesty and was material
to the cause of action adjudicated in the proceeding, or (iii)
in respect of certain other actions not applicable to the
Corporation.  The Corporation's Charter limits the liability of
directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted by the
Maryland General Corporation Law.

        The Maryland General Corporation Law also authorizes a
corporation to indemnify present and past directors and
officers of the corporation or of another corporation for which
they may serve at the request of the corporation against
judgments, penalties, fines, settlements and reasonable
expenses (including attorneys' fees) actually incurred in
connection with any threatened, pending, or completed action,
suit, or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative,
or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of
the corporation in respect of which the director or officer is
adjudged to be liable to the corporation) in which they are
made parties by reason of being or having been directors or
officers unless it is proved that (i) the act or omission of
the director or officer was material to the matter giving rise
to the proceeding and was committed in bad faith or was the
result of active and deliberate dishonesty, (ii) the director
or officer actually received an improper personal benefit in
money, property or services, or (iii) in the case of any
criminal proceeding, the director or officer had reasonable
cause to believe that the act or omission was unlawful.  The
Maryland General Corporation Law also provides that, unless
limited by the corporation's charter, the corporation shall
indemnify present and past directors and officers of the
corporation who are successful, on the merits or otherwise, in
the defense of any threatened, pending or completed action,
suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or
investigative, against reasonable expenses (including
attorneys' fees) incurred in connection with the proceeding. 
The Corporation's Charter does not limit the extent of this
indemnity.

        The By-Laws of the Corporation permit indemnification of
directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted by the
Maryland General Corporation Law, and the Corporation's
directors and officers are covered by certain insurance
policies maintained by the Corporation.

Item 7.         Exemption from Registration Claimed.

        Not Applicable

Item 8.         Exhibits.

Exhibit No.              Description of Exhibit

         4               The Black & Decker Corporation 1995 Stock
                         Option Plan for Non-Employee Directors.

         5               Opinion of Miles & Stockbridge, a Professional
                         Corporation.

        23               Consent of Independent Auditors (the consent of
                         counsel is included in Exhibit 5).

        24               Powers of Attorney.

 Item 9.        Undertakings.

        (a)     The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

                (1)      To file, during any period in which offers or
sales are being made, a post-effective amendment to this
registration statement:

                       (i)  To include any prospectus required by section
10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;

                      (ii)  To reflect in the prospectus any facts or
events arising after the effective date of the registration
statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof)
which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a
fundamental change in the information set forth in the
registration statement; and

                     (iii)  To include any material information with
respect to the plan of distribution not previously disclosed in
the registration statement or any material change to such
information in the registration statement;

        Provided, however, that subparagraphs (1)(i) and (1)(ii)
do not apply if the information required to be included in a
post-effective amendment by those paragraphs is contained in
periodic reports filed by the registrant pursuant to section 13
or section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 that
are incorporated by reference in the registration statement.

                (2)      That, for the purpose of determining any
liability under the Securities Act of 1933, each such post-
effective amendment shall be deemed to be a new registration
statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the
offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be
the initial bona fide offering thereof.

                (3)      To remove from registration by means of a post-
effective amendment any of the securities being registered
which remain unsold at the termination of the offering.

        (b)     The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that,
for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities
Act of 1933, each filing of the registrant's annual report
pursuant to section 13(a) or section 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 (and, where applicable, each filing of an
employee benefit plan's annual report pursuant to Section 15(d)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934) that is incorporated by
reference in the registration statement shall be deemed to be
a new registration statement relating to the securities offered
therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall
be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

        (c)     Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising
under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors,
officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to
the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been
advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange
Commission such indemnification is against public policy as
expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable.  In the
event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities
(other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred
or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the
registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or
proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or
controlling person in connection with the securities being
registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its
counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent,
submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question
whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as
expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final
adjudication of such issue.
SIGNATURES

   Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant
certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the
requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration
statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized, in the City of Towson, State of Maryland, on April 25, 1995.

                                               THE BLACK & DECKER CORPORATION

                                               By:/s/ CHARLES E. FENTON
                                                      Charles E. Fenton
                                                      Vice President and 
                                                      General Counsel

         Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the date indicated.

     Signature                          Title                   Date

Principal Executive Officer

/s/ NOLAN D. ARCHIBALD
    Nolan D. Archibald            Chairman, President      April 25, 1995
                                  and Chief Executive
                                  Officer

Principal Financial Officer

/s/ THOMAS M. SCHOEWE
    Thomas M. Schoewe             Vice President and       April 25, 1995
                                  Chief Financial Officer

Principal Accounting Officer

/s/ STEPHEN F. REEVES
    Stephen F. Reeves             Corporate Controller     April 25, 1995
This Registration Statement also has been signed by the following
Directors, constituting a majority of the Board of Directors, by Charles E.
Fenton, Attorney-in-Fact:

         Nolan D. Archibald*                       J. Dean Muncaster*
         Barbara L. Bowles*                        Mark H. Willes*
         Malcolm Candlish*                         M. Cabell Woodward, Jr.*
         Alonzo G. Decker, Jr.*                    
         Anthony Luiso*

*By:/s/ CHARLES E. FENTON                                April 25, 1995
        Charles E. Fenton
        Attorney-In-Fact