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 FROM MUSKETS TO MOTORCARS: YANKEE INGENUITY AND THE ROAD TO MASS PRODUCTION: The museum’s new exhibition, From Muskets to Motorcars, will celebrate the centennial of the Model T and explore how the tools and techniques of precision manufacturing made mass production possible. Historic machine tools will be displayed alongside the new products that they made: early manufactured clocks, firearms, sewing machines, typewriters, and bicycles. At the center of the exhibition, a working machine shop staffed by museum interpreters will allow visitors to see machine tools at work. Hands-on activities help the visitor understand the meaning of “precision” and “interchangeable parts.” Poster art, advertisements, shop photographs, and company brochures help provide a human context for the machines and for the consumer goods on display.
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The Museum preserves the heritage of the mechanical arts, celebrates the ingenuity of our mechanical forebears, and explores the effects of their work on our everyday lives. The American Precision Museum, housed in the original Robbins & Lawrence Armory, now holds the largest collection of historically significant machine tools in the nation.
