Manufactured by FP Lovejoy, Springfield, VT, Pat’d Nov 22, 1904.   Do you know what this object is?     Some of the guesses we’ve heard at the front desk […]

A pattern is the master copy of a design. Wooden patterns like these could have been used hundreds of times before losing their shape. Flat back patterns, like these wrenches, […]

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James Pitkin & Co, London, C 1915, Le Boulenge type.

This clever device measures the speed of bullets.

18 inches in diameter, and it stores 500 KB.

Let’s assume that you haven’t ever considered how to make a slide rule.  We have a machine at the Museum that did make them. It worked for the Keuffel & […]

What forces and materials help airplanes fly? This summer camp theme explores Simple Aerospace. Project: Description: Related concepts and machines: Principles of Flight: Forces and Axes From NASA: Principles of […]

The Machine of the Month for June 2021 is the Bentley engine, c. 1930.

The US Constitution, Article 1 section 8 describes the powers of Congress.  Students are asked to consider: which of these powers do you think would help increase manufacturing and encourage […]

Review a family tree of companies. Lesson plan and link to interactive presentation available for free download.

In 2007, the American Precision Museum engaged the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) in Washington DC to document the remains of the waterwheel pit and millworks at the 1846 Robbins […]