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Machine of the Month: The Hubbard Pump
Machine of the Month

Machine of the Month: The Hubbard Pump

Our Museum has deep connections to this machine. In 1828 Asahel Hubbard patented the first gear pump. After starting to manufacture his pump in Proctorville, a nearby community, Hubbard was […]

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Machine of the Month: First Model Jones & Lamson Flat Turret Lathe
Machine of the Month

Machine of the Month: First Model Jones & Lamson Flat Turret Lathe

This all starts way back, and it starts here! After the Civil War (1865) American Precision Museum’s building became a cotton mill. It and the machine-making shops across Mill Brook […]

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Machine of the Month: Rudy’s Own Bridgeport
Machine of the Month

Machine of the Month: Rudy’s Own Bridgeport

Rudolph Fredrick Bannow (1897-1962) left Sweden for the United States when he was 13 to join his family in Massachusetts. He completed his grammar school education in Holyoke and then […]

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Mechanical Marvels
Pop-Up Exhibit

Mechanical Marvels

Each one of these devices uses mechanical principles to achieve a function. Some objects are “consumer end products,” and others are “behind the scenes” mechanisms necessary to create the wonderful […]

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Treadle and Pedal Powered Grinders
Machine of the Month

Treadle and Pedal Powered Grinders

People have been grinding materials to process food, smooth surfaces, and sharpen tools for tens of thousands of years. Archeologists have found ancient grinding stones, which are rough rocks typically […]

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Measure the World Kits
STEM Kits

Measure the World Kits

The American Precision Museum, in collaboration with SparkShop, has developed a series of free kits that give 4th- to 6th -grade students a hands-on introduction to Manufacturing, STEM, and Design. […]

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Protected: Measure the World Unit
STEM Kits

Protected: Measure the World Unit

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Brown & Sharpe Micrometer, 1878
Machine of the Month

Brown & Sharpe Micrometer, 1878

This is believed to be the original machine made by Brown & Sharpe to use in their plant to measure the high precision products they made, such as gage blocks.

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Automatic Lathe, 1871
Machine of the Month

Automatic Lathe, 1871

This screw machine produced the screws used in pocket watches that were popular in the late 1800’s early 1900s. This machine replaced several manual operations. A series of circular cams and followers convert rotary motion into linear motion.

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Achieving Repeatability Kits
Activity

Achieving Repeatability Kits

The American Precision Museum, in collaboration with SparkShop, has developed a series of free kits that give 4th- to 6th-grade students a hands-on introduction to Manufacturing, STEM, and Design. In […]

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