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Machine of the Month: Brown & Sharpe Universal Mill
Machine of the Month

Machine of the Month: Brown & Sharpe Universal Mill

Written by John Alexander, Collections Technician • jalexander@americanprecision.org My choice of this machine was confirmed right away. I looked in a box of books sitting next to my desk and […]

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Machine of the Month: Barnes Lathe (and other machines)
Machine of the Month

Machine of the Month: Barnes Lathe (and other machines)

Written by John Alexander, Collections Technician The sight of an old catalog for Barnes lathes led to this month’s article. The company was founded in 1872 as the W. F. […]

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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: No. 12 Lathe
Machine of the Month

Machine of the Month: No. 12 Lathe

Some visitors spend some time around this machine before they realize that it’s a lathe. That’s because we use the rear half of its bed as a bench to display […]

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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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Machine of the Month: Bridgeport Serial No. 1
Machine of the Month

Machine of the Month: Bridgeport Serial No. 1

The First Bridgeport Many who read this will already be familiar with the First Bridgeport, which we proudly display. There are some features on it that aren’t widely known about […]

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Machine of the Month: Photostat Machine
Machine of the Month

Machine of the Month: Photostat Machine

The Photostat brand machine, differing in operation from its competitor, Rectigraph but with the same purpose of the photographic copying of documents, was invented in Kansas City by Oscar T. […]

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