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192453007Rochester NY: Consolidated Machine Tool Corp. 1924-1953. Two vols. 4to. 147; 131 leaves all w/ 278 silver gelatin photos sized 8.5 x 11 in. all preserved in archival mylar sleeves and nearly all with typed captions dated and often pen & pencil annotations on versos most with hole punches at gutter blank margin from being bound originally in 3-ring factory binders. Uniformly bound in recent black cloth post-binders gilt lettering stamped on covers & spines NF set. This remarkable factory photo archive documents the durable and invaluable machine tools which built American industrial production through the 1920s and the post-World War II era. The Colburn drill presses turning lathes boring machines and boring mills were essential for such companies as Ford Motor Co. Maxwell Motorcar Co. John Deere Oakland Motor Car Co. Delco Light Co. International Harvester Nash Motors Co. Allis Chalmers Manufacturing Co. Caterpillar Tractor Co. Monarch Tractors Co. Hughes Tool Co. of Los Angeles part of Hughes Aviation Westinghouse and so many others. Many of the images show the connecting rods gears bearings engine blocks and other parts manufactured by these massive machines. A large number of the photos in the first volume show machines built and installed for the first National Machine Tool Builders’ Exposition which was held Sept. 19-23 1927 in the Cleveland Auditorium and attracted over 12000 attendees including Henry Ford the Dodge Brothers Durant George Westinghouse and many other automotive and industrial innovators and builders at the time. A number of these machines were also sold to Railroad companies including the Missouri Pacific the International & Great Northern Railway in Palastine TX the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. in Huntington WV and more. The second volume includes Newton duplex milling machines cold saws and hot saws for metal especially aluminum and more. These photos show Newton machines being sold to Dodge Chrysler Buick General Motors Ford Bendix Wright Aeronautical Corp. ALCOA as well as photos showing engine blocks being milled and the internal works of many of the machines. Newton was originally founded in 1880 by Charles C. Newton who specialized as a twist drill manufacturer in Philadelphia and continued to expand operations until merged with Betts Machine Co. and Colburn Machine Tool Co. in 1922 to form the Consolidated Machine Tool Corp. of Rochester NY. Colburn Machine Tool Co. was founded sometime in 1890 by Henry J. Colburn and after his death in 1902 was run by his son Leslie who died in 1918. The Company which maintained a number of machinery patents for drill presses and table saws was merged later with Consolidated in 1922. Consolidated Machine Tool Corp. operated on Blossom Road in Rochester NY producing tools and machinery used in metal and plastics manufacturing. In 1951 they were acquired by the Farrel-Birmingham Co. operating until 1983 when they were sold to the Conlon Corp. See: Directory of American Toolmakers: Early American Industries Association 1999; Betts Machine Co. Manufacturers Index Vintage Machinery 2017; Colburn Machine Tool Co. Franklin PA Manufacturers Index Vintage Machinery 2017. Consolidated Machine Tool Corp., hardcover
1900205091900. EngineeringInvention and Business Felt Dorr Eugene. British Patents for Improvements in Calculating Machines 1900-1904 document the development of one of the earliest commercially successful key-driven mechanical calculators reflecting the rapid mechanization of clerical labor at the turn of the twentieth century. These patents relate to the Comptometer first introduced in 1890 by the Chicago firm Felt and Tarrant and represent the extension of American technology into British commercial and financial systems. Banking insurance railways and trade demanded increasingly rapid numerical computation at the turn of the century meaning mechanical calculation was becoming integral to infrastructure.<br /> <br /> Calculating Machines. British Patents: together 2 patents. Patent No. 19675 1900 includes 3 pages and 3 folding diagrams; Patent No. 13094 1904 includes 11 pages and 5 folding diagrams. 1900-1904. The 1900 patent specification describes modifications "intended to adapt such machines to be used in making calculations in British money" addressing the complexities of pounds shillings and pence within a decimal-based mechanical framework. The 1904 patent details improvements to the Comptometer's registering wheels refining accuracy and mechanical efficiency. These documents trace the technical evolution of Felt's invention whose origins lay in his 1885 "macaroni box" prototype and whose commercial success positioned the Comptometer as a principal rival to Burroughs calculators in the early twentieth century. Together the specifications and folding diagrams provide primary evidence of iterative design in early computing machinery and the formal legal mechanisms through which intellectual property structured industrial competition.<br /> <br /> Disbound some leaves loose. Overall very good. As working technical documents issued during a formative period in mechanical computation these patents illuminate the foundations of modern calculating technology in the pre-electronic era. unknown
1936140948176New York: International Business Machines Corporation 1936. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition of IBM's manual published while the company dominated the punch-card tabulator calculating and data-processing machine market while standing just on the cusp of the dawn of the electronic computer. In 23 separately paginated sections with black and white diagrams and illustrations of IBM's patented accounting machines with the first section on IBM's history. Bound in publisher's black cloth pressure binder stamped in gilt. Near Fine with light wear and trivial soiling to covers. A lovely copy. International Business Machines Corporation unknown
193611036New York: IBM 1936. First Edition Revised/With Additions. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition Revised/With Additions. Hardcover. 24 separately paginated pamphlets plus 8pp. preliminaries and including the 1942 pamphlet 19A 'Automatic Reproduction Punch / Type 513' not indicated on 24 pamphlet list all bound together as provided to the customer. This copy issued to the Amicable Life Insurance Company founded in Waco TX. 1910. 1936 copyright for all pamphlets except 20A 1940 and 19A 1942 Includes numerous illustrations and diagrams. <br /> This book was one of the "key publications from IBM". Cortada Before the Computer 307<br /> "Primarily this book was written to provide a single volume from which employees of International Business Machines Corporation may thoroughly familiarize themselves with the complete list of bookkeeping and accounting machines manufactured by their Company and with the operation of such machines of furnishing figure-facts automatically" from preliminaries p 6 <br /> The first section 14 pages is devoted to the history of IBM and sections 2 through 8 provide background on principles the punch card codes organization supervision training and controls. The remaining sections illustrate and explain numerous machines and their operation. Originally issued with 23 sections; this version was updated in 1940 and 1942 with two additional sections 19a and 20a bringing the volume current.<br /> Uncommon generally scarcce as nice as is found here. Light shelf/edge wear gilt toned ownership signature at bastard title page else tight bright and unmarred. Black pebbled cloth boards gilt lettering and decorative elements stiff black endpages. 4to. var. pag. Illus. b/w plates. IBM hardcover
190950392Racine WI; St. Joseph MI; Chicago IL: J.I. Case Threshing Machine Co.; American Society of Agricultural Engineers; Farm Equipment Institute ca. 1909 - 1962. Eighty-three original photographs printed on glossy photo stock sized from 2.5 x 4.5 in. up to 7.5 x 9.5 in. 49 are 7.5 x 9.5 in. some duplicates; 58 photos & 23 negatives mounted and preserved in original printed file folders w/ typed & ink captions annotations on covers occasional edgewear couple w/ slight scuffing affixed on front; 5 additional collotype photos included each w/ negative number in lower margin of image slight toning; together with 5 works. 4to. 40; 28; 6; 165 1; 14 pp. 100s of photo illusts. diagrams text illusts. First work: over 100 text illustrations diagrams with Arts & Crafts painting cover art showing completed road heading off into the distance some edgewear rubbing annotations on title scuffing to corners; 2nd work with over 50 text photos & illustrations w/ gray softcovers blue-tinted image of steam roller on front some soiling edgewear darkening; 3rd with 4 plates self-printed triptych catalogue pages printed in light green white borders and black & white illustrations; 4th work with over 100 photo images text illustrations inserted material with additional diagrams illustration Case letterhead; 5th work with red & black tables printed softcovers. All preserved in slipcase. This remarkable archive of over 100 factory photographs & negatives and original catalogues for the Case Threshing Machine Company offer an excellent record of the famed manufacturer of steam engines farm equipment tractors road building machinery and more. Jerome Increase Case 1819- 1891 began building threshing machines in 1847 in Racine WI and by 1869 had engineered and built Case Steam Engine Number One the first steam engine for agricultural use and depicted in two of the photographs. One of the images shows the historic engine being hauled on a trailer behind a 1962 Case work truck before it was donated to the Smithsonian. This rolling steam engine revolutionized farming and road building machinery. By 1912 Case was manufacturing a complete line of heavy equipment for road building including Case Steam Road Rollers which weighed up to 10 tons and were powered by excellent 36 - 75 horsepower multi-purpose steam engines along with Graders Rock Crushers Elevators Screens and Bins. A number of the photos are reproduced in the Case Road Building Catalogue and the Case Road Roller Catalogue. The file photos include images by H.A. Wright of 10†Case Rock Crushers being pulled by LI Tractors in Washington County IN; a Case LI Motor Patrol Galion with Scarifier by H.A. Caraway mixing oil with gravel in Montana; LI Tractors & Adams Maintainers by Daubert building roads in Polk County IA and more. Many of the images depict the Case Model C 1929-1939 and Case Model D gasoline engine tractors introduced in 1939 and developed through the 1940s and 1950s. The original photos show CI tractors fitted with Roustabout Cranes; cranes cleaning boulders from fence rows in 1929; equipped with a portable Stover Wood Saw for mills and logging; DI tractors with Hough Hydraulic Shovels; equipped with Hough fork lift; 42-inch bucket shovel; outfitted with caterpillar tracks and much more. Of particular interest in the archive is the exceedingly scarce Case Automobile catalogue for Mexico and other automobiles can be seen in the Road Building Machinery catalogue as well. In 1910 Case had purchased the Pierce Motor Co. and quickly began manufacturing the Pierce-Racine automobile and later the Case Auto employing Pierce Motor Cos.’ 8000 dealers and agents worldwide. Case produced touring models sedans coupes and limousines as well as race cars. They ceased production of autos in the mid-1920s. Of additional interest are the two reports included on the productivity gains made by the rapidly improving farm equipment manufactured by Case with graphs and details showing how farmers were benefitting from the technology improvements. Worldcat locates no copies of 1st & 3rd catalogues; 1 copy of 2nd NYPL; See: Case Construction Equipment History 2013; Leffingwell Classic Farm Tractors: History of the Farm Tractor Chapter 2; Bill Ganzel Wessels Living History Farm York Nebraska 2014. J.I. Case Threshing Machine Co.; American Society of Agricultural Engineers; Farm Equipment Institute, paperback
19162111902160201053Nagano yubinkyoku 1916. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Nagano yubinkyoku paperback
187643524London Taylor and Francis 1876-79. Witout wrappers as three issues from "Proceedings of the Royal Society of London" Vol. 24 No. 167 Vol. 27 No.187 Vol. 28 No. 191. Pp. 250-344 pp. 284-408 a. pp. 103-232. Papers: In No. 167:pp. 262-265 James Thomson pp. 266-68 pp. 269-271 pp. 271-275. In No. 187: pp. 371-373. In No. 191: pp. 111-113 W. Thomson. Titlepages to vols. 24 27 a. 28 present. 2 papers with textillustrations. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of all the 6 founding papers around the invention of the "Harmonic Analyzer" and with the mathematical theory for the differential analyzor containing both the mathematical theories and the practical descriptions of the analyzer and further also having the paper by Lord Kelvin's brother the first paper offered in which the machinery is shown for the first time."A ball and disk integrator was the vital invention needed to build the FIRST AUTOMATIC ANALOG COMPUTING MACHINES. Lord kelvin used this integrator -devised for a planimeter in the 1860s by his brother James Thomson - on two new kinds of analog computers: a harmonic analyzer and a tide predictor. he later specified a more general machine - a differential analyzer."Eames in "A Computer Perspective"."The harmonic analyzer was used in conjunction with Thomson's tide predictor.The present paper "Harmonic Analyzer" contains the first full description of the harmoniz analyzer which was "designed rudimentally" p. 371 in Thomson's "On an integrating machine having a new kinematic principle"also offered hereJames Thomson's integrator - "one of the first really workable integrating devices" Williams 1985 207 - served as the basis for other analog machines designed by William Thomson for solving simultaneous linear equations and integrating differential equations. Thomson first described such a machine composed of several Thomson integrators connedted together in his paper on "Mechanical integration of the linear differentialequations of the decond order." also offred here; however the "idea could then hardly be carried out forone reason because an integrator which is simply a variable- speed drive could not then be buitl both accurate and capable of carrying sufficient load to move numerous mechanical parts" Bush 193 450. The full realization of Thomson's idea did not come until fifty years later when Vannevar Bush invented the torque amplifier for use in his differential analyzer."Hook and Norman. </em> unknown
190543701Milwaukee: Meyer-Rotier Printing Co. 1905. 1905. TRADE CATALOG. WISCONSIN. First edition. Color pictorial stiff wrappers encased in a 9 1/4" x 12" oblong cloth binder with title stamped in gold gilt on the front cover 72 pp. illustrated throughout in black & white with over 150 text woodcut engravings photo-lithograph engravings and lithograph text illustrations. price lists. Color chromolithograph illustrated softcovers splendid front cover art of Ceres blowing a bugle and holding Case globe & "Old Abe" bald eagle logo and draped in the American flag surrounded by sheaf of wheat. Louisiana Purchase Exposition Grand Prize Exhibition Ribbon & Medal for 1904 illustrated on rear cover for the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company. First edition of this exceedingly rare salesman sample display catalogue for the Case Threshing Machine Company issued just after the Company had won the Grand Prize at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition where they introduced their prototype gasoline tractor. This catalogue was designed by the Case Co. for their salesman to use with ruled paper blanks for orders to be recorded and for a cloth portfolio to better preserve the catalogue from wear and tear. Jerome Increase Case 1819- 1891 began building threshing machines in 1847 in Racine WI and by 1869 had engineered and built Case Steam Engine Number One. Subsequently Case began producing a whole line of self-propelled traction engines portable engines twine binder machines separators stackers and more. This catalogue also illustrates and includes such attachments as weighers loaders baggers clover hulling attachments and even for plowing with steam. The splendid color chromolithograph covers were printed by the Gugler Lithographic Co. in Milwaukee founded originally by German-American Henry Gugler 1816-1880 and then operated by his sons. They printed labels for Pabst Blue Ribbon beer as well as billboards broadsides and advertising across the country. Worldcat locates no copies; See: Case Construction Equipment History 2013; Leffingwell Classic Farm Tractors: History of the Farm Tractor Chapter 2; Bill Ganzel Wessels Living History Farm York Nebraska 2014. Spine of stiff wrappers has been replaced pages 41 through 59 have a small corner crease to top edge of each page slight edge wear to covers and a few pages rear cover lightly soiled with a small corner crease at bottom else a very good solid copy. Housed loosely into the original cloth binder that has crayon marks to the rear pastedown sheet and is rubbed on the front and rear covers. Meyer-Rotier Printing Co., 1905. paperback
191349222Chicago-New York: Rogers & Company 1913. 1913. TRADE CATALOG WISCONSIN. First edition. 4to. Color pictorial stiff wrappers 84 pp. illustrated in black & white centerfold double-page color plate price list contents. This rare catalogue for the Case Threshing Machine Company issued featuring their traction engines portable engines gas & oil tractors threshing machines road building equipment and Case automobiles. Although Case had introduced their first gasoline tractor just 8 years before following the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition by 1912 they were winning tractor contests such as the 1912 Winnipeg Motor Contest. Jerome Increase Case 1819- 1891 began building threshing machines in 1847 in Racine Wisconsin and by 1869 had engineered and built Case Steam Engine Number One. Subsequently Case began producing a whole line of self-propelled traction engines portable engines twine binder machines separators stackers and more. Their road building machinery line-up included not only Case steamrollers but also rock crushers elevators screens and bins. In 1910 Case had purchased the Pierce Motor Co. and quickly began manufacturing the Pierce-Racine automobile and later the Case Auto employing Pierce Motor Company's 8000 dealers and agents worldwide. Case produced touring models sedans coupes and limousines as well as race cars with this catalogue featuring the Case 40 and the Case 30 Roadsters Touring Cars and Limousines. They ceased production of autos in the mid-1920s.; See: Case Construction Equipment History 2013; Leffingwell Classic Farm Tractors: History of the Farm Tractor Chapter 2; Bill Ganzel Wessels Living History Farm York Nebraska 2014. Front and rear covers lightly soiled tiny closed tears and light wrinkles to the fore-edges of six internal pages else a very good copy of a scarce catalogue. Rogers & Company], 1913. unknown
ppk9900376McGraw-Hill Education - Europe. Hardcover. NEW. 8x5x1. McGraw-Hill Education - Europe hardcover
200316929JNew York: Tor 2003. First Edition. Signed by actress Kristenna Loken who played ‘T-X’ or ‘Terminatrix’: “Kristenna Loken ‘TX’ The Terminator.†Laid in is a 7†x 5†color photograph of the lovely Ms. Loken signing the book taken in Burbank CA on April 25 2009. As new in an as new bright dust jacket. The novel of the third ‘Terminator’ film directed by Jonathan Mostow starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a machine from the future upon whose impressive shoulders rests the survival of the world and the human race. With Nick Stahl as resistance fighter John Connor Claire Danes David Andrews and Mark Famiglietti. The film is set at the dawning of Judgment Day when the most advanced Terminator unit ever the T-X is sent from the future to ensure the victory of the machines over humans. Tor unknown
1995ZB393024International Business Machines Corporation 1995. volumes 4-5; mostly in original paper wrappers PRICE IS FOR THE LOT. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. International Business Machines Corporation unknown
1901mon0000214381Singer Sewing Machine CO. LTD. 1901-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Not an ex-library book. Clean copy sound binding. A little aged fine otherwise. Singer Sewing Machine CO. LTD. hardcover
2001ZB644106Kluwer Academic Publishers 2001. Volumes 3-45 lacking volumes 6 7 20 34. 1988-2001 partly bound minor library markings else text clean & bindings tight. PRICE IS FOR THE LOT. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Kluwer Academic Publishers unknown
19752092902140600037All Japan Printing and Bookbinding Machinery Manufacturers Association 1975. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of pages: 301p Size: A4 All Japan Printing and Bookbinding Machinery Manufacturers Association paperback
193953215New York: Singer Sewing Machine Manufacturing Co. Departamento de Educacion January 1941; 1939. Two vols. 1st - Tall 8vo. 225 1 pp. Over 150 colour and black & white photo illustrations diagrams. Black textured softcovers gilt lettering & decoration printed on front cover edgewear bumping to corners minor soiling old tape repairs to front cover still G- copy; 2nd -- Oblong 4to. 12 x 7.75 in. 54 pp. on pink-tinted paper with 57 tipped-in fabric embroidered sewing samples including over on linen silk lace satin and wool textiles each w/ school stamp approving sample. Half-blue cloth post-binder over blue goards gilt lettering stamped on front cover sewn at gutter margin w/ white silk ribbon soiling minor dampstain curving to covers from the bulk of the tipped-in samples on the leaves still a VG exemplar. Both preserved in blue textured cardboard box & lid minor edgewear faint tidemark to lower fore-edge 1 corner. Fourth revised edition of this well-illustrated embroidery guide on stitches to be learned and executed on Singer Sewing Machines together with a beautifully done sample book showing Ms. Alos’ skills in learning the necessary skills in her Singer school in Villa Canas Argentina. The Singer Sewing Machine company developed special Singer Sewing Academia in Argentina Mexico and many other South American countries as well as Spain between the World Wars. These special private schools for professional dressmakers using the Singer manuals allowed female-owned dressmaking businesses to grow and create professional spaces separte from men. In addition these academias allowed women to pay by the class and embroidery was one of the advanced skills which commanded higher wages for women at the time. Singer actively encouraged this movement in order to develop home-based businesses and academias which in turn increased their sales of sewing machines. The sample book begins with a number of decorative types of embroidery stitches monograms and then displays floral patterns spider-web patterns laces a beautifully embroidered red roses and carnations on purple silks and satins. Worldcat locates 2 copies of the Libro Singer Bibliotecas del Tecnologico de Monterrey Mexico; British Library 3rd editions; See: Ketteler Sewing through the years in art women and society; Paula de la Cruz-Fernandez Atlantic Threads: Singer in Spain and Mexico 1860-1940 pp. 198-210. Singer Sewing Machine Manufacturing Co., Departamento de Educacion, paperback
19622110502150411669Iwasaki shoten 1962. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 7 Iwasaki shoten paperback
187636504np 1876. Beautifully hand colored engraving depicting four eye-level views of Howe Machine Company factories surrounded by busy streets ferries and carriages. A coin with profile of Elias Howe Jr. is at center left. Attractively framed and matted. Image 13-1/4" x 15-1/4" by sight. Not examined out of frame. Fine. <br /> <br /> The Company's New York offices were located at 699 Broadway from 1867-1876. We locate this extremely attractive broadside only in the Jay Last Collection at the Huntington Library. unknown
18972111902160201434Kazuki Yoshida Dainippon Textile Association 1897. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Kazuki Yoshida Dainippon Textile Association paperback
185548992Paris Mallet-Bachelier 1855. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences" Tome 41 No 15. Pp. 537- 563. Entire issue offered. Babbage's paper: pp. 557-560. Some faint mostly marginal brownspots. <br/><br/><em>First printing of this importent paper being babbage's report on the Scheutz differnce calculator explaining its functions by way of his own notations."Babbage's report on the differnce engine built by the Swedish printer Georg Scheuts 1785-1873 and his son Edvard 1821-81 based on Babbage's own designs. In 1854 the Scheutzes took their engine no. 2 to England in the hopes of marketing it. There they were introduced to Babbage who received them with great friendliness and showed a lively interest in their work. Babbage devoted two whole days to investigating Scheutz' engine for which he had much praise especially for the way they had succeeded in building it with the funds at their disposals. As part of his effort to promote the Scheutz Engine Babbage gave a talk on it before the Academie des Sciences illustrated with drawings by his son henry in which Babbage's system of mechanical notation was used to describe the machines construction and functions. This talk was published the paper offered without illustrations in the Academie 'Comptes rendus'. Hook & Norman "Origins of Cyberspace" No. 73. </em> unknown
1979049674USA: I.B.M. 1979. Clean and tight and square with sharp corners. Published for the Data Processing Division for I.B.M. March 1979. Very little shelfwear. No dust jacket as issued. White boards with black lettering on the spine and black hand writing on the front with red underlining. Appears unread. Fold-out Bibliography. The slip case has just a tiny bit of soiling. Both the slip case and the book have the handmade paper qualities. Very rare. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine Slip Case. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Business Achievement . I.B.M. Hardcover
19902083002115706287Nigensha 1990. Soft Cover. Fine. Size: 31cm Number of books: 1 Nigensha paperback
1h16175Singer New York 1905. 10 Fotokarten mit rückseitiger Beschreibung kartoniert a little bit spotted/etwas berieben. - nicht bei Köberich/Maße: 181 cm x 112 cm/enthalten: The Plaza-Fifth Avenue entrance to Central park/New York Clearing House Associated Banks/Columbia University Morningside HeightsStock Exchange Wall Street and Trinity Church/New Xork Chamber of Commerce/Typical New York Singer Shops/Central Park - The Terrace and Bethesda Fountain/Times Square North from 42d Street/Cathedral of St.John The Divine/The Bowery from Grand Street to Cooper Union - unknown
18908Archive consists of the trade catalog art work for cloth finishing and packaging machinery built by the Parks & Woolson Machine Co. of Springfield VT. The earliest art work 1890s was executed by the Lincoln & Smith Press of Boston then the James McKinnon Co. designers engravers and electrotypers of Springfield Mass. but all the 1920s work was by the Springfield Photo-Engraving Co. which may have been their successors. The normal procedure was for the artist to take a photograph in the earlier versions a mounted studio photograph then a "blue" from a glassplate negative then a glossy black & white photo and interpret it according to instructional notation. In the earlier work this was done by painting right on the photograph. But the 1920s work the majority of the collection is painted on separate board with tissue overlay. Some of the latest versions also have photographic proofs of the printing plate made from the artwork. In the marginal notes appear the names of some of Parks & Woolson's clients for specific machines: Renfrew Manufacturing Co.; Clinton Woolen Mfg. Co.; Lebanon Woolen Mills; Woonsocket Rubber Co.; Farr Alpaca Co. The names of such machines as have titles show the inheritance from the English textile manufacturing trade: Lancashire Winder and Uxbridge Inspecting Machine or their origin in the United States: the Vermont napper or the Pennsylvania plush shear and occasionally the inventor: Baird Webster P.T. Wilson etc. Parks & Woolson themselves were fond of strange combination words to describe their own multi-stage machines: Seamlethru; Transferotor. This archive shows in great detail the changes in a wide range of machinery to finish and fold or roll cloth over a crucial period in the textile industry as well as illuminating the interpretation of a machine photograph for half-tone duplication.
182525214Washington D.C. 1825. Printed broadside 8" x 13.5". Light toning untrimmed minor edgewear old folds couple of pinholes at junctions but not affecting any text. Very Good.<br /> <br /> This rare broadside announcement of a patent issued to Samuel Lane of Maine is signed in type by President John Quincy Adams Secretary of State Henry Clay and Attorney General William Wirt. It contains a complete Description "in the words of the said Samuel Lane himself" of his improvements to the corn-shelling machine. <br /> In 1828 Lane was the first to receive a patent for a combine. One of the witnesses to Lane's Description was William Blagrove probably the first full-time Patent Agent in Washington DC appointed in 1819.<br /> Not located on OCLC AAS Catalog American Imprints. unknown