Machine-tool industry
Subject
Subject Source: Fast
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Farrel Company Records
Collection
Identifier: 1989-0053
Abstract
The Farrel Company was founded in 1848 in Ansonia, Connecticut, by Almon Farrel and his son Franklin, and made brass and iron castings, wooden mortise gears and parts for water-power plants. By the 1860s the company was producing rollng mill equipment for the rapidly expanding copper and brass industries, and pioneered in the development of processing machinery for the rubber industry. Other items produced included stone and ore crushers, iron rolls (used for milling) and processing...
Dates:
undated, 1800-1993
Leroy Roberts Research Collection of the Pratt & Whitney Company
Collection
Identifier: 1991-0026
Abstract
Collection of historical information, catalogs, publications, photographs and transparancies, and scrapbooks about the tool manufacturer Pratt & Whitney Company and its successors, collected by Leroy Roberts, a long-time employee of the company.
Dates:
undated, 1855-1990
Henry Stieg Collection of the Pratt & Whitney Company
Collection
Identifier: 1998-0015
Abstract
The collection consists of materials gathered by Henry R. Stieg, a master gage inspector at the Pratt & Whitney Division of the Niles-Bement-Pond Company from 1940 to 1973 and departmental steward in the Unity Lodge Local 251 of the United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers and, after 1948, Unity Lodge, Local 405 of the United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, C.I.O.. The materials include publications, newsletters and flyers and memoranda of the...
Dates:
undated, 1934-1993
