Lineshaft Machine Shop Photos

[52 Ford]

Bethlehem Steel Company, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. 91 inch diameter corrugated ingot in cutting-off lathe. It looks like the parting tool could be 12" tall.

That incredible. I wonder how much HP a lathe like that requires.

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[Tom A]

Wow - Talk about an interrupted cut!
I would have liked to see how they got that parting tool started .

 

[ncjeeper]

Holy cow what a beast.

 

[enginebill]

Lower Pacific Mills. Sure would love to have one of those Brainard gear cutters in the foreground.

 

[Leg17]

Looks like I have to re-learn how to post.
Things seem different.
Back in a couple of weeks.

 

[enginebill]

S.W. Putnam shaper at the University of Utah Mechanical Engineering department.

Much easier to post photos now.

 

[enginebill]

A unique Fox Machine Co. shaper also at the University of Utah Mechanical Engineering department.

 

[rustyironism]

S.W. Putnam shaper at the University of Utah Mechanical Engineering department.

Much easier to post photos now.


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..I often feel the presence of that fellow in the left rear around my shop when working on ancient mechanical devices..

Mike

 

[enginebill]

I think these are from a University in 1909 but I don't know which.

 

[Tom A]

This is in England, I believe, and being that women are working here, maybe during WWI ?
I wonder what the ladies are making? Bins of very small parts - Cartridge casings, maybe.

 

[Tom A]

In enginebill's middle photo above, I just noticed the board of lathe dogs, hanging on the right hand wall - They really had a LOT of them !

 

[4GSR]

S.W. Putnam shaper at the University of Utah Mechanical Engineering department.

Much easier to post photos now.


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Dad always told me, "Never stand or even sit in front of a shaper! It can put you out of your misery by the sudden thump from the ram in your chest!" Okay dad...

 

[Robert Lang]

In enginebill's middle photo above, I just noticed the board of lathe dogs, hanging on the right hand wall - They really had a LOT of them !

Also an early Cincinnati Milling Machine Co. cutter grinder and an early Brown & Sharpe milling machine in the front
In the last picture another early B&S mill, to the right and a Sibley & Ware drill press to the left.
Rob

 

[enginebill]

Machinery displays in the Palace of Machinery, St Louis MO, 1904.

 

[Tom A]

What an awesome show! The very height of technology on display .........

 

[Vince]

Enginebill, great pictures!

 

[M.B. Naegle]

Machinery displays in the Palace of Machinery, St Louis MO, 1904.

You hear people talk about "If you could go anywhere in History, where would you go?" There's a lot that would be fun to see or do.... but I gotta say, I'd take my time walking around that place.

(Afterwards I think I'd buy half the place and hide it cosmoline'd in a cave. This is after I go back to invest in Google, and all assuming I'm not disrupting the space/time continuum!)

It's interesting to see what kind of stuff was at the World's Fair back then. On top of that, it's weird to think that someday, there'll be a weird guy holding my Samsung tablet going on-and-on about how innovative the world of yesterday once was and how they don't make them like they used to.

 

[enginebill]

Here are two stereo cards of a machine display at an exposition somewhere. The sign says "Manufactured by the New York Steam Engine Co".

 

[Robert Lang]

That would put the pictures after 1868.
In 1867 it was New York Steam Engine Works.
In 1868 it became New Your Steam Engine Co.
The pictures look to be from the early to mid 1870's.
The last picture are Lucius Pond machines.

Rob

 

[john.k]

Some of the Pond stuff is familiar......the Qld Railways seem to have bought a lot of pond stuff at the turn of the century......last I saw there was huge planer "Pond MachineCo ,Plainfield NJ"...bed was 60ft long.....when the old brick workshops were handed over to the museum board,old machines were cleared wholesale to make room for "poets workshops" and "artist in residence spaces"......I bought stuff like the wheel press and driver lathes for scrap......also a lot of tyre presses ........the presses were worked by a "hydraulic accumulator" outside that ran on oily water with a bit of soap in it.