History of the American Waltham Watch Company of Waltham, Mass
History of the American Waltham Watch Company of Waltham, Mass

Author: Henry G Abbott

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 22

ISBN-13: 9781230345284

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...school. He first took up architecture, but his natural taste soon led him into the working of metals, and he secured a situation in the Springfield Armory, where he remained a number of years. Through the influence of his brother-in-law, Mr. Stratton, he secured a situation with Dennison, Howard and Davis in 1853, where he first worked on fitting trains and was afterwards given steel work, such as regulators, hair spring studs and what is termed flat steel work generally. In the making of regulators, great difficulty was experienced in securing flatness during the tempering, and Mr. Shepard introduced a system of straightening by pressure while the temper was being drawn. He also introduced the use of pulverized Arkansas oil stone for grinding purposes, which proved far better than any grinding powder that has ever been used. Mr, Shepard moved with the company in 1854 to Waltham and for a number of years had charge of the flat steel work. In fact, from the time when only one boy was employed on the job until 1893. All the stem winding and all the flat steel and regulators, clicks and click springs were made in this department, also the damaskeening on the steel work and the fitting of the stem winding of all grades of watches and the gold wheel finishing. Before the factory had adopted the better methods of machinery building, Mr. Shepard developed many crude devices, which were afterwards worked up in machinery of.a better class, such as machines used for rounding regulators, etc., and being a man of good taste in the matters of finishing, he showed a great deal of skill in finishing and polishing steel work, raying and combinations of polish, etc. Mr. Shepard severed his connection with the Waltham factory in 1893, and is now living...

History of the American Waltham Watch Company of Waltham, Mass - Scholar's Choice Edition
History of the American Waltham Watch Company of Waltham, Mass - Scholar's Choice Edition

Author: Henry G. Abbott

Publisher: Scholar's Choice

Published: 2015-02-08

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781295957194

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Marking Modern Times
Marking Modern Times

Author: Alexis McCrossen

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2013-05

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 022601486X

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In Marking Modern Times, Alexis McCrossen relates how the American preoccupation with time led people from across social classes to acquire watches and clocks, and expands our understanding of the ways we have standardized time and have made timekeepers serve as political, social, and cultural tools in a society that not merely values time, but regards access to it as a natural-born right.

Timing a Century
Timing a Century

Author: Charles Walden Moore

Publisher:

Published: 1945

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13:

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Waltham
Waltham

Author: Melissa Mannon

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 1998-06-01

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738564821

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Join Archivist Melissa Mannon on an exciting journey that begins at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution and travels through the advance of the computer age. Discover Waltham's history in this impressive and unprecedented pictorial collection, with photographs selected from the Waltham Public Library and other Waltham historical institutions. Separated from Watertown in 1738, Waltham shed its agricultural roots and went on to become a world-renowned manufacturing center. Entrepreneurs realized the power that could be harnessed from the Charles River and took full advantage of this natural resource. The Boston Manufacturing Company, founded in 1813 by Francis Cabot Lowell and Patrick T. Jackson, was the first mill in the world to mass-produce cotton cloth from start to finish under one roof. Waltham earned its nickname, "Watch City," from the Waltham Watch Company, the largest manufacturer of watches in the world in the nineteenth century. In 1929, Waltham began a third economic boom with the establishment of Raytheon and the electronics industry. Today, Waltham and its neighboring towns on the belt of Route 128 have become one of the country's largest manufacturing centers for computer and electronics equipment.