A seed bed of innovation - inside the Lowell Machine Shop, 1920! Incorporated as an independent company in 1845, the Lowell Machine Shop had its origins as the machine shop of the Boston Manufacturing Company in Waltham from 1814 to 1824. The Merrimack Company in Lowell then housed the machine shop, which was taken over by the Proprietors of Locks and Canals in 1825. From the Lowell National Historical Park: “The development of such skills in the textile industrys early machine shops was a crucial step in the American Industrial Revolution. Previously, Americans relied heavily on English expertise and machines. It took fine tools to make tools, precise machines to make other machines. The process was slow, and required patient trial and error and borrowed technology before Americans learned to make their own. Much of this learning took place in the Waltham and Lowell shops, where Paul Moody helped train the first generation of master mechanics. Out of these and others’ efforts to emulate British textile technology came the machine tool industry on which other industries were founded. It was the beginning of Americas machine age.”
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 22:56:42 +0000
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