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Modern machine shop workstation, 2009. A machine shop or engineering workshop is a room, building, or company where machining, a form of subtractive manufacturing, is done. In a machine shop, machinists use machine tools and cutting tools to make parts, usually of metal or plastic (but sometimes of other materials such as glass or wood).
The Gleason Works, the machine shop that eventually evolved into the Gleason Corporation, was founded by Irish immigrant William Gleason in 1865 after his previous experience in other machine shops. An important product came in 1874 with Gleason's invention of the first bevel gear planer, a planer with integral indexing head designed to ...
Knight Foundry and Machine Shop. One of the earliest US water-powered foundry-machine shops, including Knight impulse turbines. 1873 Sutter Creek: California United States ASME brochure: 183: 1995 Wright Field 5-foot Wind Tunnel. Early example of the "modern" wind tunnel for aircraft-model testing. 1921 Wright-Patterson Air Force Base: Ohio ...
The Kitson Machine Shop was founded by Richard Kitson in Lowell in 1849. It became well known for its cotton preparatory machines, especially its picker machine. Kitson was acquired by the Lowell Machine Shop in 1905. [9] The Kitson plant in Lowell was closed in 1928, when all of the company's operations were consolidated in Biddeford. [10]
Although a machine shop can be a standalone operation, many businesses maintain internal machine shops or tool rooms that support their specialized needs. Much modern-day machining uses computer numerical control (CNC), in which computers control the movement and operation of mills , lathes , and other cutting machines.
A "machine tool" is a machine which makes parts to other machines, such as screws or gun stocks. Lathes, milling machines, and drill presses are examples of precision machine tools. The museum has the largest collection of historically significant machine tools in the United States.
History of agricultural machinery; History of assembly lines; History of the bessemer process; History of heavy equipment; History of industrial robots; History of machines; History of machine tools; History of oil refineries; History of packaging and labeling; History of paper mills; History of smelting; History of water wheels
The machine shop building is one of the few remaining structures from the original Essex Company site. It is 404 feet (123 m) long and 64 feet (20 m) wide. It is four stories high and was designed to allow access to steam locomotives. The other surviving structure is the 142' (43 m) high chimney. [2]