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In the mid-1650s, the Company of Undertakers entered bankruptcy and as part of the settlement much of the Saugus Iron Works—Jenckes's shop, the rolling mill, the slitting mill, and a corn mill—was awarded to a local businessman, Joseph Armitage. In 1656, Jenckes mortgaged his home and purchased these structures and the machines they contained.
Hugo Sack was born at Loeben, near Lützen, Saxony, in 1860, where his father, Rudolf Sack, owned an estate.In 1863 his family moved to Leipzig, where his father founded an engineering works for the manufacture of agricultural machinery, in which he gained his first practical experience as an engineer after completing his school education.
In 1948 the war surplus rod mill later to become the rod and wire mill at Newark (1948–) (precisely at ) was purchased by Kaiser Built as Plancor 936, a bar and rod mill of 300,000,000 pounds/year capacity costing $23,198,000, operated during wartime beginning May 1943 by Alcoa.
A die is a specialized machine tool used in manufacturing industries to cut and/or form material to a desired shape or profile. Stamping dies are used with a press, [1] as opposed to drawing dies (used in the manufacture of wire) and casting dies (used in molding) which are not.
John Butler Tytus, Jr. (1875-1944) was the inventor of the first practical wide-strip continuous rolling process for manufacturing steel. [1] This process greatly reduced the cost of manufacturing steel, and was first implemented in a new Armco plant in 1924.
Mesta "machines" can be found in factories throughout the world and as of 1984 had equipment in 500 steel mills. [3] Mesta was the 488th largest American company in 1958 [4] and the 414th largest in 1959. [5]
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Charles Hill Morgan (1831-1911) Charles Hill Morgan (January 8, 1831 – January 10, 1911) was an American mechanical engineer, inventor, industrialist and President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in the year 1900–01.