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Providence Tool Company
| Name | Providence Tool Company |
| Ortssitz | Providence (R.I.) |
| Straße | West River Street 148 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Werkzeugfabrik |
| Anmerkungen | Vorher unter der Firma "Providence Forge and Nut Company". Eingetragen 1847 [Pocket book]. 1874: J. B. Anthony, Leiter der Finanzen and Agent. |
| Quellenangaben | [Rolt: Tools for the job (1986) 180] [Pocket book of Providence (1882)] [Wiley: American iron trade manual (1874) 159] [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 384] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1845 |
Gründung |
| 1847 |
Eintragung unter einem besonderen Gesetz des Staats als "Providence Tool Company" |
| 1849 |
Anbau eines hölzeren Gebäudes |
| 1853 |
Bau eines Ziegelgebäudes |
| 1855 |
W. A. Harris nimmt die Arbeit als Zeichner in der "Providence Forge and Nut Company" auf, später bekannt als die "Providence Tool Company" |
| 1861 |
Frederick Howe (Providence Tool Company) sieht, daß die Spiralbohrer für die Perkussionsnippel der Perkussionsgewehre von Hand gefeilt werden, und fragt J. R. Brown von der benachbarten Firma Brown & Sharpe. Desen Antwort ist, daß er die erste wirklich unverselle Fräsmaschine bauen werde. |
| 14.03.1862 |
Die erste historische Universalfräsmaschine wird von Brown & Sharpe an die Providence Tool Co. geliefert. |
| Produkt |
ab |
Bem. |
bis |
Bem. |
Kommentar |
| Eisenwaren |
1874 |
[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] |
1874 |
[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] |
Vorgabe: "heavy hardware" |
| Gewehre |
1874 |
[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] |
1874 |
[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] |
Vorgabe: Rifles |
| Werkzeuge |
1874 |
[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] |
1874 |
[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] |
Vorgabe: tools |
| Werkzeuge |
1861 |
feilt Spiralbohrer |
1861 |
feilt Spiralbohrer |
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Zeit = 1: Zeitpunkt unbekannt
| ZEIT | 1868 |
| THEMA | Firmenbeschreibung |
| TEXT | Are another of the establishments of Providence that are entitled to a place among the remarkable manufactories of America. This Company has been a pioneer in certain branches of the Hardware manufacture, and at the outbreak of the present rebellion was one of .the first of the private establishments that engaged in the manufacture of Firearms. Its history is briefly as follows : In 1845, several gentlemen associated themselves together for the purpose of engaging in the manufacture of Carpenters' and other Mechanics' Tools, more especially Plane Irons of all kinds, Chisels, Augers, etc., and erected a stone building 80 by 40 feet, two stories high, with a wing 110 feet by 52, one story high. The location selected was but a few rods from the harbor, affording every desirable advantage for shipping, and also accessible by streets from every side. The capital at first was of small amount, and the number of hands employed did not exceed fifty. In 1847 the Company was incorporated, under the special law of the State, as the Providence Tool Company; and in the following year they made an addition to their works of a stone structure 40 by 40 feet, three stories high, with basement. In 1849 a wooden building was added 132 by 40 feet, including a wing one story high; and in 1853 a brick building 67 by 40 feet, four stories in height, making length of main building 187 feet, and width 40 feet. In the subsequent year there was built and put in operation a furnace of brick designed for casting parts of machinery, and various portions of articles manufactured by them, such as plates for hinges, etc. Thus building was added to building, until the establishment grew to be one of the most prominent in that city of manufactories. As fast as the buildings were completed they were filled with machinery - and as a facility for transporting materials about the works, an under-ground railroad was provided. Among the important machines which this Company was the first to introduce, were the presses for punching through cold iron. The first press of this description ever made in this country, was one got up in Pennsylvania by Mr. J. O. Arnold, who was subsequently employed by the Providence Tool Company in constructing and operating presses for cold punching. The Company have now in use 23 of these presses, one weighing twenty-five tons, which readily punches from cold iron, nuts four inches square and two inches thick. During the period that the Company occupied the premises we have mentioned for the manufacture of Tools, they added to their list of articles many not before made to any extent in this country, and which have contributed essentially to the mechanical facilities of the age. They devoted attention especially to the production of those minor but important parts of machinery which facilitate the operations of locomotive, car, and ship-builders - such as Nuts, Washers, Chain-Links, Chains, Stirrups and Levers, Hooks and Thimbles, Sister Hooks. Connecting Shackles, Clinch Rings, Marline Spikes, Plate Hinges, Draw Plates, Bunter Heads, Can Rings, Bolts, etc., and thus provided machinists, ship chandlers, and others, with articles like these, ready to hand cheaper than they could make them, and far more perfect. When, however, the demand for firearms became urgent, in consequence of the present rebellion, the Company converted these premises into an Armory, having erected a new establishment in the north part of the city for their business proper, consisting of, a main building- 400 feet by 70, one story high, with several smaller buildings in the rear for furnaces, carpenter shop, storehouse, etc. This they equipped with all the requisite tools for the purposes of their manufactures, including those necessary for making United States Cavalry Sabres, Musket Bayonets, and Ramrods. Besides the 23 presses for cold-punching that have been already alluded to, there are 20 Trip-Hammers, for heavy and light forging. They employ in this establishment over 300 hands, besides some 500 in the Armory. The Armory and Tool Manufactory are under one corporate name and one management, and, though two miles apart, are connected by a private telegraph, operated by a clerk in the office of each establishment. The President of the Company is Richard Borden, the well-known manufacturer of Fall River, Mass., and the resident Agent and Treasurer is John B. Anthony, of Providence, to whose energy and enterprise our country is indebted for an important addition to the number of her first-class manufactories. |
| QUELLE | [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 3 (1868) 384] |
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