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Samuel Smith & Son
| Name | Samuel Smith & Son |
| Ortssitz | Paterson (N.J.) |
| Art des Unternehmens | Kesselfabrik |
| Quellenangaben | http://www.newtonnj.net/Pages/merriamshoefact.htm [Trumbull: History of industrial Paterson (1882) 88] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1841 |
Gründung durch Samuel Smith zusammen mit Abram Collier als Gießerei |
| 1848 |
Samuel Smith beginnt zusammen drei anderen Teilhabern eine Maschinenwerkstatt in der Franklin Mill |
| Produkt |
ab |
Bem. |
bis |
Bem. |
Kommentar |
| Dampfkessel |
1894 |
2 Kessel an Merriam, Newton |
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Lieferte 1894 2x 100-PS-Kessel (G= 10 t) an Merriam Shoe Co., Newton, N.J. |
| Zeit |
Objekt |
Anz. |
Betriebsteil |
Hersteller |
Kennwert |
Wert |
[...] |
Beschreibung |
Verwendung |
| 1882 |
Dampfmaschine |
1 |
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unbekannt |
Leistung |
30 |
PS |
"powerful" |
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| ZEIT | 1882 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | Samuel Smith is a pioneer manufacturer. In 1841, in copartnership with Abram Collier, he started a foundry; in 1848, in company with three others, he established a machine shop in the Franklin Mill; he was one of the founders, in 1847-48,
of the locomotive works of Swinburne, Smith & Co., afterward incorporated as "The New Jersey Locomotive and Machine Company," of which Mr. Smith was Vice-President; later he assisted in founding the "Empire Manufacturing Company", and was also a prominent member of the firm of "Rafferty, Smith & Co." and its successors. For several years he has been carrying on a large business in boiler-making on Railroad avenue, occupying the extensive works, covering thirty
city lots, formerly consolidated with the establishment of the "Todd & Rafferty Machine Company". Mr. Smith's career as a manufacturer has been marked by great successes alternated with almost crushing reverses. On three several occasions of disaster his losses were, in round figures, $100,000, 15,000 and 30,000, not to mention many minor strokes of adverse fortune, such as all pioneers in great enterprises have been heir to. But he has withstood all, refusing to acknowledge defeat, and is still prosecuting his business as sturdily and persistently as in the commencement, some forty years or more ago. It is to such men as this, whose native force and indomitable energy no reverses can destroy, that Paterson owes its present proud position among the first of American industrial cities. Mr. Smith is doing a very large and successful business in making locomotive, stationary and other boilers, receiving many orders therefor from Paterson and other locomotive shops; also, all kinds of tanks and other kindred products. One of the specialties of the works is the "Elvin boiler", the invention of Alderman Andrew Elvin, who has an extensive chemical factory at Riverside. The chief peculiarity of this boiler is that the tubes, or flues, of which there are a great many, are
vertical instead of horizontal, the water passing through them, which causes a very rapid generation of steam and a great economy in fuel. The powerful boilers at the "Weidmann Dye Works" are of this description and were the first made under the patent. A thirty horse-power engine supplies the power at the boiler-works. From 100 to 120 men are employed, and the fortnightly disbursement in wages is 2,000 to 2,500. |
| QUELLE | [Trumbull: History of industrial Paterson (1882) 88] |
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