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Oscar Barnett
| Name | Oscar Barnett |
| Ortssitz | Newark (New Jersey) |
| Straße | McWhorter Avenue 34/36 |
| Art des Unternehmens | Eisengießerei |
| Anmerkungen | Adresse: 34 and 36 McWhorter, and Railroad Avenue, corner Johnson. |
| Quellenangaben | [Wiley: American iron trade manual (1874) 57] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1845 |
Gründung durch Stephen D. Barnett |
| 1853 |
Kauf des Grundstücks Hamilton Street und Errichtung der Gebäude |
| Aug. 1882 |
Tod des Gründers, Stephen D. Barnett. Oscar Barnett wird sein Nachfolger |
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1882 |
[Industries of N.J. (1882)] |
1882 |
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1874 |
[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] |
1874 |
[Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] |
Vorgabe: Malleable iron work |
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weibl. |
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| 1874 |
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| ZEIT | 1882 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | In reviewing the various enterprises that have made Newark one of the chief centres of business in the country, it is interesting and instructive to note the advances that have been made in each of the representative enterprises, and to ascertain exactly the progress that has been achieved by industry and capital. In overlooking the field it is easy to see that the manufacture of iron in its various uses has exercised a great bearing upon the growth and prosperity of this section of the State. It is particularly within the scope of this work to enter into details of the various industries of the country and to portray to the interested reader the facts of the rise and progress of each separate enterprise. With this preface, the writer would call attention to the immediate subject of this article - the well-known Malleable and Gray Iron Foundries and Machine Works of Mr. Oscar Barnett. In conversation with the gentlemanly proprietor, many facts were gleaned, not only illustrative of his own success in the present business, but of Newark's past and present as a manufacturing centre. These works were established in the year 1845 by Stephen D. Barnett, the father of the present proprietor, in the old silk factoiy in Bank Street at the head of Market Street. From this point they were removed to Hamilton Street, on the site now occupied by the Gould Buildings. In 1853 the present site was purchased and a portion of the buildings now standing erected. The founder, Stephen D. Barnett, died in August, 1862, when he was succeeded by the present proprietor. The plant of the works covers a half block, facing on three streets, and in oiie of the most desirable sections of the city, convenient alike for the receipt of coal and iron and the shipment of the productions to all parts of the globe. On this area there are several buildings, substantially constructed of brick and provided throughout with the recently invented machinery and appliances for the business. To enumerate the various pieces of machinery that make this concern one of the completes! in the State would be superfluous, suffice it to say that the facilities here enjoyed are not excelled by any similar establishment in the country. An engine of twenty-horse power is utilized for driving of the machinery, and in the various departments employment is given to one hundred and fifteen hands. The foundries are both extremely large, one having a capacity of three thousand five hundred moulds at one time and the other of three thousand. A portion of the moulding is done with the aid of a valuable machine, which effects a saving of at least one- half the time and presses the sand down perfectly even all over the mould. Connected with these foundries are two cupolas, one having a capacity of two tons of iron per hour and the other of five tons. The work in the gray iron foundries is confined exclusively to the manufacture of gray iron castings, Mr. Barnett making a specialty of small, light and soft castings, and in their production equals any other manufacturers in the country, both in the variety and quantity, as well as quality, of the goods turned out. This fact is attributable to various causes. Among them we will mention that he has the experience of his father, as well as twenty years of his own, to guide him; his capital is ample; his factories, models of their kind, and his entire time and energies are devoted to the advancement of his business. Mr. Barnett manufactures nearly all kinds of small malleable and gray iron castings, including hardware and machinery, carriage and wagon castings, cabinet and coachmakers' clamps, Doty's patent perfect wagon jacks, Barnett's blind hinges, brass moulders' flasks, patent iron frame porcelain-lined lemon squeezers, patent bedstead fastenings, piano stool and chair screws, piano and furniture casters, brass founders' melting furnaces and drying stoves, sewing machine castings and a variety of other light castings. He also does tinning, galvanizing, coppering and japanning. Mr. Barnett has a large trade throughout the United States and Canadas, and wherever known his productions have a reputation the best. All of his goods sold in New York city are delivered by his teams free of charge, as are also goods to be shipped by rail or water from New York to the depot or wharf. The amount of goods thus delivered is very large. He ships goods to every section of the United States as well to England, Japan, the Statas of Germany, South America, Australia and other foreign countries. |
| QUELLE | [Industries of New Jersey, Essex County V (1882) 717] |
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