W. A. Wood Reaping and Mowing Machine Co.

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NameW. A. Wood Reaping and Mowing Machine Co.
OrtssitzHoosick Falls (USA)
Art des UnternehmensMaschinenfabrik
Anmerkungen1874: "The product of this works has always been celebrated among agricultural machinery".
Quellenangaben[Wiley: American iron trade manual (1874) 88] [Bishop: History of American manufacturers 2 (1868) 602]




Unternehmensgeschichte

Zeit Ereignis
1850 Wood ist mit der Mähmaschinenproduktion befaßt.
1851 Es werden im Jahr mehr als 300 oder 400 Mähmaschinen hergstellt.
1852 W. A. Wood erhält das erste Landmaschinenpatent.
1853 Es werden 270 Maschinen gebaut.
1865 Die Gesamtzahl aller gebauten Mähmaschinen und Mähbindern liegt knapp unter 100.000
1865 In diesem Jahr werden fast 7.500 Maschinen gebaut




Produkte

Produkt ab Bem. bis Bem. Kommentar
Erntemaschinen 1874 [Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] 1874 [Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] Vorgabe: Reapers
Mäher 1874 [Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] 1874 [Wiley: American iron trade (1874)] Vorgabe: mowers




Maschinelle Ausstattung

Zeit Objekt Anz. Betriebsteil Hersteller Kennwert Wert [...] Beschreibung Verwendung
ab 1882-1883 Dampfkessel 3   Babcock & Wilcox Co. Heizfläche ges. 385 qm Wasserrohrkessel  




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ZEIT1868
THEMAFirmenbeschreibung
TEXTIs an extensive manufacturer of Agricultural Implements, and a prominent inventor, who, since 1852, has received upward of thirty patents, principally for improvements in Mowers and Reapers. In 1850, when Mr. Wood became connected with the manufacture, there was but one Mowing Machine that could be called really successful, although the practicability of mowing by maehinery had been established earlier by the inventive genius of the late Obed Hussey. In 1851, not more than three or four hundred machines were sold annually, while, in 1865, the whole number of Mowers and Reapers manufactured was but little short of one hundred thousand. The remarkable increase in this branch of manufactures is further shown in the fact that, in 1853, the whole number of machines made by Mr. Wood was two hundred and seventy, while, in 1865, nearly seven thousand five hundred were produced in his establishment, giving employment to four hundred and fifty men, and returning an annual value of one million of dollars. The Works of Mr. Wood at Hoosick Falls comprise a main manufactory two hundred and fifty feet by forty-four, four stories in height; a Foundry, two hundred by fifty feet; a Blacksmith shop, forty-four by eighty; a Repair and Pattern Shop, Office, and Warehouse. He has manufactured at the establishment, since 1852, over fifty thousand Mowers and Reapers, and has a capacity for making twelve thousand annually. Mr. Wood was the first to introduce into Europe, successfully, the mowing of grass by Machinery. In 1856, he sent, by the hands of a competent agent, fifty of his machines, which were at once sold, and operated satisfactorily. In the subsequent year he sent out two hundred and fifty machines, and his exportation of Mowers and Reapers to Great Britain and the Continent has since then been about one thousand annually. This prosperous and increasing foreign trade, established by him, now amounts to about one half of the total European trade in these machines, the English manufacturers supplying the balance. Unlike several, whose names have become widely known by dexterously availing themselves of improvements originated by others, Mr. Wood has given indubitable evidence of genius as an inventor as well as enterprise as a manufacturer.
QUELLE[Bishop: History of American manufacturers 2 (1868) 602]