Birthplace of American MFG / This is a must watch

[markT]

This is absolutely amazing! Maybe this is when "America was great?"

 

[wkdickinson]

Fascinating!

 

[DngBat7]

Went there last year in when driving through Vermont. Really amazing place. I wish I could post the videos of all the fully working miniatures they have. Tiny Mills and lathes. I’m sure they will show them in the next video. Really amazing

 

[markT]

VT went from the birthplace of American Mfg to Bernie in 170 years...

 

[RegionRat]

Nice part of the country to tour if you get the chance.

Between towns like Keene, Peterborough, Lebanon, Exeter, etc., there was an amazing amount of state of the art machining for everything from guns, to bearings to optics and all sorts of technology. Not to mention some good micro-breweries.

 

[7887mm08]

I live on the southern Vermont boarder, and i have never heard of this museum.
What city or town is this located? Vermont or New hampshire? I am familiar with both.
Thanks

 

[RegionRat]

I live on the southern Vermont boarder, and i have never heard of this museum.
What city or town is this located? Vermont or New hampshire? I am familiar with both.
Thanks

https://americanprecision.org/

South of Lebanon in Windsor.

 

[7887mm08]

Thank you, looks like about a 1 1/2 hour trip

 

[FNSafari]

VT went from the birthplace of American Mfg to Bernie in 170 years...

The stoic Calvin Coolidge conservative Republicans were simply drowned out by rusticators and liberals from NY, Mass and further south. Truly sad.

 

[garapan]

Amazing! We should know this side of our history. It lets us see the potential for an American nation's technical progress. So I will definitely visit this museum shortly.

 

[gdbleb]

That's a great place to visit. Just check out the hours before you make a trip as it used to be closed in the Winter.
Whoops, looks like they just got heat!

The Edison Lab in NJ is another great visit. That's was a working machine shop.

 

[Downhill]

I remember as a kid my granddad would stop by an old school machine shop in Abilene Texas. This was the early seventies. I remember all the equipment ran off belts and pulleys. A central shaft in the rafters was always turning with various size pulleys powering different types of machinery. Amazing and terrifying at the same time. Towards the northern end of Walnut Street, if I remember correctly.

 

[RegionRat]

Part 2.

 

[RegionRat]

And for the youngsters with an interest in learning a trade, machine and fabrication technology will not bore you because it changes fast these days. While the world spent the last 150 years or so sawing, cutting, turning and milling, which are all subtractive methods... we have been doing stereo-lithography and additive machining for roughly 30 years or so and it will grow.