Invention Timeline - James E. Emerson, American Machinist; Invented a Machine for Boring, Turning, and Cutting the Heads on Spools or Bobbins Used in Factories
b. November 2, 1823 and d. ?
American machinist. Invented a machine for boring, turning and cutting the heads on spools or bobbins used in factories; also a combined anvil, shears and punching machine (1866), and a swage for spreading saw-teeth to a uniform width and shape and cutting the edge at a single operation.
Where, by ruddy flames,
Vulcan’s strong sons with nervous arms around
The steady anvil and the glaring mass,
Clatters their heavy hammers down by turn,
Flattening the steel; from their rough hands receive
The sharpened instruments.
—The Fleece: John Dryer
Fling wide the grain for those who throw
The clanking shuttle to and fro,
In the long row of humming rooms,
And into ponderous masses wind
The web, that, from a thousand looms,
Comes forth to clothe mankind.
—W. C. Bryant
1870, July—Aury G. Coes patented a machine for the manufacture of screw-wrenches for forging heads of wrenches called the header, and in 1871, April, what is called the “up-setter.”
1793, August 3-1869, October 15—John Nesmith lived. He invented a machine for making wire fences.
1832-1870, May 4—Zerah Colburn lived. In 1847 he was a mechanic in Lowell’s machine-shop. He made improvements in locomotives, and published valuable papers, among them works on “Iron Bridges” and “American Locomotives and Rolling Stock.”
