This firm was active between 1880 and 1892, and likely for longer. They made wood lathes, metal lathes, scrollsaws, bandsaws, and various non-woodworking products such as dental and engraving machinery and sidewalk elevators. The principals of the firm were Adam Ulscht and Andrew Linn.

Ad from 1880 "Troy City Directory"

Information Sources

• The 1870 C. C. Drew's Rochester Directory has no mention of Ulscht & Linn, nor of Ulscht. There is a listing for "Linn Andrew jr. machinist, Mill corner Furnace, boards 129 Jay".
• The 1879 Rochester Directory has a text ad from "Ulsht [sic] & Linn".
• Listing and ad in 1880 Troy City Directory. The address was "131 N. Water Street", and the products were "Side Walk Elevators, Wood Turning Lathes, Dental and Engraving Machinery... Ulscht & Linn's Improved Ruling Machines for Wood Engravers, also Ulscht & Linn's Patent Pressure Regulator for Breweries, Bung Machinery, Etc. Manufacturers of the DOBSON JIG SAW."
• The Commercial Publishing Co., Ltd.'s 1884 Commerce, Manufactures & Resources of Rochester, N.Y. has an article on this firm. The writing in this book is unusually bloated even by the dismal standards of that genre, so we have extracted the few factual nuggets below:

  ULSCHT & LINN, Machinists... 131 and 133 North Water Street.

  ...machinery and the manufacture of Automatic Wood Lathes, Dental and Engraving Machinery, Scroll Saws and Sidewalk Elevators, and a Patent Pressure Regulator for Brewers... Both members of the firm, Adam Ulscht and Andrew Linn, experienced mechanics, devote their energies to the business... Of that in use, we find four lathes, two planers, two drills, forge hammers, etc. ...the products of this house find a ready sale throughout New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and the Western and Southern States generally... The manufacture of the Dobson Patent Scroll Saw forms a special branch of the business, and the firm's own Patent Pressure Regulator for Brewers, an invaluable invention to the manufacture of malt liquors. The manufacture of lathes for wood and iron work is also an important feature of the business...

• The 1884 edition of Erastus Darrow & Co.'s Monroe County Directory lists "Ulscht & Linn, Machinists, 131 and 133 N Water."
• The 1887 edition of Joesph Rippey & Co.'s Rochester N. Y., Business Directory lists this firm, as a maker of band and scroll saws, at 195 North Water Street.
• Listed in the 1888 edition of the The Railroad, Telegraph, Electric and Steamship Builders' Buyers' Guide: "Ulscht & Linn, 195 N. Water St., Rochester, NY".
• Listing and ad in 1890 Rochester City Directory. The address was "179 and 181 North Water Street", and the products were "wood-turning lathes, a new automatic shear kife turning lathe (see cut.) Scroll saws, band saws, and all kinds of sawing machinery, dental and engraving machinery; shafting, hangers, pulleys, etc. Sidewalk elevators... Ulscht & Linn's Improved Ruling Machines for Wood Engravers, also, Ulscht & Linn's Patent Pressure Regulator for Breweries, Bung Machinery, etc., etc."
• The 1892 edition of Drew, Allis & Co.'s Rochester and Monroe County Business Directory lists this firm at 179 N. Water.