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Manufactured By:
Lemuel Hedge
Windsor, VT; Brattleboro, VT; New York, NY; Brooklyn, NY; Paterson, NJ
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1829 article - Lemuel Hedge's rules; Gunter's scale |
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1829-02-04 Sentinel and Witness, courtesy Dick Dickerson |
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8/24/2023 11:29:32 AM |
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RULE MANUFACTORY
We take the following from the Boston Palladium. We suspect that the printer neglected to give the usual credit—inadvertently we suppose—to one of the New York Papers. This manufactory, the only one os the kind, we believe, in the U. States, is owned by Mr. Jacob Russell, and is carried on under the charge of Mr. Lemuel Hedges, the ingenious inventor of the machines by which the work is executed. The workmanship of the articles manufactured at this establishment is equal, if not superior, to any of foreign manufacture—and can be furnished at a price, we should think, which will bid defiance to the competition of foreigners. We hail every establishment of the kind, as an efficient auxiliary to the wealth and prosperity of our city.
Gunter's Scales.—We have seen at the store of Messrs. Leverell & Johnson, No. 13, Liberty Square, in this city, a number of Gunter's scales, made of the usual material, box wood, by a very ingenious machine, lately invented by Lemuel Hedge, of Vermont, and now in operation in Middletown, Conn. As far as we have been able to judge from a hasty examination, these instruments will be found much nearer perfection than most of those in common use; and we are confident that they will soon be generally preferred to the imported scales as far as they are known. They are stamped by a machine, the nature of which admits of no variation; and as great pains have been taken to make it exact in all its parts, each scale which is marked by it is necessarily as nearly perfect as the machine. When it is considered, besides, that there cannot be a variation between any two of the scales made by the same machine, their value must be understood by practical calculators, and particularly by engineers employed together.
The manufacturers of the instrument, Messrs. Hedge & Co. of Middletown, have been employed for some months in making graduated rules, on a similar plan, and which are well known to many persons; but it was not until now that they have produced scales of this description. |
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