Wheeler Wilson Factory - Scientific American Magazine May 3rd, 1879
 

I brought the size of these down as close to 800x600 as I could, sorry...

These woodcut images are from the May 3rd edition of Scientific American Magazine.

There is a HUGE write up on the factory in it. I have a scanned copy that I am attempting to OCR the whole article from, but that will take some time to get right and accurate, so in the meantime I am uploading these amazing "shots" as teasers.

Each one says in the lower corner what it is as well.

Main Machine Room
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Assembly Room
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Case Making Room
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Grooving the needles (WOW!)
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Punching the Needle Eyes (wow, wow!)
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I printed these large and will be staring at them for days trying to pick out details....

No safety glasses...

Cool pics would love to see and read more. Miriam I have to chuckle with all the technical machine talk i read from you and the thing you notice is the lack of safety glasses. Toooo funny!

The above worker's work garb is somewhat different to today's, and grooving needles and punching out the eyes individually (and manually) is just incredible.
Where did you get the magazine Steve?

Fantastic; keep it coming!

Awesome!!!!

These are amazing pictures, thanks for sharing Steve!

I have 3 pages of OCR'd gobbledygook. I have the first page fixed to original text (not "correct", just original)

Should I just post the text here a bit at a time? or make the .TXT or .DOC or .PDF available?

Thoughts?

YES please do!!!