AMERICAN MACHINIST chronicles 25 member companies that not no other than changed the metalworking field moreover have also stood test of time.

AMERICAN MACHINIST chronicles 25 member companies that not no other than changed the metalworking field moreover have also stood test of time.

1833 -- The firm of David Brown & Son made and repaired clock and watches. Twenty years later, the company's apprentice, Lucian Sharpe, is made a satiated partner of the renamed JR Brown & Sharpe.

1859 -- Giddings & Lewis was rested By 1880, the company, then known as DeGroat, Giddings & Lewis, manufactured sawmill machinery and steam engines. The firm did total installations wherever it did business. However, the first of that kind ...

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