Phoenix Iron Works Hartford Horse Weight Tether Buggy
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This particular horse weight, was from the Phoenix Iron Works , Hartford Connecticut. Phoenix Iron Wks Hartford is in bold letters on the top of the weight. The diameter at the bottom of the weight is 6 1/2 inches. The diameter of the top is 4 1/4 and the weight is 25lbs. The Phoenix Iron Works was founded by Lovi Lincoln in 1834, and at his death, the business was continued by his two sons George S. and Charles L. Lincoln. Mr. Levi Lincoln was the inventor of the card- setting machine, the molasses-gate, known and used almost universally, and the first known hook-and-eye machine. This passed to the Norths, of New Britain, and became very valuable. The firm made a specialty of architectural iron-work, which it produced on a very Iarge scale; machinists tools, including the Lincoln milling-machine, which had very general use ; and also general foundry-work. Many leading mechanical engineers received their training Two men in particular, two young machinists, Francis Pratt and Amos Whitney, working at the Phoenix Iron Works in Hartford , Connecticut founded the Pratt & Whitney Company in 1860 . Francis PrattWhen he was 25 years old he came to Hartford to work in the Colt Armory. Two years later the Phoenix Iron Works in Hartford hired him to be the plant superintendent. It was at Phoenix that he would meet a man who with him would
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