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Robert Wetherill & Co.
| Firmenname | Robert Wetherill & Co. |
| Ortssitz | Chester (Pa.) |
| Straße | 6th Street |
| Art des Unternehmens | Maschinenfabrik |
| Anmerkungen | Lage: Upland Street, 7th Street, 6th Street und Pine Street (Südwest-Ecke). Grundstücksgröße: 270 x 100'; darauf wurden große Gebäude errichtet; die Maschinenwerkstatt (40 x 80') ist zweigeschossig; die Gießerei 100 x 50', Kesselschmiede 100 x 40', insgesamt 7 große Gebäude: Maschinenwerkstatt, Schmiede, Gießerei, Kesselschmiede, Gießhaus, Modellwerkstatt, Modellager, Lager und Büros. Erhielt am 14.07.1874 ein Patent auf den Kolben für die Wetherhill-Corliss-Dampfmaschine |
| Quellenangaben | [Whitham: Constructive steam-engineering (1891) 50+90+326] [Ashmead's history of Delaware County (1884) 404] [Power Magazine (1897) Anzeige] [Pennsylvania and the Centennial Exposition (1878) 269] |
| Hinweise | [Hexamer General Surveys, Plates 1126+1605 (1877+1881)] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1865 |
Erbaut um 1865 (auch genannt 1874) |
| 01.01.1872 |
Gegründet als Partnerschaft von Robert und Richard Wetherill |
| 1874 |
Erweitert |
| Produkt |
ab |
Bem. |
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Bem. |
Kommentar |
| Dampfkessel |
1871 |
Beginn (Gründung) |
1901 |
[Beat grower's manual (1901) S. I] |
Baut "Berry Safety Boilers" (stehende Zylinderform) für: Bath Cement Co., Bath (Pa) u. Atlantic City and Suburban Traction Co., Pleasantville (N.J.) |
| Dampfmaschinen |
1871 |
Beginn (Gründung) |
1897 |
[Power Magazine (1897) Anzeige] |
Insbesondere Corliss-Maschinen. 1876: mit "self-packing piston" |
| Pumpen |
1877 |
[Hexamer] |
1881 |
[Hexamer] |
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| Transmissionen |
1871 |
Beginn (Gründung) |
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| Wassermesser |
1877 |
[Hexamer] |
1881 |
[Hexamer] |
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| Zeit |
Objekt |
Anz. |
Betriebsteil |
Hersteller |
Kennwert |
Wert |
[...] |
Beschreibung |
Verwendung |
| 1877 |
Dampfkessel |
2 |
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unbekannt |
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| 1881 |
Dampfkessel |
2 |
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unbekannt |
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| Zeit |
gesamt |
Arbeiter |
Angest. |
Lehrl. |
Kommentar |
| 1877 |
90 |
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90 - 100 Arbeiter (8-10 Jungen). |
| 1881 |
200 |
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16-20 Jungen, Rest Mädchen |
| ZEIT | 1884 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | The property bounded by Sixth, Upland, and Seventh Streets, two hundred and seventy by one hundred feet, was purchased and large buildings were erected. The machine-shop is two stories in height and forty by eighty feet, with foundry attached one hundred by fifty feet, a boiler-shop one hundred by forty feet, with pattern loft one hundred by fifty feet. They have at present seven large buildings, covering a square of ground. One hundred and fifty tons of pig-iron, seventy-five tons of plate, and twenty tons of wrought iron are monthly used in the manufacture of Corliss engines, boilers, shafting, and gearing. Two hundred and fifty men are employed, and monthly receive ten thousand dollars in wages. The works comprise machine-shops, smith-shop, foundry, boiler-shop, casting-house, pattern-shop, pattern store-house, store-rooms, and offices. |
| QUELLE | Ashmead's history of Delaware County (1884) 404] |
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