Kirk Gordon wrote:

You might want to look at http://www.emachinetool.com/machine_museum.cfm

There's a forum for people actually interested in machine-tool
history, archives of past articles from the museum's magazine, and also
a machine tool "Hall of Fame". The hall of fame is a list of names,
including John Parsons, with good but brief articles about some key
people, and their contributions to the state of the art.

Other links from the site ought to lead your students as far and
wide as their curiosity cares to go.

Hope this helps!

KG
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Errol Groff wrote:
I am preparing a research assignment for my students on this subject.
Looking for suggestions as to names which might be used as search
terms or links to sites that would be appropriate.

Also, I am not remembering the names that were involved in the
creation of the first NC machines back in the late forties/early
fifties. I know that the info is back in my head somewhere but it is
not coming forward. Help would be appreciated!

I don't want togfive the kids everything obviously but I do need to
give them enough to get started It is tough to do research on a
subject when you don't know enough about it to even know what
questions to ask.

Thanks for your help!

Errol Groff
Instructor, Machine Tool Department
H.H. Ellis Tech
613 Upper Maple Street
Danielson, CT 06239

860 774 8511 x1811

http://pages.cthome.net/errol.groff/

http://newenglandmodelengineeringsociety.org/


A side to the machine tool industry is the development of cutting tools
and how it changed the way parts were manufactured. Muntz metal, carbon
steel, stelite and all the newer material used to make the cutting
tools. A job that took a whole day 100 years ago takes 10 minutes
today. Machine tools would not do what they do without the development
of the cutters themselves.

John