Henry Martyn Leland was a prominent machinest and engineer pioneer in the automobile industry. After the Civil War, Leland worked for the famous Brown and Sharp machine company in Providence, Rhode Island where he dramatically increased the productive capacity of precision metal work machines used in the construction of sewing machines. He was later the […]
Joseph Rogers Brown and the Second Industrial Revolution
The second Industrial Revolution developed with the application of science to the process of mass production. Joseph Rogers Brown was a mechanical engineer and clock maker in Providence, Rhode Island in the mid-19th Century. He was arguably the father of the precision manufacturing machinery that allowed for the close manufacturing of metal tolerances that made […]