Sunday, April 19, 2020
Sort of followup
Not really relevant, just paralleling the Elgin story. And paralleling all of American industry.
When I read old discussions of timekeeping and metrology, the products of Warner & Swasey are EXCLUSIVELY DOMINANT. WS made ALL of the equipment used in astronomy, from telescopes to transits to clocks to chronographs. If you were building or managing an observatory, WS was the only supplier you needed.
I was surprised to see the concentration on scientific equipment. WS was familiar to me from a different context. In the '60s and '70s WS advertised heavily in science magazines. At that time the magazine editors and most advertisers were transit-ing from normal capitalism to globalist nonsense, and their cultural flavor was transit-ing to trans. WS made a big point of holding the line, remaining steadfastly blue-collar and capitalist. The Cleveland beacon, piercing the globalist fog.
By that time WS was making industrial equipment like CNC lathes and automated conveyor belts and forklifts.
This wikipedia article verifies my impression about the change in production, but doesn't mention the advertising messages.
Needless to say, WS was merged and killed in 1980, along with the rest of American industry. 
Labels: metametrology, Metrology
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