Message #253880

[Jeffrey]

Thanks Rob...it looks like some of the very first machine shops in the city were here, which makes  one wonder what kind of machine tools they had.  I see thay had 'turning laths' at one site, but perhaps to turn wood.  And what would an early water-powered nail cutter look like? 

Lots of industrial archeology questions!

And also some environmental history questions too, as to the orginal topography. Even with a mill pond and headraces there doesn't seem to have been much fall, so one wonders what wheels they used..perhaps undershot?

I also have to say, of the last pix, that old Delco plant was just massive!  The last part of it, built in 1946, could well have been the last multistory loft factory in Dayton.