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DELPHOS —Vanamatic’s night shift usually encompases just eight to 10 of its 77 employees. Even so, the air in the 80,000-square foot factory was awash with the hiss of pistons and the buzz of metal ...

MACHINE TOOL INDUSTRY. FRANK A. SCOTT, a Clevelander at the forefront of the machine tool industry during the early 1900s, once remarked that no metal could be available for modern uses until a ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Charles Vander Woerd, a ...

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