History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . em-ployed, although the capacity of the machinery isequal to three hundred and fifty hands when re-quired. The product of the factory last year amountedto the enormous total of five hundred and fifty thou-sand pairs of spectacles. The finest as well as theless expensive grades are made, and every kind ofmachinery peculiar to this work is used, from theponderous lathes which make the tools to the delicateand complicated devices for finishing the lenses ready
History of Westchester county : New York, including Morrisania, Kings Bridge, and West Farms, which have been annexed to New York City / . em-ployed, although the capacity of the machinery isequal to three hundred and fifty hands when re-quired. The product of the factory last year amountedto the enormous total of five hundred and fifty thou-sand pairs of spectacles. The finest as well as theless expensive grades are made, and every kind ofmachinery peculiar to this work is used, from theponderous lathes which make the tools to the delicateand complicated devices for finishing the lenses readyfor the frames. The warehouse of the company is atNo. 1) Maiden Lane, New York. Many of the machines in use at the works are theinvention Ol Mr. Spencer, and are novel in their de-sign and construction. Some of them are automatic,and were designed particularly for optical firm were the first regular manufacturers ofsteel spectacles and eye-glasses in the United States,and they are at present the only makers of celluloidoptical goods. Some of the last of these—the cellu-loid tortoise-shell and amber shades—are most at-.
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