An old engraving of Blanchard’s lathe of 1822. It is from a Victorian book of the 1890s on discoveries and inventions during the 1800s. Thomas Blanchard (1788–1864) was an American inventor who lived most of his life in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA where in 1819, he pioneered the assembly line for mass production in America, and also invented the first machining lathe for interchangeable parts. Blanchard worked, for much of his career, with the Springfield Armory. Blanchard invented a machine tool that streamlined the manufacture of gun barrels. The machine turned and finished gun barrels i
An old engraving of Blanchard’s lathe of 1822. It is from a Victorian book of the 1890s on discoveries and inventions during the 1800s. Thomas Blanchard (1788–1864) was an American inventor who lived most of his life in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA where in 1819, he pioneered the assembly line for mass production in America, and also invented the first machining lathe for interchangeable parts. Blanchard worked, for much of his career, with the Springfield Armory. Blanchard invented a machine tool that streamlined the manufacture of gun barrels. The machine turned and finished gun barrels in a single operation; the octagon portion of the barrel was finished by changing the action of the lathe to vibratory motion. The lathe illustrated was made by Greenwood and Batley of Leeds, England. In 1825 Blanchard also invented America's first car, which he called a ‘horseless carriage’, powered by steam.
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