SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR ARMY ENGINEER ELE POWER STATION YALE LOCKS CT LETTER SIGNED

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H. J. LAMBORN
(1873 - 19)
AMERICAN IRON, STEAM, ELECTRICAL and EARLY POWER STATION ENGINEER,
SUPERINTENDENT OF POWER and PLANT IN THE YALE & TOWNE WORKS AT STAMFORD , CONNECTICUT – THE FAMOUS “YALE LOCKS” Co. 1907-1910s,
SUPERINTENDENT and MECHANICAL ENGINEER AT THE MAGNETIC SEPARATING PLANTS OF WITHERBEE, SHERMAN & CO., MINEVILLE, NEW YORK ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN – DESIGNING and BUILDING THE LARGEST IRON ORE SEPARATING PLANT and POWER STATION OF ITS KIND IN THE WORLD 1902-1906,
SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR US ARMY ENGINEER OF FORTIFICATIONS 1896-1901
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ASSOCIATE, EDITOR FOR THE "
CIVIL ENGINEER'S POCKET BOOK,
" ca.1892-1895.
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HERE’s A
1915
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY LAMBORN ON ATTRACTIVE “
YALE & TOWNE MFG. Co. – MAKERS OF YALE PRODUCTS
” LETTERHEAD, 1p., DATED AT STAMFORD, CT., APRIL 23, 1915, TO FRANK C. JOHNSON AT ELKO, HENRICO COUNTY, VIRGINIA, REGARDING A PROPOSITION ON A FARM PROPERTY…
A FINE ADDITION TO YOUR AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL HISTORY AUTOGRAPH, MANUSCRIPT & EPHEMERA COLLECTION!
AND A GREAT COLLATERAL ITEM FOR YOUR ANTIQUE “
YALE
” LOCK COLLECTION!
The document measures 8” x 10½” and is in VF condition – Beautifully executed and signed by Lamborn.
BIOGRAPHICAL INFO – H. J. LAMBORN
H. J. LAMBORN has been appointed Superintendent of Power and Plant in the Yale & Towne Works to succeed Mr. F. A. Waldron, who resigned about a year ago. The position is a very responsible one, involving as it does the management of all steam and electrical plant, the supervision (and frequently the designing)of new buildings, and in general everything relating to steam and electric power and distribution, heating and ventilating, water supply, drainage, fire protection, up-keep of buildings, and general repairs throughout the whole plant.
The work involved thus requires not only executive ability but also the training of an engineer and broad technical experience.
Lamborn was born in Philadelphia in 1873, and graduated first from the Philadelphia High School, and later from the Towne Scientific School of the University of Pennsylvania in the course of mechanical engineering.
For three years he was associated with Mr. John C. Trautwine, Jr., in editorial work for the "Civil Engineer's Pocket Book," then for five years connected with the Engineer Department of the U. S. A. on harbor and fortification work near Philadelphia, and then for a year with the Hyatt Roller Bearing Company as mechanical engineer.
Since 1902 he has held the position of mechanical and electrical engineer and superintendent of the magnetic separating plants of Witherbee, Sherman & Co., at Mineville, N.Y. (on Lake Champlain.) These separating plants are the largest in the world, their annual production being 400,000 tons of concentrated iron ore. The separating plants and power stations at Mineville were designed and built under the supervision of Mr. Lamborn, including an extensive concrete power station equipped with turbo-generators of the Curtis type. Mr. S. E. Dauchy, who has been acting superintendent of power and plant during the past year, and for several years has held the position of acting superintendent, will continue under the latter capacity under Lamborn.
Source:
Industrial Magazine, Vol. 6, 1907
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Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company
was established in 1868 by Linus Yale and Henry Towne in Stamford, Connecticut. Linus Yale was the inventor of the tumbler lock. He died in New York on December 24, 1868, never knowing that his company would become the leading manufacturer of locks in the world. Henry Towne expanded the company from locks to materials handling in 1875. Yale & Towne Manufacturing was the leading employer in the Stamford, Connecticut, area.
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