Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1845-08-27
.Eer0sne's Clock Factory.

Berosnes Clock Factory.
The New Haven Courier thus describes visit
to these extensive works:
On entering. our ears were greeted with the
mingled hum of buzz saws, the thunder oftwo pow
erful steam engines. aud the craft of machinery.
Our attention first drawn TO The saving works,
by which The cases are cut ont and fitted as if by
magic. Boards in The rough state are cut ia prop
er length, for the fronts, sides, top and bottom OF
cases. These are again subject To The action of
finer Tvs, and cut in perfect order for being
matched and put together; no other smoothing or
ling process used except what these ws
accomplish. Mahogany logs and bIets are re-
duced 10 veneering with quickness of thought !:
and this alone, of all the woodwork about clock
is smoothed, or IN any way remoddled, after being
cut from the upland timber. The veueerins
which is principally from mahogany, rosewood
and black walnut, is taken after being glued to the
different parts composing The case, 10 q room SCI,
apart for tie purpose, in which are employed a,
this branch some eight or Ten hands, and there re-
celves an even surface and six coats of varn;sh,
which when finished, will compare in elegance
with the finest articles of furniture in the cabiret
ware-rooms in our city.
The movement ale all cut in proper forms and
sizes by dies, with great precision and rapIdhy,
even TO the pivot holes in the plates. which have
before been drilled. The cogs in the wheels, the
second, minute and hour stops, are grooved out by
the same rapid and skillful process. The posts,
pin and similar pieces of the inside work are turn
ed from the more rough material. polished at the
same time, while the plates and wheels are cleans.
ed and polished by rinciGg first in strong solution
Of aquaforts, and then in pure wafer.
We cannot describe infinitely the whole process
&c rsal=nt, eleai,->-- Ef- I:i----------.-~s
the machinery it would take more time and space
than we can at present devote to this purpose In
short, the case, movements, plates, faces &c, &C..
which when put together. form of Jerome's
celebrated Brass Etght-Ddy Clocks, 60 through
some fifty different hands before completed. One
man can put together about serenty,fve movements
per day, while every part from the first process to
the finishing, goes Oh with equal rapidly.
MIR. j. informed us, tea, he anticipates making
this year fifty thousands clocks, and these are to
be turned out by seventy-five hands. This NAV
seem large number of clocks to be made in year
by so small number Of wofkmen but after wit
Messing the perfection of machinery, the systemat-
ic equalization Of each department of labor, the
almost incredible despatch and precision Of the
whole arrangement it is easily accounted for
place of physical and mental labor, and to do what
has hitherto been considered as capable of execu-
ton only by the genius of man, assisted by num-
erous and skillfu tools. MIR. Jerome has. in his
arrangement both Of machinery and labor, SEEM
ipgly arrived at the neplus ultra of clock.makng,
and probably The most perfect clock establishment
in the United States, and we may safely say in the
world. ia "a
We learn from him, that the greatest bulk oil
clocks which he anticipates making this year, are
designed for European markets and that he has
already received orders from houses in London,
Birmingham, England, large house in Scotland
and from some quite extensive dealers in Canada.
| In fact, the Yankee clock is becoming a general
favorite in England, almost entirely superseding
the old Dutch clock, which has been long used
there as time piece.
| He yearly consumes Of the various articles useC
| in the manufacture of clocks, the following enor
nous q lantitles:
100000 feet of pine lumber, 100000 fes. o
mahogany and rose wood veneer. 200 tons iron
for weights. 100000 lbs of brass. 300 casks o
nails. I,500 boxes glass, SO fl. per box. l,5O(
gallons varnish. $4,000 lbs. wire. 10000 lbs
glue. 10000 looking glass plates.
$4,000 are paid yearly for printing labels, ant
for screws, saws, coal and oil.
. Workmen employed. 70, paid wages yearly
$4,000; clocks made pear day, 200 ; per year
5000.
| Little doubtless, did Mr.. Terry. the inventor
and first maker of Yankee wooden clock. dream
when he whiuled on. the movements of bis frs
! production In the clock line with penkniie. ant
afterwards served his customers with clock, IN
cased, from his saddle bags, that in few years
an article, constructed on the same plan, though
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establishment 10 The extent Of fifty thousand tn
year. But Yankee ingenuity and enterprise sto
at no point where ready penny can de turned t
advantage. or so long as the offspring of his gen
ius finds ready demand tn market at a livin
profit.
Leviy is often less foolish, and gravity less wist
j than zach of them appear.