The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-09-26


 personality combining qualities of salesman, inventor, organizer and restless rover, he left a concern when it was once well established and started another plant. Some of the concerns he helped to found were the Ansonia Brass and Copper Company; Waterbury Brass Com. pany; Holmes, Booth and Hayden: Bristol Brass and Clock Company, aid in 1869, Holmes, Booth and Atwood. Today these concerns are all in existence either as subsidiar- ies of larger plants or independent manufacturers.
 The development of the brass in- dustry was intimately bound up with the brass clock of Chauncey Jerome and the pre-photographi invention of Daguerre. Brass wheels and gears for clocks were, of course, needed by the large Con- necticut timepiece manufacturers after Jerome invented an applica- ton of rolled brass for clock-mak- ing in 1887. Copper plated silver plates for the daguerreotypes were considered superior to those of British manufacture and equal to the French products. These Con- necticut products were placed upon the market in large quantities. Spangles on the hoop skirts of Civil War ladies were fastened by brass clasps.
 Electricity Big Help.
 Modern processes revolve prin- cipally about the introduction of electricity into the melting of brass Previous to 1916 brass had been melted the same way as in the Middle Ages--in a crucible sunk into the floor about which fuel was packed. When the electric furnace was first put on the market in 1916, the Bridgeport Brass Com pany adapted the idea for melting brass by using a Wyatt heating element. The Mannesman Process for making seamless tubing was first developed in Germany. A solid bar of metal is thrown against mandrils so that the bar comes through the machine already pierc- ed. The hollow tube is then drawn to size. A process called "extrusion" is very unusual. A hot billet of brass of large diameter, under the pressure of an hydraulic ram, is literally squirted through g. steel die emerging in sizes as small as an eighth of an inch in diameter. This adaptable metal can be drawn, stamped, forged, pressed. moulded, machined, cast, spun, punched, soldered, welded, ground, harden ed, rolled thin as tissue paper, stretched, polished, and finished in a thousand different ways.
 The extent to which the products of brass and brass alloys extend is almost incredible. By mention ing some of its uses the scope of the metal can be indicated. It is used in manufacturing novelty goods such as buttons, common and safety pins, water pipes, tele- phone, power, and telegraph lines, electric refrigeration, watches and clocks, hardware. silverware and thousands of allied products.
 Today Connecticut leads the world in efficiency of production and quality of workmanship in the brass industry. The Tercentenary Industrial Exposition at the State Armory in Hartford, beginning October 2 and lasting for ten days, retraces the story of copper and brass manufacture in early Con- necticut and demonstrates the re- cent remarkable strides in modern manufacturing processes.
 John Goss Chairman.
 The following manufacturers of brass are among those who will participate in the Industrial Ex- position: Ansonia Manufacturing Company A n sonia; Bridgeport Brass Company, Bead Chain Com pany, Bridgeport Metal Goods Manufacturing Company ,all of Bridgeport: Bristol Brass Com pany, Bristol; Aluminium Company of America, Fairfield, Gilbert and Bennett Manufacturing Company, Georgetown; Charles Parker Com pany, Meriden; Rostand Manufact- uring Company, Milford; Nauga- tuck Manufacturing Company, John, M. Russell Manufacturing Com pany, Risdon Manufacturing Com pany, all of Naugatuck; United Smelling and Aluminium Company, Acme Wire Company, Fritzell Foundry and Casting Company, The James Graham Company, H. T. McCluskey and Sons, all of New Haven; Atwater Manufacturing Company, Huntsville; Derby Cast ings Company, Seymour Manu- featuring Company, New Haven Copper Company, all of Seymour; Scovill Manufacturing Company, American Brass Company, Chase Brass and Copper Company, Platt Brothers and Company, Krodel Foundry, A. H. Wells and Com pany, Plume and Atwood Manu- featuring Company, Waterbury Rolling Mills Company, Mattatuck Manufacturing Company, Somers Brass Company, Thinsheet Metals Company. all of Waterbury; New ton, New Haven Die Casting Com pany, West Haven. John H. Goss of the Scovill Manufacturing Com pany is chairman of this group for the Industrial Exposition.
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