Twist Counter
name: label: engineer
content: Suter, Alfred
label: manufacturer
content: Emerson Apparatus Company
notes: label: Description
content: Ensuring the standardization of twist in making thread and yarn was vital to the smooth running of looms and knitting machines, and in the consistency of the finished textile products. An inscription on this twist counter reads “ALFRED SUTER TEXTILE ENGINEER 200 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK, NY / MANUFACTURED BY EMERSON APPARATUS CO. MELROSE, MASS.” Alfred Suter (1880-1947) was born in Switzerland, and came to the United States at a young age.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Alfred Suter,” New York Times (Oct. 25, 1947), p. 19.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Melrose
label: manufacturer
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2017.0234.06
label: catalog number
content: 2017.0234.06
label: accession number
content: 2017.0234
objectType: label: Object Name
content: twist counter
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood; metal (overall material)