World's first Bridgeport mill - photos

The world's first Bridgeport mill, serial number S38-001. On display at the American Precision Museum in Windsor, Vermont.

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More:

http://www.americanprecision.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Precision_Museum

Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...386#post154566
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...988#post120133
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...015#post160566
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...459#post142768
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...145#post141459
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...6425#post83639
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...033#post137891
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...576#post123136

A beautiful design and still so recognizable.

Amazing how well designed it was right out of the box! Seldom do you get it right with v1.0

Awesome! I bet it still works great.

is that guy holding a nuse?? better keep bubba wallace away from it!!!:rolleyes: yup it looks good, and mostly the same as my 79 machine. it didn't stray far from home!!

I wonder just want all that machine has made for us all.

I would love to see all of the prototypes that were tossed before they got to "the first..."

Rick

Thanks for posting these photos. We were up that way a few years ago and stopped in to see the museum and looked at that Bridgeport, serial #1 and still in nice shape.


If you're ever in the neighborhood, the museum's worth checking out; pretty cool old place, originally water-powered.

Isn't the Round Ram at 90° rotation?