"Bliss-Consolidated" Inclinable Power Presses - 1926 Catalog - ORIGINAL, US $20.00 – Picture 0

"Bliss-Consolidated" Inclinable Power Presses - 1926 Catalog - ORIGINAL, US $20.00 – Picture 1

"Bliss-Consolidated" Inclinable Power Presses - 1926 Catalog - ORIGINAL, US $20.00 – Picture 2

"bliss-consolidated" Inclinable Power Presses - 1926 Catalog - Original

US $20.00

Mebane, North Carolina, United States
Jan 30th

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"Bliss-Consolidated" Inclinable Power Presses (Catalog Section C-2, No. 10, Sept. 1926 by E.W. Bliss Co., Brooklyn, NY. 8 1/2 x 11 paperback, 10 pages. Please note this is an ORIGINAL, not a reproduction. It is in very good condition: the pages are clean, but yellowing along the edges. The crease along the spine is torn almost completely except at the staples. Page 2 carries a full-page picture of a Bliss No. 4 inclinable press being used to straighten form clamps for an automobile spot-light, in an unidentified manufacturing plant. Page 3 has a photograph of three rows of inclinable presses being assembled in the Bliss Hastings, Michigan plant. Bliss was the premier maker and certainly the largest manufacturer of power pressing machinery in the early 1900s. The company began as a machine shop established in 1867 by Eliphalet Williams Bliss, in Brooklyn, New York, making tools, presses, and dies for use in sheet metal work, and , also, shells and projectiles for the military. Bliss has a number of patents under his own name, for machines for manufacturing and soldering metal cans and for shaping and casting sheet metal. In addition, his company was assigned a number of patents as well. Before the Civil War, Bliss had been a foreman for seven years in the Parker gun factory in Meriden, Conn., where he developed his deep interest in projectiles. Bliss would later found the United States Projectile Company, which manufactured most of the shells then used in the large guns of the Navy. Sometime around the 1880s, the E. W. Bliss Company obtained control of the patents for the manufacture of the Whitehead torpedo (then in use by the navy), and E.W. Bliss soon became the major commercial supplier of torpedoes to the U.S. Navy. Just after the turn of the century, one of the company's engineers, F. Leavitt, developed a turbine-driven antisurface ship torpedo, using a single-stage, vertical turbine engine, fuelled by alcohol used to heat the air before entering the engine, that almost tripled the range. Leavitt’s torpedo design remained in service for 33 years.

Condition	Used : An item that has been used previously. The item may have some signs of cosmetic wear, but is fully operational and functions as intended. This item may be a floor model or store return that has been used. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections.
Seller Notes	“Please note this is an ORIGINAL, not a reproduction. It is in very good condition: the pages are clean, but yellowing along the edges. The crease along the spine is torn almost completely except at the staples”