Precision Museum, Windsor, Vermont

According to the introductory video Windsor, Vermont and this armory turned into a gun manufacturing plant is where the American method of manufacturing was born. A need for rifles made quickly led to a method of manufacturing that created interchangeable parts and machines run by water power to speed up the time required to make them.

A subsequent show of this method at the Crystal Palace in London - the first World's Fair - had people convinced that a new age of precision was born.

I know you've heard of Silicon Valley, but before that there was Precision Valley starting in Windsor.

The Precision Museum is one of those small museums that packs a lot into it. The focus is machines that made manufacturing and subsequently life easier for all of our ancestors and us, too.

 

There is quite a collection of machines and at least one below, a gift, no one knows what it did.

The one above was a small one.  The one below is a large one and it's use is known I just didn't note what it was.

It was a blue sky cold morning on Martin Luther King, Jr's Birthday when we visited.

Here are more of the collected machines.

These are facts I didn't know.

If you visit Vermont make this one of your stops.

I had to take this photo of the rear of the building. It looks like other buildings once were attached and all that's left are the ghost marks.

To end let me share this photo and video. It's a case of miniature machines.

You push a button and the machines start working.