Steptoe Metal Shaper Project Page 1
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Mark Long Steptoe Shaper
Steptoe Shaper Manual
Shaper History and Stories
Smith & Mills Shapers
Shapers
John Steptoe arrived in Cincinnati from Oldham, England, in the 1840s and went to work at Miles Greenwood's Eagle Iron Works, which included a foundry, a machine shop, and a hardware factory. Steptoe left Eagle Iron Works in 1860 and formed his own firm with Thomas McFarlan. It was the first machine-tool company in Cincinnati, and Steptoe's first machine tool was a copy of a Putnam lathe. Much of the Cincinnati machine-tool industry got its start with workers from the Steptoe plant. William Lodge became the most important Steptoe alumnus, and the immediate success of Lodge, Barker inspired a wave of other new firms in the next few years. One of Lodge, Barker's first designs was a small turret lathe.
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