Lewis Alwyn Young
Notes de recherche
- S.H.S. Collection : BU. Butterfield Co., file 2 of 2. Album souvenir, The Butterfield Story, 1880-1980, 1980, 28 p.
- Document produit par la compagnie pour souligner le centenaire.
- Portraits des fondateurs de la compagnie (Young, F. D. et F. G. Butterfield) et photo de certains des premiers employés de la compagnie.
Centenaire de Rock Island
p. 3
- Butterfield & Co. started in 1879, Lewis Young and F. D. Butterfield.
The Who’s Who
- 1880: Col. Frederick Butterfield, Lewis Young, John Hay, and George Reece
- Co-founders of Butterfield Co. Ltd
Stanstead Journal, Feb. 23, 1933: “Talks on Local Industries”
- Taps and dies
- The manufacture of taps and dies followed the invention of Young’s Axle Cutter by Lewis Young
- Tool used by blacksmiths for turning back buggy axes
- Col. F. D. Butterfield entered into a partnership with Young in 1879-80.
- After that Henry Reece also became interested and the invention of the Reece screw plate was another forward step.
- The next step was the cut thread carbon steel tap, requiring an accuracy of from two to five thousandths of an inch
- Following this came the ground thread high-speed steel tap, in which an accuracy of half a thousand of an inch was demanded.
- Changes in methods of hardening and tempering
- First heated in sand and tempered by color
- Then came the heating of carbon steel in hot lead and drawing in oil
- Then hardened in electric furnaces with gas curtains which excludes everything but the necessary elements
Document visuels
Lewis Young - Album-souvenir, The Butterfield Story, 1880-1980, 1980, p. 5.
