macbin- small factory was started, in 1850, at Rox- ery is driven by a Corliss engine of 125 bury, Mass., which was removed four horse power. years later to Waltham, ten miles from When Mr. Robbins took hold of what Boston, a place already famous for the was then regarded as a forlorn enterprise,… … their property was bougbt, in 1857, by Royal E. Robbins, for the immense _ structure Appleton, Tracy & Oo., the- name being subsequently changed to Robbins, Ap- 1878. pleton & Co. In 1858 the property was bought hy (Continued on page 102.) perhaps convey an idea of the American Watch Company. ‘The…
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