After working for the Seth Thomas Clock company in Thomaston, in 1886 Norton became Assistant Engineer with the Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company at Providence, Rhode Island, redesigning their universal grinding machine. In 1890 he became a partner in the newly established Leland, Faulconer & Norton Company at Detroit, Michigan, designing and constructing machine tools. Returning to Brown & Sharpe in 1896, he designed a grinding machine with larger and heavier grinding wheels, capable of supplying machine parts for the emerging automobile industry. In 1900 he left Brown & Sharpe to found the Norton Grinding Company in Worcester, Massachusetts with support from the Norton Emery Wheel Company (founded by an unrelated Norton); the two firms merged in 1919, with Norton as their Chief Engineer until 1934, when he became their Consulting Engineer. On April 8, 1925, he was a recipient of The John Scott Medal and Premium for his invention of "accurate grinding devices of high power".
charles, hotchkiss, norton, november, 1851, plainville, connecticut, october, 1942, plainville, connecticut, american, mechanical, engineer, designer, machine, tools, after, working, seth, thomas, clock, company, thomaston, 1886, norton, became, assistant, eng. Charles Hotchkiss Norton November 23 1851 Plainville Connecticut October 27 1942 Plainville Connecticut was an American mechanical engineer and designer of machine tools 1 After working for the Seth Thomas Clock company in Thomaston in 1886 Norton became Assistant Engineer with the Brown amp Sharpe Manufacturing Company at Providence Rhode Island redesigning their universal grinding machine In 1890 he became a partner in the newly established Leland Faulconer amp Norton Company at Detroit Michigan designing and constructing machine tools Returning to Brown amp Sharpe in 1896 he designed a grinding machine with larger and heavier grinding wheels capable of supplying machine parts for the emerging automobile industry In 1900 he left Brown amp Sharpe to found the Norton Grinding Company in Worcester Massachusetts with support from the Norton Emery Wheel Company founded by an unrelated Norton the two firms merged in 1919 with Norton as their Chief Engineer until 1934 when he became their Consulting Engineer On April 8 1925 he was a recipient of The John Scott Medal and Premium for his invention of accurate grinding devices of high power Charles H Norton House the house in Plainville in which Norton lived until his death in 1942 is today a National Historic Landmark References edit Day Lance McNeil Ian eds 1996 Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology London and New York Routledge ISBN 0 415 06042 7 nbsp This article about an American mechanical engineer is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Charles Hotchkiss Norton amp oldid 1066350890, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
