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Although individual arms makers like Eli Whitney and Simeon North began working on making weapons whose parts could be interchanged in the early 1800’s, as the governmental demand for weapons grew very large, so too did the need for creating processes and tools to mass produce weapon parts that would interchange. The Springfield Armory sponsored and implemented machines like the first successful milling machine that offered “the first glimmerings of interchangeable production,” and, ultimately, created the precision tool industry in the Connecticut River Valley.

Presented by Dr. Robert C. Ford, Professor Emeritus, University Central Florida; and Dr. Lindsay Schakenbach Regele, Professor of History, Miami University

Image courtesy of Dr. Robert C. Ford