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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 1 1 Browse Search
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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Financial and manufacturing. (search)
lake, while employed as mechanical engineer of Peter Hubbell's brick-yards at Cambridge, was granted a patent for a water meter. About that time Mr. Blake also patented a machine for pulverizing the clay, which could not be worked with the ordinary machinery; and, later, when the clay pits constantly filled with water, he devised and patented a steam pump, which operated perfectly, and succeeded in keeping the pits free from water. In 1864 Mr. Blake, associated with Mr. Hubbell and Mr. Job A. Turner, commenced the manufacture and sale of these pumps and meters in a little shop on Province Street, Boston. From that time to the present the growth and success of this industry have been uninterrupted. In 1874 a joint stock company was formed, under the name of the Geo. F. Blake Manufacturing Co.; in 1879 the plant and business of the Knowles Steam Pump Works, at Warren, Mass., were purchased; and, in 1890, the entire business was transferred to a syndicate, which, under greatly incr