Emery Testing Machine

Emery Testing Machine

Watertown Arsenal (Mass.).; Army Materials Research Office.; Army Materials and Mechanics Research Center (U.S.).; Materials Technology Laboratory; . U.S. Army Research Laboratory.; Emery Testing Machine.;

This machine was built by the Ames Manufacturing Company in Chicopee Falls under the personal supervision of A. H. Emery. It is equally adapted to the testing of the strength of an iron bar 30 ft. long and 5 inches in diameter and of the finest wire that can be drawn or a single hair. According to specifications it had the capacity for precision testing of 800,000 pounds in tension and 1,000,000 pounds in compression and was large enough to accept specimens up to thirty feet. It was used for over 80 years to research a broad range of materials questions. Today the Emery Testing Machine is part of the Smithsonian Institution collection in Washington D.C.

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