Mesta Four-Column Forging Press | Historic Pittsburgh

1905/1925

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Title
Mesta Four-Column Forging Press
Identifier
MSP210.B036.I06
Source Identifier
MSP210.B036.I06
Description
The Mesta Machine Company specialized in the manufacture of heavy machinery. The company was one of the leading manufacturers of machine tool and steel mill equipment in the world during the first half of the twentieth century. Some of their products included, gas and steam blowing engines for blast furnaces, forging presses, shears, cut and machine-molded gears, and various types of rolls used in rolling mills. The plant, located about six miles from Pittsburgh in West Homestead, Pennsylvania, covered more than twenty acres and employed approximately three thousand employees, most of whom were skilled mechanics, in the early 1900s. Some of the buildings, all of which were fireproof, that occupied the site included machine shops, forge shops, a pattern shop, an iron foundry, a steel and brass foundry, and laboratories.
Genre
photographs
Subject
Mesta Machine Company (West Homestead, Pa.)--Employees.
Forging presses--Pennsylvania--West Homestead.
Source
Mesta Machine Company Photographs, 1906-1925, MSP 210, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
Contributor
Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
Collection
Mesta Machine Company Photographs
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