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original c. 1940's american industrial heavy duty cast iron crank wheel adjustable drafting table salvaged from the st. louis word war ii-era ordnance plant
  • original c. 1940's american industrial heavy duty cast iron crank wheel adjustable drafting table salvaged from the st. louis word war ii-era ordnance plant
  • original c. 1940's american industrial heavy duty cast iron crank wheel adjustable drafting table salvaged from the st. louis word war ii-era ordnance plant
  • original c. 1940's american industrial heavy duty cast iron crank wheel adjustable drafting table salvaged from the st. louis word war ii-era ordnance plant
  • original c. 1940's american industrial heavy duty cast iron crank wheel adjustable drafting table salvaged from the st. louis word war ii-era ordnance plant
  • original c. 1940's american industrial heavy duty cast iron crank wheel adjustable drafting table salvaged from the st. louis word war ii-era ordnance plant
  • original c. 1940's american industrial heavy duty cast iron crank wheel adjustable drafting table salvaged from the st. louis word war ii-era ordnance plant
original c. 1940's american industrial heavy duty cast iron crank wheel adjustable drafting table salvaged from the st. louis word war ii-era ordnance plant

original c. 1940's american industrial heavy duty cast iron crank wheel adjustable drafting table salvaged from the st. louis word war ii-era ordnance plant

SKU: UR-27497-18
intact and fully adjustable well-built st. louis ordnance plant drafting table designed and fabricated by the keuffel & esser company, new york city, ny. keuffel and esser began operations in new york selling drawing materials and drafting supplies. in 1876, k & e added surveying instruments. a four-story factory, located in hoboken, new jersey was completed four years later and k & e was incorporated in 1889. in 1892, the company commissioned a building for their showroom and offices at 127 fulton street in manhattan from the architecture firm of de lomos & cordes, who designed an 8-story brick and terra cotta building in the renaissance revival style. the building was completed in 1893 and the company occupied it until 1961. it was designated a new york city landmark in 2005. in the first decade of the 20th century, keuffel and esser introduced another, new line of surveying instruments based on the work of john paoli, an italian immigrant in hoboken. a new keuffel and esser manufacturing complex was built in 1906. in 1918 k & e acquired young & sons of philadelphia and made it a department of the firm. in the 1920's, k & e started manufacturing slide rules. a special slide rule was designed in the mid-1930's by nelson m. cooke of the navy's radio materiel school; many thousands of the 4139 cooke radio slide rule were made by k&e. the adjustable drafting table is comprised of solid birch wood with the original varnished wood finish largely intact. the curved cast iron brackets, stretcher bar and oversized spoked crank wheel are intact. the four-legged base is reinforced by wood stretchers. the spacious drawing board is original to the table base. the height and tilt of the drawing board are achieved by turning the wheel and additional dials along the slotted or telescoping legs.
weldon spring ordnance works (wsow) was a u.s. government-owned, contractor-operated (goco) facility in st. charles county, missouri, just west of st. louis. the site was originally operated by the atlas powder company during world war ii from 1941 to 1945 to produce explosives. the atomic energy commission acquired part of the property in 1955, and mallinckrodt, inc. processed uranium ore from 1957 to 1966 under contract. the site has been divided into several parcels, and ownership has transferred over the years. two portions of the original wsow property are now superfund sites that require substantial cleanup efforts. the environmental remediation of the wsow site is currently designated as a major project of the defense environmental restoration program of the united states department of defense. part of the original property is still used by the army reserve as the weldon spring training area. measures 48 long x 37 1/2 wide x 40 1/2 inches high.

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