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Banknote motif: number 2 against a circular panel of lathe work with a scalloped edge

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Associated with Cyrus Durand (American, 1787–1868)

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Cyrus Durand was born in 1787, in Essex County, New Jersey. His grandfather moved from France to Connecticut in 1750. When he was seventeen, Cyrus began to make silver spoons by casting the silver in ingots and forging them. He also started to make tools for clock manufacturing. In 1808 when Durand married and British embargo was laid on all trade, John Taylor, a president of one of the Newark banks, advised him to make a turning-lathe for jewelry. In 1814 Durand moved to Newark and was engaged in silversmithing. Local factories were booming so Durand started to build machines for spinning and carding. He made a machine for ruling straight and wave lines for bank notes. The next year he made two other machines: one for making water marks, and the other for plain ovals that may be regarded as the beginning of a series of his geometrical lathes mahines. In 1823 Cyrus moved to New York and entered into a partnership with C. C. Wright, in a bank-note engraving. In 1824 Cyrus invented the geometrical lathe, by which was able to cut circles and ovals. In 1846 he invented the routing machine for cutting figures on type-metal rollers for oil-cloth printing. Durand has been occupied in bank-note engraving, and in improving the geometrical lathe. He has produced several machines that were capable of producing a great variety of figures.

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1824 - 1841
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Cyrus Durand, the Machinist and Bank-Note Engraver
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Photo of Panel with Cusped Arches - Public domain dedication

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Photo of Panel, 17th century - Public domain dedication

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Ring with Lotus Motif on Bezel - Public domain museum image. A close up of a gold ring on a table

Simon Fokke - Gedenknaald voor een onbekende schilder

Panel, Egypt, 7th Century CE (AD)

Panel, Egypt, 8th Century CE (AD)

Citations of individual production merit awarded. The first five Citations of Individual Production Merit have been awarded to five war workers, War Production Drive Headquarters has announced. The citation is the highest honor conferred for individual achievement. It is granted only for ideas or suggestions that have an outstanding effect on the entire war effort. Joseph H. Kautsky, Indianapolis, Indiana, an employee of the Lin-Belt Co., was awarded his citation for four suggestions, each technical. He suggested a grinding wheel adapter, which permits higher speeds in internal grindings; a simplification cutting down the number of special internal grinding spindle wheel adapters from twelve to three; the adoption of a precision screw adjustment to the vertical column of dial indicator guages, to get faster adjustments without danger to the dials; and a new method of testing the concentricity of internally ground parts. The picture shows Mr. Kautsky (center) being congratulated by formean Bill Whitaker (right) as Superintendant R. E. Whitney (left) looks on

Franz Ertinger - Deur met paneel met mascaron, Flanders

Paneel met bladranken en twee slakken

[Union case for daguerreotype, ambrotype, or tintype showing patriotic naval motif within scroll frame]

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cyrus durand engraving prints associated with cyrus durand banknote motif banknote motif number panel lathe work lathe work edge 19th century high resolution american metropolitan museum of art