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Courtesy of my parents who are at the Henry Ford Museum (formerly Greenfield Village) in Dearborn, Michigan today - a photo of the watchmaker's bench setup in Thomas Edison's Menlo Park laboratory. This is a pretty good display, a pallet warmer, truing caliper, staking set (unfortunately closed box), spirit lamp, and check out that six jaw chuck on the lathe.

The museum is a mostly an outdoor village where Ford had moved numerous buildings important to himself and to the history of technology in the USA. (Also includes the Wright brothers' bicycle shop for example). As a teenager I worked in an 1850's tavern there.

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There are several other large lathes too.

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