Molded Staggered Tooth Gears | Historic Pittsburgh

1910/1920

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Title
Molded Staggered Tooth Gears
Identifier
MSS210.B001.F01.I01
Source Identifier
MSS210.B001.F01.I01
Description
A pair of Machine Molded Staggered Tooth Gears manufactured by the Mesta Machine Company plant in West Homestead, Pennsylvania. Mesta manufactured various types of tooth gears up to 32 feet in diameter and 6 feet wide made of air furnace melted cast iron, acid open hearth steel, or alloy steel. The plant, located about six miles from Pittsburgh, covered more than twenty acres and employed approximately three thousand employees, most of whom were skilled mechanics, in the late 1910s. The Mesta Machine Company was one of the leading manufacturers of machine tool and steel mill equipment in the world at that time. 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. In 1959 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev visited the plant as part of his American tour. The plant employed about 4,000 employees as late as the 1970s. In 1983 WHEMCO acquired the assets of Mesta Machine Company.
Genre
photographs
Subject
Mesta Machine Company (West Homestead, Pa.)
Steel industry and trade--Pennsylvania--West Homestead.
Gearing--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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