American Precision Museum;Cotton Mill Building Robbins and Lawrence Armory and Machine Shop is a site in Windsor, Vermont.
It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1966.
It is located on Main Street, at the corner of Maple Street, in Windsor. The building was built as the Robbins and Lawrence Armory and Machine Shop in 1846. The company helped accelerate the industrial revolution by improving the production of interchangeable parts, thereby making mass production possible.
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“How a minority,
Reaching majority,
Seizing authority,
Hates a minority!”
—Leonard H. Robbins (1877–1947)
“It’s a thing of violence, to whom death would be a merciful release.”
—Edward T. Lowe. Erle C. Kenton. Lawrence Talbot (Lon Chaney)
“To these men
The landscape is an armory of powers,
Which, one by one, they know how to draw and use.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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stairs, carpets, furniture, people
those people who stand at the open windows like objects
waiting to topple.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
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—Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)