American Machinist
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| Editor | Robert Brooks |
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| Categories | Machinery industries |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Publisher | Penton |
| Year founded | 1877 |
| Final issue | 2013 |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | New York City |
| Website | americanmachinist |
| ISSN | 1041-7958 |
| OCLC number | 60637873 |
The American Machinist is a popular American trade magazine of the international machinery industries and most especially their machining aspects. Published since 1877, it was a McGraw-Hill title for over a century before becoming a Penton title in 1988. In 2013 it transitioned from combined print/online publication to online-only.
The journal was founded as a monthly magazine in November 1877 by Horace B. Miller and Jackson Bailey at 96 Fulton Street in New York City. The publication moved to a weekly publication schedule in July 1879.
Fred H. Colvin explained:
In 1888, the editors decided to launch another title, specific to the railroading industry, called Locomotive Engineer. They asked Colvin's father, Henry F. Colvin, to recommend someone to become the new title's editor. He recommended an American Machinist correspondent from Pueblo, Colorado, whose writing he considered to be of good quality. The man was hired, and this introduction to technical publishing was auspicious, because John A. Hill went on to be a cofounder of McGraw-Hill.
American Machinist was published weekly from 1877 to 1960 by various New York City companies, from the original American Machinist Publishing Company, through John A. Hill's Hill Publishing Company, to McGraw-Hill from 1909 onward. From 1968 to 1988, McGraw-Hill issued it biweekly and later monthly, briefly titling it American Machinist & Automated Manufacturing during 1986–88. Since 1988 it has been published by Penton; in 2013 it transitioned from combined print/online publication to online-only.
William Harris, a professor emeritus of Middlebury College, summarized that the American Machinist appeared weekly since "after the American Civil War, and was published continuously through the 19th and into the 20th century. This time period spans a very important interval, at the beginning of which new machinery began to appear in response to arms needs arising from the war, and the concept of mass production was invented. Interchangeable parts for military equipment followed immediately, and gave a new sense of what machines could do, in fact what they were going to have to do, as a matter of course in the future."
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