Edward Payson Bullard Jr. (July 10, 1872 – June 26, 1953) was an American

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, president of the

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for 40 years, and inventor. He was awarded the ASME Medal in 1937. Bullard was born in

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, as son of Edward Payson Bullard Sr. and Alice Martha (Camp) Bullard. After attending

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until 1891, he studied at

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from 1890 to 1892. After his graduation he spent his entire career at Bridgeport Machine Tool Co.''World Who's who in Commerce and Industry.'' Volume 1. 1936. p. 134 Bullard Jr. continued the family machine tool business and brought the turret principle to the vertical boring mill, making it a vertical turret lathe. He led the development of the company's multiple-

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brand machine that became an important automatic lathe in the mass production of parts for the

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. He was president of the company for 40 years, through

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, the

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, and

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, a period during which the Bullard company was the largest machine tool builder in the U.S., and vast volumes of military

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were produced by countless companies running Bullard machines.

Selected publications

* Patent
Rotary-table bearing. US 828876 A
1905-06. * Patent
Counterbalancing device. US 828875 A
'' 1905-06. * Patent
Controlling means for machine-tools, US 1382340 A
'' 1921.

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Edward P. Bullard (1872-1953)
American Precision Museum 1872 births 1953 deaths Engineers from Ohio Amherst College alumni People from Columbus, Ohio ASME Medal recipients {{US-mechanical-engineer-stub