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of copper bolts and spikes. He had already been rolling silver sheets since 1785, which had taught him the fundamental principles of rolling. However, copper rolling is a much more complex process and, as a beginner in this field, Revere's first copper sheets were not of the same quality as those of
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America's first copper rolling mill. The most important pieces of equipment were the rollers themselves, which consisted of large iron cylinders through which raw copper would be inserted and compressed. While Revere admitted that Britain had superior
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Copper rolling is the process of converting large blocks of copper into thin sheets by rolling them gradually down to size. These sheets of copper were used in the 18th and 19th centuries mainly to plate the bottoms of ships. This process of plating ship bottoms, referred to as “sheathing” or
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One of the many insights Revere had gleaned from his son's espionage mission was a rolling mill design with both rollers mechanically coupled and powered by the same source. This mechanism was simpler than that of many other mills. Combining these
British practices with his own knowledge and
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to fund metalworkers such as Paul Revere in the hopes that
American manufacturers might be able to develop copper rolling technology of their own and reduce America's reliance on Britain for the majority of its copper products, especially for industrial and military needs.
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from burrowing into and degrading the wood. Not only did copper sheathing help ships sail faster by keeping their hulls clean, but it also drastically increased the amount of time a ship could remain in service between overhauls. In fact, “British Navy
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Revere saw the Navy's desire for copper sheathing as an opportunity to increase both his income and social standing, so he rose to the challenge presented by
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British. Revere had several questions about the superior British process, but the British closely guarded their methods. Whilst Revere had a rough idea of how to roll copper, he sent his son,
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experiments, Revere was able to ultimately develop a method to produce copper sheathing of at least equal quality to that which the
British produced; in 1803, Revere wrote a letter to
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with the first president being George H. Allen, with several plants and product divisions. Revere Copper and Brass ranked 96th among United States corporations in the value of
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discussing his copper rolling endeavor. In it, he concluded “Our sheets are as well finished and as soft & as free from scales & cannot be distinguished from
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mainline, a spur was added to the Revere site. Joseph Warren Revere, then owner of Revere, was a director of the Boston and
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