Inventor Name
Reynolds Family
Repository
Cornell University
University Archives
101 Olin Library
Ithaca, NY 14853
607-255-3530
http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/
Physical Description
230 items
Summary
Papers of Lansing van Rensselaer Reynolds founder of the Projecting Engine Company and the Empire Loom Works. Papers include correspondence, patents, drawings, accounts, affidavits, bonds, and other legal documents, mainly concerning the invention, manufacture, and sale of an artillery device consisting of a revolving battery for projecting balls. The Empire Loom Company papers contain materials related to textile improvements, with references to hay forks, rotary pumps, weather vanes, and other inventions of Reynolds and his son Robert Burns Reynolds.