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| | Corporate Partner - Shepard Niles Crane & Hoist Co. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03) |
 | | Shepard Niles, founded in 1878 in Montour Falls, NY, was an internationally recognized leader in the development and engineering of material handling products until it succumbed to poor economic conditions and closed its doors forever, on March 31, 2002. |
 | | Below is the famous photo of the "gadget", America's first nuclear bomb, being raised to the top of a 100 foot tower at the Trinity Test Site at Alamagordo, New Mexico in July 1945. |
 | | I remember walking over to the base of the tower to look at the hoist, I think it was called a Lift About, and read it was made by the Shepard Crane and Hoist Company, or whatever its name was then, in Montour Falls, NY. |
| childrenofthemanhattanproject.org /CP/Shepard-Niles/shepard_niles.htm (218 words) |
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