Lamson, Goodnow & Yale: 192, 193. Lamson Machine Co.: 198. Landis Tool Co.: 259-260. Lane & Bodley: 267. Lapointe, J. N.: broaching machine, 183. Lathes: pole, 3, 41; engine, 4; in 18th century, 3, 4; automatic, 5, 176; French rose engine, 6; screw-cutting, 19, 35, 40, 119-120; tool-room, 182; Lo-swing, 200; Bramah and Maudslay, 17; Ramsden, 38; Bentham, 38; Maudslay, 40-42, 46; Wilkinson, 119-120; Blanchard, 140, 142-143; Spencer’s turret lathe, 176; Fay automatic, 200; Sellers, 250. Lathe, Morse & Co.: 222. Lawrence, Richard S.: 188-189, 195; profiling machine, 143; master armorer, Sharps Works, 170, 194; lubricated bullet, 194; miller, 191, 194; split pulley, 194; turret lathe, 197; autobiography, 281-291. Lawrence, Mass.: 127. Lawrence Machine Shop: 219. Lead screw: 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43. Le Blanc: interchangeable gun manufacture in France, 130. Le Blond, R. K.: 271. Lee-Metford rifle: 105. Leland, Henry M.: 214; on J. R. Brown, 215. Leonards: 116. Libbey, C. L.: turret lathes, 275. Limit gauges: developed in America, 5. Lincoln, Levi: 165, 171. Lincoln Co., The: 165. Lincoln, Charles L., & Co.: 165. Lincoln, George S., & Co.: 137, 165. Lincoln miller: 137, 165-166, 208. Linear dividing engines: 206. Lingren, W. F., & Co.: 274. Locomotives: early inventions, 56; Sharp, Roberts & Co., 61-62; Nasmyth, 93. Lodge, William E.: 268-271. Lodge & Davis: policy of, 270-271. Lodge & Shipley Machine Tool Co.: 270. Lowell, Mass.: 127; machine shops of, 218. Lowell Machine Shop: 217, 218, 253. Lucas Machine Tool Co.: 265.