May & Fiebeger Heater Furnace Damper Dial Gauge
SSC Museum Collection, Ohio Foundry Corridor, Industrial Cast Iron, Marked Pieces Steve Thaman SSC Museum Collection, Ohio Foundry Corridor, Industrial Cast Iron, Marked Pieces Steve Thaman

May & Fiebeger Heater Furnace Damper Dial Gauge

A cast iron furnace damper dial gauge marked MAY & FIEBEGER — CHECK — AKRON OHIO, still fully functional after more than a century. Turn the dial and the ports open and close exactly as Frank Fiebeger designed them. Behind this single piece of Akron iron: a family that crossed the Atlantic in 1850, forty years of hardware and foundry work, seven U.S. patents, and a product line certified by federal commercial standards into the 1944s. First documented May & Fiebeger piece in the SSC collection

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