Right Of Way
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
Right Of Way
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Capture & Digital Enhancement
Description
The Remington Firearms Company was founded in 1816. Eliphalet Remington II believed he could build a better gun than he could buy. Residents of the farming communities in the region were famous for their diverse skills and self-sufficiency. During the winter, they worked on crafts to produce goods for their own use and also for sale. Remington's father was a blacksmith, and wanted to expand his business into rifle barrel production. Local residents often built their own rifles to save on costs, but purchased the barrel.
Remington's father sent him to a well-known barrel maker in a major city to purchase a barrel, with the mission of observing the barrel-making technique. At the time, the method was to heat and wrap long flat bars of iron around a metal rod of the caliber desired. By heating and hammering the coiled bars around the central rod, the barrel metal became fused into a solid cylinder, at which point the rod was pressed out. After the young man returned home, his family added a successful rifle barrel-making operation to his father's forge, in Ilion Gorge, New York.
Remington began designing and building a flintlock rifle for himself. At age 23 (in the fall of 1816), he entered a shooting match; though he finished second, his well-made gun impressed other contestants. Before Remington left the field that day, he had received so many orders from other competitors that he had officially entered the gun smith business. By 1828, he moved his operation to nearby Ilion. This site is still used by the modern Remington firearms plant.
Some digital effects were applied to the original image after the photograph was made. No electrons were harmed during the transition. Ordered images will not contain the FAA watermark
Image copyright 2018 Jon Burch Photography
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March 26th, 2018
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