George Bruce (industrialist)
- George Bruce (industrialist)
George Bruce (1781-1866) was an American industrialist and inventor.
Bruce, who was born in Scotland, immigrated to America in 1795 and served his apprenticeship in Philadelphia. [The Practice of Typography: A Treatise on the Processes of Type-making, the Point System, the Names, Sizes, Styles and Prices of Plain Printing Types, By Theodore Low De Vinne, Published by The Century co., 1900, p. 103] Bruce moved to New York City where he made his fortune as a pioneer of stereotype printing. He invented an improved form of in mechanical type casting. [Margot Gayle, Cast Iron Architecture in America, Dover Books, 1974, p. 166] Bruce was a member of the American Institute of the City of New York and a founder of the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York.
In 1856 he commissioned architect James Bogardus to build 254 Canal Street, one of the earliest as well as one of the most handsome examples of cast-iron architecture. [Margot Gayle, Cast Iron Architecture in America, Dover Books, 1974, p. 166]
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