FRANCIS ASHBURY PRATT & AMOS WHITNEY-Signed 1898 P&W Stock Certificate - ISSUED

Description

This is an early stock certificate from 'The Pratt & Whitney Company.' It was issued in 1900 and is hand-signed by Francis Ashbury Pratt as president at the bottom, his name was crossed out with one light red line and it was then signed by Amos Whitney as well.
It is in generally clean condition with some punch holes at the bottom, some of which are touching the signatures. There is a tiny chip from the top-right corner and light stub residue at the left side.
Pratt & Whitney originally produced machine tools and were drafted by their parent company to manufacture airplane engines in the 1920s. They became a leader in the industry and eventually merged with Boeing.
From Wikipedia on Pratt:
Francis Ashbury Pratt (February 15, 1827 - February 10, 1902) was a Connecticut mechanical engineer, inventor, and co-founder of Pratt & Whitney.
Pratt was born in Peru, New York. In the early 1850s, he designed a milling machine for George S. Lincoln & Company of Hartford, Connecticut, which became the Lincoln miller, in some ways perhaps the most important American machine tool of the late 19th century. Over 150,000 machines were built on this form factor (by many firms).
With Amos Whitney he organized Pratt & Whitney in 1860 to manufacture machine tools, tools for the makers of sewing machines, and gun making machinery for use by the Union Army during the American Civil War. He is credited with being first to permit production of fine gear work. Pratt promoted interchangeable parts and the adoption of a standard system for gages for the United States and Europe. Among several machine-tool patents, his most important was for planing metal granted on July 28, 1869.
He died in Hartford, Connecticut.
From Wikipedia on Whitney:
Amos Whitney (October 8, 1832 – August 5, 1920) was a mechanical engineer and Connecticut inventor born in Biddeford, Maine. In 1860 he partnered with Francis A. Pratt to organize the Pratt & Whitney company to manufacture machine tools, tools for the makers of sewing machines, and gun making machinery for use by the Union Army during the American Civil War.
He employed W. A. Rogers and G. M. Bond in 1879 to develop the Rogers-Bond comparator, credited with rescuing mechanical science and industry from inconvenience. He also established policies leading to successful training of apprentices there and eventually became president, he retired at age 69 in 1901 when the company was acquired by Niles-Bement-Pond Company. Amos Whitney was a descendant of Eli Whitney.
He died in Portland, Maine in 1920.
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