Here's a brief statement about the firm from Rhode Island's State Web Site:
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In the base-metals trade the state was also prominent. Brown and Sharpe (located in Providence until its relocation to North Kingstown in 1964) was the largest producer of machine tools in the nation, and its managers Joseph Brown and Lucien Sharpe became renowned for such inventions as the micrometer and the vernier caliper.
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