MT Magazine September/October 2022

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AMT 120 Years On: Where It Is – and Going Anniversaries are a time of stock taking. And as AMT hits 120 years, it’s bullish about the future. It was the year of the first college football bowl game, the 1902 Rose Bowl, Michigan vs. Stanford, with the Wolverines so dominant (49-0) that the organizers in Pasadena skipped football matchups for the next 13 years. Yet clearly, the Rose Bowl has endured. The first dedicated movie theater opened in Los Angeles that year, the Electric Theater. Its opening feature was “Capture of the Biddle Brothers,” produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company – yes, as in Thomas. The film industry hasn’t looked back. That year Theodore Roosevelt became the first president to ride in a car – an electric vehicle – a Columbia Electric Victoria. And here we are, 120 years on, and EVs are back in a big way. (President Joe Biden after driving a fully electric Ford F-150 Lightning on a track in Dearborn: “This sucker is quick.”) 1902 was the year that the National Machine Tool Builders’ Association (NMTBA) was BY GARY S. VASILASH CONTRIBUTING EDITOR