Byrd factory label from 1868 on the windlass

The foundry and mechanical plant founded by the Scotsman Charles Byrd in St. Petersburg in 1792 was the best of its kind. Furnaces for sugar factories, crankshafts, blades, steam engines, metal structures for bridges and floors. Oslo - winches for the forts of Kronstadt. Few of them have survived (it seems that there are only three - the second stands on the shore of the Italian pond in Kronstadt, the third - on the Plague Fort).