Ypsilanti is the Real McCoy

Ever wonder where the phrase "It's the Real McCoy" came from? If you said Ypsilanti, then kudos. Our friends across the international border chronicle the man, the company, and the saying in a recent blog. Excerpt: "In a home-based machine shop in Ypsilanti, Michigan, McCoy carried out his own higher skilled work, developing improvements and inventions. His tinkering led to an invention that would not only change his life, it would save lives and serve to advance the industrial age significantly: a lubricator for steam engines that did not require the machinery to stop. His lubricator used steam pressure to pump oil wherever it was needed, even while the machine was working. It was soon used on engines and train locomotives, on Great Lakes steamships, on ocean liners, and on machinery in factories." Read the rest here.