Toolmakers and Tools

Suggested Reading

• Did Fort Vancouver Blacksmiths make beaver traps? by Tom Holloway

• Goodell Brothers - the Bedrock of Goodell-Pratt Co. by Wiktor Kuc

• Do You Do Nails? by Tom Holloway

• Harvesting Ice Blocks in North Sutton, NH by Jane & Mike Butler

• The Nineteenth-Century American Backsaw by Philip W. Baker

• The Incredibly Versatile Sweep Brace by Bob Smalser

• The Bridge City Tool Works CT-14 – Reviewed by David Mathias

• The Mystery of Miter Planes by Christopher Schwarz

• Steel and Saws by Simon Barley

• The World of Boring old Bitstocks by Darrell LaRue

• The Ratchet Screwdriver by Trevor Robinson

• Hand Saw Handle Fastening Devices by Wiktor Kuc

• Woodworking Tools - 1600-1900 by Peter C. Welsh

• The Cutlery Story by Lewis D. Bement

• 1919 - Abrasives & Abrasive Wheels by Fred B. Jacobs

• 1914 - History of the Trade-Mark "Yale" by The Yale & Towne Mfg. Co.

• 1912 - Saw Filing and Management of Saws by Robert Grimshaw

• 1911 - The Heat Treatment of Tool Steel by Henry Brearley

• 1910 - Measuring Tools by Machinery's Reference Series

• 1905 - American Tool Making and Interchangeable Manufacturing by Joseph V. Woodworth

• 1904 - Instruments for Forest Work - Keuffel & Esser, Co.

• 1900 - English and American Lathes by Joseph G. Horner

• 1899 - The Early Use of Rolls in the Manufacture of Metals by W. F. Durfee.

• 1896 - American Tools in England - Chicago Journal of Commerce & Metal Ind.

• 1896 - American Tools in Germany - Chicago Journal of Commerce & Metal Ind., 1896

• 1885 - Improved Tools for Wood-Workers - The M & B

• 1882 - Grimshaw on Saws by Robert Grimshaw

• 1879 - The Mechanician by Cameron Knight

• 1874 - Improved Carpenters' Tools - The M & B

• 1875 - Hardening Saws and Springs - The Science Record

• 1872 - The Great Industries of the US - Saw Manufacturing

• 1870 - Files and Filemaking by Manufacturer and Builder

• 1869 - Improvement in Saws - The Manufacturer and Builder

• 1865 - An English Operative in an American Factory, Scientific American, 1865

• 1864 - The Art of Saw Filing by H. W. Holly

• 1846 - Book of Trades or Circle of the Useful Arts

• 1839 - The Book of Trades

• 1836 - The Panorama of Professions and Trade

• 1817 - Cabinet of Arts by Hewson Clarke

Industrial History

• 1845 - The Book of Illustrious Mechanics of Europe and US by Edward Foucaud

• 1918 - Fifty Years of Iron and Steel by Joseph G. Butler Jr.

• 1873 - The Great Industries of the United States

• 1876 - The Industrial Arts - Historical Sketches

• 1878 - Industrial History of United States by Albert S. Bolles

• 1884 - Great Industries of Great Britain - Vol. 3

• 1884 - Great Industries of Great Britain - Vol. 1

• 1886 - City of Philadelphia-Leading Merchants and Manufacturers

• 1895 - The Hardware Trade by Edward C. Simmons

• 1903 - The Workers of the Nation by Gilson Willets

• 1916 - History of Manufactures in the US 1607-1860 by V. S. Clark

• 2006 - The Apprentice by Peter Hyde

• Iron and Hopewell Furnace Chronology