Tool and Material Reference Books

A comprehensive listing of the American gun maker, patentee, gunsmith and entrepreneur

By Peter Walsh, a curator at the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of History and Technology

Covers wood finishing, preparation and use of hide glue and similar, gilding and silvering, basic upholstery of the time, tool care.

Collins' Advanced Science Series, 67 engravings, printed in London

"Designed for the use of every merchant in the country and as useful as scales a=or yardsticks." Published 1850

A summary of the principals and practice of steam engineering. Published by Audel & Co.

Published late 1920s by Maine Hardwood Assn. and Maine Forest Service

Collection of plates on the sciences, the liberal arts, and the mechanical arts with their explanations - carpenter, saddler and coachbuilder

Published by Roger K. Smith, supplement to PATAMPIA I & II

A history from antiquity to the 17th Century

More than 50 categories not usually found in similar books:  hand tools, beekeeping, blacksmithing, masonry, wagon making, farm equipment, foundry, printing, railroad, sawmill, tinsmithing and more. Softbound, 256 pages, very good condition. 

Report of the Commissioner of patents for the Year 1857 Arts and Manufacturer in three volumes

A manual for the woodworker; a guide for the enthusiast.

1994, more than 500 patent drawings, plus indexes. Softbound, as new.

Issued by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Dept. of Weights and Measures

By Herbert & Emil Pollak

John Brown was a Welsh chair maker, boatbuilder and more. Author of Welsh Stick Chair.

Only 800 copies of this book were printed; signed by both authors.

For Mechanics and Builders, 1946

Antique, English and European 15th Century.through 1850

A manual for the wooworker; a guide for the enthusiast

More than 600 historical instruments from 17th C to 20th C.

By the Garrett Wade Co. , 2001

With useful information on historical research using the U.S. Patent Office resources

Its history, form and function

A journey through the hidden life of a forest

A reference book for the mechanical engineer, designer, manufacturing engineer draftsman, toolmaker and machinist

Tools, materials, and processes employed in working wood

Edge and Joiner Tools and Bit braces

Antique tools as art

"Featuring the development and use of the Miller, Trout and Stanley 45 and 55 panes