Fascinating World of Early Tools and Trades: Selections from the Chronicle - Couverture rigide

Pollak, Emil; Pollak, Martyl

 
9781879335004: Fascinating World of Early Tools and Trades: Selections from the Chronicle
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 187933500X ISBN 13 : 9781879335004
Editeur : Astragal Press, 1991

Synopsis

Fifty-five fascinating and informative articles on early tools and trades, selected from several thousand published in the journal of the Early American Industries Association over the past 60 years. Some written by experts, others the first hand accounts of early craftsmen, pioneers, and travelers, they cover a wide variety of subjects including: Lumber rafting down the Delaware in 1896; How tinsmiths used their tools; Cutting, hewing and squaring a beam; Traditional soapmaking on the frontier; Making horsehair sieves; The many uses of horn education of apprentices in New England; Household irons, spinning wheels and the hay burner; Nail making in early Virginia; Making barrels by hand; Harvesting ice-from nature to the consumer; Old time fences, gathering sawdust, and the charcoal burner; Building a New England home in 1831; Another tool classification, early burglar tools; The wooden leg of Gouverneur Morris...and many more.

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Éditeur
Astragal Press
Date d'édition
1991
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
187933500X
ISBN 13 
9781879335004
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
407
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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