English and American Tool Builders
by Joseph Wickham Roe
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About this eBook
- Author
- Roe, Joseph Wickham, 1871-1960
- Title
- English and American tool builders
- Original Publication
- New York: McGraw Hill Book Company, 1916, copyright 1926.
- Credits
- deaurider, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- TJ: Technology: Mechanical engineering and machinery
- Subject
- Machine-tools
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 72046
- Release Date
- November 5, 2023
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.ENGLISH AND AMERICAN TOOL BUILDERS
- 2.Untitled
- 3.PREFACE
- 4.AUTHOR’S NOTE
- 5.TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 6.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 7.Untitled
- 8.CHAPTER I INFLUENCE OF THE EARLY TOOL BUILDERS
- 9.CHAPTER II WILKINSON AND BRAMAH
- 10.CHAPTER III BENTHAM AND BRUNEL
- 11.CHAPTER IV HENRY MAUDSLAY
- 12.CHAPTER V INVENTORS OF THE PLANER
- 13.CHAPTER VI GEARING AND MILLWORK
- 14.CHAPTER VII FAIRBAIRN AND BODMER
- 15.CHAPTER VIII JAMES NASMYTH
- 16.CHAPTER IX WHITWORTH
- 17.CHAPTER X EARLY AMERICAN MECHANICS
- 18.CHAPTER XI THE RISE OF INTERCHANGEABLE MANUFACTURE
- 19.CHAPTER XII WHITNEY AND NORTH
- 20.CHAPTER XIII THE COLT ARMORY
- 21.CHAPTER XIV THE COLT WORKMEN—PRATT & WHITNEY
- 22.CHAPTER XV ROBBINS & LAWRENCE
- 23.CHAPTER XVI THE BROWN & SHARPE MANUFACTURING COMPANY
- 24.CHAPTER XVII CENTRAL NEW ENGLAND
- 25.CHAPTER XVIII THE NAUGATUCK VALLEY
- 26.CHAPTER XIX PHILADELPHIA
- 27.CHAPTER XX THE WESTERN TOOL BUILDERS
- 28.APPENDIX A — Note — Note 2 — Note 3 — Note 4
- 29.APPENDIX B THE JENNINGS GUN
- 30.A PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY ON TOOL BUILDING
- 31.Untitled
- 32.INDEX — Transcriber’s Notes
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