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- Woodworking Vise -
- Collections - Artifact
Woodworking Vise
- Roddis Lumber & Veneer Company, 1915-1930 -
- 1915-1935
- Collections - Artifact
Roddis Lumber & Veneer Company, 1915-1930
- Roddis Lumber & Veneer Company, 1915-1930 -
- 1915-1935
- Collections - Artifact
Roddis Lumber & Veneer Company, 1915-1930
- Gray's Latest Improved Horse Powers Threshing Machines and Wood Sawing Machines, 1891 - As farmers mechanized barn and farmyard work in the nineteenth century, they began to use stationary power sources. These included devices such as treadmills that converted the movement of animals to drive a variety of agricultural machines. Enterprising manufacturers, like Vermont-based A.W. Gray's Sons, specialized in producing and selling these devices and the machines they were designed to power.
- 1891
- Collections - Artifact
Gray's Latest Improved Horse Powers Threshing Machines and Wood Sawing Machines, 1891
As farmers mechanized barn and farmyard work in the nineteenth century, they began to use stationary power sources. These included devices such as treadmills that converted the movement of animals to drive a variety of agricultural machines. Enterprising manufacturers, like Vermont-based A.W. Gray's Sons, specialized in producing and selling these devices and the machines they were designed to power.
- Twist Auger with a Turned Handle, 1900-1920 - For centuries, the hands of carpenters, shipwrights, wheelwrights, coopers, and furniture and instrument makers, among others, have twisted a spiral auger bit into wood to create holes. We still use augers today, but power drills ease the burden of manually turning a bit.
- 1900-1920
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Twist Auger with a Turned Handle, 1900-1920
For centuries, the hands of carpenters, shipwrights, wheelwrights, coopers, and furniture and instrument makers, among others, have twisted a spiral auger bit into wood to create holes. We still use augers today, but power drills ease the burden of manually turning a bit.
- Sawing Wood Using the Ford Model T Sawmill Conversion, circa 1919 - Innovative users adapted the Ford Model T to their needs. The Ford's rear axle powered many types of belt driven machinery. This photograph taken about 1919 shows men preparing to cut wood on a portable sawmill powered by a Model T.
- circa 1919
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Sawing Wood Using the Ford Model T Sawmill Conversion, circa 1919
Innovative users adapted the Ford Model T to their needs. The Ford's rear axle powered many types of belt driven machinery. This photograph taken about 1919 shows men preparing to cut wood on a portable sawmill powered by a Model T.
- Turpentine Hack -
- Collections - Artifact
Turpentine Hack
- Moving Filester, 1868-1874 -
- 1868-1874
- Collections - Artifact
Moving Filester, 1868-1874
- Moore Dry Kiln Company Fire Prevention Sign, 1936-1969 -
- 1936-1969
- Collections - Artifact
Moore Dry Kiln Company Fire Prevention Sign, 1936-1969
- "You Can Make It for Profit," U.S. Department of Commerce Wood Utilization Bulletin, 1931 -
- 1931
- Collections - Artifact
"You Can Make It for Profit," U.S. Department of Commerce Wood Utilization Bulletin, 1931