Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. XII no. 2, June 1959 by Laurence A. Johnson The success and well-being of the colonist when he came to the new land of America depended a great deal on the tools he brought with him. An often unthought-of, but an important tool, was his folding pocketknife or jackknife with …
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. III no. 17, October 1948 by Glover A. Snow Not much has been written or published about hand and treadle printing presses of the nineteenth century, altho their introduction had a profound effect on American life, and thousands of people either used or were well acquainted with them. Most of …
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Excerpted from The Chronicle, Vol. 39 no. 1, March 1986 by Norton K. Brown This picture of basket merchant Andrew J. Love was made by H. M. Rand and F.J. Taylor in Cambridgeport, Mass. They billed themselves as Copying and Landscape Photographers. The date of the picture is unknown but it is surely no later …
Excerpted from The Chronicle, Vol. XXI no. 2, June 1968 by Robert H. Carlson The purpose of this article is to identify and describe the different types of Spiral Augers and their components. In effect, it sets up the “ground rules” for a future article on the development of the spiral auger, so that when …
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