Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 36 No. 2, June 1983 by Ann Wing Francis Nicholson, of Wrentham, Massachusetts, is probably the best known American planemaker. Much information about him has appeared in The Chronicle of The Early American Industries Association. He apparently was the first to engage in the planemaking trade in Anglo-America. His son, …
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. XVI no. 1, March 1963 by Mary Earle Gould Corn has been credited to the Indians of America. It was a species of grass growing wild and cultivated by the Indians and introduced to the Colonists when they came to America. It was called Indian corn and maize. It was …
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. XI no. 4, December 1958 by Laurence A. Johnson Recently I was browsing through several old copies of the Wolcott New York, Lakeshore News, and I ran across an advertisement in the October 22, 1874 issue for “The Great American Meat and Vegetable Cutter.” This is shown in figure 1. …
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. II No. 2, November, 1937 by Lawrence B. Romaine In glancing through Fortune Magazine the other day, I marvelled at the remarkable color work in the advertisements, the soft tones and the realistic effects. My eye wandered off the page and caught the Mail Stage and Steam-Boat broadside on the …
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. XIII No. 3, September 1960 by Mary Earle Gould Thestory of my gift of a set of larding needles is well worth telling. I have my Grandmother Gould’s cookbook of 1846 and after running across a rule about larding meat, I wrote to a distant friend to ask if he …
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. 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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Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 49, no. 1, March 1996 By Clifford D. Fales The availability of better wood screws and the rise of the factory system in the last quarter of the nineteenth century saw a proliferation of patents for more efficient tools for driving screws. Isaac Allard’s spiral screwdriver patent of 1868 began …
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 64, No. 3, September 2011 by Patty MacLeish This telephone, which weighs 44 pounds, was “picked up” by Jim Sellers last December (Figure 1). There is a Bureau of Mine Safety tag on the phone, which Jim learned was estab-lished in 1910. It’s not precisely a “Whatsits” as it is …