The Secret Joint Hinge
From The Chronicle, Volume 3, No. 1, July 1944 By Rudolf Hommel A close study of old houses in eastern Pennsylvania revealed that up to the period of the Revolutionary War door hinges were...
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Manufacture of Tacks, Brads & Sprigs
From The Chronicle, Volume 1, No. 3 March 1934 By Earle T. Goodnow The following information was secured from a letter of May 30th, 1832, written at Abington, Mass., by Benj. Hobart to the...
Early Methods of Grinding Paint
Excerpted from The Chronicle, Vol. XVIII, No. 3, Sept. 1965 by Alexander Farnham For our early ancestors, the stone and muller, fig. I, and mortar and pestle were about the only means at hand...
Printing in Colonial America
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. VIII, No. 3, July 1955 By Edwin C. Whittemore Printing, in the sense that we think of it today, began back around 14 5; when John Guttenberg used metal...
EAIA Online Auction Now Open!
The 2020 E.A.I.A. online auction is now open, through June 21. The Annual Meeting’s Saturday night silent auction represents our yearly fund-raising event. The proceeds usually offset our operational costs, but this year will...
Wooden Water Pipes
Excerpted from The Chronicle, Vol. II, No. 3, January 1938; no author credited Prior to about 1820, pipes for conveying water, both in this country and in England, while sometimes of stone, were usually...
A Collection of American Implements
From The Chronicle, Vol. 1. No. 12, July 1935 by William B. Sprague Author’s note – The publication of the following article in Old Time New England in July, 1933, contributed in such large...
The Serrated Bread Knife
by Bob Roger Reprinted from The Chronicle, Volume 63, No. 1, March 2010 First, there was bread. Then, a long time later in Fremont, Ohio, the serrated bread knife — an interesting tool that...
“Another Tool Classification” (Burglar’s Tools)
By Harry Baer Reprinted from The Chronicle, Volume XVII, No. 3, September 1964 We are all normally accustomed to thinking of tools as implements wholly beneficial to man’s welfare. Unfortunately, this is ndt always...