Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 62 no. 2, June, 2009 by Roger K. Smith Brief History of the Stanley CompanyIn 1858, the Stanley Rule & Level Company was formed by the consolidation of the rule business of A. Stanley and Company with the level and try square business of the Hall & Knapp Company, also …
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Excerpted from The Chronicle, Vol. 4 No. 2, April 1951 by Gillian W.B. Bailey Although the manufacture of tin plate had -long been a monopoly of Bohemia, about 1620 the industry spread to Saxony where it achieved such recognition that an emissary was sent from England to learn the process. The English student was courteously …
Excerpted from The Chronicle Vol. 39 No.1, March 1986 by Charity Gedney Charity Gedney has been deeply involved as a volunteer worker in various collectors’ societies for many years. She says she deplores the emphasis on masculine pursuits evident in the Chronicle but realizes that, if there is to be more attention to women’s work …
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 made of wrought iron. For inner and lighter doors we find the so-called H and L hinges, and for heavier and …
by Anonymous, reprinted from The Chronicle, Volume XXIV, No. 4, September 1971 Appropriate for the Christmas season we thought we would take a religious theme. The way the artist has depicted factual evidence has been the despair of researchers wanting exact depiction. But in the days before cameras the artist was the only means of …
Glass blowing, Agricola, De re metallica. 16th CCredit: Wellcome Library, London. http://wellcomeimages.org by J. C. HarringtonReprinted from The Chronicle, Volume X, No. 1, March 1957 Since the Spring meeting of the Early American Industries is to be held at the Corning Glass Center at Corning, New York, the Editors of the Chronicle felt that it …
The “combination plane” was developed to create a woodworking tool that would perform multiple functions and free a workman from having to own a large number of individual planes. Over a 50-year time span in the second half of the 19th century numerous inventors patented and produced a broad array of combination planes.[i] Many of …
As part of the overall initiative to bring woodworking and cabinetmaking back to prominence at Old Sturbridge Village, the Village is hosting an all-day Woodworking Forum “Tools, Techniques and Traditions” on Saturday, October 19. The Forum is one of the activities leading up to the construction of the new Cabinetmakers Shop on the OSV Common. …
Justus A. Traut, worked for the Stanley Rule & Level Company for over 50 years, and churned out patent after patent from the time his first patent was issued on June 20th, 1865, until November 3, 1908, when his last patent was issued posthumously, almost eight months after his death.[1] Traut was just one of …
The staff at Pleasant Hill Shaker Village just west of Lexington, Kentucky is very excited to be hosting EAIA’s 2016 Annual Meeting. They’ve put together special workshops, a behind the scenes tour of their collections and will allow EAIA members full access to all of the buildings housing their collection of wonderful Shaker furniture and …