Technology 4/10

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The Secret Joint Hinge

Sketch revealing the secret of the secret-joint hinge. From The Chronicle, Volume 3, No. 1, July 1944 By Rudolf Hommel A close study of...

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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,...

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Printing in Colonial America

PRINTER and PRESSMEN as illustrated in the first encyclopedia printed in America, that by Thomas Dobson in Philadelphia in 1798....

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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...

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Irons

A few irons from the editor's collection (she uses them as bookends). From the The Chronicle Volume XIV, No. 4, December 1961 by...

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Stanley Model Shop Tools: Stanley No. 87 Cabinet Makers Scraper Plane Prototype

The subject of this piece is a prototype for the Stanley No. 87 cabinet makers scraper plane (Figure 1). It will be described and...

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