English and American Tool Builders (Classic Reprint)By Joseph Wickham Roe
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Excerpt from English and American Tool Builders"Man is a Tool-using Animal. Weak in himself, and of small stature, he stands on a basis, at most for the fattest-soled, of some half-square foot, insecurely enough; has to straddle out his legs, lest the very wind supplant him. Feeblest of bipeds! Three quintals are a crushing load for him; the steer of the meadow tosses him aloft, like a waste rag. Nevertheless he can use Tools, can devise Tools: with these the granite mountain melts into light dust before him; seas are his smooth highway, winds and fire his unwearying steeds. Nowhere do you find him without Tools; without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all."About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
English and American Tool Builders (Classic Reprint)By Joseph Wickham Roe- Published on: 2015-09-27
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.02" h x .84" w x 5.98" l, 1.20 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 408 pages
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Geneology of Ideas By J.Z.Colt Roe's book is a good introduction to the ideas and men that provided the inventions behind the industrial revolution, and inadvertently, the underpinnings of our consumer society. Written in 1916, with only a little imagination, you can see the similarities between Roe's story and the pioneering age of the electronics and digital industries. To someone familar with machine tools, it is interesting to read of the era when these were the cutting edge of technology, and to see how the ideas that shaped them propogated almost biologically through Europe and North America.To someone familar with or a part of the companies and families associated with industrial New England, this is a fascinating tale, providing historical insight that is fast being forgotten today.Slightly academic in tone, but not difficult to read.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. The classic work on the history of machine tools By Paul & DJ This is the story of machine tools from their origins during the industrial revolution to the evolution of many leading machine tool firms in the early 20th century. It is a widely cited work even today and I am unaware of any comparable more recent work.Most readers will be more interested in the history up to the middle of the 19th century, some of the highlights of which are as follows:At the beginning of the industrial revolution many machine parts were made of wood. Machinery, firearms and other items were custom made by craftsmen using hand tools, which required great skill.James Watt was unable to have a satisfactory cylinder bored for his first engine and was forced to use hammered iron, which was out of round allowing leakage past the piston. In 1774 James Wilkinson invented a new style boring machine which was able to satisfactorily machine cylinders for Watt.Special purpose machinery was developed to make ships blocks for the Portsmouth Block Mill by Samuel Bentham and Marc Isambard Brunel. With these machines 10 unskilled workers were able to replace 110 skilled craftsmen.Threads for screws, bolts and nuts were not standard and were cut with poor precision. The screw cutting lathe, equipped with a slide rest positioned by a lead screw with changes gears was developed by Henry Maudslay around 1797. Two years before his death Maudslay hired a young assistant named James Naysmyth, who after Maydslay's death, established the leading machine tool business. Maudslay's factory also trained famous tool builders Joseph Whitworth and Samuel Clement and the engineer Richard Roberts, who built one of the first metal planers and invented a machine to cut keyways.The metal planer, which appeared around 1820, was a crucial machine for achieving interchangeable parts. The milling machine was also important.By 1840 most of the important machine tools were invented and precision textile machinery could be made with metal shafts, couplings and gears and in the U.S. firearms were being made with interchangeable parts. A notable later development was the universal milling machine.Standards for screw threads were adopted in England in the mid 19th c. and in the late 19th c. in the U.S.High precision was achieved by the late 19th c. and precision measuring devices such as micrometers were in wide use.England was dominant in machine tools in the first half of the 19th c. but surpassed by the U.S. in the last half.Absent is a discussion of the detailed working of most of these tools. Fortunately today you can see how these machine tools work by watching videos on youtube.com, of which there are many.Finally, the original illustrations were not the best, and the reproduction lost a little more sharpness; however, the text quality is acceptable.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Too little technical detail By John I found the relationships among the toolmakers interesting and was impressed by the author's assertion that by about 1850 leadership in tool making had passed to American workers. Unfortunately, there was too much emphasis on the relationships and too little on the details of the inventions and the techniques used in them. I understand that Maudsley used some very ingenious techniques to "bootstrap" accuracy from relatively inaccurate lead screws when making more accurate screws. That was not discussed. I am sorry to say that this is not a good book for those of us hungry to learn just how things were done in earlier times and how techniques evolved.
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