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“kenneth l cope”

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  • American Cooperage Machinery and Tools

    by Kenneth L. Cope ...
    Through the second half of the 19th century and into the 20th, barrel makers followed the same path taken by many other woodworkers . . . they moved from hand tools to the large, efficient new machines that were the products of the Industrial Revolution. They built factories to house the machines and turned out thousands of barrels, kegs, and similar containers a day. Kenneth Cope?s book, in the ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Kitchen Collectibles

    An Identification Guide

    by Kenneth L. Cope ...
    Kitchen gadgets, tools, and appliances, like those found in your grandmother's kitchen, have become major collectibles, bringing increasingly higher prices. Yet, how can you put a value on an item that you can't identify? Here is the first book to concentrate on the identification of kitchen collectibles dating from 1830 to 1930. With over 600 manufacturers listed and described (as to location, ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • American Steam Engine Builders 1800-1900

    by Kenneth L. Cope ...
    Here is the companion volume to Ken Cope's previous works on machine tools, carriage making machinery and cooperage machinery. Factories filled with the machinery described in the previous works, from the smallest drill presses to giant planers, could not have existed without a reliable and sufficient power source. The steam engine was that source, from the start of the industrial revolution to ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • American Milling Machine Builders 1820-1920

    by Kenneth L. Cope ...
    Continuing the pattern set by American Lathe Builders and American Planer, Shaper and Slotter Builders, this is the first book to identify American builders of milling machines and the products they invented circa 1818 to the development of the "modern" milling machine circa 1920. Early versions of other American machine tools were largely copied from European, especially British, machines. The ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Carriage and Wagon Makers' Machinery and Tools

    by Kenneth L. Cope ...
    Here again is one of Ken Cope's major reference works on the history of technological innovation. Anyone interested in wagons and carriages, particularly in wheelwrighting, and in the history of technology will enjoy and benefit from this book. Mr. Cope continues his series with an alphabetic listing of the inventors and builders of American carriage and wagon makers? machinery and tools and, as ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • American Machinist's Tools

    An Illustrated Directory of Patents

    by Kenneth L. Cope ...
    A valuable directory that illustrates and lists over 1000 fully-indexed patents, covering all American machinist s tools patented through 1905 and the more important ones patented between 1906 and 1916. Each patent is represented by at least one illustration, and each is indexed in three separate ways: alphabetically by patentee name, chronologically by date and patent number, and by type of tool. ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • More Makers of American Machinist's Tools

    A Historical Directory of Makers and Their Tools

    by Kenneth L. Cope ...
    Here is the much-anticipated sequel to the author's Makers of American Machinist's Tools and American Machinist's Tools: An Illustrated Directory of Patents, pioneering works on machinist s tools and their makers. These books together provide the most comprehensive historical directory ever of the machinist tool industry and its technology. This volume covers hundreds of additional makers. There ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • American Wrench Makers 1830-1930

    by Kenneth L. Cope ...
    Tool collectors will appreciate this well organized, comprehensive catalog of American wrenches and their makers. Following a list of wrench patent dates with the names of their makers is the catalog of wrenches, organized alphabetically by maker. Each entry includes a short history of the company and their wrenches with illustrations of each wrench, in b&w. An appendix contains an interview with ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • American Lathe Builders, 1810-1910

    by Kenneth L. Cope ...
    Once again, Ken Cope has produced a major new reference work that broadens our range of understanding of the history of technological innovation. This is the first book to identify American lathe builders operating throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. Written in the style of the author?s previous groundbreaking books on the machine tool industry, this encyclopedic volume provides the ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • American Planer, Shaper and Slotter Builders

    by Kenneth L. Cope ...
    Here is the first book to identify American builders of planers, shapers and slotters, who operated throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. Written in the style of the author?s previous groundbreaking books on the American machine tool industry, this volume provides the reader with invaluable information on over 300 makers. Some are very well known, but many have previously gone virtually ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

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    What Thomas Edison Told Henry Ford

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    Both Thomas Edison and Henry Ford started off as insatiably curious tinkerers. That curiosity led them to become inventors—with very different results. As Edison invented hit after commercial hit, gaining fame and fortune, Henry struggled to make a single invention (an affordable car) work. Witnessing Thomas's glorious career from afar, a frustrated Henry wondered about the secret to his success ... Read more

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  • Inventions and their inventors 1750-1920

    by Dave Rogers ...
    Our everyday lives are continually influenced by inventors whose ideas have led to commercial products available in most high streets across the civilised world. For the most part these creative individuals have remained relatively unknown. Yet some of the companies set up by the successful inventors survive to this day albeit with company names no longer associated with the original idea. Volume ... Read more

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