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Washington, D.C. Selecting a plane from the tool cabinet in the wood shop

Washington, D.C. Selecting a plane from the tool cabinet in the wood s...

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Conservation. Glass gauges replacing steel. Colonel H.B. Hambleton, Chief of Army Ordnance's Gage Section explains the virtues of a glass plug gauge to Mr. Thornton Lewis and Brigadier General H.F. Safford (left to right). Glass gauges are lighter and cheaper than steel, permit greater visibility in inspection, are not as much affected by room temperatures and heat of operators' hands, are not corroded by perspiration, need no protection against rusting, do not acquire burrs that would change the effective sizes. They can save the annual use of 250 tons of critical tool steel in government arsenals alone

Conservation. Glass gauges replacing steel. Colonel H.B. Hambleton, Ch...

Public domain photograph of the 1930s-1940s World War Two, armed forces, military production, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bert Reales sharpening a cutting tool prior to using it in his lathe. In larger shops tool cutters were a separate specialty, but at Watson, machinists cut their own tools.

Bert Reales sharpening a cutting tool prior to using it in his lathe. ...

Forms part of a group of images documenting the daily work activities of people at Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, NJ, on August 8, 1994.

Lathe operator Jan Sudol adjusting the cutting tool on a horizontal strander tube in the lathe department at Watson.

Lathe operator Jan Sudol adjusting the cutting tool on a horizontal st...

Forms part of a group of images documenting the daily work activities of people at Watson Machine International, a machine tool manufacturing company located at 74 Railroad Avenue, Paterson, NJ, on August 5, 1994.

R. K. LeBlond Machine Tool Company, Production Building, 2980 Madison Road, Norwood, Hamilton County, OH

R. K. LeBlond Machine Tool Company, Production Building, 2980 Madison ...

Significance: The Production Building is the largest single building in the Le Blond plant complex. Its distinguishing architectural characteristic is its sawtoothed skylit roof truss system which brought nort... More

Workingmen, don't be fooled! Independent Republicans are voting against their candidates because they believe Mr. Blaine the tool of monopolists ... Vote for Cleveland. [n. p. 1884].

Workingmen, don't be fooled! Independent Republicans are voting agains...

On verso of Republicans, save the party! [n. p. 1884]. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portf... More

Faraway Ranch, Barn & Tool Shed, Willcox, Cochise County, AZ

Faraway Ranch, Barn & Tool Shed, Willcox, Cochise County, AZ

Survey number: HABS AZ-139-F Public domain photograph - historical image of Arizona, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Warwood Tool Company, Foot of Nineteenth Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV

Warwood Tool Company, Foot of Nineteenth Street, Wheeling, Ohio County...

Significance: The Warwood Tool Company makes hand tools using labor intensive forging operations, that transform raw steel into finished tools. These forging operations are the same as used when the company be... More

Warwood Tool Company, Foot of Nineteenth Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV

Warwood Tool Company, Foot of Nineteenth Street, Wheeling, Ohio County...

Significance: The Warwood Tool Company makes hand tools using labor intensive forging operations, that transform raw steel into finished tools. These forging operations are the same as used when the company be... More

3240 Cyrus Road, Tool Room Shed, About 25 feet directly behind house, Cyrus, Wayne County, WV

3240 Cyrus Road, Tool Room Shed, About 25 feet directly behind house, ...

Significance: The shed is a minor structure associated with the residential site at 3240 Cyrus Road, which was established between 1892 and 1901. The property is considered eligible to the National Register of... More

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