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Joshua Southward
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I knew that Sheffield made knives.
And I knew they made scissors.
But they also made saws.
Many saws. Do they collect more than one of each make and model of a handsaw? Or are there that many different models? It looks like the rope-based saw on the right is made with animal teeth!
Using steel instead of iron was a big deal before the
Kelly-Bessemer Process was developed, it was very hard (i.e. expensive) to make steel. But steel would be needed for knives, etc., to hold a sharp edge. The
first steel plows were made by recycling saw blades. They were better than iron in the Prairie states because the soil did not stick to them. That is, they were self-scouring plows. But I still wonder how steel was obtained to make the saw blades.
In addition to saws, they developed tools to punch, scrape and measure wood.
In fact, more than one company manufactured wood working tools.
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And that company expanded to drill, plane, clamp, etc. wood.
In addition to wood working tools, more precise tools were made.
And surgical tools. I'm guessing most of these tools were made with stainless steel.
But Sheffield made more than just tools. They were into different modes of transportation.
Automobiles
Ships
Trains
And airplanes
The town even made relish. But I don't know what was pressed to make relish. I thought it was basically chopped up pickles.
A line-shaft workshop that still has some of its belts.
I'm surprised that there is still so much line-shaft action by WWI. And this is a reminder that women are allowed to work in factories during world wars.
An event space can turn a big, old industrial building into a money maker.
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