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Stone Conversations : Archive 4 : Message 00244

From: "Walter S. Arnold" <walter@zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 09:53:45 -0600
Subject: hand facer

At 09:39 AM 1/11/04 -0600, abknight[AT]i1.net wrote:

Quoted text begins.before they came into use. I may be wrong in asssuming that the
pneumatic hammer predates the handheld circular saw, but I don't think
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Pneumatic hammers date back to the 1880's.
Steam powered large saws were used earlier, perhaps as early as the 1840's.
I wouldn't be surprised if there were water driven saws or grinders prior
to that date. Hand saws and drills have been used since ancient times.

They also did a lot with picks, tooth axes, crandalls, along with a wide
variety of other handled tools.

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