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Friday, October 17, 2008. 1435 A Hart Moisture Gauge, for determining the moisture content of a piece of wood:. A large image of the chart on the box lid can be seen here. The hammer is used to tap in the probe, and the pry bar on the other end is used to remove it. 1436 A rack lifter, this winch was powered by horses and was used to elevate a wagon box or rack of hay up to the second floor of a barn, where it was forked to the storage area. Patent number 379,693. Has some drawings of a similar device.
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Thursday, October 23, 2008. For first time visitors I recommend this archive. For some of my best posts. Patent number 538,515. Another version of this device:. 1442 Photographed at the Henry Ford Museum, this was marked "Simple Thresher. And was used to separate grain from the stalk:. This machine looks similar but I'm not 100% sure that it was used for the same purpose, it was mounted up in the rafters of a barn so I couldn't take a close look at it. 1445 A cigar punch. To view the entire post:.
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Thursday, November 27, 2008. 1471 A cord adjuster, "for adjusting the length of electric drop light cords", patent number 1,128,305. 1472 A Spinoff Fish Scaler, patent number 2,835,919. 1473 A beveling band. Used in pipeline welding, it would be clamped to one of the pipes being welded together, and in the case of automated welding, a motor-driven apparatus with multiple welders is clamped to the band, and then travels along it, and around the outside of the pipe, as seen in this video. Posted by Rob H.
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Friday, December 5, 2008. 1477 A flare gun from the 1940's, made by the Van Karner Chemical Arms Corp., model VK-M12:. 1478 A cabinet scraper, it's missing the blade, which looked similar to the large rectangular ones on this page. The wooden piece fits on top of the blade for use as a handle. This tool can be seen in the Dictionary of American Hand Tools. It's listed under scrapers on page 416. 1479 Radio tube shields from the 1950's. 1480 A wall mount forward seat. 1481 A homemade downrigger. More disc...
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Friday, December 12, 2008. Used to lock-up liquor along with some glasses. 12" wide x 9" deep x 9-1/2" tall:. 1484 A throwing knife. 1485 A hand wrought fish holder:. 1486 A Lightning Letter Opener, manufactured by the Bircher Co., Rochester, N.Y., model H-2, patent number 1,838,840. 1487 One of a pair of lawn aerators. According to what I've read on the web they might do a better job of killing grubs. 1488 A device for sorting card records, patent number 2,261,719. To view the entire post.
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Thursday, January 29, 2009. 1525 A woodworker's marking and slitting gauge with an adjustable cutting wheel, patent number 229,258. This rare gauge was manufactured by the Sandusky Tool Company, they made several different versions, this model is Type 2. The tool seen in the patent drawings is a Type 1 model. A view of the bottom:. 1526 An orange peeler, the hook peeled the orange skin into sections, thus assisting in removing the skin. 1527 A Marquardt Space Sled. Vertical or venetian blinds. Our invent...
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009. 1531 The classic Cold War-era "bug", this device could be hidden in a room to pick up sound and transmit it to a nearby receiver. 1532 A receiver and headphones that were used on the listening end of the "bug" transmitter. 1533 No answer yet for this tool, I think it might be a fish scaler. 1534 Compression blades on a J47 Turbojet Engine. It was used on many types of aircraft, including bombers, reconnaissance, interceptors, and fighter planes. Update from last week's set:.
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Thursday, February 12, 2009. 1537 An astronaut's can opener, this device was designed to open cans and force food from them. It was developed while the concept of using canned foods in space was being tested in the early days of the manned space-craft program. 1538 A wooden case for a sword:. 1539 A barometric probe on the tip of a North American X-10. I shot these photos in the research hanger at the Wright Patterson Air Force Museum, in Dayton, Ohio, below are a few more from the same hanger. 1542A win...
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Thursday, February 19, 2009. For first time visitors I recommend this archive. For some of my best posts. 1543 A rotary mimeograph machine. 1544 An English self-raising folding gold coin scale. It weighs the sovereign and also the half sovereign. 1545 A watchmaker's " universal key. Used to open the back of a watch. 1546 A 1915 McCormick Deering hay loader:. The one in this video looks like it's probably a later model:. Another rack lifter can be seen in the background of the hay loader photo:.
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Thursday, March 12, 2009. 1561 A battery lifter/carrier:. The hole for the positive terminal is a little larger than the one for the negative terminal:. 1562 A chain link fence stretcher, check out step 3 under "Installing the Chain Link" on this page. To see it in use. 1563 A Civil War cannonball sizer, it was used as a gauge to determine if a cannonball was the correct diameter. Another version of this tool, it's nine inches shorter than the larger 20" model:. From O'neal Lee's collection.
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Thursday, March 19, 2009. 1567 A Civil War naval fuse wrench, the two prongs were inserted into the spanner holes of a metal fuse adapter in order to turn it in or out of the threading in a shell. 1568 A retort clamp for holding flasks. And other glassware in a laboratory, modern versions can be seen here. From Dan Gaier's collection. 1569 An apothecary bottle. Used by a pharmacist to hold chemicals or medicine:. 1571 An iron exercise boot. The holes on the sides are for attaching weights:.
