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America's wooden age : [electronic resource] aspects of its early technology / edited by Brooke Hindle.

Contributor(s): Hindle, Brooke.

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Tarrytown, N.Y. : Sleepy Hollow Restorations, [1975]Description: vii, 218 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0912882158; 9780912882154.Subject(s): Technology -- United States -- History | Woodworking industries -- United States -- History | Water-power -- United States -- History | Technologie -- États-Unis -- Histoire | Bois, Travail du -- Industrie -- États-Unis -- Histoire | Énergie hydraulique -- États-Unis -- HistoireDDC classification: 609/.73 Online resources: Free eBook from the Internet Archive | Additional information and access via Open Library

Contents:

The Forest Society of New England / Charles F. Carroll -- America's rise to woodworking leadership / Nathan Rosenberg -- Early lumbering : a pictorial essay / Charles E. Peterson -- Artisans in wood : the mathematical instrument-makers / Silvio A. Bedini -- Colonial watermills in the wooden age / Charles Howell -- Waterpower in the century of the steam engine / Louis C. Hunter.

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America's wooden age : [electronic resource] aspects of its early technology / edited by Brooke Hindle.

Contributor(s): Hindle, Brooke.