| Davistown Museum Inventory of Tools - Industrial Revolution - | Edge Tools - | American Made |
| Machinists | Cast Steel |
| | 32405T1 | Countersink | DTM |
| Cast steel, 5 5/8" long, 3/4" wide, signed "PATENDED" "JAN 23, 1877." "D.J. ADAMS" "KITTERY, |
| ME." and "R.L. MARKS". |
| The Directory of American Machinery and Tool Patents lists this as patent number 186,513 for an improvement for |
| countersinks and also shows the patent diagram at: |
| http://www.datamp.org/displayPatent.php?number=186513&type=UT. It is unknown who manufactured the countersink. R.L. |
| Marks was probably an owner. A countersink is a tool used to make a hole with the top part enlarged so the head of a screw |
| or bolt will lie flush with or below the surface. |
| Maine Made Tools |
| | 72002T2 | Level | bio | photo | DTM | MH |
| Wood (cherry?), 12" long, 1" wide, signed "E. T. BURROWES CO." "PORTLAND, ME." on brass plate, 1910 (?). |
| A mundane late example of an everyday household tool made by one of Maine's most prolific toolmakers. |
| Measuring Tools |
| Up until the 1850s most every foundry producing machinery for the burgeoning Industrial Revolution |
| manufactured their own hand tools. Up to this time, the art of measurement was not very precise; it wasn't until |
| 1856 that JR Brown invented the first micrometer. Most of the early machinery built for the water mills of |
| southern New England were worked by hand and eye, with hand filing and primitive measurements the primary |
| techniques available. After 1860, small companies like the J Stevens joined JR Brown, later Darling, Brown & |
| Sharpe and other flourishing machine shops to begin the mass production of precision hand tools that were so |
| necessary for the accurate construction of the complex factory machinery of the Industrial Revolution. In this |
| context, in Davistown Plantation, time stopped. |
| | 21201T11 | Adjustable caliper | DTM |
| Steel, 6 1/8" high, signed "J. Steven A & T Co. Chicopee Falls Mass". |
| This signature is one of three variations listed in DATM (1999) pg. 757 for this prolific maker of bits, calipers, dividers, levels, |
| machinist tools and guns, 1864 - 1903. In 1903 they were bought out by L.S. Starrett. |
| | TJS1301 | Adjustable calipers (3) | photo | DTM |
| Cast steel, 3 1/4", marked "US 48610568" on wrench. |
| | 51100T14A | Adjustable die stocks (2) | DTM |
| Cast steel, 10 7/8" and 14 3/8" long, signed "J. M. King & Co. Waterford, NY". |
| DATM (1999) lists this company in Waterford from 1887 - 1910. They made dies, pliers and taps; these tools are |
| encountered frequently. |
| | 101701T16 | Adjustable diestock | DTM |
| Cast steel, 13 5/8" long, signed "J. M. King & Co. Waterford NY No 42". |
| Interestingly, DATM (1999) lists a Daniel King in Waterford, NY, as making dies (1876 - 1895) and several J Kings as |
| making planes. Was this tool made after 1900? |
| | 42602T6 | Adjustable dividers | DTM |
| Steel, 8" long, signed "J Stevens A & T Co Chicopee Falls Mass USA". |
| Formerly the J Stevens & Company, they changed their name to Stevens Arms & Tool Co. in 1886. Always a prolific maker |
| of guns, their hand tools are sought after examples of the classic period of American machinist's tools. |
| | 83102T9 | Adjustable dividers | DTM |
| 7" long, signed " L W POND" and "WORCESTER MASS PAT'd Sept'26 1867". |
| Lucius W Pond made calipers, dividers and machinist's tools from 1859 - 1884. This caliper is a very uncommon tool. It |
| was patented by Edward Wright and also later made by the Wright Machine Co. of Worcester. Pond's primary products were |
| large machine tools, primarily planers. DATM (1999) pg. 627. |
| | 81101T18A | Adjustable dividers | DTM |
| Steel and brass, 5 3/4" long, signed "Peck Stow & Wilcox" and "6". |
| Peck Stow & Wilcox began operations in Southington, CT, in 1870 (to 1950). For details on their predecessors and history, |
| see DATM (1999) pg. 610. An excellent example of the quality of a major producer of tools during the florescence of the |
| classic period of American machinist tools. |
| | 102100T4 | Bevel | DTM |
| Cast steel, 3 1/8" long, unsigned. |
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