| Davistown Museum Inventory of Tools - Industrial Revolution - | Wrenches |
| Other | Status | Location |
| TCZ1001 | Adjustable wrench | photo | DTM |
| Drop forged steel, 6" long, marked "B&C" and "6 IN.". |
| This wrench has an "S" type handle. Bemis & Call Co. manufactured wrenches in Springfield, Ma. ca. 1860-1875. This tool |
| signals the arrival of the Industrial Revolution and mass production of tools. |
| 041505T16 | Adjustable wrench | photo | DTM |
| Drop forged steel, 8" long, signed "Walworth CompanyMade in USA" and "WALCO PIPE WRENCH". |
| This is the bottom wrench in the photograph. |
| 041505T15 | Adjustable wrench | photo | DTM |
| Drop forged steel, 18" long, signed "Walworth CompanyMade in USA" "WALCO PIPE WRENCH" "PATENT NO 1862002" and |
| "18". |
| Walworth was a Boston manufacturer and the first maker of the Stilson wrench (1882) of which there is a later variation. See |
| the acrylic on canvas artwork of Alan Magee for a ca. 2000 interpretation of this tool. This is the top wrench in the |
| 032203T6 | Adjustable wrench | photo | photo | DTM |
| Drop forged steel, 5" long, signed "ACME MADE IN USA PAT. FEB 27, 83". |
| This nifty little wrench is typical of the American factory-made tools that were appearing in great quantities after the Civil |
| War. With the Industrial Revolution underway at full blast by 1880, a typical ship's carpenter or shipyard worker needed a |
| wide variety of hand tools to execute a much broader range of work assignments than just building a wooden ship. Modern |
| navigation instruments and marine fittings might necessitate the use of a mundane wrench such as this. |
| 111206T2 | Adjustable wrench | DTM |
| Low carbon steel, unsigned. |
| This mid to late nineteenth century wrench illustrates the juxtaposition of a hand worked twisted handle with the drop forged |
| jaws characteristic of machine made fabrication. |
| 32708T47 | Adjustable wrench | DTM |
| Metal and wood, 11" long, signed "BEMIS & CALL H & T" and "SPRINGFIELD, MASS USA". |
| This wrench is also marked with two figure 8-like marks. |
| 51201T1 | Adjustable wrench | DTM |
| Drop forged steel, 3 3/8" long, signed "J. R. Long Wrench Co. PAT. APR. AKRON, OHIO 17, 1906". |
| 62202T6 | Adjustable wrench | photo | DTM |
| Steel with cast lead handle, 5 7/8" long, signed "Goodell Pratt Company TOOLSMITHS Greenfield Mass USA". |
| This is the only example of this wrench we have encountered in 30 years. |
| 101400T13 | Adjustable wrench | photo | DTM |
| Dropped forged steel, 12" long, unsigned. |
| Typical S-curved adjustable wrench. |
| 31908T40 | Alliigator wrench | DTM |
| Steel, 8 1/4" long, signed "THE K & B CO." and "NEW HAVEN CT" on one claw and "SAXON" on the other claw. |
| This mark is from the Kilburn & Bishop Co. |
| 31908T41 | Box wrench | DTM |
| Chromium vanadium steel, 9 3/4" long, signed "11/16 PERFECTION NoP-27 5/8" and on the other side "CHROMIUM |
| VANADIUM". |
| TJF1005 | Box wrench | DTM |
| Drop forged steel, 19 1/2" long, 1 3/8" box, 1/58" box, signed "Hinckley Myers J 602", ca. 1900. |
| 062207T2 | Carriage-makers' wrench | DTM |
| Malleable drop-forged iron, signed "Reed & Co. Higgaum CT". |
| This wrench was patented by T. H. Remington on May 21, 1878. There is a photo of the patented wrench in Cope (1999, 206). |
| 040103T13 | Claw wrench | photo | photo | DTM |
| Drop forged steel, 13 1/2" long, signed "LeClaw Wrench Co. Chicago USA Pat'd Feb 6 1912". |
| A hefty tool with great sculptural qualities. It's not an early tool, but is too interesting to sell at Liberty Tool Co. |
| 30202T12 | Combination wrench | photo | DTM |
| Drop forged steel, 6 3/8" long, 1/8" wide, signed "Ryder's Combination Pat'D Nov 10 1896". |
| Ryder is not listed in DATM (Nelson 1999) or Cope's American Wrench Makers. |
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