Preface to the Hand Tools in History series

Steel- and Toolmaking Strategies and Techniques before 1870 (Volume 6)

• Appendices
• European Toolmaker Information Files
• Joseph Smith's Key to Manufactories of Sheffield
• James Cam
• Edward Preston and Sons
• Peter S. Stubs
• Clockmaking
• Early Furnace Technology
• Precursors of the Blast Furnace
• Furnace Types
• Bibliography: European Precedents and the Early Industrial Revolution