Tool Information Files
The revolutionary impact of the internet now allows the construction of a detailed electronic encyclopedia of New England's most important toolmakers. This task is an essential component of constructing an archaeology of tools of the maritime culture of Maine. Visitors to this website can be extremely helpful by providing us citations of publications and website links pertaining to the many 18th and 19th century tool manufacturers and toolmakers who created the hand tools that helped build America.
Joseph Smith's Key to Manufactories of Sheffield
James Cam (Sheffield England manufacturer, includes reproductions of tools in his inventory list) (James Cam tools in the Museum collection)H. Boker & Co., Germany
