Page History: Histories of Woodworking Machinery

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The development of woodworking machinery in Europe (especially Great Britain) and the U.S.A. have been much written about. Most of those historical writings merely repeat what was written earlier, with little added except for errors. Careful comparison of these early writings will help reveal something of the provenance of various pieces of information.

• 1857—On the conversion of wood by machinery (PDF, courtesy Matty Fazio) by Guilford Lindsay Molesworth
• 1868—A history of American manufactures from 1608 to 1860 Vol. I, Vol. II, Vol. III (Google Books) by J. Leander Bishop
• 1872—A Treatise on the Construction and Operation of Wood-Working Machines (Google Books) by John Richards
• 1881—Wood-Working Machinery as applied to the Manufacture of Railway Carriages and Wagons (Google Books) by James Bernard Hunter
• 1883—Woodworking Machinery; Its Rise, Progress, and Construction (archive.org) by M. Powis Bale
• 1889—A History of the Planing-Mill by Charles R. Tompkins
• 1889—Industrial History of the United States (Google Books) by Albert Sidney Bolles
• 1920—Short History of Woodworking Machinery from Wm. H. Field Reference Book