TABLE OF CONTENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Chapter	I.	Influence of the Early Tool Builders	1
Chapter	II.	Wilkinson and Bramah	11
Chapter	III.	Bentham and Brunel	22
Chapter	IV.	Henry Maudslay	33
Chapter	V.	Inventors of the Planer	50
Chapter	VI.	Gearing and Millwork	63
Chapter	VII.	Fairbairn and Bodmer	71
Chapter	VIII.	James Nasmyth	81
Chapter	IX.	Whitworth	98
Chapter	X.	Early American Mechanics	109
Chapter	XI.	The Rise of Interchangeable Manufacture	128
Chapter	XII.	Whitney and North	145
Chapter	XIII.	The Colt Armory	164
Chapter	XIV.	The Colt Workman—Pratt & Whitney	173
Chapter	XV.	Robbins & Lawrence	186
Chapter	XVI.	The Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company	202
Chapter	XVII.	Central New England	216
Chapter	XVIII.	The Naugatuck Valley	231
Chapter	XIX.	Philadelphia	239
Chapter	XX.	The Western Tool Builders	261
		Appendix A	281
		Appendix B, The Jennings Gun	292
		A Partial Bibliography on Tool Building	295