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AMERICAN PLANER, SHAPER AND SLOTTER BUILDERS

AMERICAN PLANER, SHAPER AND SLOTTER BUILDERS
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This is the first book to identify American builders of planers, shapers, and slotters, who operated throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. The author provides valuable information on over 300 makers, many of which are little known. More than 1000 illustrations, taken from original catalogs and periodicals, show how these machines developed. Includes a glossary of terms. Of great interest to the collector, the industrial archeologist, and the industrial historian.

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