Recommended Websites for Tracing Woodworking History
Directory of American Tools and Machinery Patents A database of patent info on power woodworking tools. Includes diagrams patentees needed to submit for obtaining patents. Use Internet Explorer Browser, and Broadband speed is nice.
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Woodworking Machines Dedicated to documenting vintage woodworker's power machinery. Links, pictures of restored vintage machines, old catalogs, discussion, many of 6000 members expert in the historical details of individual tools.