A History of the Amateur Woodworking Movement
A Decade-by-Decade Narrative of Amateur Woodworking in America From 1900 to 2000
Appendices:
Appendices Deal With Issues Special to Woodworking History, Incident to the Main Inquiry, But Sit Outside the Narrative
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Glossary Intro and Glossary Annexes
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Narrative Chapters
Chap 1 Chap 2 Chap 3 Chap 4 Chap 5 Chap 6 Chap 7 Chap 8 Chap 9 Chap 10 Chap 11 Chap 12
Headnote for Manuals Manuals by Decade
1900-before 1901-1910 1911-1920 1921-1930 1931-1940 1941-1950 1951-1960 1961-1970 1971-1980 1981-1990 1991-2001 2001-later
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Appendix 1: Memoir of Forty Years of Woodworking
Appendix 2: The Morris Chair as an Icon of Amateur Woodworkers
Appendix 3: The Evolution of the Tilt-Arbor Table Saw (under construction)
Appendix 4: A Century of Woodworking Manuals (under construction)
Appendix 5: A Note on the Index to Handicrafts
Appendix 6: Evolution of the Woodworker's Cutting Edge
Appendix 7: Creativity and Woodworking: Is woodworking "process" or "product"? (under construction 6-22-07)
Appendix 8: The Newbie Woodworker’s Guide to the Anatomy and Physiology of Wood (under construction)
Appendix 9: Defining Industrial Arts
Appendix 10: Furniture Styles
Appendix 11: On the Origins of the Art Nouveau and the Arts and Crafts Style
Appendix 12: The Aesthetic Movement 1875 - 1885
Appendix 13: Defining Modernistic Furniture Design for Amateur Woodworkers in the 1930s
Appendix 14: Stanley Tools (Corporate) How to Work With Tools and Wood, 1927, & 1952
Appendix 15: Woodworker's Manuals in Public Libraries
Appendix 16: Amateur Woodworking - Hour Glass Analogy
Appendix 17: Editorial Advisors
Appendix 18: On the Origin of the Radial Arm Saw
Appendix 19: The Impact of Electrification
Appendix 20: Motor-Driven Woodworking Tools Developed in the 1920s
Appendix 21: History of the Fractional Horsepower Motor in America
Appendix 22: Hans Goldschmidt and his Shopsmith
Appendix 23: 1920s and 1950s" Two Pivotal Decades
Appendix 24: From Production to Consumption: The Deskilling of the Handicraftsman Means the Degradation of Labor
Appendix 25: Notes for Piece on Modernism, Modernization, Modernity, Antimodern
Appendix 26: The Evolving Concept of Leisure
Appendix 27: Home-Ownership's Central Role for Amateur Woodworking
Appendix 28: Parallel Nature of Cookbooks and Woodworker's Manuals
Appendix 29: George C Kelley and Ray L Carter Develop the Router
Appendix 30: Notes on the Home Workshop Movement