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  2. Tabitha Babbitt - Wikipedia

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    The circular saw was connected to a water-powered machine to reduce the effort to cut lumber. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The first circular saw she allegedly made is in Albany , New York . [ 6 ] In the summer of 1948, a version of Babbitt's saw, built to her specifications, was on display at a Shaker exhibit at Fenimore House in Cooperstown, N. Y., as a loan ...

  3. Circular saw - Wikipedia

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    A hand-held circular saw is the most conventional circular saw. This miter saw is a circular saw mounted to swing to crosscut wood at an angle. A table saw. Tractor-driven circular saw. A circular saw or a buzz saw, is a power-saw using a toothed or abrasive disc or blade to cut different materials using a rotary motion spinning around an arbor.

  4. Vitrine (historic furniture) - Wikipedia

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    The use of lighter, more flexible woods allowed the furniture of the Renaissance and Baroque periods to gradually give way to more curvilinear designs. [6] One of these designs was the bombe vitrine, which generally bulged out in a section between curved sabot legs and a straighter upper body which featured the panes of glass. [ 7 ]

  5. Glossary of woodworking - Wikipedia

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    table saw. Also called a sawbench. A circular saw, mounted on an arbor and driven by an electric motor, that partially protrudes through the top of a table, which is used to support the material being cut. tear out Broken or torn fibers resulting from damage as the blade of a tool exits a cut. tenon

  6. History of the lumber industry in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The portable chain saw and other technological developments helped drive more efficient logging, but the proliferation of other building materials in the twentieth century saw the end of the rapidly rising demand of the previous century. In 1950, the United States produced 38 billion board feet of lumber, and that number remained fairly ...

  7. Ancient furniture - Wikipedia

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    Some of these benefits resulted from how the saw was pulled instead of pushed. While manufacturing goods the carpenter's free hand was needed to secure the furniture. This led to the saws used to cut designs or joints usually being one handed. Two handed saws allowed the carpenter to put his bodyweight behind the thrusting action.

  8. Waring & Gillow - Wikipedia

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    The business was bought by retail conglomerate Great Universal Stores in 1953, [27] however a large share of the business was sold to rival furniture chain "John Peters", run by Manny Cussins for cash and shares in 1960, [28] with John Peters company renamed Waring and Gillow (Holdings) Ltd. [29] After the war the business of the firm began to ...

  9. Antique furniture - Wikipedia

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    Antique furniture may support the human body (such as seating or beds), provide storage, or hold objects on horizontal surfaces above the ground. Storage furniture (which often makes use of doors, drawers, and shelves) is used to hold or contain smaller objects such as clothes, tools, books, and household goods. [ 3 ]