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  2. Disston Saw Works - Wikipedia

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    Disston Saw Works was an American company owned by Henry Disston that manufactured handsaws during the mid-19th to early 20th century in the Tacony neighborhood of Philadelphia. The company was initially named Keystone Saw Works and then Henry Disston & Sons, Inc.

  3. Henry Disston - Wikipedia

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    Henry Disston (May 24, 1819 – March 16, 1878) was an English American industrialist who founded the Keystone Saw Works in 1840 and developed the surrounding Tacony neighborhood of Philadelphia to build housing for his workers. His company became the Disston Saw Works and was the top manufacturer of hand saws in the United States during the ...

  4. Spear & Jackson - Wikipedia

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    The company made handsaws from the beginning (1760); in 1833 Henry Disston, a toolmaker, emigrated to the United States and in 1840 started manufacturing saws.The Disston "skew-back" saw was introduced in 1874 and Spear and Jackson also introduced a skew-back design in the late 19th century, with one example being their 1887 Jubilee Saw.

  5. Hamilton Disston - Wikipedia

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    Hamilton Disston (August 23, 1844 – April 30, 1896) [1] was an American industrialist and real-estate developer who purchased 4 million acres (16,000 km²) of Florida land in 1881, an area larger than the state of Connecticut, and reportedly the most land ever purchased by a single person in world history. Disston was the son of Pennsylvania ...

  6. Hand saw - Wikipedia

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    As for preservation of hand saws, twenty-four saws from eighteenth-century England are known to survive. [1] Materials for saw blades have varied over the ages. There were probably bronze saws in the time before steel making technology became extensively known and industrialized within the past thousand years or so.

  7. How to stay fit during the holidays: Science-backed tips

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    The words "holiday season" probably bring food, family, festivities, and more food to mind—but likely not fitness, right? There's no reason to lose all your hard-earned fitness just because the ...

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