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Henry Disston & Sons, Inc, advertisement in the Saturday Evening Post, 1921, listing the products offered by the company at the time. 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.
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 ...
In 1873, Jerome Dietrich and Cosmos Shurly brought skills learned while working at Disston Saw Works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, [4] and invested $12,000 to found the Shurly & Dietrich Co. They hired nine saw makers from Rochester, New York and Sheffield, England and began to manufacture saws in Galt, Ontario, now called Cambridge.
Disston may refer to: . People: Hamilton Disston (1844–1896), American industrialist and real-estate developer; Henry Disston (1819–1878), English American industrialist who founded the Keystone Saw Works in 1840
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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.
The Logging Legacy Memorial is a memorial and public art installation commemorating the timber industry, installed in Enumclaw, Washington. The memorial includes a bronze sculpture by Dan Snider of a pair of oxen and a drover pulling a log.
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 ...