Project Gutenberg 2023-11-05 Public domain in the USA. 407 Roe, Joseph Wickham 1871 1960 27024075 English and American tool builders $aNew York :$bMcGraw Hill Book Company, $c1916, copyright 1926. deaurider, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "English and American Tool Builders" by Joseph Wickham Roe is a historical account written in the early 20th century. This work delves into the significant contributions of various tool builders in England and America, highlighting figures like Henry Maudslay and Eli Whitney, whose innovations laid the groundwork for modern industrial manufacturing. Roe emphasizes the critical, yet often overlooked, role of these pioneers in the evolution of machine tools, which are foundational to all subsequent industrial arts. At the start of the book, the author explains the book's purpose: to illuminate the essential work of tool builders and their influence on modern industry, contrasting their legacy with that of more recognized figures like statesmen and soldiers. He positions the tool builders not just as skilled artisans but as creative minds who significantly advanced mechanical technology. The opening sections explore the state of machine tools in the late 18th century and the advancements that arose during this transformative period, laying the groundwork for the detailed biographies of key figures that follow in subsequent chapters. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/englishamericant00roej 20220501135022roe 1916 US Reading ease score: 70.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Industrial arts -- Biography Machine-tools TJ Text Category: Biographies Category: History - American Category: History - British Category: History - Modern (1750+) Category: Engineering & Technology 815622 2025-09-28T11:59:33.263393 text/html 755747 2023-11-05T17:01:59 text/html 11561906 2025-09-28T11:59:50.062256 application/epub+zip 11558046 2025-09-28T11:59:37.693329 application/epub+zip 384775 2025-09-28T11:59:35.114318 application/epub+zip 11699138 2025-09-28T11:59:57.803202 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 11628550 2025-09-28T11:59:47.465264 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 622582 2025-09-28T11:59:31.144416 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 602692 2023-11-05T17:01:59 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16765 2025-09-28T11:59:57.968249 application/rdf+xml 10840 2025-09-28T11:59:35.452311 image/jpeg 2127 2025-09-28T11:59:35.283327 image/jpeg 10900532 2025-09-28T11:59:33.515393 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia