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135785 Norm Wood <nbwood@l...> 2004‑08‑11 Re: Taintor's Positive #7? Good user?
Galoots,

I guess it's typically bad form to reply to one's own posting,
but I wanted to give credit where credit is due, and part of this
might be of general interest.

On 10 August, Greg asked about a Taintor's Positive sawset, and I replied
> 
> Greg,
...
> I think I have (somewhere) a copy of instructions for use.  I'll see
> if I can find it and send it along.  There's a washer that can be

Actually, what I had weren't instructions, but copies of articles from
1892 and 1894 volumes of "The Manufacturer and Builder" describing the
Taintor's sawsets.  The articles are actually in Cornell's "Making of
America" (MOA) electronic library, and links were provided by Darrell LaRue
in an OldTools message (#91367) from 2001 which I'd found in the archive.
So thanks to Darrell and Chris (and of course the folks at Cornell).

Since I hadn't seen the MOA mentioned here since I started with OldTools,
I thought that I would.  It seems to be a unique resource, one of those
that could occupy hours of more or less productive reading :)  The library
includes scans of about 900,000 pages of journals and monographs from the
19th and early 20th centuries which have been text-indexed and are searchable.
The main webpage is at

http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/

If anyone chances to look at the second Taintor's reference (which is from
1894) in Darrell's message, there's an interesting story about the
discovery of an unknown trace gas (argon) in the atmosphere by Rayleigh
and Ramsey.

Norm
Fort Collins, Colorado



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