| #3086114 in Books | 2009-04-21 | 2009-04-21 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.26 x.12 x5.84l,.20 | File Name: 0852636067 | 32 pages
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Information I was not able to fine on the internet|By Gary S|At 32 pages, the book limits its interest to the British isles with a mention of America. Still, it goes into enough detail so you understand the slow progression from the bronze age to the iron age. From single nails made one at a time from a lump of iron in a single shop, through each step of mechanization, to the|About the Author|Hugh Bodey was trained as a teacher and taught at a school in the Forest of Dean and then in Huddersfield. The characteristic weavers' cottage of that district were in danger of being modernised or demolished, so he formed a trust to pre
Today, nails are such an ordinary and widespread object that it may come as a surprise to learn that the range of shapes and sizes available now is but a fraction of those made in the nineteenth century. This illustrated account charts the history of nailmaking, from the Romans, through the middle ages, to the industry of the nineteenth century and the factories of the twentieth, relating the fluctuating demand for nails and nailers to the social and political context o...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Nailmaking (Shire Library) | Hugh Bodey. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.
