Front matter
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ENGLISH AND AMERICAN TOOL BUILDERS
Henry Maudslay
English and American Tool Builders
By JOSEPH WICKHAM ROE Museum of the Peaceful Arts, City of New York, Professor of Industrial Engineering, New York University
First Printed in 1916 Reprinted in 1926
McGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, Inc. NEW YORK: 370 SEVENTH AVENUE LONDON: 6 & 8 BOUVERIE ST., E. C. 4 1926
Copyright, 1916 BY Joseph Wickham Roe
First published May, 1916 Republished March, 1926
“Man is a Tool-using Animal. Weak in himself, and of small stature, he stands on a basis, at most for the flattest-soled, of some half-square foot, insecurely enough; has to straddle out his legs, lest the very wind supplant him. Feeblest of bipeds! Three quintals are a crushing load for him; the steer of the meadow tosses him aloft, like a waste rag. Nevertheless he can use Tools, can devise Tools: with these the granite mountain melts into light dust before him; seas are his smooth highway, winds and fire his unwearying steeds. Nowhere do you find him without Tools; without Tools he is nothing, with Tools he is all.”
Carlyle: “Sartor Resartus,” Chap. IV.