. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 64.—1867: The drawing accompanying B. A. Blandin's specification for an "Improve- ment in Bench Planes" retained only the familiarly shaped handle or tolc of the traditional wood-bodied plane. This new shape rapidly became the standard form of the tool with later variations chiefly related to the adjustabihty of the plane-iron and sole. (Wash drawing from Patent Office, May 7, 1867, Record Group 241, the National Archives.) axes, broad axes, and adzes were standard items, as witness Haminacher, Schlemmer and Company's
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 64.—1867: The drawing accompanying B. A. Blandin's specification for an "Improve- ment in Bench Planes" retained only the familiarly shaped handle or tolc of the traditional wood-bodied plane. This new shape rapidly became the standard form of the tool with later variations chiefly related to the adjustabihty of the plane-iron and sole. (Wash drawing from Patent Office, May 7, 1867, Record Group 241, the National Archives.) axes, broad axes, and adzes were standard items, as witness Haminacher, Schlemmer and Company's catalogue of 1896.'* Disston saws were a byword, and the impact of their exhibit at Philadelphia was still strong, as judged from Baldwin, Robblns' catalogue of 1894. Highly recommended was the Disston no. 76, the "Centennial" handsaw with its "skew back" and "apple ; Jennings' pat- ented auger bits were likewise standard fare in nearly every tool ^ So were bench planes manu- factured by companies that had been cited at Phila- delphia for the excellence of their product; namely. The Metallic Plane Company, Auburn, New York; The Middletown Tool Company, Middletown, Con- necticut; Bailey, Leonard, and Company, Hartford; and The Sandusky Tool Company, Sandusky, ; An excellent indication of the persistence of the -< Tools for AH Trades (New York, i8g6), item 75 [in the Smithsonian Institution Library]. 25 See Baldwin, Rabbins & Co.: Illustrated Catalogue (Boston, 1894), pp. 954, 993 [in the Smithsonian Institution Libroi-y]. 26 Walker, op. cit. (footnote 19), p. 14. Centennial influence, and of the tool catalogue as source material, is seen in Chandler and Farquhar's illustrated pamphlet of 1900. Their advertisement for Barber's improved ratchet brace (fig. 66), a tool much admired by the Centennial judges, amply illustrates the evolution of design of a basic imple- ment present in American society since the first
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