This illustration dates to the 1870s and shows a vertical saw. Everybody is familiar with the up-and-down movement of a common saw, and in the machine for sawing balks of timber into planks, represented here, his reciprocating motion is retaine

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Keywords: 1800s, 1870s, 19th, century, industrial, revolution, saws, vertical