I started this blog expecting to spend at least a couple of years photographing and researching the tools in the Tison Tool Barn. Unfortunately, for a variety of reasons, I am stopping my work with the Tison Tool Barn for an indefinite period. I hope that I will be able to eventually resume that work, but I do not know when. I just hope that you have enjoyed reading this blog half as much as I have enjoyed writing it.
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2/11/2018 03:06:15 pm
Great blog. I was looking for a history of gimlets as I was putting up a shelf and pondering about how this tool became a dominant design. After 40 years of teaching innovators as I cleared my university office last month I gave away all books on contemporary matters of innovation and only kept the history of technology and science books. I look forward to reading all your other posts. All the best, Krys
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AuthorI have been a volunteer at the Matheson History Museum. Feeling an affinity with old hand tools (some of which I remember from my youth), I have tried to learn more about the history of the tools in the Tison Tool Barn, and how they were used. All text and photographs by Donald Albury in this blog are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. All illustrations taken from Wikimedia Commons are either in the public domain, or have been released under a Creative Commons license.
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