N

N. M. & T. Co., 41:3 54
naando root, 43:4 103
Nachtrieb, Jonas, 44:2 38
Nachtrieb, Joshua, 43:1 4, 43:1 5, 44:2 38
nail factories, 48:1 7–8, 48:1 12
nail grab, 46:2 55
"Nail Making by Machinery: A Sometimes Overlooked Contribution to the Development of Industrial Growth" (Brundage), 43:4 94–95
nail pry, 42:2 54
nail pullers

hatchet, 41:4 66–67

nails, 48:2 67

defective, 48:1 26
dog, 48:1 25, 48:1 26
F (frost), 42:2 49
nailmakers, 44:3 95, 44:3 back cover
nail-making machines, 43:4 94–95
rod, 42:2 49
rose, 48:1 25
used at Monticello, 55:2 72, 55:2 75n28
women as nailmakers, 44:2 49
wrought, 48:1 25

nail scissors, 49:4 front cover, 52:3 105
name stamps. See also maker's marks; makers' marks

Brooks, William, 57:3 96
Dominy, Nathaniel, V, 58:2 49–51
Hazlet, Hugh, 57:3 97
Napier, Thomas, 57:3 97
Veit, John, 57:1 16, 57:1 19
White, Israel, 57:3 100

Nance, J. T., 49:2 57
Nancy (schooner), 39:3 52A
Nancy Island Historic Site, 39:3 52A
Nantrieb, Joshua, 43:1 4
Nantucket baskets, 43:4 111
Nantucket Driver, 41:4 75
nap

raising, on wool fabrics, 45:2 38–39

Napier, John, 41:2 25, 48:1 29
Napier, Margaret

planemaker, 57:3 96, 57:3 97–99

Napier, Richard C., 52:4 132n4
Napier, Thomas, 46:4 121, 47:2 46, 50:3 88, 56:2 68, 56:4 156

name stamps, 57:3 97
planemaker, 57:2 80, 57:3 97–98

Napoleon Bonaparte

Canadian timber industry and, 42:3 59

Narragansett Machine Co., 47:4 109
narrow-gauge railroad locomotives, 51:1 6
Nartov, A. K., 42:2 44–45
Nartov and His Theatrum Machinarum (Britkin), 42:2 44, 42:2 45
Nash, Mary, 45:2 52
Nash, William, 49:1 12
Nash of Wandsworth, 52:3 96
Nason, Leonard, 46:1 26, 48:1 19
Nassau County Museum, 40:2 32
Natchez Foundry and Gin Factory, 52:1 13, 52:1 14
Natchez Trace, 52:1 14
"Nathan Buttrick, Early Clampmaker in Massachusetts" (Boyd), 57:2 41–46
"Nathaniel Potter: Could He Be Our Earliest Planemaker?" (Wheeler), 46:1 3–4
Nation, Carrie, 44:2 63
National Association of Manufacturers, 48:3 49
National Builder, 60:3 94, 60:3 96, 60:3 97
National Cyclopedia of American Biography, 57:4 151
National Export Exposition, 48:3 50
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C, 58:4 148
National Geographic Magazine, 45:4 102
National Hammer Corporation, 45:4 119
National Park Service guide books, 47:4 132–133
National Rifle Association, 44:3 81
National Rubber Machinery Co., 60:4 140
National Saw Co., 39:2 26–27, 45:4 100, 46:1 18
National Trust for Historic Preservation, 57:1 35
Native Americans

husking pegs, 59:3 98
shell beads and, 59:1 1–6
in Stanley advertising signs, 59:2 70, 59:2 71

native peoples

spear fishing by, 43:3 76
tools of, 43:4 103–104

nativism, 52:3 118
natural dyes, 53:4 156
naturalism

in citrus fruit-crate labels, 42:2 33

nautical compasses, 39:2 17
Naval Iron Works (Columbus, Georgia), 52:4 164
naval stores, 52:3 122–123
Naylor, P., 41:2 23
Nazro, Henry J., 50:1 14
Nazro & King, tool dealers, 53:1 17
NBE (Never Buy English) philosophy of tool collecting, 47:2 55
N. D. Co., 42:2 32
Neames, Charles, 43:3 62
"neatest manner," 52:4 131, 52:4 133n20
Neave, Frances Caroline (Digby), 50:2 39–40
Neave, Sir Thomas, 50:2 39–40, 50:2 42
neck crooks, 52:2 71
neck rests

whatsits, 43:2 49, 43:3 78

Needham, Joseph, 41:1 10, 46:2 54
Needlepoint in America (Hanley), 45:4 117
needles

making, 40:1 16
netmaking, 40:2 34

needle sharpeners, 44:3 91–92, 47:1 13–14

sharpener/straightener whatsit, 43:2 51–52

needle threaders, 44:4 118
needlework

white work, 54:1 9–10

Needlework Tools (Johnson), 43:4 95
Neel, Samuel, 47:3 83
Neeld, Sarah

brace pads, 53:3 101

"Negro servants," 46:2 39
"Negro's wear," 52:4 132, 52:4 133n23
Negus, Nathan, 46:3 87
Neil, Darlene, 60:3 98
Neil, Jeff, 60:3 92
Neill, James

Eclipse hack saw blades, 59:4 127

Neilson, John, 58:1 13, 58:1 16, 58:1 17, 58:1 35n.4
Nellis, Curtis, 41:1 3
Nelson, Jim, 45:2 46
Nelson, Richard, 46:4 121
Nelson, Robert E., 49:2 61, 53:2 61n30, 53:3 126
Nelson Concrete Culvert Co., 54:1 24
Nelson Iron Works Ltd., 45:2 60
Nelson knife, 59:4 124
Neolithic cultures

double-bitted axe and, 40:3 51–52
tools, 45:1 10, 45:3 79

"Neolithic Origin for the Double-Bitted Ax, A" (Blumenberg), 40:3 51–52
nepa (Mangbetu adze), 43:4 103–104
Neponset River, 47:3 92
Nerio, Ugolino di, 46:4 98–104, 46:4 107n.14
Neshaminy Dell Farm, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 59:3 97, 59:3 98
Nessi, Luigi, 50:2 56, 50:4 137, 51:4 131, 53:2 83
Nester, John, 44:4 111, 46:3 84
Nestler "Chemiker" slide rule, 50:2 47
NETCA News, 44:3 94
Netherlands

planes, 53:2 53, 53:3 127

netmaking needle, 40:2 34
netting needles, 44:3 84
netting shuttles, 44:2 55, 44:3 84, 44:4 100
Neuville, George D., 46:1 27
Neve, Richard, 48:1 25
New Bedford, Massachusetts

Hathaway, Braddock, 54:2 60–66

New Bedford Republican Standard, 54:2 60
New Bedford Whaling Museum, 51:1 30
Newbegin, John, 44:2 48
Newberry, J. S., 60:1 36
Newbold, Charles, 49:3 101
New Book of Knowledge, The, 52:2 81
Newbould, J. A. and F. W., hardware store, 53:1 16
Newbould, Thomas

chisels, 39:1 6

New Britain, Connecticut, 51:3 80
New Britain Knitting Co., 55:1 5
New Britain Machine Co., 46:2 52
Newbury, Massachusetts

seventeenth century craftsmen, 42:4 91–93

Newburyport, Massachusetts, 42:4 91
Newcomb Loom Co., 43:3 72, 43:3 78
New Departure Coaster Hub, 40:2 36
Newell, E., 55:2 80–81
New England

architectural history, 57:1 35
building history, 54:4 166–167
domestic life, 47:2 65–66
farm-produced butter, 52:3 85–92
granite, 59:2 37–42
logging in, 60:4 164
planemakers, 54:1 1–8
shoemaking, 42:2 39
skilled workman shortage in, 54:1 4
stones, 42:3 69
textile mills, 47:4 132–133
timber industry, 42:4 107
village life (1845), 43:4 108–109

New England Boyhood, A (Hale), 40:1 16–16A, 43:4 97, 44:4 104
New England Business Directory (1873), 43:2 41
New England Glass Co., 55:4 137, 55:4 140
New England hay knives, 57:2 56
New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS), 48:3 35, 48:3 37
New England Screw Co., 47:3 87
New Era Rope Machine, 44:3 83
Newfield, New York

livelihoods, in 1850, 39:3 35–36

Newhall, Henry B., Co., 46:1 19
"New Hampshire Shakers' Wooden Tub and Pail Industry, The" (Beale), 47:3 69–78
New Harmony, Indiana, 43:1 3, 51:4 102
New Hartford Village Cemetery, 52:2 57
New Haven in Vermont (Farnsworth and Rogers), 49:4 110
New Holland Machine Co., 39:4 62
"New Honey Extractor, A" (Scientific American), 46:4 108
Newhouse Wolf Trap Wrench, 46:1 22
Newill, J., knives, 45:2 37
New Jersey

toolmakers, 46:1 35

New Jersey Central Railroad, 52:4 143
"New Journal, A: Historic Trades" (Reichman), 41:4 80
Newlands, James, 48:2 60
"New Marks for Madox" (Rees), 52:1 32–33
New Mechanical Dictionary (Knight), 44:1 16
New Method lighter, 39:4 57
New Orleans

ornamental ironwork, 44:3 81
photographs, 60:3 112–113

"New Orleans, 1902" (Rees), 60:3 112–113
Newport, Rhode Island

eighteenth-century window frames, 55:1 12–15
Stevens, John, Shop, stonecutters, 58:4 141–153

Newport, Rhode Island, mansions

architects, 53:2 74n2
butlers, 53:2 67–68
chauffeurs, 53:2 68
coachmen, 53:2 68
domestic services in, 53:2 66–75
footmen, 53:2 68
furnace room, 53:2 71
housekeepers, 53:2 69
kitchen staff, 53:2 70–71, 53:2 72
labor issues, 53:2 69–70, 53:2 72
ladies' maids, 53:2 69
laundry, 53:2 71
servant living conditions, 53:2 73–74
service space, 53:2 67
superintendents, 53:2 68–69

Newport Mercury, 56:1 29, 58:4 144–145
Newport Restoration Foundation, 53:3 116, 55:1 12–15
"Newport's Eighteenth-Century Window Frames" (Foley), 55:1 12–15
New Practical Builder (Nicholson), 57:1 10
"New Rare Discovery?, A" (Lynk), 53:1 36
newspaper presses

cylinder presses, 47:3 96

Newton, Alfred

three-lipped augers, 59:3 110
three-pod augers, 59:3 111–112

Newton, Charles Henry, 54:3 100
Newton, Dan, 56:1 39
Newton, F., 39:2 16
Newton, G. B., 52:3 116, 52:3 119, 52:3 120, 52:4 142
Newton, Levi W., 46:4 111
Newton & Dewey, 46:4 111
Newton triple twist bits, 56:3 110, 56:3 111
"New Uses for Old Tools" (Grabb), 41:2 36
New York Aid Society

Union Army clothing supplies, 53:4 149

New York Central Railroad, 43:4 96
New York City

city directories, 58:4 161
edge tools, 44:1 22

New York Coach Maker's Magazine, 48:2 35, 48:2 38, 48:2 39
New York Historical Society, 59:1 3
New York Ladies Union Society, 53:4 150
New York Mechanick Society, 40:2 23–24
New York Metal Ceiling Co., 59:2 70
New York Public Library

"Revolution in Print, France 1789" exhibit, 42:3 77

New York Screw Manufacturing Co., 47:3 85
New York State

livelihoods, in 1850, 39:3 35–36

New York State Agricultural Society, 39:3 51, 58:1 9
New York Stone Ware Pottery, 45:3 92
New York Times, 41:2 32, 44:3 81, 44:4 101, 45:2 60
New York World, 52:4 142
New Zealand

shepherds crooks, 52:2 72

"Nib Again, The" (Turner), 44:4 124
nibbed axe, 44:4 117, 45:1 20, 45:3 90
nib irons, 51:4 126–127
nibs

double, saw handles, 59:1 18, 59:1 19
on handsaw blades, 43:1 16, 44:2 55, 44:4 124, 47:4 101–104, 49:4 133
in saw handles, 59:1 19

"Nibs Ain't Just for Writing" (Gauntlett), 47:4 101–104
Nichols, J. L., 50:2 71
Nicholson, Edward Chambers

synthetic dyes, 53:4 157

Nicholson, Elizabeth, 40:2 26
Nicholson, F., 40:2 25, 44:2 37
Nicholson, Francis, 46:3 71, 46:4 96, 55:1 27, 55:1 30, 59:1 22

Chelor, Cesar, and, 42:4 87, 45:2 61, 46:2 39–42, 46:4 92–93
early marks, 48:3 63–66
fenced table planes, 54:1 5–6
library of, 46:4 92
"Living in Wrentham" mark, 46:4 92–93, 58:3 122
maker's marks, 40:2 25, 54:1 2–3
planemaker, 42:2 55, 46:1 3, 52:2 76–77, 52:4 162, 53:1 33–35, 59:1 10
plane production, 46:4 92–93
planes, 50:1 29–30, 54:1 1–8, 54:1 back cover, 54:1 front cover, 58:3 120–123
sash fillisters, 54:1 5
spring planes, 47:2 46
success of, 54:1 3–4
training of, 58:3 126
wedge-arm plow, 58:3 120–122
will of, 46:2 39–41
"Yankee" plow, 54:1 4–5

Nicholson, John, 45:4 108, 46:2 39, 48:3 41, 48:3 42, 48:3 63, 52:4 162, 53:1 33–34, 53:1 41, 55:1 30, 58:3 120, 58:3 122

collecting tools of, 48:3 58
maker's marks, 54:1 2–3
planemaker, 46:4 92–93, 59:1 10
planes, 50:1 30, 54:1 1–8, 54:1 back cover, 54:1 front cover

Nicholson, Mary, 58:3 122
Nicholson, Mehitable, 58:3 122
Nicholson, Mehitable Man, 46:4 92
Nicholson, Mercy, 40:2 26
Nicholson, Peter, 42:3 64, 45:4 108, 46:3 82, 53:3 100, 57:1 6, 57:1 7, 57:1 10, 58:1 45, 59:2 54
Nicholson, Sarah, 40:2 26
Nicholson, Stanley, 46:1 21
Nicholson, William, 52:4 165
Nicholson File Co., 39:2 26, 40:1 1, 48:3 51
Nicholson John, 40:2 26
Nicholson's blue, 53:4 158
nickers, 56:3 128
Nicols, Nick, 59:3 112
Nicolson, John, 46:2 39
Nielsen ice shaves, 60:4 161
Nikerk, Frank, 45:1 23
Niles, Hezekiah

planemaker, 50:4 135–136

Nilsson, Norm, 40:2 17
Nind, Mondon, 59:1 19
"Nineteenth-Century American Backsaw, The" (Baker), 59:1 13–21
19th Century English Woodworking Tools (Roberts), 45:4 100
nippers, 52:3 101
nips, 52:3 105
Nissley, John J., 56:3 91
Nixon, Thomas

metal-pad braces, 53:3 103

Nobles, Milton V., 45:1 6
Nobles Mfg. Co., 41:3 43
Noblit, John, 50:4 109, 50:4 113
noise

from anvils, 39:2 29
in granite industry, 60:1 29–30

Noiseux, Denise, 59:1 inside front cover
Noiseux, Matt, 59:1 inside front cover
Nold, Sarah, 60:4 139
Nolde & Degener, 42:1 20
Nollet, Jean-Antoine, 58:3 100
No-Name Hat Co., 51:4 110, 51:4 113, 51:4 114, 51:4 117n6
non-ferrous metals

shaping block, 49:1 8

non-reversing electric motors, 59:4 138
non-sparking, non-magnetic beryllium copper tools, 53:3 105–107
Nooitgedagt, Jan, 48:3 61
Noorlander, H., 40:1 13
Norcross, W., 57:2 44
Norcross Brothers, 55:1 36
Norcross Mill, 57:2 44
Nordman, Fred, 40:4 71
Norlund, O. A., 52:1 38
Norlund, O. A., Co., 43:2 30, 43:3 64
Norris, B. F., 46:2 53
Norris smoothing planes, 50:2 60, 50:2 61
North, Ralph G., 56:4 137, 56:4 144, 56:4 145
North, Selden G., 56:4 144
North American Review, 52:3 114
Northammer Tools, 39:4 54
North Brothers Manufacturing Co., 41:1 17, 41:2 36, 41:2 37, 41:2 back cover, 49:2 55–56, 50:2 57, 54:3 123, 56:4 133, 56:4 136, 56:4 137–138

acquired by Stanley, 53:2 65
Gem Ice Shaver, 44:4 126

North Carolina Transportation Museum, 50:3 74, 50:3 87, 50:3 104
North Cumberland (Simpson), 52:4 162
Northrup, Clay, 44:1 10, 59:3 112
Northumberland Forge, 46:2 42
Northup, Louis L., Co., 47:2 56
North Wayne Tool Co., 42:3 76, 57:2 67, 57:3 104
North Western Grass Twine, 58:3 90
Norton, E. and L. P., 45:3 92
Norton, Edward, & Co., 45:3 92
Norton, F. B., 45:3 92, 60:1 41
Norton Co., 43:1 11
Norton Emery Wheel Co., 60:1 41
Norway, Nevil Shute, 50:3 97
nose bits, 45:1 5
nosing planes, 47:1 2, 47:1 5, 47:1 9
notary stamps, 43:4 99
notched bit tang, 45:1 6
notching knives, 41:2 34
notching planes, 59:4 163
"Note on the Restoration of Old Tools" (Cooper), 45:1 22–23
"Notes on a Visit to the Buff & Buff Surveying Instrument Factory, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, Monday, 3 June 1968" (Smith), 53:2 76, 53:2 80
"Notes on Dietrich, Flint, and Shurly, Saw Makers" (Perch), 40:3 51
"Notes on Hand Crafts in South America" (Wilkins), 40:2 31
"Notes on New England Edge-Tool Makers: Ephraim L. Hardy (1801-1870), Edge-Tool Maker" (Smith), 58:4 169–171
"Notes on the National Saw Company and Its Relationship to Henry Disston & Sons" (Bopp), 39:2 26–27
Notes on the Settlement and Indian Wars of the Western Parts of Virginia and Pennsylvania (Doddridge), 41:2 31
Nourse, Joel, 44:2 47, 58:1 8–9
novaculite, 43:1 11
Nova Scotia

German immigrants, 41:1 8
planemakers, 42:1 5–7

Nova Scotia Hardwood Products Co., Ltd, 40:1 4
Nova Scotia Museum, 40:1 4, 40:1 6
Nowil, J., knives, 45:2 37
Nowlin, William, 45:4 125
Noyes, Nicholas, 42:4 92
Noyes, Samuel Stone, 42:3 79
Noyes, Silas, 42:3 79
Noyes Foundry Co., 51:4 125
N.R.S. & Co.

food choppers, 50:1 24

Nueman, G. C., 39:3 48
Nunn, Lucien Lucius, 44:2 44
Nunn, Paul, 44:2 44
Nürnberg

identity marks, 54:3 128
sixteenth century crafts, 54:2 81–85

Nurse, C., & Co., 48:1 18, 57:1 8, 57:1 10, 57:1 11
nursery dibbles, 51:1 12
nursery spades

Barton, D. R., 53:1 23

Nursing Lamp, 44:1 13
nutcrackers, 44:4 118

whatsits, 43:3 79, 43:4 105
with wooden screw threads, 56:2 61

nutria felt hats, 52:4 155
nuts and bolts

sixteenth century, Nürnberg, 54:2 83
standardization of, 55:3 112–115

"Nuts and Bolts" (Kelleher), 55:3 112–115
Nutt, James, 49:4 110
Nutting, Ebenezer, 41:1 11
Nutting, James, 53:1 34
Nutting, Truman, 41:1 11, 44:1 17
Nuzum, Joseph

planemaker, 53:2 48

Nylin, Erik, 57:3 88, 57:3 89
Nystrom, Paul, 53:4 161