STANLEY PLANES AND SCREW THREADS （斯坦利飞机和螺纹）.pdfVIP

STANLEY PLANES AND SCREW THREADS by John Bates Part Two: Stanley Plane Threads – What they are and why they were used A Special Publication by TTTG Inc Copyright June 2006, The Traditional Tools Group Inc 1 What is TTTG? TTTG was formed to encourage the preservation of traditional technical skills. TTTG was formed to encourage research into Australian Industrial history. TTTG is interested in all traditional technologies. TTTG is interested in all traditional hand and machine tools. Membership of TTTG is by subscription. Membership of TTTG is open to all interested individuals. Benefits of joining TTTG include. TTTG holds meetings with guest speakers and tool auctions. TTTG conducts skills based Workshops. TTTG publishes a Newsletter. TTTG publishes Tool Catalogue Reprints. TTTG publishes Special Publications. TTTG website .au Postal Address: Enquires: The Secretary TTTG (Inc.) Mike Williams 02 9144 6356 PO Box N240 Grosvenor Place Sydney NSW 1220 Bob Crosbie AUSTRALIA r.crosbie@ Subscription Rates: Sydney and Overseas $30 Out of Sydney, other States and Australian Pensioners $25 2 INTRODUCTION – PART II I came to the end of the first section of this article having exhausted a ready supply of empirical data and feeling the need to better support some of the assertions made. Hence, I decided to pursue the Stanley thread debate via an historical investigation of the company and its products. This tack eventually expanded to include the practice and culture of manufacturing as well as the market demand existing in the US from around 1850 to the end of the nineteenth century. The more I thought it through, the more it seemed essential that the products, technologic