Historic Woodworker Videos #48: Samuel Bentham creates power tools for the wooden Royal Navy in the Age of Sail

This is my historic video tribute to Sir Samuel Bentham.

This is the life-story of an upper class gentleman, Samuel Bentham, who became a woodworker and a shipwright just before England’s war with France, and improved wooden ship construction with new techniques and designs. He used steam engines to manufacture wooden block pulleys – one hundred years before Henry Ford “invented” the assembly line. He is known as the father of woodworking machinery.

You can see it by clicking on https://youtu.be/Z6b4u29Htxs

Do not miss the woodworking history of Portsmouth Block Mill in Chapter 3 starting at 11:04

-- Thanks to the Wood Spirit, Tom