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
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HowardAppel
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#1 posted 05-28-2021 11:03 PM
Thanks, very interesting.
Hoosierwoodcraft
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#2 posted 05-29-2021 01:52 AM
Glad you liked it.
To me, it was exciting to find this history.
-- Thanks to the Wood Spirit, Tom
ColoradoJake
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#3 posted 06-05-2021 11:12 PM
Good stuff, that was an interesting view.
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