Topic:

Woodworking

(The images you see on this page are digital photographs taken of actual
artifacts and objects which belong to the University Museum)


This wooden plane was used by wood workers to remove layers of wood evenly from flat surfaces.

Internet Resources:

Here are some links which will get you started in your quest for knowledge. The Internet is growing at an astounding rate. This list does not include every Website on woodworking, only the best of the sites that we visited!

Museum of Woodworking Tools Homepage at:
http://www.antiquetools.com

History of Window Sash Web page at:
http://www.outfitters.com/
com/allyn/history.html

Museum Loan Kits:

A kit is not available for the topic of woodworking.

Kits can be checked out by Illinois School Teachers free of charge. For a complete list of kit topics please visit:
educational loan kits
For more information please contact Bob DeHoet at (618) 453-5388 or email him at: drhoet@siu.edu

Printed Resources:

At this time, the Museum Explorers Library contains no books on woodworking. Please check back.

Books in this special library can be checked out by Museum Explorer teachers free of charge. Please see our Museum Explorers Library Web page.

The following is a list of printed materials about woodworking which may be available through your library:

Blackburn, Graham. (1974). The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Woodworking, Handtools, and Intstruments. Publisher: Simon and Schuster. ISBN#: 0-671-21874-3

Torre, Frank. (1978). Woodworking for Kids. Publisher: Double Day. ISBN#: 0-385-11430-3

Previous Explorer Projects:

This is a list of Museum Explorer Projects completed by teachers and students in the last three years.

There are no previous school projects completed on woodworking.

To view other school pages please visit our Museum Explorers School Pages

This traveller is a tool used to measure the length of things. Held by the wooden handle the metal wheel was run along the length of whatever is being measured, counting the number of times the wheel did a complete turn. To find out the measurement, the user would have to know the length of the outer edge of the wheel and multiply that number by the number of rotations the wheel made during the measurement.

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