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Other books in the series: Farm Appliances * Farm Blacksmithing * Farm Conveniences * Farm Machinery * Farm Motors * Fences, Gates and Bridges * Handy Farm Devices * Harris on the Pig * The Homestead Builder * Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties * Village and Country ResidencesThe Lyons Press has put out an extensive series of reprints of practical books in the spirit of the Foxfire books. Like them, this series of classics comes from the source of old-timey know-how. The books present immense detail and practical and complete references, particularly since most in the series (which includes fourteen titles) were intended as textbooks. The original texts were first published between 1880 and 1937, but the bulk of the information is as applicable today as it was a hundred years ago.

Here we have the rhythm of the book, which resembles the surface of a pond disturbed by a thrown pebble. Anyway, there are screws in Ramelli''s book, presuming absent screwdrivers, and we have retreated another century.De Re Metallica backs up again, to 1556, with the illustration of a slotted screw to attach the leather to a bellows. An illustrated manuscript of 1475 to 1490--a sort of household manual for a castle--shows slotted screws fastening a leg iron and a pair of manacles--castle staples. This train of thought leads the author to war, a great stimulus to invention, witness radar and the jet engine. Pollard''s History of Firearms illustrates a fifteenth-century German equivalent of the sawed-off shotgun in which the stock is screwed to the metal. Research in the Metropolitan Museum of Art turned up a screw of the 1480s attaching parts of a suit of armor. Screws were slotted with a hacksaw and the threads were filed by hand until, in 1760, Job and William Wyatt in Staffordshire patented a machine that turned out more consistent screws at the rate of one about every six seconds. The author comments that, a century before the industrial revolution, "their factory was the earliest example of an industrial process designed specifically to shift control over the quality of what was being produced from the skilled artisan to the machine itself"