RailroadTreasures offers the following item:   America’s Wooden Age Aspects of its Early Technology Hindle Soft Cover Loose Pgs   Americas Wooden Age:  Aspects of its Early Technology Edited by Brooke Hindle Soft Cover 218 pages Copyright 1985 TABLE OF CONTENTS Editor's Note to the Paperback Edition2 Introduction: The Span of the Wooden Age Brooke Hindle3 The Forest Society of New England Charles F. Carroll13 America's Rise to Woodworking Leadership Nathan Rosenberg37 Early Lumbering: A Pictorial Essay Charles E. Peterson63 Artisans in Wood: The Mathematical Instrument-Makers Silvio A. Bedini85 Colonial Watermills in the Wooden Age Charles Howell120 Waterpower in the Century of the Steam Engine Louis C. Hunter160 NOTES193 FURTHER READINGS211 CONTRIBUTORS213 INDEX216 White OaksFrontis Eighteenth-century wooden fences22 Framing of New England dwellings3 Details of framing26-27 Indians building dugout canoe27 Board warehouse, Saugus Iron Works30 Seventeenth-century construction techniques30 Up-and-down-sawmill31 Vertical or sash saw45 Daniel planer50 Blanchard lathe52 European mills, 166264-65 Sawmill at Zaandam, Holland67 Lumbering in Maine and New Brunswick, 185869 Rafts at the mouth of the St. Croix, Wisconsin, 185469 Spofford-Morse sawmill before moving71 Sawmill sketch, 177773 Oliver Evans' sawmill, 179575 Broadside for Ralston portable sawmill, 185577 Robert Law's shingle machine, 185879 Four-horse mill at Upper Canada Village, Ontario81 Disston long saw83 Blandy portable steam engine and sawmill, 186784 Dry-card compass, 18th c.87 Backstaff made by Joseph Holbeche, 173890 Details of Holbeche backstaff91 Octant, late 18th c.95 Brass surveying compass, late 18th c.97 Wooden surveying compass99 Engraved compass card, 18th c.101 Wooden semi-circumferentor, late 18th c.104 Wooden surveying compendium, late 18th c. or early 19th c.104 Surveying instrument made of hickory, late 18th c.105 Terrestrial globe107 Portable table orrery, late 18th c. or early 19th c.109 Little Navigator, shop figure115 Father Time, shop figure118 Primitive methods of grinding grain122 Horizontal wheel, at rest123 Horizontal wheel with spoon-shaped blades123 Shaft of tub wheel, Oakdale, L.I.126 Reconstructed tub wheel, Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Mass.126 Overshot wheel129 Pitchback wheel130 Breast-shot wheel131 Undershot wheel132 Wooden raceway, Philipsburg Manor, Upper Mills, North Tarrytown, N.Y.136 Diagram of mill operation141 Action of millstones145 Millstone furrows147 Miller dressing millstone151 Commercial mill158 Navigable rivers in England166-67 Basin of the Merrimack River182 All pictures are of the actual item.  If this is a railroad item, this material is obsolete and no longer in use by the railroad.  Please email with questions. Publishers of Train Shed Cyclopedias and Stephans Railroad Directories. Large inventory of railroad books and magazines. Thank you for buying from us. Shipping charges Postage rates quoted are for shipments to the US only.    Ebay Global shipping charges are shown. These items are shipped to Kentucky and then ebay ships them to you. Ebay collects the shipping and customs / import fees.   For direct postage rates to these countries, send me an email.   Shipping to Canada and other countries varies by weight. Payment options Payment must be received within 10 days. Paypal is accepted. Terms and conditions All sales are final. Returns accepted if item is not as described.  Contact us first.  No warranty is stated or implied. Please e-mail us with any questions before bidding.    Thanks for looking at our items.