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Article: A Look Back at Machinery's Last Fifty Years.
- Article from:
- Wood & Wood Products
- Article date:
- December 1, 1999
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A veteran of the industry reminisces over the development of woodworking machinery during the last half of the 20th Century.
Machinery makers spent the first 40 years of this century perfecting the large numbers of newly invented woodworking machines created by the Industrial Revolution at the end of the 1800s. Some such changes included use of anti-friction bearings to replace babbitt bearings and application of electric motors to power individual machines, which thereby eliminated cumbersome lineshafts. There were countless lesser advances.
Throughout the industry, most basic woodworking machines were technically very good at the end of World War II. ...