Philip A. Cannon II
Collector
Antique tools of any type.
Especially interested in US manufactured 19c. measuring devices.
Collecting old photographs of tools in use.
Studying Rufus Porter: inventor, artist and founder of Scientific American magazine.

Special Antique Tool Interests

Measuring devices:information about them, what are they, who made 'em, marked 'em, etc.

Calculating devices:
information about them, what are they, who made 'em, marked 'em, etc.

Links
to tool collecting organisations.

Some 19th century engravings of people at work making:
Needles Fishhooks Files


Rufus Porter Study

Artist, musician, teacher,
promotor, inventor and founder
of Scientific American magazine

Rufus Porter

A 20th Century man
born in the 18th &
lived in the 19th Century


Personal Info

Resume

Bio

Preface

"mylist"
A 1000+ links
to everything


Other Interests

Photo essay "Forging tongs"

Galootapalooza XI--
 
Do you know what happened to the Mayflower?

Google
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