10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WAGONWRIGHT»
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1
Early American Crafts and Occupations Coloring Book
A wagonwright of 1775. The wagonwright built wagons, carts, plows and harrows
. The wagonwright seen here is using a tapered auger to shape the center hole
for the axle spindle of a wagon. Brickmaking in 1774. Two brickmakers are ...
2
A History of Greece, 1300 to 30 BC
Another tablet shows that this same Cretheus held the lease on the ktoina
kekhesmena of the “Wagonwright of the Lawagetas” (Ea 809). That is, the
wagonwright had received land from the damos (in com- pensation for his
services to the ...
Me—settledown insome dreary villageasthe wifeofa common wagonwright or
brewer?” His wholebody blushing with anger and humiliation, he still tried to
persuade her. “Bettera cosy little housewecould call ourown and go off tobed
early ofa ...
4
Industrial Revolution in America: Iron and Steel, Railroads, ...
... the 1830s it seemed that every blacksmith, tinker, and ironworker, every
wagonwright, carriagesmith, and boilermaker—all the craftsmen of America—
wanted to build a better locomotive” (Brown 1977). There were also opportunities
in ...
Kevin Hillstrom, Laurie Collier Hillstrom, 2005
Saturday, January 11, 1777 York Town Pennsylvania It was two days later when
Hertzli Conrad was told he had been billeted with the family of a Moravian
wagonwright Ezekial Trompe. Trompe lived along a southwest branch of
Conestoga ...
6
South Pass: Gateway to a Continent
Yet when westbound wagonwright Chauncey Webb, who had built some of the
1856 carts, met the handcart missionaries at Devils Gate, he “found them
completely jaded and worn out.”77 The first reports from the missionaries had
hailed the ...
7
Diocletian and the Tetrarchy
... denarii worker in tessellated floors, with maintenance daily 50 denarii wall
painter, with maintenance daily 75 denarii figure painter, with maintenance daily
1 50 denarii wagonwright, with maintenance daily 50 denarii blacksmith, for
wagons, ...
8
Handbook of Ugaritic Studies
15 hrs 'craftsman' 428, 488 hrs anyt 'shipwright' 427, 432, 489 hrs b(h)tm 'house-
builders' 427, 453, 489 hrs mrkbt 'chariot-maker' 450, 489 hrs'rq 'wagonwright'
450, 489 hrs qtn 'jeweller(?)' 453 hri 'ploughman' 426 hit 'silver' 130 hbrt ...
Wilfred G. E. Watson, Nicolas Wyatt, 1999
9
So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and ...
Joel Palmer said the tires should be at least 1% inches wide, “two inches,
however, is the most common width,” but three inches was even better.112 “If the
wheel had been made correctly and the tire had the proper draft,” Arizona
wagonwright ...
10
The California Trail: An Epic with Many Heroes
A reliable wagonwright would have his shop stocked with well-seasoned maple,
poplar, hickory, ash, Osage orange, beech, elm, and oak.* The tires were of iron,
and iron was used for reinforcement at critical points. But very liberal use of iron ...
