The boy's book of trades and the tools used in them

BRICKMAKER. MASON. BRICKLAYER. PLASTERER, &c. CARPENTER. PAINTER, &c. PLUMBER. MANUFACTURE OF GAS. IRON FOUNDER. BLACKSMITH. BRASSFOUNDER. GILDER. CABINET MAKER. FLOOR-CLOTH DIT...

The tools used for _tiling_, or placing the tiles on a roof, are the lathing hammer, the iron lathing staff to clinch the nails, the trowel, which is longer and narrower than th...

The _pincers_ are used for removing nails from wood, and it is easy to see how they are applied. There are some other tools which belong to the trade of the Joiner, but they are...

The pipe which is joined to the larger pipe, or _main_, is generally of iron, and is made with a screw and socket, that it may not be easily displaced by the pressure of the roa...

Often the purifier is divided into two compartments, so that the gas ascends through a set of sieves on the one side, and descends through another set on the other side, answeri...

The _mould_ then is a square frame, mostly of iron, filled with peculiar dark red sand, which is pressed into a firm mass, in which the patterns of the casting are imbedded and...

The trade of manufacturing floor-cloth may be said to be connected with the furnishing of the house, since this very useful covering for the floors of halls and passages is now...

The tinning of the inner surfaces of cooking utensils and other vessels of capacity is effected by scouring the surface until it is perfectly bright and clean; then heating the...

The die and swage are called _prints_ by the workpeople. Besides the bolster, the part which fastens into the handle, technically termed the _tang_, is also shaped from the piec...

The yarn is wound upon the bobbins by a curious contrivance. The bobbin fits very loosely upon the spindle, and rests on its end upon a kind of platform. The bobbin is not conne...

This stitch is used where the cloth is very thick, or hard and unyielding, and, consequently, where the stotting-stitch would quickly give way without this support. It is also b...

As a great part of the Saddlers’ work consists of sewing, he uses the _clamps_ to hold the leather between his knees, in the same way as they are used by the shoemaker; but alth...

The _dressing machine_ consists of a hollow cylinder, or frame, covered with wire cloth of different degrees of fineness, the finest being at the elevated, or upper end of the c...

The original crushing apparatus of India was a kind of squeezing mortar, made out of the hollow trunk of a tamarind tree, and worked by a yoke of oxen, the pestle or stamper bei...

The barrels are then proved by being fired at the _proof-house_, a large building where they are loaded with a charge five times as great as they will have to bear when in use....