On Monday, July 25, 2016 at 10:20:53 AM UTC-5, Electric Comet wrote:
> in another post i linked to a nice old manual
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> in there they referred to a saw bench and what i know as a table saw
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> when did the name change and why
The name hasn't changed.
> marketing or some legalese
You cited a govt book/document. Most govt agencies are ignorant and have =
their own (different) names or descriptions, for most stuff. Sometimes, th=
ey have multiple names & descriptions for the same thing, like taxes. I d=
on't think they possess a standard dictionary.=20
Sonny
On Monday, July 25, 2016 at 12:18:06 PM UTC-4, Sonny wrote:
> On Monday, July 25, 2016 at 10:20:53 AM UTC-5, Electric Comet wrote:
> > in another post i linked to a nice old manual
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> > in there they referred to a saw bench and what i know as a table saw
> >=20
> >=20
> > when did the name change and why
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> The name hasn't changed.
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> > marketing or some legalese
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> You cited a govt book/document. Most govt agencies are ignorant and hav=
e their own (different) names or descriptions, for most stuff. Sometimes, =
they have multiple names & descriptions for the same thing, like taxes. I=
don't think they possess a standard dictionary.=20
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> Sonny
It's interesting that you say that. Here is another "govt book" related to
the census in 1880 which also uses the term saw-bench for what appear to be
table saws.
The term saw-bench is used in the index. On page 188, the saws are referred
to as "saw-tables" and "saw-benches", although saw-bench is used most often
on subsequent pages.
https://books.google.com/books?id=3DLvMqAAAAMAAJ&pg=3DPR7
The following site seems to reference "table saws" as far back as the=20
late 1800's, the same time period as the census book cited above.
http://www.woodworkinghistory.com/glossary_circular_saw.htm
It seems that the term "circular saw" may have been the original name any
saw with a circular blade and that eventually "table saw" replaced "circul=
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saw" for saws with tables and "circular saw" remained the name for those
things we carry around to job sites.
There are a lot of "source" links at that woodworkinghistory site, but I=20
am unable to reach them on the computer I am currently using.
"Charles Holtzapffel, John Jacob Holtzapffel, Turning and Mechanical Manipu=
lation, by C. Holtzapffel, 1850 - Page 1473:
Circular Saws in the 1850 to 1900
New Table Saw ... LATEST tool in the Sypher-Arcon line is a table saw. -*. =
their Model 75. This new saw is a sturdy bench tool that follows large saw =
design ..."
Sonny <[email protected]> wrote in
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> On Monday, July 25, 2016 at 10:20:53 AM UTC-5, Electric Comet wrote:
>> marketing or some legalese
>
> You cited a govt book/document. Most govt agencies are ignorant and
> have their own (different) names or descriptions, for most stuff.
Worse than that, it was a Dept of Defense document. The
DoD does everything different - heck, they even have
electricity flowing in the wrong direction.
John