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April 23, In order to help track the progression of alloy steel, we've started tagging early reports of alloy steel usage in tools with an entry in the index, under the heading "Alloy Steel". We haven't finished yet, but the entries so far are showing that alloy steel usage began seeping into the tool industry well in advance of the momentous introduction of the Bonney CV line in This confirms our impression that interest in alloy steel was already very high in the s, and it was only a matter of time before the tool industry adopted the new alloys.

April 5, After a long hiatus we've started dusting off the web pages here at Alloy Artifacts. Unfortunately we found a lot of bit-rot, especially with the Google Books clips of period ads or articles — many of these had turned to gibberish, as it seems that the underlying volumes had been reorganized.

In most cases the links still went to the same volume, so we were able to find the original item and make a new clip. These clips add a lot of value to the site, but have turned out to be more fragile than expected, and we hope there won't be too many more changes. Since we were doing general maintenance anyway, we also spent some time to upgrade the web pages to the latest HTML standards, and then ran the pages through the W3C validator.

Hopefully this will help ensure that the site works well on whatever devices our visitors are using. In this flurry of mundane changes we've also been sneaking in a few additions, mostly in the form of scans of period catalogs, but with a few new trademarks and other minor improvements. Be sure to check your favorite pages for changes! May 31, As we noted a while back, today is the th anniversary of modern socket tools, based on the release of Blackhawk's interchangeable socket sets in We hope our readers will take time to review Blackhawk's socket tools, as well as the earlier sockets sets by Bay State Tool, Miller Combination Tool, Mossberg, and Walden.

May 11, We've completed our planned changes and hope that visitors with mobile devices are finding the site easier to use. Please let us know if you run into any problems! April 18, We recently started working on some long-planned changes to make the website more accessible to mobile devices, with the goal of having the site look good and work well on any kind of device.

The changes will include features such as scalable images, smarter navigation menus, folding tables, a mobile-friendly index search facility, and various layout changes.

As a demonstration of the planned changes, we've updated several pages to the newer design and invite anyone interested to try viewing them on your mobile device, or simply play around with resizing your browser window to watch the response.

We'll be adding more as time permits. April 14, We've added a new feature that lets you search the entire index using keywords such as company names, tool types, or model numbers. Just enter your search terms in the form at the top of the home page and hit 'Search', and a new page will come up with a ranked list of matching links. The search is case-insensitive and will find partial matches, so you don't need to enter the full keyword, and to look for multiple words together you can join them with an underscore e.

Although we usually don't mention the coming of a new calendar year, brings several events that should be of interest to our readers. The first is that Cornwell Quality Tools has reached their th year milestone, and we'd like to offer them a big shout-out: Congratulations on your first century!

Cornwell is the first of the modern tool-truck companies to reach the century mark, and we wish them continued success in the future. A second noteworthy event for is that the U. Beginning in , works copyrighted in or earlier are now in the public domain. Why is this important to Alloy Artifacts?

Readers familiar with the slice of history documented by this site know that many of the interesting developments in the tool industry occurred during the s and s. But until this year, anything published in or later was potentially still under copyright, under the absurdly long copyright period granted by U.

This meant that publications from on could not be presented as full text by Google Books, which has greatly hampered our ability to track developments in the tool industry. We hope that Google will act promptly to release materials published in , and that each coming year will bring new resources for historical research.

One final event will probably not be noted anywhere else except here at Alloy Artifacts, but we think it should be significant for our readers. May 31, marks the th anniversary of modern socket technology, based on the release of Blackhawk's heavy-duty interchangeable socket sets on that date in An example of one of these early sets can be seen as the Blackhawk No. Tool Sales Underway. The previously announced sale of our tool inventory is now underway.

Please refer to the Tool Sale Announcement for details. Major Policy Change. Please see the new Announcements section for a major policy change regarding our Tool Inventory Policy. Alloy Artifacts is 10! September marks the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Alloy Artifacts website. From a modest beginning with three articles and ten or twenty photographs, the site has grown to offer more than 5, photographs of tools, with historical information for dozens of tool companies.

Long-time readers may remember the "dark ages" before this site came online, when an internet search for a tool or tool company likely found nothing at all, or at best a mix of speculation and misinformation. Alloy Artifacts provides solid information in the form of photographs, references to printed material, public documents such as patents and trademarks, and when possible links to other online resources.

Correcting the record. We've just moved the "Pick-Up" wrench to a new entry for New Britain Manufacturing , based on new evidence that this company was not affiliated with New Britain Machine.

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