Marcus Tidey, inventor of the modern table saw

Wow ,thanks Loren ,cool

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Very cool….

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Don’t you just love those old machines? Thanks for the post, Loren.

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Very interesting…!

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Really interesting read. I like that kind of stuff a lot. Learning about these incredible minds that solve these problems we all have. So this is the guy we have to thank for sending us all on the eternal quest of the greatest table saw…......

-- Just trying to build something beautiful

That’s an amazing story, and what beautiful machines. I admire the ornateness of some of the cast iron work of yore. You rarely see that kind of thing nowadays—everything’s strictly utilitarian.

By the way, I believe the first circular saw was invented by a Shaker woman. The Shakers had quite a furniture manufacturing enterprise going. It was one of their chief sources of funds.