Transcriber’s Notes
Inconsistent hyphenation and spelling have been retained except as mentioned under Changes made below.
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Page 35, ... being careful to hold so as to get the full benefit ...: part of the sentence appears to be missing.
Page 79, Paragraph starting The gage of wire for nails and the gage of wire for screws ...: the size of Figs. 132 and 135 in this text depend on the display used, and are, of course, not necessarily displayed in their true size.
Pages 132-133: Figs. 214 and 213 appear in reverse order in the source document.
Page 146, paragraph starting Hickory excels as carriage and wagon stock ...: the repeated paragraph is also repeated in the source document; ... giving rise to “curly” and blister” figures ...: should be either “curly and blister” or “curly” and “blister”.
Page 156, Wood stains are cheap ...: possibly an error for Water stains are cheap ....
Changes made
Several obvious minor typographical errors have been corrected silently. Some punctuation inconsistencies in illustration captions and references have been standardised.
Texts in a dashed box does not occur as text in the source document; but has been transcribed from the accompanying illustration.
Captions with Figs. 95, 119, 193: dashes have been added to some of the entries for consistency.
Page 9: heading PART I. TOOLS AND ELEMENTARY PROCESSES. has been inserted cf. the Table of Contents.
Page 43: A True and smooth ... has been replaced with 1. True and smooth ....
Page 98: ... Chapter I, Sec-1 ... has been changed to ... Chapter I, Section 1 ....
Page 116: PART THREE has been changed to PART III for consistency.
Page 138: dicotyledon has been changed to dicotyledons.
Page 171: bicromate has been changed to bichromate.