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300022898 | grommet setters | 70051 | Most commonly a set of two objects including a small wheel and a matching die or stamp that are used to set large grommets, usually into accompanying washers. These are made in varying sizes to accommodate grommets of differing sizes. |
300022899 | leatherworking hammers | 70051 | Hammers used as a handtool for leathercraft. Of varied design, but often with a slightly convex face on the hammerhead that helps prevent marring leather. |
300022902 | leatherworking knives | 70051 | General term for knives used for cutting and working leather. |
300022919 | lacing pliers | 70051 | Pliers used for leatherworking with a long thin nose used to grip lacing when it is difficult to pull or needs to be reached through layers of leather. |
300022920 | lacing ponies | 70051 | Implements like vises, used to hold pieces of leather together while they are being stitched. |
300022921 | lapstones | 70051 | Stones or iron plates which are held in the lap on which a shoemaker hammers leather. |
300024644 | bag bellows | 70051 | Fire-making tools involving a bag, usually made from animal skin, with an attached nozzle and an opening that could be closed by gathering the bag material by hand to force air through the nozzle. |
300024645 | drum bellows | 70051 | Air-blowing tools of varied design but that share an attached pair of bowl-like chambers with long ducts emerging from the base of each. A diaphragm is fitted over each chamber, and these are manipulated to draw and force air from the bellows. |
300024646 | piston bellows | 70051 | Bellows in which the draft is supplied by the action of a piston. |
300165113 | fenders | 70051 | Low often ornamental fences of iron or brass set before a hearth to confine coals and ash. |
300024647 | fire fans | 70051 | Devices used to manually agitate air to excite fires. |
300024648 | fire sticks | 70051 | Implements used for stirring up a fire. |
300024649 | matches | 70051 | Pieces of wood, paper, cord, cloth, or another material dipped in melted sulfur, phosphorus, or another composition that is readily ignited by friction with a flint or when rubbed against a roughened surface, or when brought into contact with a chemical reagent. Sulfur matches were recorded in China by the 6th century.... |
300022400 | blocking presses | 70051 | Presses used for stamping designs on a book cover. |
300022402 | book presses | 70051 | Presses, often screw presses, having a platen and base held together under pressure; used to apply even pressure on newly bound books as they dry. For presses of similar design, but allowing a tighter pressure of platen and base to make copies from single sheets, use "copy presses." |
300033471 | electrodes | 70051 | Conductors, such as metallic substances or carbon, used to establish electrical contact with a non-metallic portion of a circuit. |
300033472 | insulators | 70051 | Bodies of electrically non-conducting material used for keeping charged conductors from contact with each other or from grounding and often also for supporting them. Usually refers to objects of glass or porcelain that support telephone or power lines, but that do not carry current. |
300024548 | lasers | 70051 | Devices that generate electromagnetic radiation in the ultraviolet, visible, or infrared spectrum, in the form of a very narrow continuous or intermittent beam. Originally an acronym for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation;" the first functional laser was built by Theodore H. Maiman (1927-2007), an... |
300024550 | oscillators | 70051 | Electronic devices that produce oscillatory electrical signals. Commonly used to create sine, square, or sawtooth sound waves for testing purposes or for electronic music. |
300033473 | resistors | 70051 | A passive device used in electronic circuitry to impede or control the flow of current. |
300033474 | rheoscopes | 70051 | Refers to an instrument used to determine the presence of electrical current. |
300033475 | rheostats | 70051 | A resistor that functions through manual or mechanical means to vary the flow of electrical current, or resistance, to a source. |
300033476 | rheotomes | 70051 | Refers to a device used to interrupt electric current, now used historically. |
300024369 | self-rake reapers | 70051 | Mechanical harvesting devices pulled by horses that could both reap grain and rake the cut crops off of a platform in bunches, ready to be bound. |
300024372 | bow cradles | null | null |
300024417 | fish gaffs | 70051 | Gaffs with a large iron hook at the end for securing large fish. |
300024421 | fishing rigs | 70051 | The assembly or compilation of items used for fishing, including sinkers, hooks, swivels, and other gear on a fishing line. |
300024422 | fishing rods | 70051 | Long slender tapering rods to which lines are attached for angling. |
300215747 | medicine spoons | 70051 | Spoons of various forms, designed to administer liquid medicine and having calibration or otherwise indicating the amount contained in the spoon. One common form is a handle having a bowl on both ends, one measuring a tablespoon and the other a teaspoon. Another form is a glass or porcelain oblong cup with a spout for ... |
300024515 | psychological equipment | 70051 | Any objects, tools, or printed matter used while conducting psychological examinations of individuals or groups. |
300080597 | surgical instruments | 70051 | Tools and devices used to carry out surgeries, both invasive surgery or non-invasive surgery, including tools for modifying bodily tissue and providing access for viewing it. |
300022937 | split-lacing needles | 70051 | Lacing needles designed so that the lacing his held in place on the needle by a two-pronged clip formed at one end. The lacing is then drawn through slits or punched holes made for stitching together multiple pieces of leather or other materials. |
300022940 | side-cutting pliers | 70051 | Hand tools principally used for holding, bending, and cutting thin materials or small gage wire. These vary in size. The jaws are hollow on one side opposite the cutting edges, in addition to having a flat, serrated tip or nose that can be used as a grip or to twist wire ends into a splice. For similar tools with gripp... |
300022952 | stipplers | 70051 | Hand tools with multiple metal points imbedded into a handle used to impress dots into the surface of leather as a decorative motif. |
300023396 | casing knives | 70051 | Knives used by paper hangers for trimming wall paper at baseboards and around window and door frames . |
300023398 | mat knives | 70051 | Knife-like hand held cutting tools used for cutting mat board, often in combination with a separate straight edge. For devices having a cutting edge and straight edge mounted together, use "mat cutters." |
300023400 | mat cutters | 70051 | Devices having a razor-sharp blade mounted with a straight edge, and so-designed to cut matboard; may be used for straight cutting or for bevel cutting of mat windows. For hand held, knife-like devices, use "mat knives." |
300023431 | niddy-noddies | 70051 | Hand reels used to skein and measure yarn, consisting of a bar with shorter horizontal bars at either end around which spun wool is wound in a figure-of-eight movement. |
300023467 | hemming birds | 70051 | Sewing clamps used to keep fabric taut, usually made of bronze, and topped with the image of a bird. |
300023470 | ball-point needles | 70051 | Needles having rounded tips, used for sewing knits and other materials where it is desirable to shift fibers rather than piercing or snagging fibers. |
300024391 | hobbles | 70051 | Ropes, straps, clogs, or other contrivances used on the legs of a horse or other animal to limit its movement, to prevent it from straying or kicking. |
300024399 | hoof rasps | 70051 | Tools used to shape or smooth the rough edges of the hooves of farm animals after trimming. |
300022406 | standing presses | 70051 | Heavy vertical presses used for pressing newly bound books, pressure being applied by lowering a platen by means of a long central screw, today used primarily for hand-bound books. A larger version (nearly twice the size) was formerly used to squeeze the moisture out of large sheets of newly-made paper; today most pape... |
300022671 | process lenses | 70051 | Lenses designed specifically for the highest quality reproduction of flat, two-dimensional originals; used mostly in the printing industry. |
300024335 | spades | 70051 | Tools intended for cutting, digging, or removing earth or turf, in the form of a wooden haft attached to an oblong metal blade. The haft usually has a cross-bar or handle at the end for grasping while forcing the metal blade into the ground with the foot. The blade itself is often formed to accommodate foot pressure. F... |
300024339 | tillers | 70051 | Implements of various designs used for tilling soil. |
300024343 | balers | 70051 | Any type of machinery used for the purpose of baling hay or straw. |
300024345 | combines | 70051 | Large vehicular pieces of agricultural machinery that perform various functions associated with harvesting, such as cutting, threshing, and bagging grain. These are generally equipped with a seat for the operator who drives it. |
300161778 | corn husking tools | null | null |
300024347 | ensilage choppers | null | null |
300024349 | flails | 70051 | Implements consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter staff or club, called a swingle or swipple, is so hung as to swing freely. One example is used for threshing corn. |
300024351 | forks | 70051 | Agricultural tools consisting of a long straight handle, furnished at the end with two or more large prongs, and used for carrying, digging, lifting, or tossing. |
300024356 | hay crooks | 70051 | Tool used to pull hay towards sickle. |
300024553 | transistors | 70051 | Semiconductor devices used to amplify, control, or modify electrical current. Transistors perform the same function as a vacuum tube while requiring less power and producing less heat. |
300024491 | mattocks | 70051 | Hand-held implements having a long shaft mounted with a curved metal head with a sharpened point at one end and an adze-like blade at the other; for similar implements, but lacking the adze-like blade, use "pick-axes." |
300024493 | pickaxes | 70051 | Tools consisting of a long shaft mounted with a curved metal head with a sharpened point at one end, used for breaking up earth or rock. |
300024596 | electron microscopes | 70051 | Microscopes in which a beam of electrons is focused by means of magnetic and electrostatic lenses onto a specimen and scattered by it to produce an image. The resolving power and the magnification of an electron microscope are much greater than can be obtained with an optical icroscope. microscope. The specimen must be... |
300024597 | petrographic microscopes | 70051 | Microscopes that employ polarized light that vibrates in a single plane so that light can be transmitted through the specimen. It is used to examine thin sections of rocks and minerals. |
300024434 | seines | 70051 | Large nets having one edge provided with sinkers and the other with floats that hangs vertically in the water and encloses fish when its ends are brought together or drawn ashore. |
300022668 | anastigmats | 70051 | Lenses corrected for astigmatism, so that they bring both vertical and horizontal lines to a focus in the same plane. |
300022670 | apochromats | 70051 | Lenses corrected to bring the three primary colors of the spectrum to common focus. |
300024353 | pitchforks | 70051 | Hand-held long handled forks with two or three sharp, somewhat curved prongs, used for pitching hay, straw, and sheaves and breaking soil. |
300024591 | magnifiers | 70051 | Lenses or fixed combinations of lenses used to increase the apparent size of an object when viewed directly. An example of a magnifier is as used in a magnifying glass. |
300023530 | tjantings | 70051 | Reed or bamboo pens used to apply hot wax to batik work. The hot wax is poured into a copper bowl at the tip the pen and exits through a thin needle. |
300024282 | manure spreaders | null | null |
300024285 | garden trowels | null | null |
300023483 | tracing wheels | 70051 | Wheels either smooth or serrated, used to transfer pattern markings to fabric. |
300023486 | bodkins | 70051 | Small pointed instruments for piercing holes in cloth. |
300023485 | bobbins | 70051 | Any of various small, round, or cylindrical devices usually of bone, wood, or metal on which threads are wound for use in textile fabrication. |
300024545 | dry-cell batteries | 70051 | Use to describe chemical batteries in which the electrolyte is held in a solid such as cardboard or a paste. |
300022927 | collar awls | 70051 | Awls having a half-moon or bent shape, often in the form of an eye-pointed needle and designed for use in sewing horses' collars or similar items. |
300022929 | harness awls | 70051 | Awls used in making holes for stitching harnesses; some varieties have a needle inserted in a tubular shank, with a feed for thread and means of creating an interlocking stitch. |
300022930 | seat awls | 70051 | Long, slender pointed awls used to regulate the stuffing in collars and saddles or for leveling thread. |
300179711 | candlelighters | 70051 | Instruments comprising a long pole or handle to which is affixed a wick or other lighting mechanism, used to light the candles located above convenient reach in a church. A candle snuffer is sometimes attached. |
300024277 | dry-powder dusters | null | null |
300024280 | fertilizer spreaders | null | null |
300024297 | garden rakes | 70051 | Hand-held rakes of moderate size, used in gardening and landscaping. |
300024283 | garden tools | 70051 | Tools made for gardens and gardening, and by extension with the range of tools made for agriculture and horticulture. |
300024287 | hedge clippers | 70051 | Implements for clipping off small or medium-sized stems and branches from hedges and other woody or bushy plants; characterized by having sharp edges that meet or only slightly cross. For scissors-like implements for hedges, where the blades are long and cross, prefer "hedge shears," although usage overlaps. |
300024288 | hedge shears | 70051 | Relatively large hand-held shears used to cut and shape hedges, and to otherwise cut stems, small branches, and leaves of bushes and other plants in a garden or landscaping environment. For implements used to cut somewhat thicker stems or small branches, where the sharpened edges meet rather than cross, prefer "hedge c... |
300024290 | mowers | null | null |
300266529 | rulers | 70051 | Straight-edged strips or cylinders of medium size, usually of wood, metal, plastic, or ivory and having demarcations to indicate units of measurement, used for measuring and for guiding a pen, pencil, or other marking-instrument in forming straight lines upon paper or another material. They are used in geometry, drafti... |
300187048 | animal carpets | 70051 | Designation given to many types of rugs of Anatolian, Iranian or Indian origin, based not on the style of rug but a descriptor of the animal motifs on the rugs. |
300193690 | border-patterned rugs | 70051 | Rugs having a field divided into stripes, each ornamented with a pattern usually seen in borders. |
300024953 | heddles | 70051 | In weaving; refers to the cords, wires, or steel strips that the warp passes through in a loom after passing through the reed, that allows the warp threads to be separated, allowing the shuttle to pass through the weft. Heddles are considered a major advance in the development of weaving technology. |
300024954 | loomblocks | 70051 | Large sandstone blocks with holes for inserting a wooden stick, used in looms; the sticks are used to arrange warp threads when setting up a vertical loom. Examples of use are the Hopi and other southwestern Native Americans. |
300024956 | shaft sticks | 70051 | Implements which are inserted into the warp threads as they are prepared for the loom, and keep the different sheds separate while the loom is being threaded. |
300023442 | darning eggs | 70051 | Smooth shapes, often in the shape of an egg, over which fabrics are stretched for repair. |
300023443 | darning mushrooms | 70051 | Mushroom-shaped forms over which fabric is stretched for repair. |
300023444 | dress forms | 70051 | Frames, often made of wire, used as a fitting model in making dresses. Often custom shaped to the person for whom the dress is designed. |
300024958 | shed sticks | 70051 | Components of a loom, comprising sticks inserted close to the heddle rod of a frame loom. By pushing down or pulling up on the shed stick, the weaver forms a countershed. |
300024961 | stick shuttles | 70051 | Weaving shuttles of a stick shape, often having openings in the middle or on either end. |
300024409 | bird traps | 70051 | Traps of various designs used to capture or kill birds. |
300024410 | insect traps | 70051 | Traps of various designs used to capture insects or other arthropods for pest control or other purposes. |
300024411 | mousetraps | 70051 | Describes devices that either trap a live mouse which can later be released, or those that kill mice attracted by bait. |
300060056 | bird feeders | 70051 | Devices or small structures, either freestanding or attached to trees or buildings, designed to hold and dispense feed such as seeds, suets, and sugar water, for feral birds. |
300024386 | currycombs | 70051 | Combs made of rows of metallic teeth or serrated ridges; used especially in grooming a horse. |
300186728 | Alcaraz carpets | 70051 | Early Spanish rugs characterized by a woolen pile tied with Spanish knots to an undyed woolen foundation, generally somber in color, often with a red ground and geometrical design motifs reminiscent of Classic Anatolian rugs. |
300197404 | Chila | 70051 | Style of textiles, particularly rugs, characterized by a higher pile than other Shirvan rugs. They are flat and tightly woven with a red ground color and the central field dominated by three large hooked octagons, the middle one of which is almost invariably white. |
300024360 | harvesting knives | 70051 | Knives of various kinds used for harvesting. |
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