H.G. “Skip” Brack, founder of Liberty Tool Company, has written a number of books focused on the history of tools, technology, and early American industries.
His work draws on decades of experience collecting, studying, and documenting tools from across New England. You can find all of his books on Amazon using the links below, and see them on the second floor of Liberty Tool in the library.
Phenomenology of Tools: Philosophical Observations on the Nature of Tool Wielding
Steel- and Toolmaking Strategies and Techniques Before 1870 (Hand Tools in History Book 6)
The Classic Period of American Toolmaking, 1827-1930
Tools Teach: An Iconography of American Hand Tools (Hand Tools in History)
Art of the Edge Tool: The Ferrous Metallurgy of New England Shipsmiths and Toolmakers (Davistown Museum Publication Series; Hand Tools in History)
An Archaeology of Tools: The Tool Collections of the Davistown Museum (Hand Tools in History)
Registry of Maine Toolmakers: A Compilation of Toolmakers Working in Maine and the Province of Maine Prior to 1900 (Davistown Museum Publication)
Handbook for Ironmongers: A Glossary of Ferrous Metallurgy Terms: A Voyage through the Labyrinth of Steel- and Toolmaking Strategies and Techniques They Engendered (Hand Tools in History)
Norumbega Reconsidered: Mawooshen and the Wawenoc Diaspora
