THE STEEL SQUARE AND ITS USES. 



INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. 



DIVISION A. 



I will not attempt in this small treatise, to 

 give an historical account of the origin, growth 

 and development of the square, as the subject 

 has been treated of at length in my larger 

 works, as I do not care to pad out these pages 

 with matter that is not of a severely practical 

 nature. 



Suffice it to say, that while iron squares, fig- 

 ured on their faces in inches and feet, and small- 

 er divisions, have been made in England and 

 Belgium for 00 years or more, the genuine 

 steel square, as we now know it, is a purely 

 American product, and it has no equal, as no 

 European manufacturer has as yet been able to 

 turn out a square anything like as good or per- 

 fect in finish, graduation, or general get-up, as 

 Sargent & Co., of New Haven, Conn. ; Nicholls 

 Co., Ottumwa, Iowa; and The Peck, Stow & 

 Wilcox Co., Southington, Conn. Squares made 

 by any one of these firms named, may be relied 

 wpon as being as near perfect as it is possible to 



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