November 16, 201411 yr Someone on npr was talking about a survival website he started. Its all free info. This is the smithing section. http://www.survivorlibrary.com/?page_id=1389
November 17, 201411 yr WOW there's almost as much reading time as IFI! Seriously, excellent site, thanks for the link. Frosty The Lucky.
November 17, 201411 yr Author The guy on the radio was talking about what would happen in the event of a massive e.m.p. like a solar storm or what not. How one could download this info if there is no electricity is beyond me. None the less, they made an awesome site. There's info on everything from meteorology to sewing. All tech up to the point of around 1920. My favorite thing smith wise are a few books on ornamental ironwork. Those have eluded me thus up to today.
November 17, 201411 yr Most are pretty good, some are useless, some are so badly scanned and cropped as to be unreadable.
November 17, 201411 yr almost all of those are out of copyright and so probably available at other places; it's the list of names that is the biggest find!
November 17, 201411 yr I have started my hunt in book form and have acquired 12 of the ones I wanted so far .
November 23, 201411 yr The guy on the radio was talking about what would happen in the event of a massive e.m.p. like a solar storm or what not. How one could download this info if there is no electricity is beyond me. None the less, they made an awesome site. There's info on everything from meteorology to sewing. All tech up to the point of around 1920. My favorite thing smith wise are a few books on ornamental ironwork. Those have eluded me thus up to today. Download, save, and print now while the grid is still there!
November 23, 201411 yr Download, save, and print now while the grid is still there! But, but, but.......This is a paperless Society. There will be no more cutting of trees!!! yada..yada...yada..... :) :) :) :)
November 30, 201411 yr almost all of those are out of copyright and so probably available at other places; it's the list of names that is the biggest find! For anyone unaware, Archive.org, Openlibrary, and Project Gutenberg all have a wealth of scanned, out of copyright texts. Lots of blacksmithing, as well as architectural iron design stuff. Lots of duplicates as well. Some books seem to have had the images removed to save space, so remember to look at the notes to see if it includes illustrations.
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