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I guess the guy missed that power cord and electrical switch too. I guess if a number is stamped on something that must be when it was made. Hey I think I have a Porter Cable router that was made in 892. I'll bet it is worth some REAL cash.
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Well sure, but the computerized mechanisms on them were much slower than those we have now!
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That's a woodwork bench not a tablesaw
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It seems possible based on this snippet from Wikipedia.
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In the United States, perhaps the first recorded patent for the circular saw was issued in 1777 to an English man, Samuel Miller; it refers to a circular saw that was created in Holland in the 16th or 17th centuries.[4] The 1885 catalog of the W.F. & John Barnes Co., Rockford, Il. clearly shows a classic table saw and it is labeled as a "Hand [Powered] Circular Rip Saw".
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Didn't you ever watch Little House on the Prairie? I admit to being a regular viewer when I was a kid and I seem to recall that the father worked in a saw mill that had a tablesaw.
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I'm thinking he never actually says its "from the year 1839". He may be implying that, but he doesn't actually say it.
Just my thought,
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His was not, but there were table saws back then and they were make with peddles or like a foot powered lathe.
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