Kenneth D Cope

Stevens Pistols and Pocket Rifles

American Wrench Makers: 1830-1930

Carriage and Wagon Makers' Machinery and Tools

American Planer, Shaper, and Slotter Builders, 1830-1910

Kenneth Cope

For the musician, see Kenneth Cope (musician). Kenneth Cope (born 14 April 1931) is an English actor. He is most famous for his roles as Marty Hopkirk in...

More Makers of American Machinist's Tools

Here is the much-anticipated sequel to the author s Makers of American Machinist s Tools and American Machinist s Tools: An Illustrated Directory of Patents, pioneering works on machinist s tools and their makers. These books together provide the most comprehensive historical directory ever of the m...

Kitchen Collectibles: An Identification Guide

Kitchen gadgets, tools, and appliances, like those found in your grandmother's kitchen, have become major collectibles, bringing increasingly higher prices. Yet, how can you put a value on an item that you can't identify? Here is the first book to concentrate on the identification of kitchen collect...

American Lathe Builders, 1810-1910

Once again, Ken Cope has produced a major new reference work that broadens our range of understanding of the history of technological innovation. This is the first book to identify American lathe builders operating throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. Written in the style of the author’s pr...

American Steam Engine Builders

Here is the companion volume to Ken Cope's previous works on machine tools, carriage making machinery and cooperage machinery. Factories filled with the machinery described in the previous works, from the smallest drill presses to giant planers, could not have existed without a reliable and ...

Greater Than Us All: Gift Book with CD

One of the most beloved LDS songs of our time, Greater Than Us All, was originally published in 1989 by award-winning singer/songwriter Kenneth Cope. Revered for its timeless message about the plan of salvation, it s the perfect way to commemorate the Easter season or to share the gospel message wit...

Carriage and Wagon Makers' Machinery and Tools

Here again is one of Ken Cope's major reference works on the history of technological innovation. The use of machinery to replace hand tools began earlier in carriage and wagon building than in other 19th century trades, and lasted longer. It was primarily concerned with wheelmaking, one of the most...

American Wrench Makers: 1830-1930, Second Edition

In response to popular demand, Ken Cope has fully and completely revised his original groundbreaking book on the wrench, one of the most mechanically intriguing of all tools. In this revision, the author covers an additional 20 years of wrench-making and adds almost 200 new entries to his identifica...

American Cooperage Machinery and Tools

Through the second half of the 19th century and into the 20th, barrel makers followed the same path taken by many other woodworkers . . . they moved from hand tools to the large, efficient new machines that were the products of the Industrial Revolution. They built factories to house the machines an...