BDFan1981
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Does anyone remember anything about, or own, the Kelley electric router?
Dating from 1905 and invented by George L. Kelley, this predated Ray L. ("R. L.") Carter's take on the electric router by 9 years. The Carter routers were more portable than the Kelleys, and were the first definitive design of electric router.
Modern Marvels: Tool Bench (Power Tools) erroneously credited Carter's design of the portable electric router as being the very first and the year his design was first made (in 1919 as narrator Ron Hazelton had said, but it actually dates to 1914), but I want to believe his was indeed the first definitive design, as the Kelley routers were a lot heavier. Modern Marvels also suggested that Carter's design of the portable router was first made from a modified barber's clipper in Carter's garage.
Does anyone else agree that although Carter's design of the portable router wasn't the very first, but it was the first most definitive?
~Ben
Dating from 1905 and invented by George L. Kelley, this predated Ray L. ("R. L.") Carter's take on the electric router by 9 years. The Carter routers were more portable than the Kelleys, and were the first definitive design of electric router.
Modern Marvels: Tool Bench (Power Tools) erroneously credited Carter's design of the portable electric router as being the very first and the year his design was first made (in 1919 as narrator Ron Hazelton had said, but it actually dates to 1914), but I want to believe his was indeed the first definitive design, as the Kelley routers were a lot heavier. Modern Marvels also suggested that Carter's design of the portable router was first made from a modified barber's clipper in Carter's garage.
Does anyone else agree that although Carter's design of the portable router wasn't the very first, but it was the first most definitive?
~Ben
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