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2569. Sent in by a visitor who is looking to identify this device, text on it reads "Made by Wm. A. Phillips Medical and Dental Electrical Specialties St. Louis":

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2570. 10" long:

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2571. 18" long, take a look at Neatorama for more guesses and a chance to win a T-shirt:
























2572. 6" long:

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2573. 9" long:

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2574. 10-1/2" long, another unidentified tool, it was found in someone's great grandfather's medical kit, who practiced medicine up until 1910:

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2569. Possible answers for this device:
-a rheostat as mentioned in patent number 933,723, which is entitled "Composition of matter and method of making the same" by inventor William A. Phillips of St. Louis
-a cautery transformer similar to the one on this page
-for adjusting signals to a pair of headphones, to test hearing sensitivity
-a quack medical device

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2570. This is a broom pounder or broom hammer, it was used to compress the broom corn and tighten the wire as the corn was fastened to the handle.

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2571. This is a wrench for turning the nut on the inner end of a tooth in the cylinder of a threshing machine, seen in use in patent number 793,729 below:



Not sure exactly which patent is for this tool, it could be number 711,422:



Or possibly 754,069:




























2572. A .30 caliber Tribuzio palm pistol:

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2573. These are lobster shears and are almost identical to poultry shears or general purpose kitchen shears:

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2574. No luck finding a definitive answer yet for this tool, the most common guess for it is that's it a cautery iron although others disagree with this answer:

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Set 442

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2563. Sent in by a visitor who is looking to identify these cylinders, they are 1-1/4" diameter and 3/4" to 1" tall. Three boxes of them were found in a relative's garage. They're a black/red/green bakelite-type hard plastic with metal profiles embedded in one side and ID numbers on the other side. Almost all just have a number on them, but a few have dates from mid-60s (8/18/65 and 1967) and company names Holcroft and Bendix Pinion:

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2564. Around 9' tall, take a look at Neatorama for more guesses and a chance to win a T-shirt:































2565. 6" long, sent in by a reader of this site:

























2566. Submmitted by a visitor who is looking to find the exact purpose of this tool:




























2567. Around 3" diameter, this was found by someone in Murray, Idaho, an old gold mining community started about 1887. It is made of copper and has a solder seam:



























2568. 5-1/4" long:

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2563. These are metallurgical cross section samples for microscopic examination by students or researchers, the numbers on them would correspond to a chart that contained information about each specific type of metal:

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2564. A ramp for loading barrels or kegs onto a beer truck:































2565. This is a combining tube from a Sellers lifting injector. Here is the owner's description of it: "An injector is a device for forcing feedwater into a boiler. They have no moving parts, unlike a pump, and all steam used is returned to the boiler as condensed water. A marvel of thermodynamics. A lifting injector can produce a vacuum on the feedwater line from the water tank and lift water to the device for forcing. This is what the middle slot is for. A non-lifting injector must be mounted below the waterline of the tank (or have a low-pressure pump to feed it) so water will flow to the unit by gravity."

























2566. No answer yet for this tool, the only other shovel that I've seen with a bent handle is a sod lifter:




























2567. This is probably a decorative piece for a riverboat model, a lamp, a still, or something similar:



























2568. A glass worker's tool for snapping off scored glass:

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