in another post i linked to a nice old manual

in there they referred to a saw bench and what i know as a table saw


when did the name change and why

marketing or some legalese

table saw is an okay name i guess

On Monday, July 25, 2016 at 10:20:53 AM UTC-5, Electric Comet wrote:
in another post i linked to a nice old manual

in there they referred to a saw bench and what i know as a table saw


when did the name change and why

The name hasn't changed.

marketing or some legalese

You cited a govt book/document. Most govt agencies are ignorant and have their own (different) names or descriptions, for most stuff. Sometimes, they have multiple names & descriptions for the same thing, like taxes. I don't think they possess a standard dictionary.

Sonny

On Monday, July 25, 2016 at 12:18:06 PM UTC-4, Sonny wrote:
On Monday, July 25, 2016 at 10:20:53 AM UTC-5, Electric Comet wrote:
in another post i linked to a nice old manual

in there they referred to a saw bench and what i know as a table saw


when did the name change and why

The name hasn't changed.

marketing or some legalese

You cited a govt book/document. Most govt agencies are ignorant and have their own (different) names or descriptions, for most stuff. Sometimes, they have multiple names & descriptions for the same thing, like taxes. I don't think they possess a standard dictionary.

Sonny

It's interesting that you say that. Here is another "govt book" related to
the census in 1880 which also uses the term saw-bench for what appear to be
table saws.

The term saw-bench is used in the index. On page 188, the saws are referred
to as "saw-tables" and "saw-benches", although saw-bench is used most often
on subsequent pages.

https://books.google.com/books?id=LvMqAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR7

The following site seems to reference "table saws" as far back as the
late 1800's, the same time period as the census book cited above.

http://www.woodworkinghistory.com/gl...rcular_saw.htm

It seems that the term "circular saw" may have been the original name any
saw with a circular blade and that eventually "table saw" replaced "circular
saw" for saws with tables and "circular saw" remained the name for those
things we carry around to job sites.

There are a lot of "source" links at that woodworkinghistory site, but I
am unable to reach them on the computer I am currently using.

"Charles Holtzapffel, John Jacob Holtzapffel, Turning and Mechanical Manipulation, by C. Holtzapffel, 1850 - Page 1473:

Circular Saws in the 1850 to 1900

New Table Saw ... LATEST tool in the Sypher-Arcon line is a table saw. -*. their Model 75. This new saw is a sturdy bench tool that follows large saw design ..."

Sonny wrote in
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On Monday, July 25, 2016 at 10:20:53 AM UTC-5, Electric Comet wrote:

marketing or some legalese

You cited a govt book/document. Most govt agencies are ignorant and
have their own (different) names or descriptions, for most stuff.

Worse than that, it was a Dept of Defense document. The
DoD does everything different - heck, they even have
electricity flowing in the wrong direction.

John