Cold Chisel
date: label: Date made
content: 1070s
label: Date made
content: 1970s
label: date made
content: ca. 1970s
label: used date
content: 1800s-Present
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: Used with a hammer (such as the hammer, Cat 2002.0075.07) steel cold chisels aided in cutting off small to medium size bolt heads and nuts, or small rivet heads. Though typical of cold chisels made since the 1920s, this chisel was probably made in the 1970s. The owner’s name “Paulson,” appears stamped in the side. The term “cold” chisel means that the metal being cut into was not usually heated. (Many times in a shop, things made of steel would be heated with a gas torch, often to a red heat, to facilitate removal of a part).
label: Description
content: This tool is part of a collection of hand tools used in the inspection and repair of steam locomotives in the early- to the mid-20th century, roughly 1900-1955. Light repairs on steam locomotives were usually done in roundhouses at the many small locomotive terminals throughout a railroad's system; heavy repairs were done in a large, centralized repair shop serving the whole system (often referred to as the "Back Shop").
topic: label: Subject
content: Railroads
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content: Work and Industry: Transportation, Railroad
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content: Work
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content: America on the Move
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content: Transportation
label: Exhibition
content: America On The Move
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of National Park Service
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0075.08
label: catalog number
content: 2002.0075.08
label: accession number
content: 2002.0075
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Chisel, Cold
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/2 in x 3/4 in x 3/4 in; 16.51 cm x 1.905 cm x 1.905 cm