Antiquity Of The Saw

Pliny says that the saw was flrst invented by Daedalus, but aocordlng to Apollodorus, it was the inventlon of Talus, who used the jawbone of a crocodlle to cut through a piece of wood, and then made an iroD instrument in imitation of it. T'ia saw is represented on monurients -f Egypt, from 2500 to 3000 yeara V. O. Aa early as A. D. 1327 sawmdJ i .'■ v u by water power were in oper?:v!on at Augsburg, and it is believeó before this that they were in operaiion in Paris, driven by the curre li. of the Seine. The flrst sawmill erected in the Norway pineries was :i 1530. Sawrnills were nnmeroua in Itaiy in the six'.eenth century. They were not introJuced into Eogland until 1663, when a nativo oL Holland built one, but was campeHfti to abandon it by th3 opposition of tho populaca, carpenters and other artisans, who saw no good in such a nev. -fangled