You will receive exactly what you see in the pictures. Seems to run and work as it should, but that is all I know about it.model #: 555159serial #: 042690volts: 230amps: 6.3hz: 60All items are sold as is. The shipping calculator is usually high, email with your zipcode for a more realistic shipping cost. This can not be plugged into a standard 110 electrical outlet. The serial number puts its manufacture date around 1979. Shopsmith Mark V Headstock model # 555159 serial # 042690 - 230 V 6.3 ampsUp for auction is a Shopsmith Mark V Headstock model # 555159, serial # 042690. Their own dream, they create a way for so many others to achieve theirs.Item: 371877723189 Shopsmith Mark V Headstock model # 555159 serial # 042690 - 230 V 6.3 amps. Perhaps this is the best legacy a person can leave: That in achieving Goldschmidt's ingenuity - and an opportunity Us, have used his invention to build our own furniture, our own houses, The text of our interview was published in the January/ February 1980 issue of HANDS ON!īut the most admirable thing about Dr. He was written up in Time, The Saturday Evening Post, Business Week, The Harvard Business Review, and Popular Science. Goldschmidt recognition as a major inventor. His invention, the multi-purpose Shopsmith, combined all the basic home workshop tools into one precision machine. War, there was a big demand for home workshops. I read an article that so many Gl's had learned crafting during the To find a job, he supported his family by doing woodworking.Īfter the war, he set out again to realize his ambition. Nazi Germany in 1937 with his wife Ilse and came to California. His work was interrupted by events leading up to World War II. Received a doctorate of engineering from the University of Berlin, but Goldschmidt in the fall of last year, and heĭescribed how he dreamed of being an inventor since his childhood. He was one of those rare, admirable individuals Hans Goldschmidt, inventor of the Shopsmith, passed away in his home inĪtherton, California. Require more intensity and drive than a retired academic-turned-amateur-woodworker Below is a cropped portion of a larger photo montage on theĮmergence of the Shopsmith Combination Woodworking Machine on the Market in the
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