More information on the life and work of this inventor, "generally credited with building Tacony and making it the ideal family-centered, paternalistic industrial town in America," go to "A new firehouse arrives with joy and turbulence in Tacony, Philly.com,
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/heardinthehall/tacony.html (accessed 09/11/2014)
For his work with saws, Henry Disston & Sons, go to "A Brief Rendering of the Disston and Sons History," Disston Institute, http://www.disstonianinstitute.com/100anniversary.html (accessed 09/11/2014)
"MANUFACTURING: 100,000,000 Saws, Time Monday, May 27, 1940 http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,884132-1,00.html (accessed 09/11/2014)
(This information was found by Kristina Bergquist and William Ball, members of the Patent Model Exhibition project.)