Circular saw

A circular saw is a power-saw using a toothed

or abrasive disc or blade to cut different materials
using a rotary motion spinning around an arbor.

Circular saws may also be loosely used for the blade

itself. Circular saws were invented in the late 18th
century and were in common use in sawmills in the
United States by the middle of the 19th century.

A circular saw is a tool for cutting many materials

such as wood, masonry, plastic, or metal and may
be hand-held or mounted to a machine.

circular saw" refers specifically to the hand-held type

and the table saw and chop saw are other common
forms of circular saws.
"Skilsaw" and "Stihl saw" have become generic
trademarks for conventional hand-held circular saws

Circular saw blades are specially designed for each

particular material they are intended to cut and in
cutting wood are specifically designed for
making rip-cuts, cross-cuts, or a combination of
both.

History
The circular saw was invented around the end of the
18th century as a rip-saw to convert logs
into lumber in sawmills and various claims have
been made as to who invented it. Before the design
was invented logs were sawn by hand using a pit
saw or using powered saws in a sawmill using
an up-and-down saw with a reciprocating motion

The rotary nature of the circular saw requires more

power to operate but cuts faster because the teeth
are in constant motion. The sound of the circular
saw is different from the sound of an up-and-down
saw and earned it the nickname buzz-saw.

Claims to the invention of the circular saw include:

A common claim is for a little-known sailmaker

named Samuel Miller of Southampton, England who
obtained a patent in 1777 for a saw windmill.

Gervinus of Germany is often credited with inventing

the circular saw in 1780.
Walter Taylor of Southampton had
the blockmaking contract for Portsmouth Dockyard.
In about 1762 he built a saw mill where he roughed
out the blocks
Another claim is that it originated in Holland in the
sixteenth or seventeenth century
The use of a large circular saw in a saw mill is said
to have been invented in 1813 by Tabitha Babbitt,
a Shaker inventor, after she noted the inefficiency of
the traditional saw pits used by the sawyers in her
community and sought an improvement.[6] This claim
is now mostly discredited.[7]
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The Barringer, Manners and Wallis factory in Rock

Valley Mansfield, Nottinghamshire also claims to be
the site of the invention.