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C. Tuells

Known chiefly for a practical early-20th-century guide to metal spinning, this writer helped explain a demanding shop craft in clear, hands-on terms. Very little personal information seems to survive, which gives the book an old workshop-manual mystery of its own.

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Metal Spinning

Metal Spinning

by C. Tuells, William A. Painter

About the author

C. Tuells is credited as the author of "Principles of Metal Spinning," the first main section of Metal Spinning, a technical manual published by Industrial Press in 1912 as part of Machinery’s Reference Series. The book was later preserved by libraries and digitized by projects including Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive, which is why it remains accessible to modern readers.

From the surviving record, Tuells appears less as a public literary figure and more as a specialist writer sharing trade knowledge. In Metal Spinning, the focus is practical and direct: the text explains how sheet metal can be formed on the lathe, what tools are used, and where the method was useful in manufacturing.

Reliable biographical details beyond that are hard to confirm from readily available sources. No well-documented personal profile or standard reference biography was found in this search, so it is safest to remember C. Tuells as a skilled technical voice from the machine-shop world rather than as a fully documented historical personality.