A Treatise on the Construction and Operation of Wood-working Machines: Including a History of the Origin and Progress of the Manufacture of Wood-working Machinery |
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Page 1 - THE man is thought a knave, or fool, Or bigot, plotting crime, Who, for the advancement of his kind, Is wiser than his time. For him the hemlock shall distil; For him the axe be bared; For him the gibbet shall be built; For him the stake prepared. Him shall the scorn and wrath of men Pursue with deadly aim ; And malice, envy, spite, and lies, Shall desecrate his name. But Truth shall conquer at the last, For round...
Page 13 - I take any number of cog-wheels, of different diameters, with teeth that will exactly fit each other through the whole; suppose ten, or any other number, but, for an example, say ten, the smallest of which shall not exceed one inch in diameter, and the largest suppose ten inches in diameter, and all the rest to mount by regular gradations in their diameters, from one to ten.
Page 51 - The (woodworking) machines are for the most part sold to men of limited means, who have not only to consider the worth of the money after investment, but have first the greater difficulty of commanding a sum sufficient to purchase the machines.
Page 11 - Fourthly, these cutters, knives, &c. I fix on frames of wood, or metal, properly contrived for their reception, and from which they may be easily detached for the purpose of sharpening, and the like — these I call cutter-frames. These cutter-frames I move in cases like those on...