Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Workshop Appliances: Including Descriptions of the Gauging and Measuring Instruments, the Hand Cutting-Tools, Lathes, Drilling, Planing, and Other Machine-Tools Used by Engineers
The student, in making himself familiar with the appliances described, will but be following in the steps of many of our most eminent civil engineers, some of whom have made improvements in me chanism, upon which. However trivial they may appear in themselves, has depended the success of the most brilliant of their achievements.
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