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Machinery's Encyclopedia; A Work of Reference Covering Practical Mathematics and Mechanics, Machine Design, Machine Construction and Operation, Electrical, Gas, Hydraulic, and Steam Power Machinery, Metallurgy, and Kindred Volume 4


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...a book which anyone interested in mechanics will read with pleasure. Nasmyth had played in his father's private workshop from earliest boyhood, and before he was twenty had become an expert mechanic, with one ambition in life, to work for the great Mr. Maudslay. He went to London with his father, and together they called on Maudslay, who showed them courteously through his plant. Maudslay at first declined to consider employing Nasmyth. as he said he had never had any success with gentlemen apprentices and had definitely determined that he would never employ another. Nasmyth, however, showed him a number of drawings and a working model of a steam engine which he had brought with him from Edinburgh. Maudslay at once perceived that Nasmyth was an extraordinarily skillful workman, and he not only employed him, but took him into his own oflice as his personal assistant. Nasmyth stayed here for several years, until Maudslay's death, in 1831, when he started in business for himself. He became one of the foremost tool builders in England, and invented the shaper, which was long known as Nasmyth's "steam arm." While with Maudslay, he invented an index milling machine, shown in Fig. 3, for milling the sides of hexagon nuts. He was the inventor of the foundry ladle tilted by a worm and gear between the frame and ladle. Prior to that time, ladles were operated by hand levers and were a source of frequent and serious accidents. Nasmyth generously refrained from patenting his invention in the interest of the safety of the workmen, and its use soon became general. His greatest contribution to the machine-building trade was the steam hammer, invented in November, 1839. Before he had had time to build one, the immediate need for it passed and...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781230045023
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 444
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1230045023
  • Publisher Date: 13 Sep 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 789 gr


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