Lathes
[leɪðz]
Examples
- Finally the Tammany leader called a halt, as we were running big engine lathes out on the sidewalk, and he was afraid we were carrying it a little too far. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Joseph Holtzapffel in his learned work on _Turning and Mechanical Manipulation_, gives a list of old publications describing lathes for turning both wood and metal. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Lasts on which the shoes were made had been manufactured by the hundred thousand on the wood-turning lathes invented by Blanchard, described in the chapter on Wood-Working. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- But it needed the invention of the slide-rest and its application to metal-turning lathes to suggest and render successful metal-planing machines. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It is not possible to fix the date of the first circular saw, for rotary cutting action dates from the ancient turning lathes. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The lathes were worked right out in the street, and belted through the windows of the shop. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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