Treatise on Mills and Millwork, Volume 1 - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1142674231 ISBN 13 : 9781142674236

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Thebb is probably no department of practical science so generally useful, or so little studied of late years, as the machinery of transmission The term TniU work, as applied to this class of machinery, is of modern origin, but mU hurigkt has long been a household word, and at no distant period conveyed the idea of a man marked by everything that was ingenious aud skilful. The millwright of former days was to a great extent the sole representative of mechanical art, and was looked upon as the authority in all the applications of wind and water, under whatever conditions they were to be used, as a motive power for the purposes of maD ufacture. He was the engineer of the district in which he lived, a kind of jack-of-all-trades, who could with equal facility work at the lathe, the anvil, or the carpenters bench. In country districts, far removed from towns, he had to exercise aU these professions, and he thus gained the character of an ingenious, roving, rollicking blade, able to turn his hand to anything, and, like other wandering tribes in days of old, went about the country from mill to mill, with the old song of kettles to mend reapplied to the more important fractures of machinery. Thus the millwright of the last century was an itinerant engineer and mechanic of high reputation.
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• ISBN 10: 1142674231
• ISBN 13: 9781142674236
• Reliure: Broché