Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Vol. II.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1894. Second edition, fully revised and with important additions. Half-Leather. Folio (10" x 13"), pp. 479, illustrated with nearly 4,000 b/w engravings. Good: weak front hinge, back cover detached but present. Item #23313
This set was presented to American mechanics as a complete guide to the operations of the best equipped and best managed workshops, and to the care and management of engines and boilers. It supplied practical instruction, and was written throughout from the point of view of approved practice, not theory. Volume II was devoted to the construction and use of work-holding appliances and tools used in machines for working metal or wood. Chapters on gear wheels; screw threads; fastening devices; lathes; measuring machines, tools and devices; shaping and planing machines; planing machinery, drilling machines; hand-drilling and boring tools; thread-cutting machinery and broaching press; and more.
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