Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes
A two-volume illustrated technical dictionary issued by D. Appleton and Co. in New York in 1873 for machinists, millwrights, and engineers, with some four thousand wood engravings keyed to alphabetical entries. The plates are numbered line diagrams of machine parts in section and elevation, letter-labelled, with gear teeth, shafts, and pulleys rendered in fine hatching against blank grounds.
