Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 140
us preventing the waterfrom flowing into the grooves and freezing the blocks together again while they are being floated downthe channel to the ice-house. G is a chisel or raising-bar for separating the cakes; and H is anotherform of splitting-bar used for both separating and splitting the cakes.… … 2302,
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