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 63
s, and carry them when shapedto the annealing-oven, in which they are left for some time to be tempered. The marver (Fr.marbrc, marble) is a smooth polished cast-iron slab, upon the surface of which the workman rollsthe glass at the end of his tube in order to give it a perfectly circular form.… … <m the end of a blow-pipe the requisite amount of glass, as shown at 1, Fig. 2184, rolls it on themarver and expands it by blowing into the tube until it assumes the form shown at 2, and afterward,being flattened at the end with the battledore, that at 3. A lump of glass is now attached to…
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