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 850
ors. The large production of American works (which will be stated farther on) is due to the arrange-ment which provides large and unhampered spaces for all the principal operations of manufactureand maintenance, while it at the same time concentrates these operations. The result of concentra-tion… … 816 STEEL. of one machine and operation with another. At the same time a degree of elasticity has been intro-duced into the plant, partly by the duplication and partly by the interchangeableness of importantappurtenances, the result being that little or no time is lost if the melting and converting…
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