Appleton's cyclopædia of drawing, designed as a textbook for the mechanic, architect, engineer, and surveyor (1866)
Worthen, William Ezra, 1819-1897, [from old catalog] ed, Appleton, firm, publishers, New York. (1866. D. Appleton & co.) [from old catalog] · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 262
tended to give it stability. Fig. 4 is a plan of the top plate, and fig. 5 the elevation of a hydraulicpress. The top and bottom plates and platen are cast iron, the four i-odsarc wrought iron ; tlie strain upon the rods is tensile, and it is only neces-sary to give them such a size as to resist… … Fiir. 5. .^^^MMMMMMMMMS^z^
