Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1861)
Appleton, firm, publishers, New York. (1852, D. Appleton & Co.) · New York : D. Appleton · leaf 145
on the application of heat, whereas,without some such provision, the bars are very liable to get burned out by their centres bending up intothe furnace, or else the lugs which carry the bearer-bars will be perpetually being carried away. Asimilar space should be left between the fore end of the…
Mechanical engineering
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