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 419
thout refixing the object underoperations, the tool-holder and the table being moveable at right angles to each other. This boring-machine may be considered as a magnified drill, as the spindle is fed longitudinally, no cutter-bossbeing attached. The framing consists of two plain columns, coupled… … Section on b. DRY-DOCK, U. S., Brooklyn. History of the Commencement and Progress of the If. S Dry-Dockat the Navy Yard, Brooklyn. New York was originally selected in 1794, as one of the points for the establishment of a navaldepot. In 1826, Col. Loammi Baldwin, a civil engineer of great skill and…
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