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 634
The plate is beddedon common glaziers putty, and a ground of Brunswick black is laid in the usual way, through whichthe needle scratches. It is then bit in, in the way above described. EXCAVATOR. 623 EUDIOMETER. An instrument used to ascertain the quantity of oxygen contained in any givenbulk of… … Scil«.—16 feet—3 inohee. 624 EXCAVATOR. purpose, appears greatly superior to any thing wliieh has hitherto been achieved in excavating ma-chinery. The accompanying engraving presents the principal side elevation (Fig. 1612) of the machine,which brings all the working parts sufficiently into view;…
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