Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 579
we believe thatno improvement upon this roundabout metliod could be recommended; but for single and independentmachines, ■nhere great power acting in a rectihnear direction is required, we beUeve that the dirictaction of the steam-engine, as exemphfied in the machine now to be described, will… … RIVETING MACHINE. 573 noticed. In riveting by hand the workman finds it necessary to bring tlie plates upon which he is op<.Tating into close contact, by striking tliem with his hammer while closing and finisliing the liead of therivet. Tlie necessity of this will be obvious when we consider…
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