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 582
his machine. The first idea of the riveting machine is due to Mr. Fairbairn, of Manchester, who, in1838, patented a machine in many respects similar to the common punching machine, but having thegreat lever of such a form as to communicate a horizontal motion to the dies or tool for forming thehead… … The principle of Mr. Fairbaims machine consists in its performing by almost instantaneous pressure,what could formerly only be done by a long series of impacts. Every mechanic is aware that the oper-ation of riveting, in all ordinary cases, requires the services of three men, one to hold a hanuner…
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