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 930
y for making casks, the blocks intended for Ihe staves are cut out of white Canadaoak to the size of thirty inches by five, and smaller. They are well steamed, and then sliced into pieces one-half or five-eighths inch thick, at Uie rate of 3U0 in each minute, by a process far more rapid and… … knots, in or near the central pitli, and then work outwards in directions corresponding with tlie arms oitlie trees, some of wliicli, as in tlie cypress and oak, grow out nearly horizontally, and others, as in thepoplar, shoot up almost perpendicularly. Those parts of wood described as curls are…
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