Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 794
We have said that the t>>p of tl c turn-table is covered.with timber, on which the rails/orming tharailway is laid; in many cases the top is formed of cast-iron, the rails being raised a little above thesurface of the cast-iron plate. … A v. rv much i of Mr. A!.hi.],, of Woi used in N-■■■ Rnglnnd, - in fact, the principle I 784 TWISTING MACHINE FOR IRON. friction-rollers is however much greater, and on the whole the arrangement is superior to the Englishtables! This wheel is turned by means of a pinion working into the toothed…
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