Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 934
or making casks, the blocks intended for the staves arc 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 live-eighths inch thick, at the rate of200 in each minute, by a process far more rapid and economical… … 3935.
Mechanical engineering
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