Eminent engineers; brief biographies of thirty-two of the inventors and engineers who did most to further mechanical progress (1906)
Goddard, Dwight, 1861-1939 · New York, The Derry-Collard company · leaf 204
lowed that correctness, uniformityand economy that increasingly marked the machine con-struction of the nineteenth century. One of the early tasks that came to Maudsley wasbrought by Brunei. He had been granted a patent fortackle blocks which had been adopted by the admiralty.Alaudsleys high… … Maudslevs Lathe construction he removed his shop to Margaret Street.The whole of the machinery was there constructed bv 202 Maudsl( ■y- Maudsley. It took six long years, and was not readyfor operation until 1808. It required no less than forty-four different machines to do the work, every one…
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