Forrester's pictorial miscellany for the family circle (1855)
Forrester, Mark, ed, Forrester, Mark · Boston, F. & G.C. Rand · leaf 86
over theback of the fingers of the right; and the different knuckles andjoints are so arranged that every needle can be made to rotate onits own axis, by a slight movement of the hand, without any one 78 PICTORIAL MISCELLANY. needle being allowed to roll over the others. He grasps them sothat the… … It will easily be seen, that if the wires were held fixedly, the endswould merely be bevelled off, in the manner of a graver, and would notgive a symmetrical point; but by causing each wire to rotate whileactually in contact with the grindstone, the pointer works equally onall sides of the wire,…
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