Forrester's pictorial miscellany for the family circle (1855)
Forrester, Mark, ed, Forrester, Mark · Boston, F. & G.C. Rand · leaf 87
p, in half a minute; thus getting through ten thousand inan hour! The circumstance which renders this operation so very destructiveto health is, that the particles of steel, separated from the body of thewire by the friction of the stone, float in the air for a time, and arethen inhaled by the… … is made by the stamping machine, which is a heavy block of stonoon a bed of iron. Upon this is a die, or stamp, where the needles 80 PICTORIAL MISCELLANY. are placed. Over this is a huge hammer, brought down by a lever,which is moved by the foot. Thus the gutter is made, and a placemarked for the…
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