The great inventions : their history, from the earliest period to the present. Their influence on civilization, accompanied by sketches of lives of the principal inventors; their labors, their hardships and their triumphs (1883)
Wilkie, Franc B. (Franc Bangs), 1832-1892 · Philadelphia and Chicago, J. A. Ruth & co. · leaf 305
ent inventor has attained such highdistinction. It is but justice to the inventor to say that 300 WOOD-WOEKING MACHINERY, ETC. the lack of cases in which he has heen apotheosized isowing, not to the fact that he has not deserved it, butto the failure of the world to appreciate his value. The saw,… … TOP AND BOTTOM SAWYER. When it was necessary to cut a piece of timber, or alog lengthwise, then the wood was raised high enoughto permit one of the sawyers to stand underneath, theother standing on the body of the wood being divided.From the fact that one hears, now and then, of a personbeing a…
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