The practical metal-worker's assistant : containing the arts of working all metals and alloys, forging of iron and steel, hardening and tempering, melting and mixing, casting and founding, works in sheet metal, the processes dependent on the ductility of the metals, soldering, and the most improved processes, and tools employed by metal-workers, with the application of the art of electro-metallurgy to manufacturing processes : collected from original sources, and from the works of Holtzapffel, Bergeron, Leupold, Plumier, Napier, and others ... (1851)
Byrne, Oliver · Philadelphia : H.C. Baird · leaf 362
individual usefulness; but in superior screws,or those which maybe denominated regulating and micrometri-cal screws, it does not alone suffice that the screw shall be good ingeneral character, and as nearly as possible a true helix; but it mustalso bear some defined proportion to the standard foot… … The apparatus for cutting original screws by means of a wedgeor inclined plane, appears to be derived from the old fusee engine, adrawing of which is given in Fig. 462 ; in principle it is perfect,and it is also universal within the narrow limitation of its structure. The drawing is the half size…
Metal-work · Electrometallurgy · Metallurgy
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