Inventors at work, with chapters on discovery (1906)
Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 135
the operations, his products being uniformly of the di-mensions and forms desired. Intricate shapes are easily executed,quite impracticable on any other machine. At first the revolvingmechanism and its cutters were a single piece of metal; to-daycutters of costly quality are inserted in cheap… … Ericssons Monitor. feet. As it was thus impossible to carry the burden of armor necessaryto protect a high-sided vessel, he was obliged to design a sunken hullGuns and gunner were protected within a covered cylindrical turret whichas it turned on its vertical axis, delivered an all-round fire while…
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