Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York : Henry Holt and company · leaf 146
most as readily as so many gunstocks.This machine he had invented and patented long ago, butonly that year had he built it on lines delicate enough toreproduce statuary. Its chief business, indeed, had been toshape stocks for guns, handles for tools, lasts for shoes, andtackle for ships. Pirates… … [From a portrait in the possession of F. S. Blanchard, Worcester, Mass.] THOMAS BLANCHARD 105 a second renewal of his patent. In the Capitol, beneath thetable where he displayed his busts, was a basement roomwhere the inventor showed his lathe as it repeated in oakthe classical features of…
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