Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics (1892)
Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 662
d with singular success for the share and breastof plows, made by superposing molten crucible steel in a layer on a red-hot malleable founda-tion. The ingots thus produced are used in the manufacture of shares, the inner layer ofsoft iron permitting the tempering of the share hard without crackling… … Fig. 2.—Hand plow. than to a hard-tempered surface passing through it. The mould-board particularly should,therefore, be not only well shaped but well tempered to scour and prove durable. Thelarge permanent plow manufacturing establishments now keep stocks of duplicate parts formodern-made plows,…
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