Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 101
ay, or locomotive works, as they are called inAmerica, immense machines, possessing almost re-sistless power, yet driving only a little steel-pointedinstrument like a chisel not bigger than ones littlefinger. It seems almost a waste of power to usesuch a giant to drive so slight a tool. But… … STEPHENSON RUNNING HIS OWN ENGINE.. those of soft pine. Little shears, hardly bigger thana tailors, cut through iron as easily as throughpaper ; and delicate steel punches drive their waythrough iron plates. In most of these works youwill see also the Nasmyth steam-hammer, a mightygiant in power,…
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