The watchmakers' lathe, its use and abuse; a story of the lathe in its various forms, past and present, its construction and proper uses (1903)
Goodrich, Ward L. [from old catalog] · Chicago, Hazlitt & Walker · leaf 14
e the object to be operated upon was held be-tween two male or female centers which did not revolve,and were known as dead centers. While the dead-centertype of lathe is not to be compared with the live spindlein point of utility, yet it possessed, no matter how poorlymade, one vital point which… … Fig. 5. Steel Turns. among artisans who readily recognize the great capacityof the American lathe for the greater part of all watch re-pairing. With all its good points in regard to truth, thedead spindle lathe was relegated to the background inAmerica when the live-spindle form made its…
Clocks and watches · Lathes
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