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 249
lustrates the methods of drivingby hand. The reader will notice a crank on each side, topermit the use of either hand in driving. This allows butone hand at the lathe and we think the American watch- 2±S THE AMERICAN LATHE. maker would find it a difficult proposition to do much workwith such a… … Fig. 219. Modern German Lathe driven by Hand Wheel. comes to America, and it well illustrates the European habitof working to the right instead of to the left. The origin of the use of the foot wheel with the latheis unknown. It came in from Europe with the Bottum andSwiss wax lathes (see Fig.…
Clocks and watches · Lathes
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