A Treatise on the Progressive Improvement and Present State of the Manufactures in Metal, Volume 2Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1833 - Ironwork |
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... wire or other ligatures , and guaranteed to answer every purpose for articulating and masticating . The Faculty are respectfully invited to witness the successful result of the MINERAL SUCCEDANEUM . Charges as in Paris . Printed by ...
... wire or other ligatures , and guaranteed to answer every purpose for articulating and masticating . The Faculty are respectfully invited to witness the successful result of the MINERAL SUCCEDANEUM . Charges as in Paris . Printed by ...
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... WIRE - DRAWING . GM 1 Wire first manufactured by hammering and filing . Wire - drawing . · Introduction of the Art into England . - Parliamentary Protection . - Berlin and Barnsley Wire . Ripping or rumpling Iron for Wire . - Rolling ...
... WIRE - DRAWING . GM 1 Wire first manufactured by hammering and filing . Wire - drawing . · Introduction of the Art into England . - Parliamentary Protection . - Berlin and Barnsley Wire . Ripping or rumpling Iron for Wire . - Rolling ...
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John Holland. CHAP . XV . WIRE - WORKING AND NEEDLES . Description of Wire Loom , and Method of Weaving . - Wire Gauze , its Uses . Wire for Cards . - Self - acting Machine for making Cards . — Watch - springs . -Needles . Seats of the ...
John Holland. CHAP . XV . WIRE - WORKING AND NEEDLES . Description of Wire Loom , and Method of Weaving . - Wire Gauze , its Uses . Wire for Cards . - Self - acting Machine for making Cards . — Watch - springs . -Needles . Seats of the ...
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... wire , rivetted with a hammer on the little anvil on the work bench . The sides , if of horn , ivory , or shell , are then filed smooth and scraped , after which they are submitted to the buff , which is a trundle of wood covered with ...
... wire , rivetted with a hammer on the little anvil on the work bench . The sides , if of horn , ivory , or shell , are then filed smooth and scraped , after which they are submitted to the buff , which is a trundle of wood covered with ...
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... wire . The inventor states , that in this way a razor may be completed in an hour ; may be made of the best cast steel , and at the same time very cheap . This patent was annulled , by order of the king , two years after it had been ...
... wire . The inventor states , that in this way a razor may be completed in an hour ; may be made of the best cast steel , and at the same time very cheap . This patent was annulled , by order of the king , two years after it had been ...
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Page 21 - For while with their knife which they hold in one hand they cut the meat out of the dish, they fasten their fork which they hold in their other hand upon the same dish, so that whatsoever he be that sitting in the company of any others at...
Page 22 - I myself thought good to imitate the Italian fashion by this forked cutting of meat, not only while I was in Italy, but also in Germany, and oftentimes in England since I came home...
Page 22 - This form of feeding I understand is generally used in all places of Italy, their forks being for the most part made of iron or steel, and some of silver, but those are used only by gentlemen.
Page 21 - Italian, and also most strangers that are commorant in Italy, do always at their meals use a little fork when they cut their meat.
Page ix - As dwarfs upon knights-errant do : It was a serviceable dudgeon, Either for fighting or for drudging : When it had stabb'd or broke a head, It would scrape trenchers, or chip bread ; Toast cheese or bacon, though it were To bait a mousetrap, 'twould not care : 'Twould make clean shoes, and in the earth Set leeks and onions, and so forth : It had been 'prentice to a brewer, Where this and more it did endure, But left the trade, as many more Have lately done on the same score. In th...
Page 160 - One is, the multitude of chimneys lately erected ; whereas, in their young days, there were not above two or three, if so many, in most uplandish towns of the realm...
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Page 22 - Italy, their forkes being for the most part made of iron or steele, and some of silver, but those are used only by gentlemen. The reason of this their curiosity is because the Italian cannot by any means indure to have his dish touched with fingers, seeing all men's fingers are not alike cleane.
Page 21 - I passed, that is not used in any other country that I saw in my travels ; neither do I think that any other nation of Christendome doth use it, but only Italy.
Page 281 - ... 70. A key with a rose-turning pipe, and two roses pierced through endwise the bit thereof, with several handsomely contrived wards, which may likewise do the same effects.