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Image from page 525 of “Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: becoming a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat
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Title: Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: becoming a total survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat the raising of horses, neat-cattle, and so forth. all the critical manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires banks, insurance, and commerce trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement collectively with a description of Canadian industries
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Bolles, Albert Sidney, 1846-1939
Subjects: Industries Industries
Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : The Henry Bill pub. Firm
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
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INDUSTRIAL HISTORY joints of all kinds. The operate is generally done in these machines by meansof chisels and saws. This class of machines has multiplied extremely Machineryfor makingsashes,blinds, anddoors. fast considering that 1861, and has concentrated in factories a large amount of operate which was formerly carried on by hand, and scattered farand wide among little shops. It has also tremendously lessened theart of production. The machines are all very basic, thoughfrequently very ingenious, and work with excellent precision. The framing, shap-ing, and panelling ofwindows, doors, andblinds, is now doneentirely by machine-ry and the applica-tion of mechanical la-bor in this industryhas gone so far, thateven the wire stapleswhich fasten the rodof the window – blindto the slats are alldriven by machine,and with incrediblespeed. If a machinewere invented tobrush on the greenpaint to the window-do in the constructionThat a device of that
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TWENTY-FOlR-INCH PLANER. blind, sash, or door, there would be nothing more toof these objects which could be completed by machine,character could be created is apparent each by the aid of the unassisted reasonand from the fact that England ex-hibited a painting-machine at Phila-delphia in 1876. It was, in fact, heronly wood-working machine shown. One of the comparatively current in-ventions is a set of machines for making Barrel- tne different parts Of bar- creating- rels. In these the stavesmachines. are sawed out, bent, jointed,and ready for the barrel, with scarce-ly the help of any hand-tool what ever. The heads of the barrels and the wooden hoops are also shaped by appro-Carving and priate inventions. There are also now in use machines for carving,engraving. engraving and portrait engines, lathes for cutting and boringspools, box-mortising-machines, stair-jointers, hub-boxing-machines, cork-
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Image from page 677 of “Railway mechanical engineer” (1916)
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Title: Railway mechanical engineer
Year: 1916 (1910s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads Railroad cars
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Simmons-Boardman Pub. Co
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Fig. 1—Cross Section of a Set of V Pilot Packing slotted, the slots getting staggered to stop the escape ofsteam down the rod. The slots serve an additional useful purposeby retaining oil for the lubrication of the rod. A hasty glanceat Fig. 1 may give the impression that there are two pieces of metal instead of one particular, but on closer examination the V-shapeof the strong, white metal bar is apparent. V Pilot Packing has a resilient, pliable back, fitting itfor several makes use of for which purely metallic packing is not
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Fig. 2—View Showing Flexibility of New Packing adapted. Its intense flexibility, as shown in Fig. two, per-mits its use on tiny rods and gives simple and rapid ad-justment. This packing has successfully passed the experi-mental stage and demonstrated its worth by extended testsunder actual functioning situations, obtaining shown unusuallylong life and resultant economy. It has a wide variety of ap-plication and is utilized by railroads for air pumps, boiler feedpumps (steam and water ends), valve stems, throttle stems,energy reverse gear rods, stationary air compressors, steamengines, hot and cold water pumps, ammonia pumps, round-house washout pumps, energy plant feed water pumps, pump-ing station (steam or water glands), steam hammers.andmany other purposes. V Pilot Packing is supplied boxedand ready for quick service and is applied in the samemanner as ordinary fibrous packing. A New Precision Machine Alining Level THE Universal Boring Machine Organization, Hudson,Mass., has just placed on the m
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wc 556 factories and companies – Brown and Sharpe Manufacturing Organization – North Kingstown 1964 –
Machine tools, precision tools and guaging gear and hydraulic pumps are manufactured at this place