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Modern
Machine-Shop Practice
BY
JOSHUA ROSE, M.E.
ILLUSTRATED WITH MORE THAN 3000 ENGRAVINGS
VOLUME I.
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1887
Copyright, 1887, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
Press of J. J. Little & Co.
Astor Place, New York.
PREFACE.
Modern Machine-Shop Practice is presented toAmerican mechanics as a complete guide to theoperations of the best equipped and best managed workshops, and to the care and management ofengines and boilers.
The materials have been gathered in part from the author’s experience of thirty-one years as a practicalmechanic; and in part from the many skilled workmen and eminent mechanics and engineers who havegenerously aided in its preparation. Grateful acknowledgment is here made to all who have contributedinformation about improved machines and details of new methods.
The object of the work is practical instruction, and it has been written throughout from the point of view,not of theory, but of approved practice. The language is that of the workshop. The mathematical problemsand tables are in simple arithmetical terms, and involve no algebra or higher mathematics. The method oftreatment is strictly progressive, following the successive steps necessary to becoming an intelligent andskilled mechanic.
The work is designed to form a complete manual of reference for all who handle tools or operate machineryof any kind, and treats exhaustively of the following general topics: I. The construction and use of machineryfor making machines and tools; II. The construction and use of work-holding appliances and tools usedin machines for working metal or wood; III. The construction and use of hand tools for working metal orwood; IV. The construction and management of steam engines and boilers. The reader is referred to theTable of Contents for a view of the multitude of special topics considered.
The work will also be found to give numerous details of practice never before in print, and knownhitherto only to their originators, and aims to be useful as well to master-workmen as to apprentices, andto owners and managers of manufacturing establishments equally with their employees, whether machinists,draughtsmen, wood-workers, engineers, or operators of special machines.
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