Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments, Machines, Processes, and Engineering; History of Inventions; General Technological Vocabulary; and Digest of Mechanical Appliances in Science and the Arts, Volume 1Hurd and Houghton, 1876 - 2831 pages This resource contains a full-text digitized copy of Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary. |
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