 | John Robertson Dunlap, Arthur Van Vlissingen, John M. Carmody - 1904 - 1346 pages
...became acquainted with mechanical engineering, about 1804, there were no selfacting tools ; everything was executed by hand. There were neither planing, slotting, nor shaping machines ; and the whole stock of an engineering or machine establishment might be summed up in a few lathes, drills,... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting - 1862 - 796 pages
...present time owes its smoothness of motion and certainty of action. When I first entered this city, the whole of the machinery was executed by hand. There...the hands of the workmen. Now everything is done by machine tools, with a degree of accuracy which the unaided hand could never accomplish. The automaton,... | |
 | Sunny Y. AUYANG - 2006 - 360 pages
...Manchester in 1813 and addressed a city assembly forty-eight years later: "When I first entered this city the whole of the machinery was executed by hand. There...the hands of the workmen. Now, everything is done by machine tools with a degree of accuracy which the unaided hand could never accomplish. The automaton... | |
 | Graeme Gooday - 2004 - 332 pages
...owes its smoothness of motion and certainty of action. When I first entered this city [in 1 8 1 7 ], there were neither planing, slotting, nor shaping...construction were effected entirely by the hands of workmen. Now everything is done by machine tools, with a degree of accuracy which the unaided hand... | |
 | Richard L. Tames - 2005 - 232 pages
...Manchester, 1 86 1 Quoted in LTC Roll, Tools for the Job, p 91 When I first entered this city (1814) the whole of the machinery was executed by hand. There...the hands of the workmen. Now, everything is done by machine tools with a degree of accuracy which the unaided hand could never accomplish. The automaton... | |
 | 1862 - 670 pages
...present time owes its smoothness of motion and certainty of action. When I first entered this city the whole of the machinery was executed by hand. There were neither planing, slotting, nor shaping-machines, and, with the exception of very imperfect lathes and a few drills, the preparatory... | |
 | 1862 - 670 pages
...present time owes its smoothness of motion and certainty of action. When I first entered this city the whole of the machinery was executed by hand. There were neither planing, slotting, nor shaping-machines, and, with the exception of very imperfect lathes and a few drills, the preparatory... | |
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I first entered this city, the whole of the machinery was executed by hand. There were neither planing, slotting, nor shaping machines, and, with the exception of very imperfect lathes and a few drills, the preparatory operations of construction were... 
