Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-Book of Facts in Science and Art for 1869, Exhibiting the Most Important Discoveries and Improvements in Mechanics, Useful Arts, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology, Biology, Botany, Mineralogy, Meteo

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The training of the eye, in which most deficiency is found, owing to the substitution of engine-lathe work for hand turning, and planing for the old-time chipping and filing, might easily be obtained by practice in drafting, which demands both skill of hand and eye, and to most mechanics would be found a pleasant recrea tion as well as a valuable accomplishment.

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