 | 1861 - 738 pagina’s
...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...machines, and with the exception of very imperfect lathes tml a few drills, the preparatory operations of construction were effected entirely by the hands of... | |
 | 1861 - 460 pagina’s
...present time owes its smoothness of motion and certainty of action. AVhen I first entered this city, the whole of the machinery •was executed by hand. There were neither planing, slatting, nor shaping machines, and with the exception of very imperfect lathes and a few drills, the... | |
 | 1861 - 362 pagina’s
...of tho _ machinery was executed by hand. There were neither planing, slotting, nor shaping-machines, and, with the exception of very imperfect lathes and...drills, the preparatory operations of construction wore effected entirely by the hands of the workmen. Now everything is done by machine tools with a... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1861 - 144 pagina’s
...owes its smoothness of motion and certainty of action. When I first entered this city, the whole ¿f the machinery was executed by hand. There were neither...the hands of the workmen. Now everything is done by machine tools, with a degree of accuracy which the unaided himd could never accomplish. The automaton,... | |
 | William Newton - 1861 - 428 pagina’s
...its smoothness of motion and certainty of action. When I first entered this city, the whole 'of thé machinery was executed by hand. There were neither...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,... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1862 - 804 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | 1862 - 338 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1864 - 448 pagina’s
...acquainted with mechanical engineering, about sixty years ago, there were no self-acting 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 ill-constructed... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1865 - 388 pagina’s
...entered this city," said Mr. Fairbairn, in his address to the British Association at Manchester, in 1861, "the whole of the machinery was executed by hand....the hands of the workmen. Now, everything is done by machine tools, with a degree of accuracy which the unaided hand could never accomplish." Any one who... | |
 | Technical educator - 1871 - 858 pagina’s
...extent the father of the whole trade. "When I first entered thia city," he said of Manchester in 1816, "the whole of the machinery was executed by hand....construction were effected entirely by the hands of tile workmen. Now everything is done by machine-tools, with a degree of accuracy which the unaided... | |
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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... 
