Finally the Tammany leader called a halt, as we were running big engine lathes out on the sidewalk, and he was afraid we were carrying it a little too far. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
Joseph Holtzapffel in his learned work on _Turning and Mechanical Manipulation_, gives a list of old publications describing lathes for turning both wood and metal. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
Lasts on which the shoes were made had been manufactured by the hundred thousand on the wood-turning lathes invented by Blanchard, described in the chapter on Wood-Working. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
But it needed the invention of the slide-rest and its application to metal-turning lathes to suggest and render successful metal-planing machines. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
It is not possible to fix the date of the first circular saw, for rotary cutting action dates from the ancient turning lathes. Edward W. Byrn.十九世纪发明进展.
The lathes were worked right out in the street, and belted through the windows of the shop. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.