Knight, Cameron: The Mechanician A Treatise on the Construction and Manipulation of Tools, 1881; Brown & Sharpe Mfg. Co: Construction and use of Universal Milling Machines, 1882: Richard Lloyd & Co, Catalogue for Engineers, circa 1920; and eight other technical books

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Knight, Cameron: The Mechanician A Treatise on the Construction and Manipulation of Tools, 1881; Brown & Sharpe Mfg. Co: Construction and use of Universal Milling Machines, 1882: Richard Lloyd & Co, Catalogue for Engineers, circa 1920; and eight other technical books
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Knight's book has 1147 drawings, naif in perspective but technically clear. 127 shows a piratical looking crew of smiths mastering a block of metal before the invention of the steam hammer. The Brown and Sharpe is of use to ornamental turners for the table of spiral angles. The Universal Milling Machine is geometrically the application of the principles of O/T to engineering.

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