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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 8 8 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2 6 6 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Isaac T. Hopper: a true life 5 5 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 5 5 Browse Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) 5 5 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 5 5 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 8. 5 5 Browse Search
Baron de Jomini, Summary of the Art of War, or a New Analytical Compend of the Principle Combinations of Strategy, of Grand Tactics and of Military Policy. (ed. Major O. F. Winship , Assistant Adjutant General , U. S. A., Lieut. E. E. McLean , 1st Infantry, U. S. A.) 4 4 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 3 3 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1 3 3 Browse Search
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ng veneers from the solid block. Veneer-saws for ivory are sometimes made as small as 6 inches in diameter; more generally 15 to 20 inches. They are run at a lower rate of speed than those for wood, and are made to cut as many as 30 leaves to the inch. Those for wood are frequently of much larger size, are run at a higher velocity, and seldom cut more than 15 leaves to the inch. About one third the material is wasted in sawdust. The veneer-saw was invented by Isambard M. Brunel, 1805– 1808, and it was introduced by him into the Chatham Dockyard, and subsequently into his works at Battersea. A writer of 50 years since gives the following description of Mr. Brunel's workshop:— In a small building I was attracted by the solemn action of a steam-engine of 16 horse or 80 men power, and was ushered into a room, where it turned, by means of bands, four wheels, fringed with fine saws, two of 18 feet in diameter, and two of 9 feet. These circular saws were used for the purpose o
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