The practical metal-worker's assistant : comprising metallurgic chemistry, the arts of working all metals and alloys, forging of iron and steel, hardening and tempering, melting and mixing, casting and founding, works in sheet metal, the processes dependent on the ductility of the metals, soldering, and the most improved processes, and tools employed by metal-workers, with the application of the art of electro-metallurgy to manufacturing processes, collected from original sources, and from the works of Holtzapffel, Bergeron, Leupold, Plumier, Napier, Scoffern, Clay, Fairbairn, and others (1872)
Byrne, Oliver · Philadelphia : H.C. Baird · leaf 94
re wrought almost exclusively by the hand- hammer. Attempts to work small tilt-hammers with the foot have been found generally ineffective, as the attention of the individual is too much subdivided in managing the whole, neither is his strength sufficient for a continued exertion at such work ; but… … about two and a half inches square and ten long, with a swage tool having a conical crease attached to it, and a corresponding swage is fixed in a square cast-iron anvil block, about twelve inches square, and six deep, with one or two round holes for punching, etc. The hammer handle is about two to…
Metal-work · Electrometallurgy · Metallurgy
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