Excerpt from Appleton's Dictionary of Machines, Mechanics, Engine-Work, and Engineering, Vol. 1 of 2
The illustrations have all been engraved expressly for the work, as large as the page would admit, and sufficiently distinct and in detail to answer for working drawings.
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