Image: Maudslay screw-cutting lathes of circa 1797 and 1800

Description: Photos of Henry Maudslay's famous screw-cutting lathes of circa 1797 and 1800. Although Maudslay did not invent any of the machine elements that went into the design, and although he did not invent the first screw-cutting lathe, he was the first person who made famous the winning form factor (bringing together the lathe, leadscrew, slide rest, and change gears, with practical inter-relationships.
Title: Maudslay screw-cutting lathes of circa 1797 and 1800
Credit: Roe, Joseph Wickham (1916), English and American Tool Builders, New Haven, Connecticut, USA: Yale University Press, LCCN 16-011753. Reprinted by McGraw-Hill, New York and London, 1926 (LCCN 27-024075); and by Lindsay Publications, Inc., Bradley, IL, USA (ISBN 978-0-917914-73-7). Google Books URL is http://books.google.com/books?id=X-EJAAAAIAAJ&printsec=titlepage
Author: Unknown photographer
Permission: PD-US (old, published pre-1923)
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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