English and American Tool Builders
Details:
- Author(s) Roe, Joseph W
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1916
- Pages 315pp; illus
- Publisher Yale University Press
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Reprinted 1926. Largely about the personalities involved in machine tool development in UK and USA with some coverage of inter changeable parts. The English engineers covered are: James Nasmyth; Joseph Whitworth; John Wilkinson; Joseph Bramah; Samuel Bentham; Marc Brunel; John G Bodmer; William Fairbairn; Henry Maudslay. The US ones include Colt; Whitney; Browne & Sharpe; Robbins & Lawrence