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The Origins of the Lathe

The importance of the iron-cutting lathe to the Industrial Revolution is rarely appreciated. A number of ingenious lathe mechanisms can be traced back to the Middle Ages

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 208 Issue 4This article was originally published with the title “The Origins of the Lathe” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 208 No. 4 (), p. 132
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0463-132