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Cutting Tools Worked by Hand and Machine

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STUDENTS of mechanical engineering, and more especially those who study machine tool construction, have up to the present time found it very hard to obtain a suitable text-book relating to the theoretical part of the subject; hitherto almost the only books relating to it have been published in Germany.

Cutting Tools Worked by Hand and Machine.

By Robert H. Smith, M.I.M.E. (London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin, and Co., 1882.)

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Cutting Tools Worked by Hand and Machine . Nature 27, 577–578 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/027577b0

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