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Volume III: Abrasive & Other Processes Not Accomplished with Cutting Tools by Charles and John Jacob Holtzapffel

Processes used to reduce and shape other than with cutting tools:

• the shaping and polishing of stone and marble
• the grinding and sharpening of cutting tools to precise forms and angles
• the producing of cylindrical, spherical, conical and plane surfaces by abrasion and surface grinding
• glass cutting and etching, lens grinding and polishing
• the use of diamonds in drilling and grinding
• sharpening and setting the teeth of saws
• grinding of internal cylinders
• lapidary work
• gem and glass engraving
• watchmaker's turning tools
• varnishing, lacquering, and bronzing
• and much more

An 1894 supplement adds 300 pages of revisions and 250 additional woodcuts, 430 illustrations.

Code No. 007003, 816 pages, ISBN 1879335476, $57.00

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