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Licensemodel of a copying lathe, scale 1:5
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model of a copying lathe, scale 1:5
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Model of a copying lathe, scale 1:5, by Regnard Freres, Paris
Producing copies of items in wood was a recurring theme in specialised nineteenth century machine tool design. Early machines by James Watt and Benjamin Cheverton working in a range of materials such as alabaster, plaster of paris and boxwood gave way to later machines intended for use mass-producing items from gunstocks in rifle manufacture (by the Ames Company of Massachusetts) to pieces of furniture (the machine by Jordan, for instance, inv. 1858-6).
Details
- Category:
- Hand and Machine Tools
- Object Number:
- 1892-96
- Measurements:
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overall: 370 mm x 400 mm x 195 mm, ,
- type:
- models (representations) and copying lathes
- credit:
- Freres, R.
