An old engraving of a man at a drawing bench in the 1800s. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. The machine is used to draw strips of metal to an exact thickness by pulling it through a restricting opening – in a similar way that wire is drawn to the correct thickness. It was invented by Sir John Barton (1771–1834), an English engineer. Barton served as deputy comptroller of the Royal Mint in the early part of the nineteenth century. He also created a micrometer, which he called the ‘Atometer’, used for measuring small distances.
An old engraving of a man at a drawing bench in the 1800s. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. The machine is used to draw strips of metal to an exact thickness by pulling it through a restricting opening – in a similar way that wire is drawn to the correct thickness. It was invented by Sir John Barton (1771–1834), an English engineer. Barton served as deputy comptroller of the Royal Mint in the early part of the nineteenth century. He created a micrometer, which he called the ‘Atometer’, used for measuring small distances. He also patented a method of creating metal ornaments engraved with parallel lines. An example of which are ‘Barton's Buttons’, gold buttons stamped with a hard steel die on which he cut hexagonal patterns.
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