An old engraving of a hydraulic press used to press out the side panel of a life-boat in the mid-1800s. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. In the mid-1840s, American Joseph Francis developed a new method for using steam-powered presses to stamp sheets of iron into corrugated shapes for boat hulls. With the Novelty Iron Works in New York, he began to manufacture lifeboats and coastal rescue craft in the 1840s. A hydraulic press (also known as a Bramah press after its English inventor ) is a machine press using a hydraulic cylinder to generate a compressive force.
An old engraving of a hydraulic press used to press out the side panel of a life-boat in the mid-1800s. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. In the mid-1840s, American Joseph Francis developed a new method for using steam-powered hydraulic presses to stamp large sheets of iron into corrugated shapes to make boat hulls. In collaboration with the Novelty Iron Works in New York, he began to manufacture lifeboats and coastal rescue craft in the 1840s. His products proved popular among life-saving stations and the US Navy. A hydraulic press is a machine press using a hydraulic cylinder to generate a compressive force. It uses the hydraulic equivalent of a mechanical lever, and was also known as a Bramah press after the English inventor, Joseph Bramah in 1795.
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