This illustration dates to the 1870s an shows an engineer’s workshop. Any visitor to it could not fail to be struck with the operation of the powerful Lathes and Planing Machines, by which long thick flakes or shavings of iron are removed from pieces of metal with the same apparent ease as if the machine were paring cheese.

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