An old engraving of a worker cutting a metal bar in the 1800s. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. The bar-cutter shown is on a belt driven system with a large weighted cutter chopping the iron or steel being fed by hand into the machine into short lengths.
An old engraving of a worker cutting a metal bar in the 1800s. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. The bar-cutter shown is on a belt driven system with a large weighted cutter chopping the iron or steel being fed by hand into the machine into short lengths.
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