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1862 London Exhibition: Catalogue: Class I.: James Gowans

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123. GOWANS, JAMES, Rockville, Merchiston Park, Edinburgh.

Boring machines, wedge, and galvanic apparatus for blasting.

The following are exhibited:-

  • 1. Machine for boring holes in stone, upon the drill principle.
  • 2. Machine for the same purpose, upon the ram principle.
  • 3. Expanding wedge used in place of the pinch.
  • 4. Galvanic battery and apparatus used for blasting at Redhall quarry, Edinburgh, and also at the Exhibitor's Railway Works, and elsewhere.

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