Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,831 pages of information and 247,161 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Johann Mannhardt

From Graces Guide
1851 Planing machine at Deutsches Museum
The bevel gears turn a pinion under the table which engages with a rack. At the end of the working stroke, the drive belt is automatically shifted to drive the smaller pair of bevel gears in order to return the table more rapidly
Showing the mechanism which turns the leadscrew via a ratchet to traverse the cutting tool incrementally

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1851 Metal planing machine on display at the Deutsches Museum.

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