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 164,609 pages of information and 246,151 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.

Mercklein Lathe

From Graces Guide
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Note graduations and fine worm wheels
Slide rest with micrometer dial, and worm and wheel for rotating the top slide
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Large chuck
Small chuck
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Flywheel spindle runs in rollers
Fine workmanship extends to flywheel and its supports


This is a magnificent ornamental turning lathe made by I. T. Mercklein for King Louis XVI in 1780, and on display in the Musée des Arts et Métiers.

The design of the machine is highly sophisticated, and the workmanship is outstanding.


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