M.
This is the last matter with which I shall trouble the Section. I have
purposely omitted telegraphy; I have purposely omitted artillery,
textile fabrics, and the milling and preparation of grain. These and
other matters I have omitted for several reasons. Some I have omitted
because I was incompetent to speak upon them, others because of the
want of time, and others because they more properly belong to Section
A.
I hope, sir, although your address, dealing with the future, was
undoubtedly the right address for a president to deliver, and although
it is equally right that we should not content ourselves with merely
looking back in a "rest and be thankful" spirit at the various
progress which this paper records, it may nevertheless be thought well
that there should have been brought before the section, in however
cursory a manner, some notice of mechanical development during the
past fifty years.
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[Continued from SUPPLEMENT, No. 311, page 4954.]
AMATEUR MECHANICS.
METAL TURNING.
In selecting a lathe an amateur may exercise more or less taste, and
he may be governed somewhat by the length of his purse; the same is
true in the matter of chucks; but when he comes to the selection or
making of turning tools he must conform to fundamental principles; he
must profit as far as possible by the experience of others, and will,
after all, find enough to be learned by practice.
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