Tom Cringle's Letters on Practical Subjects, Suggested by Experiences in Bombay, Originally Published in the Bombay Daily Newspapers as Letters to the Editors - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863. Excerpt: ... All that our millowner would require in the city of Bombay would be a small office at which to receive orders. It may probably be of service to some of our enterprising merchants, whether English or Native, if I give the prices and other particulars of the machinery connected with this beautiful branch of our industrial arts. Only to see some of these splendid machines at their life-like work is enough to lift man's thoughts to God, inasmuch as He has gifted us with the reason and skill thus to imitate the same precision in mathematical science, by laws the same as He governs the millions of worlds of His creation which roll m the_boundless regions of space. Prices of Machinery. Machines (patent) by Furness, of Liverpool:--No-1.--For preparing Flooring and other boards--will plane, groove, tongue, and at the same time reduce boards to a given thickness and width. Steam power required--4 horse, size 12 feet long, and 6 feet wide. Price.£250. No. 2.--For Mouldings for doors, sashes, skirtings, frames, &c. &c,-- horse power, size 6 ft. by 3 ft. by 4 ft. Price £65. No. 3.--For Morticing,-- horse power, size 5 ft. by 5 ft. by 9 ft. Price £40. No. 4.--Hand Boring Machine. Price £8. No. 5.--For Squaring up timber and Planing boards,--1 % horse power, size 20 ft. by 4 ft. 6 in. Price £125. If to plane 25 ft. long, price £135. If to plane 50 ft. long, price £185. No. 6.--Tenoning Machine,-- horse power, size 6 ft. by 4 ft. 4 in. by 5 ft. C in. Price £50. No. 7.--Sweep Saws for circular work,--3 horse power, size 4 ft. by 3 ft. by 4 ft. Price £25. Machinery (patent) by McDowall & Co., Johnstone, Scotland:--No. 8.--Vertical Saw Mill, will cut timber 5 feet deep, 1 horse power for each saw used. Occupies space (excluding f...

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