The American system of manufactures: the report of the Committee on the Machinery of the United States 1855, and the special reports of George Wallis and Joseph Whitworth 1854Edinburgh U.P., 1969 - 440 pages |
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... lock . Bramah's famous lock had been displayed in a Piccadilly shop window for about forty years with a notice offering 200 guineas to anyone who could pick it . Hobbs took up the challenge and created a sensation by picking the lock ...
... lock . Bramah's famous lock had been displayed in a Piccadilly shop window for about forty years with a notice offering 200 guineas to anyone who could pick it . Hobbs took up the challenge and created a sensation by picking the lock ...
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... lock , the Newell Parautoptic Lock , for which feat Hobbs offered a $ 1,000 reward . None succeeded . The lock was awarded the prize medal by the Exhibition Jurors . What was really important about Hobbs ' locks was the method of their ...
... lock , the Newell Parautoptic Lock , for which feat Hobbs offered a $ 1,000 reward . None succeeded . The lock was awarded the prize medal by the Exhibition Jurors . What was really important about Hobbs ' locks was the method of their ...
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... lock production . The contrast between contemporary methods of lock production in Britain and those introduced by Hobbs was strikingly recorded in an article in The Engineer in 1859 by a writer who had just visited Hobbs ' establishment ...
... lock production . The contrast between contemporary methods of lock production in Britain and those introduced by Hobbs was strikingly recorded in an article in The Engineer in 1859 by a writer who had just visited Hobbs ' establishment ...
Contents
Introduction by Nathan Rosenberg | 1 |
Orders and Instructions received by Committee 91 | 91 |
Journal of the Committee 98 | 98 |
Copyright | |
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