Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1850-07-01
GREAT MECHANICAL WORK.
D. Appleton & Co.,
NEW YORK,
ARE NOW PUBLISHING IN PARTS,

.-4ss- NEW YORK,
ARE NOW PUBLISHING IN PARTS,
Price XIV. cents each,
A D1cr1oNARY OF MACHINES, MECHANICS En-
e,NE-woRx AND ENGINEERING; Designed for
Practical Working Men, and those intended for
the Engineering Profession. Edited by Oliver
Byrne.
This work is of large 8vo size, containing up
wards of 5000 Wood-cuts. 1t will present work
ing-drawings and descriptions of the most import
ant machines in the United States. Independent
of the results of American Ingenuity, it will con-
tain complete Practical Treatises on Mechanics,
Machinery, Engine work and Engineering with
all that is useful in more than one thousand dol
lars worth of folio volumes, magazines, and other
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The Publishers have spent large sum of mon
ey to get original drawings of machinery in Prac-
teal use in this country, and have procured almost
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England, France or Germany, the most essential
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contains at least four times the number of words
found in ordinary pages of the same size. This
has also secured to each plate working drawings
of ample size and clearness, so that mechanic
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-Prouideace Journal.
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-Lndependent.
This Dictionary will be highly useful to practc-
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Mem YOrk
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