"Machine shop" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... thought was to return to the machine shop in Tocopilla, but as De la Pama was nearer he decided to go there in the morning. "It is useless for me to remain here," he reasoned, "I wonder how many of the Peruvians have escaped? They were a set of cowards anyway, and the captain ...
— Jack North's Treasure Hunt - Daring Adventures in South America • Roy Rockwood
... ONE-STORY MACHINE SHOP.—The building was 53600 ft.; each side wall consisted of 40 columns of channel section carried on footings of channel section somewhat heavier than that of the column. The columns were spaced 15 ft. on centers ...
— Concrete Construction - Methods and Costs • Halbert P. Gillette
... boarding-house making love to one of the hired girls, and she seemed quite pleased with his polite attentions. Matheson was elected Governor of the State of Illinois, and became a millionaire by dealing in railways. He was a native of Missouri, and a man of ability; In '49 I saw him at work in a machine shop. ...
— The Book of the Bush • George Dunderdale
... at his bench in the electrical machine shop at Burrton just about to open a letter which had been left there late in the afternoon. The shop men sometimes brought one another's mail up from the village and Bauer, who often worked at his task without going out to tea, was glad to get his occasional letters before ...
— The High Calling • Charles M. Sheldon
... stepped from the door of the machine shop, where he was at work making some adjustments to the motor of his airship, and glanced down the road. He saw a cloud of dust, which effectually concealed whatever was ...
— Tom Swift and his Wireless Message • Victor Appleton
... ninety days. They tell me that's right quick work for pointing up a launch. But at the end of three months I had assembled enough stuff to do the job, and still well within the weight limit they had to set. I wasn't a walking machine shop, but there was a lot I could do ...
— The Trouble with Telstar • John Berryman
... isn't the limit! I put him in the telephone booth in the machine shop, and told him to stay there until I was through. What in the world is ...
— Tom Swift and his Photo Telephone • Victor Appleton
... iron, steel and other material that enters into the construction of the machine, and it is taken in the condition in which it usually comes to the machine shop. ...
— Industrial Progress and Human Economics • James Hartness
... they should probably go through the mountain, and that the hole could be used for a railway tunnel. The mining camp was a busy place at any rate. Quite a settlement of board and log shanties had gone up, with a blacksmith shop, a small machine shop, and a temporary store for supplying the wants of the workmen. Philip and Harry pitched a commodious tent, and lived in the full enjoyment of the ...
— The Gilded Age, Part 6. • Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and Charles Dudley Warner
... a 7 horse power gas motor, dynamometers with automatic registering apparatus, counters, balances, etc. A small machine shop contains a lathe, a forge, a drilling machine, etc. The main shaft is 12 meters in length and is 7 centimeters in diameter. It is supported at a distance of one meter from the floor by four pillow blocks, and is formed of three sections united ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891 • Various
... copper tube is wound on. It is almost necessary to do this winding with a lathe, but if the mechanic does not have access to such a tool he may have to find other means of doing it, or possibly he can take it to a local machine shop and have the work done for a few cents. The boiler coil should be ...
— Boys' Book of Model Boats • Raymond Francis Yates
... nor less than a combination machine shop and shipyard, situated on the east bank of the Hudson in the neighbourhood of ...
— L. P. M. - The End of the Great War • J. Stewart Barney |
