These "Specimens of Fancy Turning" from a 1869 book of albumen silver prints look like antique, mystical spirograph toy ...

Pincher-style lathe calipers precisely measure the thickness of objects that can't be measured directly with a ruler or tape. Similar in mechanics to needlenose pliers, calipers can be gently ...

The lathe is the oldest and most important machine tool, on which most other machines and instruments can be made. This is a fine example of the nineteenth century English lathe designed for ...

This lathe was made by Colchester Machine tools, in Colchester, Essex in 1941 as a part of the War effort, many thousands of similar machines were made by all machine tool manufacturers during the ...

The bowl on the lathe is said to have been one he was making ... Comments are closed for this object What's this? Most of the content on A History of the World is created by the contributors ...

The precision lathe with the hooks, the bowstring, and vise visible as material is being processed. (Credit: Clickspring) We commonly tend to associate lathes with the Industrial Revolution ...

A Lathe is a machine tool that rotates a workpiece about an axis of rotation to perform various operations such as cutting, sanding, knurling, drilling, deformation, facing, and turning, with tools ...