Excerpt from A Treatise on the Construction and Operation of Wood-Working Machines The want of that scientific consideration to which wood machi nery is so fully entitled, must in a great measure account for the imperfect manner in which much of it is made. In many, if not in the majority of the shops in America, there is no system of drawings, no standard for bearings, bolts, or shafting the metal in the framing is disposed in the most unaccountable manner, in fact there is nothing approaching the standard of our machine tools, except the paint, which is laid on in variegated profusion. But it is outside the province of this work to criticize, inasmuch as it is not assumed to be a regular text-book. Yet it will not be amiss to stir the matter up, and thus provoke the attention which the importance of this great interest demands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.