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Artist
Illustration
- Subject:
- Science & technology
- Technique:
- Wood engraving
- Engraver:
- Cox, C. L.
- Format:
- Landscape (wider)
- Source:
- The Mugar Memorial Library, the Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics, vol. 2
- Author(s):
- Benjamin, Park (editor)
- Publisher:
- New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1880
- Open Library:
- View record.
Description
Perspective view of the eighty-ton steam-hammer used at Le Creusot, France. Below is an excerpt from the related entry:
The largest steam-hammer in existence (1879) is that constructed by the Messrs. Schneider at the famous factory of Creusot [sic], France […]. The largest hammers previously built were the 51-ton hammer at the Perm steel works (Russia), the 50-ton hammer at the Alexandrovski steel works, near St. Petersburg, and the 50-ton hammer at Messrs. Krupp’s works at Essen; while after these come the 35-ton hammer at Woolwich Arsenal, and the 30-ton hammer at Sir W. G. Armstrong & Co.’s works at Elswick, England.
Keywords: 1880s, 19th century, black & white, machine, reference book, steam