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  • The wheel to be operated upon was fixed to a slide-table, and gradually advanced, so as to cause the mortising tool to take successive cuts through the depth of the eye of the wheel, until the mortise or key-groove had attained its required depth.

    James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Nasmyth, James 1885

  • In order to obviate this inconvenience, I designed an arrangement of a key-groove mortising machine.

    James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Nasmyth, James 1885

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