The practical metal-worker's assistant : comprising metallurgic chemistry, the arts of working all metals and alloys, forging of iron and steel, hardening and tempering, melting and mixing, casting and founding, works in sheet metal, the processes dependent on the ductility of the metals, soldering, and the most improved processes, and tools employed by metal-workers, with the application of the art of electro-metallurgy to manufacturing processes, collected from original sources, and from the works of Holtzapffel, Bergeron, Leupold, Plumier, Napier, Scoffern, Clay, Fairbairn, and others (1872)
Byrne, Oliver · Philadelphia : H.C. Baird · leaf 363
861 SHEARS. Hand shears, which are the smallest of these tools, are made of the form represented in Fig. 316, and vary from about four to nine 319 … inches in total length. They are much used by tinmen, copper¬ smiths, silversmiths and others who work in sheet metals, and are often called snips, to distinguish them from bench shears. Some¬ times, however, they are fixed by the one limb in the table or tail vice, and then become essentially…
Metal-work · Electrometallurgy · Metallurgy
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