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Sunday, November 22, 2015

Appletons’ cyclopaedia of applied mechanic


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Davis & Furber wool-carding machine.

From Appletons’ cyclopaedia of applied mechanic vol. 2, edited by Park Benjamin, New York, 1880.

(Source: archive.org)

Davis & Furber wool-carding machine.
From Appletons’ cyclopaedia of applied mechanic vol. 2, edited by Park Benjamin, New York, 1880.
(Source: archive.org)


Park Benjamin (1849–1922) was an American patent lawyer, physician, and writer. He was born in New York City, graduated at the United States Naval Academy in 1867, resigned from the Navy in 1869, and graduated at the Albany Law School in the following year. He was associate editor of The Scientific American from 1872 to 1878 and subsequently edited Appleton's Cyclopedia of Applied Mechanics and Cyclopædia of Modern Mechanism.

Besides numerous magazine articles dealing for the most part with scientific subjects, he published also:

    Shakings or Etchings from the United States Naval Academy (1867)
    Wrinkles and Recipes (1875)
    The End of New York (1881)
    The Age of Electricity (1886)
    The Voltaic Cell (1892)
    The History of Electricity (1895)
    History of the United States Naval Academy (1900)
    Modern Mechanism (1905)



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Squier’s Cuba sugar-mill.

From Appletons’ cyclopaedia of applied mechanic vol. 2, edited by Park Benjamin, New York, 1880.

(Source: archive.org)

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The Lane and Bodley saw-mill.

From Appletons’ cyclopaedia of applied mechanic vol. 2, edited by Park Benjamin, New York, 1880.

(Source: archive.org)

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The Leavitt pumping engine.

From Appletons’ cyclopaedia of applied mechanic vol. 2, edited by Park Benjamin, New York, 1880.

(Source: archive.org)
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The Schneider eighty-ton steam-hammer.

From Appletons’ cyclopaedia of applied mechanic vol. 2, edited by Park Benjamin, New York, 1880.

(Source: archive.org)
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Steam compression of cotton: the Champion compress.

From Appletons’ cyclopaedia of applied mechanic, edited by Park Benjamin, New York, 1880.

(Source: archive.org)
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The Sellers planing-machine.machine.

From Appletons’ cyclopaedia of applied mechanic, edited by Park Benjamin, New York, 1880.

(Source: archive.org)
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Metal-turning lathe.

From Appletons’ cyclopaedia of applied mechanic, edited by Park Benjamin, New York, 1880.

(Source: archive.org)
 
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