1751 metal lathe - photo

[Jon]

1751 metal lathe. Designed by Jacques de Vaucanson. On display in the Arts and Crafts Museum in Paris.




More:

https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Vaucanson%27s_Lathe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_de_Vaucanson

Previously:

1930s lathe operator at Leys Malleable Castings Company - photo
1950s lathe salesman's car - photo
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...926#post144662
Holding work in a collet chuck on a vintage Warner Swasey turret lathe - photo
Manson 9" mini lathe - photo

[DIYSwede]

Short YT vid (probably posted earlier on HMT) for the curious:

[mwmkravchenko]

Short YT vid (probably posted earlier on HMT) for the curious:

That was an interesting video.

The modern era in manufacturing began right around there.

[Philip Davies]

I was rather hoping to see the lathe operating, I suppose it is a reproduction in Paris’s Temple to Science (note pedantic addition of s to apostrophe)

[mklotz]

... Paris’s Temple to Science (note pedantic addition of s to apostrophe)

Use an apostrophe + s for singular nouns (sea, sky), common nouns ending with s (tigress, mistress), and irregular plural nouns (women, children).
Use only the apostrophe for proper nouns ending with s (Tess, Jesus, Texas) and regular plural nouns (cars, protestors).

Source:

https://new.sewanee.edu/academics/wr...s/apostrophes/

My observation is that almost any punctuation "rule" has a barrel of exceptions, variations, and national and geographic differences. Within reason, do what does the best job of conveying the intended meaning.

The one important exception, one of the most common writing errors seen, is the almost universal misuse of "its" and "it's".