Excerpt from Modern Milling Machines: Their Design, Construction, and Working; A Handbook for Practical Men and Engineering StudentsThe present period is one of growing specialisation in Technical Literature, as in Manufacturing. The books which give a general treatment of a particular subject appeal less to practical men than to students and amateurs. No apology, therefore, is necessary for issuing a work which treats of a single department of machine-shop practice, and one of great and growing importance. Its scope is very broad, as a perusal of the contents of this work will show. Milling machines have become highly specialised, and the work of milling is now subdivided between different groups of hands just as that of turning is, ranging from very plain to very difficult work.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.