Excerpt from The Operative Mechanic, and British Machinist, Vol. 2 of 2: Being a Practical Display of the Manufactories and Mechanical Arts of the United Kingdom

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Be it remembered, that on the first day of November, In the fifty-fifth year of the independence of the United States of America, A.D. 1890, T. Desilver, Jun. of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit:

The Operative Mechanic, and British Machinist, being a Practical Display of the Manufactories and Mechanical Arts of the United Kingdom. By John Nicholson, Esq. Civil Engineer. Second American from the Third London edition, with additions. In two volumes. Vol. II.

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