Figure 26. — Maudslay's lathe and slide-tool, about 1807. 

 The slide-tool (lower), was fitted over the inverted-V lathe bed, 

 replacing the conventional tool rest, shown installed, above. 

 The cutting tools were secured under the four-legged yokes by 

 thumbscrews A, b. From Olinthus Gregory, A Treatise of 

 Mechanics, 3d ed., 3 vols. (London. 1815), vol. 3, pi. 36. 



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