For machinery the wheel is indispensable. The hand does its work chiefly in moving to and fro, as in sawing and whittling. Machines outdo manual toil by moving swiftly and continuously in a circle: instead of the smoothing iron we have the mangle, boards are planed by rotary knives, timber is divided by circular saws, and the steam turbine is displacing the steam engine which every moment has to check the momentum of huge reciprocating masses. Noteworthy in this regard is the perfecting press which prints a newspaper from a continuous roll, as contrasted with the old machine which demanded for each impression a distinct series of to and fro movements. The Harris Rotary Press for job printing is of like model. It feeds itself with 6,500 sheets an hour, printing from a stereotype or an electrotype curved upon its cylinder. The lathe, simple enough a century ago, has been developed into machines of great complexity, power, and variety, all with the original rotary mandrel as their essential feature. Milling machines, steadily gaining more and more importance, employ rotary cutters which dispense with the manual chipping and filing of former days.
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Ball thrust collar bearing.
Ball Bearing Co., Philadelphia.
Rigid bearings for driving axles of automobiles.
Ball Bearing Co., Philadelphia.
Hyatt helical roller bearing.
Hyatt rollers supporting an axle.
