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  2. Lathe - Wikipedia

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    Lathe turned pillars at Chennakeshava Temple, Belur. The lathe is an ancient tool. The earliest evidence of a lathe dates back to Ancient Egypt around 1300 BC. [3] There is also tenuous evidence for its existence at a Mycenaean Greek site, dating back as far as the 13th or 14th century BC.

  3. Jacques de Vaucanson - Wikipedia

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    Jacques de Vaucanson (French: [jak də vocɑ̃sɔ̃]; February 24, 1709 – November 21, 1782) [1] was a French inventor and artist who built the first all-metal lathe.This invention was crucial for the Industrial Revolution.

  4. List of Egyptian inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    Lathe — The lathe is an ancient tool. The earliest evidence of a lathe dates back to Ancient Egypt around 1300 BC. [137] There is also tenuous evidence for its existence at a Mycenaean Greek site, dating back as far as the 13th or 14th century BC. [138] Herodotus Machine — The Herodotus Machine was a machine described by Herodotus, a Greek ...

  5. Lathe (county subdivision) - Wikipedia

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    The lathe was an ancient division of Kent and originated, probably in the 6th century, during the Jutish colonisation of the county. [3] There exists a widespread belief that lathes originally formed around the royal settlements of the Kingdom of Kent.

  6. Theodorus of Samos - Wikipedia

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    He is also credited with inventing a water level, a carpenter's square, and, according to Pliny, a lock and key and the turning lathe. [1] According to Vitruvius (vii, introduction), Theodorus is the architect of the Doric order temple Heraion of Samos temple. In some texts he is described, above all, as a great artist and in some statues he is ...

  7. Hand drill (hieroglyph) - Wikipedia

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    The hand drill was a vertical type of weighted, and counterbalanced boring bar, (used today in horizontal lathe-work boring, for example: rifle tubes).The hieroglyph shows the weights used as pictured on temple reliefs; the weight of the stones does the tool work, and the artisan simply supplies the rotational motion of the tool, for boring the hole.

  8. History of Kent - Wikipedia

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    A lathe was an ancient administration division of Kent, and may well have originated during the Jutish colonisation of the county. These ancient divisions still exist, but have no administrative significance today.

  9. Pole lathe - Wikipedia

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    A pole lathe in a museum in Seiffen, Germany. A pole lathe, also known as a springpole lathe, is a wood-turning lathe that uses the resilience of a long pole as a return spring for a treadle. Pressing the treadle pulls on a cord that is wrapped around the piece of wood or billet being turned. The other end of the cord reaches up to the end of a ...