 This simple and wasteful manner of making hoards has been still continued in some places to the present time. Peter the Great of Russia endeavoured to put a stop to it, by forbidding hewn deals to be transported on the river Neva. The saw, however, though...  Book of Trades Or Library of the Useful Arts - Page 3301818 - 442 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 722 pages
...early periods, tlie trunks of trees were split with wedges into as many and as thin pieces as possible, and if it were necessary to have them still thinner, they were hewn on both sides to the proper size. This simple and wasteful manner of making boards has been still continued in some... | |
 | Johann Beckmann - Inventions - 1814 - 508 pages
...trunks of trees were split with wedges into as many and as thin pieces as possible ;f and if it was necessary to have them still thinner, they were hewn on both sides to the proper size. This simple and wasteful manner of making boards has been still continued to the... | |
 | Johann Beckmann - 1817 - 572 pages
...trunks of trees were split with wedges into as many and as thin pieces as possible jf and if it was necessary to have them still thinner, they were hewn on both sides to the proper size. This simple and wasteful manner of making boards has been still continued to the... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1818 - 578 pages
...men always work in the dry, and, in most of the branches, cleanliness, which is no small requisite iu the mechanical arts, is a principal one. THE SAWYER...useful instruments in the mechanic arts ever invented. Among the Greeks, the inventor has been enrolled in their mythology with a place among the gods, and... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1818 - 568 pages
...prevent the galling the horse's times use4..,(,, THE SAWYER . -• . " ?:••• f. -i ..' ',' .' ' ^Is a person who cuts the trunks of trees of various...useful instruments in the mechanic arts ever invented. Among the Greeks, the inventor has been enrolled in their mythology with a place among the gods, and... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 384 pages
...early periods, the trunks of trees were split with wedges into as many and as thin pieces as possible, and if it were necessary to have them still thinner, they were hewn on both sides to the proper size. This simple and wasteful manner of making hoards has been still continued in some... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 382 pages
...early periods, the trunks of trees were split with wedges into as many and - thin pieces as possible, and if it were necessary to have them still thinner, they were hewn on both sides to the proper *ize. This simple and wasteful manner of making boards has been still continued in some... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1825 - 508 pages
...trunks of trees were split, with wedges, into as many and thin pieces as possible ; and when it was necessary to have them still thinner, they Were hewn on both sides to the proper size. This simple yet wasteful manner of making boards has been continued in Russia to... | |
 | Bible - 1837 - 852 pages
...of trees were split with wedges inta as many and as thin pieces as possible ; and if it «ii found necessary to have them still thinner, they were hewn on both sides to the proper size." This simple but "fitful process has continued in use down to a rather recent period,... | |
 | Charles Barlow - 1772 - 544 pages
...trunks of trees were split with wedges into as many and thin as pieces as possible, and, if it was necessary to have them still thinner, they were hewn on both sides to the proper size. This simple and wasteful manner of making boards has still been continued to the... | |
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