Modern Machine Shop Tools: Their Construction, Operation and Manipulation
A general machine-shop reference of its day — construction, operation, and manipulation of the shop’s tools, grinding included. Kept for deep research into period practice.
| Author | William H. Van Dervoort |
|---|---|
| Publisher | N. W. Henley & Co., New York |
| Published | 1903 |
| Pages | 565 |
| Hosted file | modern-machine-shop-tools-van-dervoort-1903.pdf · 19.3 MB |
| Category | General machining references |
| Source | Internet Archive item modernmachinesh00dervgoog |
| Rights | Published 1903 — public domain by age in the United States. |
What’s in it
- Machine shop tools: construction and operation
- Period shop practice
Edition & version notes
1903, N. W. Henley & Co., New York.
Source & provenance
This copy is an unaltered scan held by the Internet Archive (item modernmachinesh00dervgoog), retrieved 2026-10-22. The hosted file is byte-for-byte that scan: modern-machine-shop-tools-van-dervoort-1903.pdf, 19,297,158 bytes, 565 pages. If the Archive’s copy ever changes, this page’s record — item, file name, size, and page count — is how the difference is caught.
Rights
Published 1903 — public domain by age in the United States. Grinding Advisor hosts public-domain works only; copyrighted manuals are linked to their publishers, never re-hosted.
Cite this document
William H. Van Dervoort. Modern Machine Shop Tools: Their Construction, Operation and Manipulation. N. W. Henley & Co., New York, 1903. Public domain. Scan: Internet Archive (modernmachinesh00dervgoog). Hosted by Grinding Advisor, https://grindingadvisor.com/manual-archive/modern-machine-shop-tools-1903