Reprint of the Holtzapffels'
Turning and Mechanical Manipulation

Contents

• Introduction
• Disclaimers of Warranty and Liability
• Information About this Reprint
• Volume 1 (1843)
  Materials; Their Differences, Choice, and Preparation; Various Modes of Working Them, Generally Without Cutting Tools
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• Volume 2 (1856)
  The Principles of Construction, Action, and Application of Cutting Tools Used by Hand; and Also of Machines Derived from the Hand Tools
• Volume 3 (1864, Third Thousand)
  Abrasive and Miscellaneous Processes, Which Cannot Be Accomplished with Cutting Tools
• Volume 3 (1894 Revised Edition)
  
• Volume 4 (1881, Second Thousand)
  The Principles and Practice of Hand or Simple Turning
• Volume 5 (1884)
  The Principles & Practice of Ornamental or Complex Turning
• Volume 6, to have been entitled The Principles and Practice of Amateur Mechanical Engineering regrettably never was published.

Introduction

This is a digital Reprint of Turning and Mechanical Manipulation by Charles Holtzapffel and John Jacob Holtzapffel II. "Holtzapffel" is the central, essential, work in English on Ornamental Turning. Given its scope and depth, however, it is also arguably the most important work on machine shop practice in the 19th century.

The Holtzapffels' work has been reprinted several times, and at present (2004) all five volumes are in print in conventional paper facsimile versions. This online/digital Reprint is intended to complement, not to replace, these paper reprints. A serious Ornamental Turning enthusiast will want both forms.

This digital Reprint may - and should - be copied. Please, though, read Copying this Reprint in the Information About this Reprint section before you do.

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Disclaimers of Warranty and Liability

In reprinting this work, the Editor and contributors are acting as (amateur) publishers presenting a historical text for its historical interest. We are not offering it as instructional material.

Please read the important disclaimers of warranty and liability in the presentation of public domain material and the important disclaimers of warranty and liability in the Creative Commons License.

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