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Henry Maudslay, who made the first practical screw cutting lathe, bench micrometer, and transformed the world of machine tools. He made a bench micrometer that
by mikewarot 6mo ago
Henry Maudslay, who made the first practical screw cutting lathe, bench micrometer, and transformed the world of machine tools. He made a bench micrometer that could measure to the 1/10,000th of an inch in the early 1800s.
He helped set up the very first machine tool based line for the production of pully blocks for the British Navy.
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