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RefNoPP/1/8/1
Previous numbersPP/33/9
LevelItem
TitleManuscript, 'The action of cutting tools' by A [Arnulph] Mallock
Date1881
DescriptionMallock writes: the 'action of cutting tools has not often been treated from a theoretical point of view [...] I do not attempt in the following paper to give any dynamical investigation of the action of tools, in fact it would be almost impossible to do so without a more extended knowledge of the laws which govern the strains in bodies subjected to large forces, but merely to classify the various actions which observation shows to be caused by the progress of the tool, and to quantify approximately the work expended in each. For this purpose, shavings from a great variety of substances were examined both in the course of their formation (by a microscope attached to the toolholder) and after they were removed. Among the substances examined may be mentioned four or five samples of wrought iron, and as many of steel, cast iron, gun metal, brass, copper, lead, zinc, hard paraffin, soap, and clay.'

Includes four diagrams in the text and one page of diagrams showing the action of cutting.

Subject: Scientific apparatus and instruments

Received 4 November 1881. Read 8 December 1881.

Written by Mallock in Bowhill, Exeter [England].

A version of this paper was published in volume 33 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'The action of cutting tools.'
Extent14p
FormatManuscript
Diagram
PhysicalDescriptionInk and graphite pencil on paper
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialDOI: 10.1098/rspl.1881.0079
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CodePersonNameDates
NA1356Mallock; Henry Reginald Arnulph (1851 - 1933)1851 - 1933
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