Turning and Boring: A Specialized Treatise for Machinists, Students in the Industrial and Engineering Schools, and Apprentices, on Turning and Boring Methods, Including Modern Practice with Engine Lathes, Turret Lathes, Vertical and Horizontal Boring Machines

This is a primary source in the history of manufacturing: a practical manual written when the engine lathe still ruled the shop floor and machinists built precision by hand. Franklin Day Jones intended this treatise as a comprehensive education for apprentices and engineering students, covering everything from the fundamental anatomy of the lathe headstock, tailstock, and carriage to the nuanced art of selecting cutting tools and calculating speeds for different metals. The book walks through cylindrical turning, boring, thread cutting, and the operation of both turret lathes and vertical/horizontal boring machines. What elevates this beyond a dry technical text is its window into early 20th-century shop culture: the assumed knowledge, the safety practices, the precise terminology that defined a machinist's craft. For historians of technology, this is a valuable artifact. For practicing machinists interested in how their trade evolved, it's a direct line to the hands that built the machines that built the modern world.