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Mechanical Equipment (Concluded).
MACHINE DRILLING: POWER TRANSMISSION; COMPRESSED AIR VS. ELECTRICITY; AIR DRILLS; MACHINE VS. HAND DRILLING. WORK-SHOPS. IMPROVEMENT IN EQUIPMENT.
For over two hundred years from the introduction of drill-holes for blasting by Caspar Weindel in Hungary, to the invention of the first practicable steam percussi