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ARTICLES RELATED TO Portsmouth Block Mills - The Manufacture of the Block-making machines | | | |  Portsmouth Block Mills - The Manufacture of the Block-making machines: Encyclopedia II - Portsmouth Block Mills - The Manufacture of the Block-making machinesBrunel's patent specification shows wooden framed machines, which, while they show many of the principles of the machines actually installed bear little resemblance to the final designs. Once the contract with the Admiralty had been placed he engaged Henry Maudslay to make them, and it is clear the final designs had considerable input from Bentham, Maudslay, Simon Goodrich, (mechanician to the Navy board) as well as Brunel himself.
These machines were entirely hand made, the only machine tools being used being lathes to machine circul ...
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| | | | Portsmouth Block Mills - The Manufacture of the Block-making machines: Encyclopedia II - Portsmouth Block Mills - History The Royal Navy had evolved by the middle of the eighteenth century into what has been described as the greatest industrial power in the western world. The Admiralty and Navy Board began a programme of modernisation of dockyards at Portsmouth and Plymouth, and by the start of the war with Revolutionary France possessed the most up-to-date fleet facilities in Europe.
The Dock system at Portsmouth has its origins in the work of Edmund Dummer in the 1690s. He constructed a series of basins, and wet and dry docks. Alterations were made to ...
See also:Portsmouth Block Mills, Portsmouth Block Mills - History, Portsmouth Block Mills - The block-making processes using the machines, Portsmouth Block Mills - Significant features, Portsmouth Block Mills - The Manufacture of the Block-making machines, Portsmouth Block Mills - Publicity, Portsmouth Block Mills - Later history, Portsmouth Block Mills - On line links, Portsmouth Block Mills - Printed references Read more here: » Portsmouth Block Mills: Encyclopedia II - Portsmouth Block Mills - History |
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| | | | Portsmouth Block Mills - The Manufacture of the Block-making machines: Encyclopedia II - Portsmouth Block Mills - Publicity These machines and the block mills attracted an enormous amount of interest from the time of their erection, ranging from Admiral Lord Nelson on the morning of the day he embarked from Portsmouth for the Battle of Trafalgar on 1805, to the Princess Victoria at the age of 12, as part of her education. Even during the time of the Napoleonic Wars, until 1815 there was a stream of foreign dignitaries and military men wishing to learn. The machines were fully described and illustrated in the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, (1811), Rees's Cyclopaedia, (1 ...
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| | | | Portsmouth Block Mills - The Manufacture of the Block-making machines: Encyclopedia II - Portsmouth Block Mills - The block-making processes using the machines A pulley-block has four parts: the shell, the sheave, the pin for locating the latter in the shell and a metal bush, or coak, inserted into the sheave to save wear between it and the pin. Blocks can vary in size and in the number of sheaves.
The process of making the shells
Cut slices from the trunk of a tree, and from these slices by means of the circular saws cut rectangular blocks from which the shells were manufactured.
Bore a hole in the block for the pin, and at right angles to this a hole or holes t ...
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