"Mandril" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... turning. The art of turning might perhaps itself be classed amongst the arts of copying. A steel axis, called a mandril, having a pulley attached to the middle of it, is supported at one end either by a conical point, or by a cylindrical collar, and at the other end by another collar, through which it passes. The extremity which projects beyond this last collar is formed into a screw, ...
— On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures • Charles Babbage |
