Grindstone – ancient multi-tools – The Queensland Museum ...

In the Museum we have some very specialised grinding stones such as the Morah grinding stone- only found in the Wet Tropics rainforests. This grindstone is made of slate with several incised parallel grooves on its surface to create a …

STRUCTURAL REPAIR MANUAL CORROSION REMOVAL AND …

Surface Treatment Methods, 51-13-10, General of this section for a definition of corrosion levels, corrosion removal techniques and surface treatment methods. For repair of corrosion damage in excess of corrosion rework limits, see the appropriate ATA chapter of this manual or contact Gulfstream Technical Operations for assistance. B. General

Keeping Blanchard Grinding Current - National Tooling ...

Blanchard grinding is a brand name that has become generic in its use, much like saying Kleenex when referring to facial tissue. What began as a machine developed by the Blanchard Machine Co. in the 1900s is now a moniker generically applied to a number of rotary surface grinding machines including Blanchard, Mattison and others.

Evidence for Pleistocene seed grinding at Lake Mungo ...

No diagnostic peck marks or traces of surface rejuvenation were identified on any of the grinding stone fragments. Usewear The primary features of usewear traces – polish, striations, grain rounding and scarring – as well as their appearance and extent of coverage, are summarised in Table 3, with details and images of usewear in Plates S1 ...

Brown & Sharpe Mfg. Co. - History | VintageMachinery

Brown & Sharpe Mfg. Co. is one of the oldest and probably one of the most significant machine tool and precision tool builders. The firm was founded in 1833 by David Brown and his son Joseph R. Brown. In 1853 the company to Lucian Sharpe as a partner and became J. R. Brown & Sharpe. Early work consisted of making and repairing clocks and other ...

Floor Solutions by HTC - Grinding machines - HTC Superfloor

Surface-grinding a wooden floor provides a perfect surface, free from 'gouges' and unevenness. The machine is extremely simple to operate, so anyone can grind their own floor. HTC Superprep™ is another important part of our business, i.e. preparing and removing old floor coverings with the aid of grinding.

Collection Search | Corning Museum of Glass

Translucent deep green; few spherical bubbles. Probably slumped over mold; probably slant-cut. Bowl: hemispherical, with eight lobes. Rim has flat top and beveled inner surface formed by grinding; wall curves down and in, and has on inside, at junctions of lobes, sharp cusps that extend from rim to center of floor; base is slightly convex, with solid foot-ring; no pontil mark.

Grinding rails for less noise: The new ATMO from Plasser ...

An enhanced rail grinding method. When in use, all rails are subject to constant wear. Surface changes such as corrugations and waves occur in different settings: in curves, while braking, and during the acceleration process. In urban environments, such …

Caring for metal objects - Preventive conservation ...

Robert L. Barclay, Carole Dignard and Lyndsie Selwyn. Caring for metal objects is part of CCI's Preventive conservation guidelines for collections online resource. This section presents key aspects of managing the care of metal objects in heritage collections based on the principles of preventive conservation and risk management.

Grinding Stone: Part 3 - Hands-on Heritage

Over the last few days, I have sent pictures to Gary Fogelman, Jim Herbstritt of the State Museum, and all of you. The consensus is that we have a community grinding stone known as a metate. That part of it may be obvious. It is "worked" to form a grinding surface and that surface is different from the rock as a whole.

The first surface grinders - Practical Machinist

Umm, I'm pretty sure that the American Precision Museum displays or displayed a circa 1880's 'surface' grinder, probably B & S. I can't quite recall. It would be clear to anyone reading early 1900's American Machinist that grinding machines of many types were well developed and in wide use at the time.

Richard Warren's Flake Over Grinding Page 4

MAGNIFIED AREA OF SURFACE GRINDING PREDYNASTIC PERIOD EGYPT BUFFALO MUSEUM OF SCIENCE COLLECTION This picture shows a small magnified area on the surface of an Ancient Gerzean knife. More-often-than-not there usually is some evidence of flake-over-grinding left on the surface of these ancient knives.

Spherometers | National Museum of American History

During the second half of the 19th century, five of Clarks' telpes held the record for world's largest. To aid in grinding lenses, Clark & Sons also made devices such as spherometers. Ref: Warner, D. J., "Alvan Clark & Sons: Artists in Optics," United States National Museum Bulletin 274 (1968): 1-13. Location Currently not on view date made ...

Fluorite lenses: Corrective capabilities beyond the limits ...

Chromatic aberration happens because when light passes through a glass surface, the different-colored waves within it (red, green, blue, etc.) are refracted at different angles due to their different lengths, with each color converging at a different focal point. ... While the grinding and polishing processes may seem identical for all kinds of ...

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How to make a thin section of a fossil | R. H. LeBlanc

Precision is key, so keeping the surface of the resin clear is important. I usually draw lines on the surface of the resin using a straight-edge to help guide my cuts on the saw. The lab at the Royal Ontario Museum has a wafer blade, low-speed saw that is diamond encrusted…perfect for cutting through fossil bones and teeth!

Polished or Grinded Finish | KIKUKAWA KOGYO

The origin of polishing or grinding finish is the machining process of the same name. Grinding is used for various materials from metal, stones, and wood to attain the desired surfaces. To achieve the required functionality or aesthetics, grinding or polishing can smooth or roughen the surface, or adjust the surface in a matter of millimeters.

Digital Kourion - Home | Penn Museum

The Museum received some 2000 objects from the Kourion excavations as a result of a division of finds with the Cyprus Department of Antiquities. Although the Penn expedition excavated in a number of different sites in and around Kourion, the Museum's collection consists primarily of objects from five areas: the Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates ...

Loram Rail Grinder - Tacoma WA

Sophhisticated rail grinding programs will vary the shape and depth of the cut depending upon the exceptions from the desired rail profiles. Tangents and light curves, with very little wear, all need an occasional pass to remove micro-cracking on the surface caused by …

Grinding Services | Rockford, IL | Obsidian Manufacturing ...

We offer horizontal and rotary flat surface grinding services with either rough or precision finishes. Our skilled operators offer quality craftsmanship paying attention to close-tolerances & precision finishes. Click here to read more about our acquisition of the assets of …

Keeping Blanchard Grinding Current | Modern Machine Shop

Senior Editor, Modern Machine Shop. This is the signature crosshatch design made by Blanchard grinding (rotary surface grinding). The grinding wheel rotates counter to the table's rotation. Standard feed rates on steel can vary from 0.008 to 0.016 inch per minute. Total stock removal rates of 0.25 to 0.5 inch on steel are common.

Principles of Precision Surface Grinding Services - Metal ...

Working Principle of Surface Grinding MachineClassification of Surface Grinding MachineWorking Principle of Horizontal Spindle Reciprocating Table Surface Gr...

Grinding it Out - Archaeology Magazine Archive

Materials for grinding and polishing comparable to those listed above can be found in Turkey. The largest mirror surface I produced is about 4 by 6 centimeters (1.6 by 2.4 inches). With experience, one could probably select an optimum set of …

Perforated grinding stone used with metate? – Objects ...

Object Number78-42-20/17011. Display TitlePerforated grinding stone used with metate? Descriptions. Inventory DescriptionGround stone, mano, flat bottom, raised handle, perforated, porous. Classification. Mano. Department Archaeological. Geography/Provenience/Site Name.

TarraWarra Museum of Art exhibition Wilam Biik puts ...

TarraWarra Museum of Art's latest exhibition begins with a room that Wurundjeri curator Stacie Piper calls the "Welcome to Country". The songs of Djirri Djirri, a Wurundjeri women's dance group ...

Juan Gris: 12 works — Google Arts & Culture

Coffee Grinder and Glass (1915) by Juan GrisThe Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art 'With the addition of the letters Le J, for Le Journal, the French word for newspaper, Gris alludes to Cubist collage, a technique in which paper or similar materials are glued to a surface.

Surface Grinding Services - TCI Precision Metals

Surface Grinding Surface grinding is a finishing process that uses a rotating abrasive wheel to smooth the flat surface of materials to give them a close tolerance dimension as well as a more refined finish. TCI's surface grinding capability allows us to hold very close, precision tolerances.

How to Grind and Polish Cement for Art Sculptures | Home ...

Grinding. Various tools are used to remove coarse roughness from concrete art sculpture. Working the concrete after it has hardened, but before it is …

Industrial History: Line Shaft and Leather Belts, revisited

Now that is the mother of grinding wheels! Russell Johnson This isn't a grinding wheel. It is a drive sheave or flywheel for the pulley system that powers this foundry. Think steam power boilers, counter-shafts, belts, etc. The man is either balancing this wheel or roughening the surface so a belt won't slip.

GEOLOGY STONE TOOLS - Earth Sci

25% show signs of surface grinding (using a sand medium as an abrasive) particularly around the shoulders; grinding process was used to excavate the face.in addition to the sand polishing (outcrops of sandpaper-like coarse quartzite found in the local metamorphics) ... mislabelled specimen at the British Museum