Excerpt from Press-Working of Metals: A Treatise Upon the Principles and Practice of Shaping Metals in Dies by the Action of Presses, Together With a Description of the Construction of Such Implements in Their Various Forms, and of the Materials Worked in Them A portion of the matter herein contained was written over two years ago at the request of the editor of the Metal Worker of New York, and was published as a serial in that journal, and also in the Iron Age. Several new chapters, however, have since been introduced, together with over a hundred additional engravings, and the whole has been subjected to a careful revision and amplification. No attempt has been made to limit the language to the rigid brevity and technicality of a text-book on mathematics or chemistry, a freer style, rhetorically speaking, being perhaps more acceptable to the general reader. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.