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The wood-turning lathe enjoys a special place among all woodworking machines for several reasons. Invented about 1000 B.C., as a crude hand-operated machine, it is probably the oldest of all furniture-making and craft machines. The lathe combines the art of hand tool work and the mechanical operation of a modern machine, and may be considered as a complete unit in itself on which a complete project may be made without the aid of other machines or tools.
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Miller, H.G. (1962). Wood Lathe. In: Hand and Machine Woodwork. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-81735-1_20
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