(Credit: Clickspring) We commonly tend to associate lathes with the Industrial Revolution, when metalworking shifted largely from blacksmiths to machinists, but the use of lathes is much older ...

After the war, it was sold for industrial use to Kobe Steel Ltd. in 1953. The lathe was later taken over by Kishiro Co., a machinery parts manufacturer based in Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture.

The importance of the iron-cutting lathe to the Industrial Revolution is rarely appreciated. A number of ingenious lathe mechanisms can be traced back to the Middle Ages By Robert S. Woodbury ...