Edwin Harrington, Son & Co.
Illustrated catalog given to Lamar Lyndon ca.1890.  The firm was located at North Fifteenth Street & Pennsylvania Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Machine Tools, ca. 1890 illustrated catalog
Edwin Harrington Thirty-Two Inch Lathe, pages 24-25
THIRTY-TWO-INCH LATHE.
Swings 32 inches over shears; 21½ inches over carriage; cone has four sections 4¼-inch face; back geared; forged steel spindles; bronze metal boxes; dead spindle clamped by adjustable conical binder; Morse Standard Taper in lathe and drill press spindles; hand movement of carriage by means of hand wheel and steel pinion engaging in rack on bed; steel rack put on in sections, enabling the repair of broken cogs by supplying a new section. Independent geared friction feed, cross feed and reverse feed motions in apron attached to carriage; turning and screw cutting feeds cannot become engaged at the same time. Carriage has long bearings (giving greater bearing surfaces), which are self-oiling, decreasing the liability to cut the guides when used on short work; steel lead screw on front of lathe clamped by open and shut nut; screw threads only used when cutting screws; screw gearing, steady and following rests; large and small face plates; steel wenches; wrought-iron handles; side block for turning full swing of lathe, and cross feed stop, are included. All gearing is cut. Countershaft; hangers; 3 pulleys, 22x8, making 75 turns per minute.

With 11-feet bed; 5 feet between centres, compound rest and cross feed; shipping weight,           lbs.    $
Per extra foot of bed, $
Boxing for foreign shipment, $
Geared face plate (triple geared), extra, when ordered, $100.