First recorded in 1895–1900
First recorded in 1890–95
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A drop forge is a place . . . with giant steam-hammers, powerful forging presses, forging machines.
From Time Magazine Archive
There are Negro lab technicians, crane operators, drop-forge men, welders, draftsmen and assembly men, all skilled or semiskilled jobs.
From Time Magazine Archive
She cast a soft eye on stump-pullers in Louisiana, drop-forge workers in Michigan.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the movies the taxi driver, the waitress, the drop-forge operator are comic relief.
From Time Magazine Archive
This condition has led many drop-forge and manufacturing concerns to consider annealing as an unnecessary operation and expense.
From The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel by Colvin, Fred H. (Fred Herbert)
No, Angelenos, you probably don't need a $348 felling ax with a drop-forged head and hand-painted handle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2017
Thereupon, from wherever he was resting his drop-forged constitution, Molotov came back to Moscow.
From Time Magazine Archive
These wheels, now; machined steel hubs, steel rims, tubular steel spokes, drop-forged and machined axles.
From Naudsonce by Piper, H. Beam
This book fills a demand of long standing for information regarding drop-forgings, die-sinking and machine-forming of steel and the shop practice involved, as it actually exists in the modern drop-forging shop.
From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Pag?, Victor Wilfred
The crank shaft is a steel drop-forging having arms extending from center of shaft according to number of cylinders.
From Believe You Me! by Putnam, Nina Wilcox
In addition to the arts above mentioned the book contains explicit information regarding the drop-forging and hardening plants, designs, conditions, equipment, drop hammers, forging machines, etc., machine forging, hydraulic forging, autogenous welding and shop practice.
From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Pag?, Victor Wilfred
Forging.—The operation of forging consists in beating or compressing metal into shape, and may be divided into five classes, viz., hand-forging, drop-forging, machine-forging, forging under trip or steam hammers, and hydraulic forging.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
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