Maudslay
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By the 1890s, Alfred Maudslay, an English explorer, was compiling the first comprehensive catalog of Maya buildings, monuments and inscriptions in the major known cities, and the first excavations were under way.
From Time Magazine Archive
At this time it is quite difficult to say with certainty whether the original gear set offered a variety of ratios, as was true of slightly later Maudslay lathes, or a fixed ratio.
From Screw-Thread Cutting by the Master-Screw Method since 1480 by Edwin A. Battison
But when a similar analysis was applied to the numerous monuments discovered and figured by Maudslay and others, some important results of a general bearing were obtained.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various
Three years later I initiated Mr. Maudslay into the art and mystery of making a reflecting telescope.
From James Nasmyth: Engineer; an autobiography by Samuel Smiles
Mr. Maudslay has observed that in both places, all of the bearded effigies are situated to the north of the beardless ones.
From The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations by Zelia Nuttall
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