Excerpt from Principles of Interchangeable Manufacturing: A Treatise on the Basic Principles Involved in Successful Interchangeable Manufacturing Practice, Covering Design, Tolerances, Drawings, Manufacturing Equipment, Gaging and Inspection While many articles dealing with various phases of inter changeable manufacturing have appeared from time to time in the technical press, no complete and comprehensive treatise dealing with this subject as a whole has heretofore been avail able to those interested in interchangeable manufacturing in the machine building and metal working fields. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.