engraving lathe

With the finest pen he traced the curlicues an engraving lathe had evolved to make the passes foolproof.

Acquisition of a glass engraving lathe from Germany in 1947 finally enabled Geissler to work independently from home.

With a nifty solder-gun and his small engraving lathe he could make an American typewriter speak 145 different tongues, from Russian to Homeric Greek.

At the time of Geissler's enrolment in 1945, ECA possessed a single glass engraving lathe that overheated, which allowed only intermittent and unreliable access, and had to be shared in shifts with Monro's other student, Harold Gordon.