Automatic lathe
id:
automatic-lathe-0-7524560
title:
Automatic lathe
text:
In metalworking and woodworking, an automatic lathe is a lathe with an automatically controlled cutting process. Automatic lathes were first developed in the 1870s and were mechanically controlled. From the advent of NC and CNC in the 1950s, the term automatic lathe has generally been used for only mechanically controlled lathes, although some manufacturers market Swiss-type CNC lathes as 'automatic'. CNC has not yet entirely displaced mechanically automated lathes, as although no longer in prod
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_lathe
date created:
date modified:
2024-01-21T07:44:44Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q6024544","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6024544"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Fay_automatic_lathe.jpg","width":401,"height":249}
fields total:
13
integrity:
14