Milk-and-Lime Recipe with Mechanical Sketches
A materials note on making a good paste, amid screw jacks, cranks and lever arms
Only a brief materials note from the upper-left corner is transcribed — 'Take milk and lime and you will make a good...' — the opening of a formula for a paste or cement. The rest of the sheet is crowded with mechanical sketches, including a vertical screw jack, cranked handles and lever arms in the lower half. Much of the page's mirror-script text was not included in the bundle and remains untranscribed.
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Screw jack, cranks and lever arms
The lower half of the sheet is filled with mechanical studies drawn in ink: a tall vertical member carrying a screw, cranked handles ending in knobs, and jointed lever arms. They read as components of lifting or driving mechanisms rather than a single finished machine.