swash-engines

Updated: May 19, 2025

English mechanics seem early to have distinguished themselves as improvers of the lathe; and in Moxon's 'Treatise on Turning, published in 1680, we find Mr. Thomas Oldfield, at the sign of the Flower-de-Luce, near the Savoy in the Strand, named as an excellent maker of oval-engines and swash-engines, showing that such machines were then in some demand.

Samuel Smiles - Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers