Jacot Pivot Lathe
A tool used but little in this country, the American lathe and its attachments having superceded it. It is used for reburnishing and dressing up pivots.
JANVIER, ANTIDE. He was celebrated for his skill in representing planetary movements by the aid of mechanism. He was a profound mathematician. He was born at Saint-Claude-du-Jura, in 1751, and died in 1835.