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machine appears to have been entirely successful for the purpose intended. This was the original milling-machine. As in the case of so many important inventions, however, but little, progress was made for a while, and the original invention and inventor were almost forgotten, when, nearly a century after Moxon, the necessities of the times caused the revival of the invention to be made with special ref- erence to iron. In the year 1751, the engineer of the Marly Water-Works on the Seine, France, contrived and put in execution a machine for planing out the wrought-iron pump-barrels employed in that work. (See page 454, plate 45, in Buchanan's Practical essays, published 1841.) This is believed to have been the first instance in which iron was reduced to a plane surface without chipping or filing. The present metal-planing machine is an application of the slide-rest, which was invented by General Sir Samuel Bentham and described in his patent of 1793. The planing-machine d