Carpentry: a machine for sawing piles to the correct length underwater
by PATTE, Pierre, Engraving, 312 x 198 mm
The machine was devised by Pierre Patte, the engraving was made by Benoît Louis Pr�vost (1735-1804) after Jacques-Raymond Lucotte (1733-1804). The engraving is Plate XXI in “Encyclop�die, ou dictionnaire raisonn� des sciences, des arts, et des m�tiers” by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert (Paris, 1762-1773).