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The lathe is an ancient tool, dating at least to ancient Egypt and known to be used in Assyria and ancient Greece. The lathe was very important to the Industrial Revolution. It is known as the mother of machine tools, as it was the first machine tool that lead to the invention of other machine tools.
Lathes are a crucial machine in the manufacturing industry. They come in many different variations. At Surplex.com, you will find many different tpyes of lathes (for specific information, click on the machine you want to view). However, lathes for the woodworking industry can also be found at Surplex. In general, a lathe is a machine for turning long metal products into workpieces that have symmetry about an axis of rotation. Lathes are the central processing point for metalworking, next to milling machines. Therefore, they belong to the basic range of equipment of any metal processing facility.