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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.
A Lathe is a machinery tool that rotates the object or workpiece on its axis to perform various operations such as sanding, cutting, drilling, knurling or deformation, facing, turning. All these operations are applied to the object with the help of machinery tool to create an object with symmetry about an axis of rotation.