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507 Mechanical Movements : Mechanisms and Devices (Dover Science Books) :: 0486443604
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Originally printed in 1868, this compendium of ingenious mechanisms employs simple drawings to explain 507 of the small components that constitute complex machinery. Left-hand pages feature illustrations, and facing pages offer brief descriptions of each item's use and operation. Ranging from simple to intricately complex, the mechanisms include the cranks, pulleys, drills, wheels, and screws that serve as components of elevators, steam engines, and watches. This volume will appeal to inventors, tinkerers, and anyone interested in the history of invention and technology.
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Author: Guest
Antique lovers will like this small tome and although it might amuse the practicing engineer, it sheds some light on the ingenius mechanical widgets our forebears came up with to accomplish their goals. A good historical compilation.
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Author: Guest
This book is great! It is simple and informitive, there are tons of useful movements in this book. I thought that I knew how to make things move and do things, but i had no idea that you could do so much with just mecanical movements.
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Author: Guest
really useful if you are a backyard tinkerer and if not this is a cool little bedside book to browse through
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Author: Guest
This is a dictionary for basic mechanical engineering. Schools have ruined physics and engineering by drowning the core material in math. This book is a simple "I need this motion to cause that motion handbook." If you are familiar with Arthur Ganson's sculpture, you will find many of the common joints he uses in this book. [...]
I'm in electronics, and I needed a little bit of help with gears and adapting motion from motors, and this book is perfect. If you need to calculate torque or really get into the math of things get a textbook (or a real mechanical engineer). But if you like to tinker this book will open up your imagination to many different solutions.
For the price you can't beat it.
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Author: Guest
...you must be dead. Simply a gem of a book. I've bought modern copies on two separate occasions to make sure I have it on hand, and I recently was lucky enough to find an 1879 copy. Apparently it was published in 1868, and by 1879 it was already into its 12th printing- couldn't happen unless a lot of people found it really useful. Buy a copy- you definitely won't regret it.
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