Gardner D. Hiscox

Mechanical Appliances, Mechanical Movements and Novelties of Construction (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From the devices that power ships and trains to the workings of clocks, typewriters, and guns, this engrossing visual narrative profiles the specific and unique properties of hundreds of mechanical devices. Nearly 1,000 detailed illustrations depict steam-powered appliances, spring-powered devices, hydraulic equipment, and other machines, many of which remain in common use today. Each apparatus features a detailed line drawing and an informative explanation of its workings and uses. A final chapter chronicles 400 years of impassioned but futile searching for a perpetual motion machine.The companion to Dover's 1800 Mechanical Movements, Devices and Appliances, this volume features fewer but more complex machines than its predecessor. Today's readersespecially engineers, inventors, and other mechanically inclined individualswill find endless fascination and inspiration among the novelty and variety of these ingenious mechanical designs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Guilford Publications
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780486165172
• Artikelnr.: 39547346

Autorenporträt

Gardner D. Hiscox published this sequel to his 1800 Mechanical Movements, Devices and Appliances in 1914, noting, "The deeper we delve in the research for novelty and variety in the present field of mechanical design, the more we see the possibilities of human ingenuity."