A Victorian Handbook of Mechanical Movements

A Victorian Handbook of Mechanical Movements

by Thomas Walter Barber
A Victorian Handbook of Mechanical Movements

A Victorian Handbook of Mechanical Movements

by Thomas Walter Barber

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Overview


This Victorian-era handbook for civil engineers presents sketches and brief descriptions of more than 1,900 mechanical devices. Contents include gears of all kinds, chains and links, cranes, cutting tools, pumps, water wheels, turbines, and much more — all the elements of the increasingly sophisticated industrial and mechanical world of the late 19th century.
Originally published in 1890 as The Engineers' Sketch Book of Mechanical Movements, Devices, Appliances, Contrivances, and Details, this volume was "classified and arranged for reference for the use of engineers, mechanical draughtsmen, managers, mechanics, inventors, patent agents, and all engaged in the mechanical arts." Today it retains its appeal for historians of science, tinkerers, and all enthusiasts of old machinery.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780486498126
Publisher: Dover Publications
Publication date: 02/20/2013
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents


A
Accumulators
Adjusting Devices
Anchoring
Anti-friction bearings
Apparatus for Drawing Curves
Automatic cut off

B
Balance Weights
Ball and socket joints
Beam-engines, type of
Bearings, relieving pressure on
Bed-plates, foundations, and framingof machines
Belt gearing
Belt pulleys
Blowing and exhausting
Boilers, types of
Bolts, etc.
Boring, drills, etc.
Brakes and retarding appliances

C
Cams, Tappets, and Wipers
Carriages, Cars, etc.
Centres
Centrifugal force, applications of
Chains, links, and couplings
Chopping, slicing, and mincing
Chucks, grips, and holders
Circular and reciprocating motion
Clutches
Compensating and balance weights
Concentrated oower
Concentrating and separating
Condensing and cooling
Connecting rods and links
Contracting and expanding
Conveying messages, tec.
Conveyors
Cotters
Couplings
Covers, doors, etc.
Cranes, types of
Cranks and eccentrics
Crushing, rolling, and disintegrating
Curves, apparatus for drawing
Cushioning
Cutting Tools

D
Differential Gear
Disintegrating
Doors, covers, manholes
Drawing and rolling metals etc.
Drilling, boring, etc.

E
Eccentrics
Elastic Wheels
Elliptical motion
Engines and boilers combined, types of
Exhausting and blowing
Expanding and contracting devices

F
Fastening wheels to shafts
Foundations and framing
Friction gear

G
Gear, differential
Gear, friction
Gear, reversing
Gear, rope
Gear, valve
Gearing, belt
Gearing, toothed
Gearing, various devices in
Governing and regulating speed, power, etc.
Grips and holders
Guides, slides, etc.

H
Handles, etc.
Heating appliances
Hinges and joints
Holders and grips
Hooks, swivels, etc.
Hydraulic multiplying gear

I
Impact
Incorporating
Indicating pressure, etc.
Intermittent motion
Iron and steel

J
Jets, nozzles, etc.
Joints and hinges
Journals, bearings, pivots, etc.

K
Keys, cotters, pins, etc.

L
Levelling and plumbing
Levers
Links
Locking devices
Lowering
Lubricators

M
Marine engines, types of
Materials of Construction
Measuring and weighing
Mechanical powers
Messages, conveying
Mincing
Mixing and incorporating
Motive power
Movable parts, conveying motion to
Multiplying gear--hydraulic

N

Nozzles and jets

P
Packings, joints, stuffing-boxes, etc.
Parallel motions
Pawl and ratchet motions, intermittent motion
Pins, etc.
Pipes and conveyors
Pivots
Plate work
Plumbing and levelling
Power and speed, to vary
Power motive
Power reservoirs of
power transmission of
Pressing
Propulsion
Pumping and raising water
Pumping engines, type of

Q
Quick return motions

R
Rails and tramroads
Raising and lowering weights
Raising water-pumping
Ratchet and pawl motions
Reciprocating and circular motion
Regulating and governing
Relieving pressure on bearings
Reservoirs of power, accumulators
Retarding appliances
Reversing gear
Riddling and screening
Rope, belt, and chain pulleys
Rope, gearing
Rolling and drawing
Rotary engines


S
Safety appliances
Screening
Screw gear, bolt, etc.
Sections of iron and steel. See Materials.
Segments, wheels in
Separating
Shaft couplings
Shafting
Signals, etc.
Slicing and mincing
Slide and other valve gear
Slides, guides, etc.
Socket joints
Sound
Sources of power
Speed and power
Speed indicating
Spindles and centres
Springs
Starting valves
Steam Traps
Striking and hammering-impact
Struts and ties
Stuffing boxes
Swivels

T
Tanks and cisterns
Tappets
Throwing in and out of gear
Ties and struts
Timber. See Materials
Tools, cutting
Toothed gearing
Tramroads
Transmission of power
Traps, steams
Turbines

V
Valve gear
Valves and cocks
Valves starting
Variable motion and power

W
Washing
Water-pressure engines
Water wheels and tturbines
Weighing and measuring, indicating pressure
Wheels, elastic
Wheels, fastening to shafts
Wheels, in segments
Windmills and feasthering wheels
Winding apparatus
Wipers






























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