The Engineers Sketch Book Of Mechanical Movements Devices Appliances Contrivances And Details Employed In The Design And Construction Of Machinery For Every Purpose Classified Arranged For Reference For The Use Of Engineers Mechanical Draughtsmen Managers Mechanics Inventors Patent Agents And All Engaged In The Mechanical Arts

Author : Thomas Walter Barber
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330871171
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book The Engineer's Sketch-Book of Mechanical Movements, Devices, Appliances, Contrivances and Details written by Thomas Walter Barber and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Engineer's Sketch-Book of Mechanical Movements, Devices, Appliances, Contrivances and Details: Employed in the Design and Construction of Machinery for Every Purpose; Classified Arranged for Reference for the Use of Engineers, Mechanical Draughtsmen, Managers, Mechanics, Inventors, Patent Agents, and All Engaged in the Mechanical Arts Every successful engineer is a born inventor; indeed the daily work of an engineer in practice largely consists in scheming and devising from previous experience new and improved processes, methods, and details for accomplishing them, and for simplifying or cheapening old forms of machinery and the work they produce, to enable him tor successfully compete with others, who are perhaps as ingenious and enterprising as himself. In the work of designing machinery the draughtsman has to rely mainly on his memory for inspiration; and, for lack of an idea, has frequently to wade through numerous volumes to find a detail or movement to effect a particular purpose. Hence, as a rule, every mans work runs in a groove, his productions generally having the stamp of his particular experience and training clearly marked upon them. In the course of twenty-five years of such experience, I have found the want of such a volume as the present, and endeavoured to supply the deficiency in my own practice by private notes and sketches, gathered promiscuously, until the difficulty of selection and arrangement became so apparent that I began to classify them, as they exist in the following pages. A few weeks of unusual leisure have enabled me to complete this work and amplify it by numerous additions, and it is now presented in the hope that it will be found of equal service to others engaged in the head-splitting, exhausting work of scheming and devising machinery, than which I can conceive of no head-work more wearing and anxious. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.