Manual of Mechanical Movements book

[magic]

Manual of Mechanical Movements 1868, get it.

Republished by W. M. Clark (my copy is from 1933)

Amazon has them for under 7 dollars http://www.amazon.com/Manual-mechanical-movements-developments-miscellaneous/dp/B00087UC6M

This book is priceless IMO

[john_l]

I just bought it.

....Hey, what is it?

[magic]

It has virtually every known drawing of simple mechanical principles/devices that will help you construct and manufacture items you always wanted to make but never knew how.

It will give you a complete digest of mechanical principles, at your fingertips.

You will have hours of fun while you ponder the pages of this timeless classic.

[john_l]

Sounds right up my avenue. Thanks a lot!

[ron brown]

http://www.archive.org/download/mechanicalmoveme00hiscrich/mechanicalmoveme00hiscrich.pdf

Wonder if this is a link to a download of such a book?

Ron

[gene]

The cheapest i see is 26.00

[ssflyer]

Try here ~$7.00:
http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?qsort=p&siteID=BMAI54k.xMY-6bJvSC2hb2j9kKSb5V.rLA&qtit=Manual+mechanical+move ments (http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?qsort=p&siteID=BMAI54k.xMY-6bJvSC2hb2j9kKSb5V.rLA&qtit=Manual+mechanical+move ments)

[dana_swift]

Free! Same book, plus 4 others.. now the bad news. Its a series of HTML+JPG images. Still you can print your own copy of the book from them. And the other 4 books on the same subject are included too.

The general site is:
http://www.librum.us/

Down in the "freebie" section is:
"Magerie's Movements"
http://www.librum.us/freebie/mm.zip

That zip file includes all the pages of the Clark book.

I also checked the project Gutenberg site, they don't have it (yet). But at least this price is the one I like most..

Hope that helps-

D

[magic]

Well, Whether you spend the 7 dollars to buy a copy or invest an hour or so downloading&assembling, let me know if it isn't one of the best little finds, of the year.

I browse the pages when someone boring is on the phone.

[richie]

Also try searching in Google books, some of those can be downloaded as a PDF.

[gene]

Thanks for the link. I'll just pay 7.00 . My time is worth more than that.

[myxpykalix]

yeah,,,what little we have left of it!! lol

[magic]

You'll like the book, I promise.

[joe]

Thanks fellows for the threads. I'd never come to these finds on my own.

[john_l]

Yeh man... these are an excellent find. ...and they have been around a hundred years. Genius.

Thanks!

[oddcoach]

Hi Guys
i stumbled on this linkhttp://imlsdcc.grainger.uiuc.edu/results.asp?searchtype=collectioncontent&newsearch =1&collID=2573&collname=Kinetic%2520Models%2520for %2520Design%2520Digital%2520Library
it is a library of all the stuff in the book with cad models and animations of the movements

[mitch_prest]

thats is a great site.. with the cad models you can have a go at making some of the stuff..

[geometree]

I'm rededicating myself to learn more about mechanical movements. Just came across this video of some great mechanical waves. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dehXioMIKg0 Imagine what someone with a shopbot could do with this... Ingenious!

[myxpykalix]

Shawn that was a great link! I wouldn't have the patience to do something like that but for anyone who appreciates "movements" and mechanics this is something, and you should go check out his link.

[mims]

if you like that, you should check out Arthur Ganson.. he makes really cool kinetic sculptures, conceptual art, really. Like a motor turning a set of gears that will take 2 trillion years to make one revolution of the final gear, embedding it into concrete..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPfn01Ndc1g

[myxpykalix]

Eric that was cool, i liked the grease gun..lol

[wiese]

Here is another mechanical site that has consumed my time.
http://kmoddl.library.cornell.edu/collection-toc.php

[jseiler]

There's always this one:

http://www.howround.com/

Be certain to see:
Chebyshev's paradoxical mechanism

John