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PTsideshow:
Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements
by: Henry T Brown
Astragal Press
copyright©1995
original©1868
trade paper back

If nothing else this book points out two things people tend to over look in todays world.

    * Somebody probably has, Been there and Done that
    * And everything old is new again, at some point.


A lot of our stuff today is an updated old technology. This book is as still important today as it was when it first hit the shelves.
Whether it is for figuring out, the way to make something in the shop do something you want. Or just finding out how did they do that. This book has a number of competitors with various numbers in the titles. This is the best I have seen, with complete descriptions of the operation of the device.
From:

    * Æoilpile, Hero's steam toy
    * Cams,cams and more cams
    * Epicyclic gear trains
    * Escapements
    * Miscellaneous movements of which one can only wonder what the inventor had in mind
    * Windmills

It is filled with stuff to fill many a rainy afternoon, pondering that age old question. What were they thinking!
And the most important reason for this book it is the secret weapon of kinetic, or motion artists along with some of the roller ball construction artists.

zeusrekning:
This looks very interesting.

Brass_Machine:
I think I am going to look for this book.

Eric

PTsideshow:
I just realized that I forgot to include the publisher in the review I will correct that. It is a current in print book from this publisher. Astragal but it is now owned by this company http://www.mailordercentral.com/cbc/default.asp
glen

Kludge:
The digital version of editions prior to the current one (WAY prior to since the earliest I've found is dated 1870-something) are available via Google Books.  It has remained pretty much unchanged over its history although if I had shelf space I'd want to add the current print copy to the digital turn of the century one I have. 

Google Books is a goldmine for old texts.  I have a basic search that covers the period of 0 to 1920 AD to which I add keywords to search and have never failed to find something of interest, usually in the period after 1850.  "Those darn ancients" knew their stuff.  Even better, the books from that period are downloadable as PDFs.

Best regards,

Kludge

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