Tuesday, September 16, 2008
507 Mechanical Movements
About a week ago, I stumbled upon two wonderful reprints of turn-of-the-century compendiums of simple (and not-so-simple) machines. Since both books were published in the US prior to 1923, they fall firmly in the public domain. Thus, I decided to scan and re-publish them in digital format for use by everyone.Here is the first.
Note: the front and back cover art, though produced after 1923, appears to consist entirely of drawings from within the book itself, and a simple statement of the title and author. As such, I believe copyright claims on those works to be unlikely. If anyone objects to their presence in the digital copy, I can remove them, however I'd prefer to give the publishing house as much credit as possible for digging up these gems, and send some business their way.
More to come.
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The file I posted is a 100 dpi JPEG-compressed PDF - the smallest file I considered useful. I also have a 400 dpi djvu version available upon request. If someone else wants to host it (it weighs in at something like 70Mb), that would be best. I simply don't have the bandwidth on my home connection.
Thanks, Timothy!
I've been fascinated with mechanical movements for some years now. A few years ago, I ran across a little website where several of the more interesting movements were dynamically illustrated with little Java graphics which are quite well done.
You might want to take a look at...
http://www.brockeng.com/mechanism/index.htm
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I've been fascinated with mechanical movements for some years now. A few years ago, I ran across a little website where several of the more interesting movements were dynamically illustrated with little Java graphics which are quite well done.
You might want to take a look at...
http://www.brockeng.com/mechanism/index.htm
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