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MECHANICAL MOVEMENTS
POW ER AND DEVICES
By GARDNER D. HISCOX, M. E.
Price $4.00
This is a collection of 1,890 engravings
° f different mechanical motions and ap­
pliances, accompanied by appropriate text,
making it a book of great value to the
inventor, the draftsman, and to all readers
with mechanical tastes.
Commencing with the simple resolution
of forces, and the elements of the lever
in its various forms, and applications with
a notation that is easily resolved by any
ordinary arithmetician.
It extends the
notation and the resolution of power to
the screw, worm gear; tackle blocks and
to the measurement of power by the prony
brake and various kinds of dynameters.
It illustrates fully the leading devices
for the transmission of power and its
measurement. Generators and transmitters
of steam power; steam appliances; gas
motors and valve gears of steam and gas
engines. Hydraulic power and devices for
the measurement of hydraulic effects.
Filtration and water supply. Atmospheric
Power and motor devices, blowers, air com­
pressors and water lifts. Pneumatic tools.
The principles of construction in electric
appliances for power, lighting, heating and
Welding. The names and rig of sailing
vessels of all kinds; rope knots, screw
Propellers. Road appliances; the horseless
carriage, tricycle and bicycle movements.
Intermittent eliptic and epicyclic gearing
and gear movements.
The Ferguson
Paradox and its kind; planetary gear.
Ratchet motions and devices controlling
motions of all kinds. Cranes and counting
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devices, curious crank and eccentric mo­
tions, universal joints of many designs.
Clock and watch movements and devices.
Mining, hoisting and conveying devices.
Separating of ores and dredging. Shop
and factory appliances, tools, standard
screw threads. Mills and mill appliances;
roofs, bridges, railway devices, locomotives.
Gas controlling and operating devices.
Acetylene generators, lamps and burners.
Arms and ordnance. Combining in all a
most useful encyclopedia of the mechanical
arts. Seventeenth Revised Edition. 1,890
engravings.
— Order of Autom atic Age.
MECHANICAL APPLIANCES, ME­
CHANICAL MOVEMENTS
AND NOVELTIES OF
CONSTRUCTION
By GARDNER D. HISCOX, M. E.
Price $4.00,
This is a supplementary volume to the
one upon Mechanical Movements. Unlike
the first volume, which is more elementary
in character, this volume contains illustra­
tions and descriptions of many combina­
tions of motions and of mechanical devices
and appliances found in different lines of
machinery, each device being shown by a
line drawing with a description showing its
working parts and the method of opera­
tion.
From the multitude of devices
described (and in every case illustrated),
m gh t be mentioned, in passing, such
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