The Project Gutenberg eBook ofThe engineer's sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appliances, contrivances and details employed in the design and construction of machinery for every purposeThis ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this ebook or online atwww.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook.Title: The engineer's sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appliances, contrivances and details employed in the design and construction of machinery for every purposeclassified & arranged for reference for the use of engineers, mechanical draughtsmen, managers, mechanics, inventors, patent agents, and all engaged in the mechanical artsAuthor: Thomas Walter BarberRelease date: December 1, 2018 [eBook #58391]Language: EnglishCredits: Produced by Chris Curnow, Harry Lamé and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (Thisfile was produced from images generously made availableby The Internet Archive)*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ENGINEER'S SKETCH-BOOK OF MECHANICAL MOVEMENTS, DEVICES, APPLIANCES, CONTRIVANCES AND DETAILS EMPLOYED IN THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF MACHINERY FOR EVERY PURPOSE ***
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Title: The engineer's sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appliances, contrivances and details employed in the design and construction of machinery for every purposeclassified & arranged for reference for the use of engineers, mechanical draughtsmen, managers, mechanics, inventors, patent agents, and all engaged in the mechanical artsAuthor: Thomas Walter BarberRelease date: December 1, 2018 [eBook #58391]Language: EnglishCredits: Produced by Chris Curnow, Harry Lamé and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (Thisfile was produced from images generously made availableby The Internet Archive)
Title: 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
Author: Thomas Walter Barber
Author: Thomas Walter Barber
Release date: December 1, 2018 [eBook #58391]
Language: English
Credits: Produced by Chris Curnow, Harry Lamé and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (Thisfile was produced from images generously made availableby The Internet Archive)
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THEEngineer’s Sketch-BookOFMECHANICAL MOVEMENTS,DEVICES, APPLIANCES, CONTRIVANCESAND DETAILSEMPLOYED IN THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OFMACHINERY FOR EVERY PURPOSECLASSIFIED & ARRANGED FOR REFERENCE FOR THE USE OF ENGINEERS, MECHANICALDRAUGHTSMEN, MANAGERS, MECHANICS, INVENTORS, PATENT AGENTS,AND ALL ENGAGED IN THE MECHANICAL ARTSBY THOMAS WALTER BARBERM. Inst. C. E.FOURTH EDITION2603 Illustrations, Descriptive Notes and MemorandaLogoLondon:E. & F. N. SPON,Limited, 125 STRANDNew York:SPON & CHAMBERLAIN, 12 CORTLANDT STREET1902
THEEngineer’s Sketch-BookOFMECHANICAL MOVEMENTS,DEVICES, APPLIANCES, CONTRIVANCESAND DETAILS
EMPLOYED IN THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OFMACHINERY FOR EVERY PURPOSE
CLASSIFIED & ARRANGED FOR REFERENCE FOR THE USE OF ENGINEERS, MECHANICALDRAUGHTSMEN, MANAGERS, MECHANICS, INVENTORS, PATENT AGENTS,AND ALL ENGAGED IN THE MECHANICAL ARTS
BY THOMAS WALTER BARBERM. Inst. C. E.
FOURTH EDITION
2603 Illustrations, Descriptive Notes and Memoranda
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London:E. & F. N. SPON,Limited, 125 STRAND
New York:SPON & CHAMBERLAIN, 12 CORTLANDT STREET
1902
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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 to 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 man’s 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, Several valuable works have alreadyfound numerous users, and there is no lack of admirable collections of memoranda, rules, and data for designing and proportioning the various constructive details of machinery; but, as far as I am aware, there is no work in existence which aims at the same purpose as is attempted in the following pages, viz. to provide side by side suggestive sketches of the various methods in use for accomplishing any particular mechanical movement or work, in a form easily referred to, and devoid of needless detail and elaboration. A sketch, properly executed, is—to a practical man—worth a folio of description; and it is to such that these pages are addressed. For the same reason it has been deemed undesirable to add to the various sketches any rules or tables relating to strengths or dimensions, which may be found in numerous well-known volumes.
Any suggestions or additions will be entertained and gratefully acknowledged.
THOMAS WALTER BARBER.
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