Mechanical movements,

LIBRARY

THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA
PRESENTED BY
Mr.
E.

P.

Bradbury

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HUNDRED AND SEVEN

MECHANICAL MOVEMENTS,
EMBRACING

DYNAMICS, HYDRAULICS, HYDROSTATICS, PNEUMATICS, STEAM ENGINES, MILL AND OTHER GEARING, PRESSES, HOROLOGY, AND MISCELLANEOUS MACHINERY;

MANY MOVEMENTS NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED

SEVERAL

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HAVE ONLY RECENTLY COME INTO

USE.

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T.

BROWN.
ED1T1OM.

PUBLISHED BY BROWN & SEWARD,
261

BROADWAY.
1908

COPYRIGHT by 1868,

HENRY

T.

BROWN,
1896.

Renewed

PREFACE.
THE want of a comprehensive collection of illustrations and descriptions of MECHANICAL MOVEMENTS has long been seriously felt by artisans, inventors, and stuIt was the knowledge of this want which induced the dents of the mechanic arts. The movements which it contains compilation of the collection here presented. have been already illustrated and described in occasional installments scattered through five volumes of the AMERICAN ARTISAN, by the readers of which their publication was received with so much favor as was believed to warrant the expense of their reproduction with some revision in a separate volume. The selection of the movements embraced in this collection has been made from many and various sources. The English works of Johnson, Willcock, Wylson, and Denison have been drawn upon to a considerable extent, and many other works American and foreign have been laid under contribution but more than one-fourth of the movements many of purely American origin have never preAlthough the collection embraces viously appeared in any published collection. about three times as many movements as have ever been contained in any previous American publication, and a considerably larger number than has ever been contained in any foreign one, it has not been the object of the compiler to merely swell the num;

ber, but

he has endeavored to select only such as may be of really practical value ; this end in