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| View Larger Image | 507 Mechanical Movements: Mechanisms and Devices | Paperbackby Henry T. Brown (Author)
| List Price: | $6.99 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | www.bnpublishing.com | | Page Count: | 124 Pages | | Publication Date: | July 14, 2008 | | Sales Rank: | 67,742th |
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
This compendium of ingenious mechanisms employs simple drawings to explain 507 of the small components that constitute complex machinery. Left-hand pages feature illustrations, and facing pages offer brief descriptions of use and operation. Ranging from simple to complex, the mechanisms include cranks, pulleys, drills, wheels, and screws. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 49 reviews)
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Cute little coffe table book on mechanisms by J. Holdahl (South Dakota)  3 Stars
October 24, 2009
This is a nice little book on mechanisms - best for a coffee table or waiting room. Fairly low on useful detail but good for an overview or exposure to many different types and applications of mechanisms. For a more thorough book, I highly recommend Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook, Fourth Edition which has a broader spectrum of movements that is well categorized and with more detailed supporting information.
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The basics by Juliana Fink (Brasil)  5 Stars
August 26, 2009
The book "507 mechanical movements - mechanisms and devices" was a really nice surprise. I did not have great expectations when purchased it. One of my hobbies is making mechanical toys, in paper or wood, and I needed some information about mechanical movements. Since it came, I've had very few oportunity of reading it. Both my father and my husband are using it too, for totally different purposes. I believe it's quality rely on being simple, and showing the basic and the principles.
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Less interesting than it should be by wonk (MD, USA) 3 Stars
July 07, 2009
This is a small book, my fault for not reading the dimensions. There are multiple (6 to 8) diagrams per page, so each figure is small. A bigger problem is that there is no context for the movements. One can follow how everything within a figure meshes, but you would be hard pressed to see how some of these would fit into a real machine. Also, there are many repeats with minor variations on mechanisms.
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The MUST HAVE book by Larry A. Major (My office-Port Orchard,WA) 5 Stars
May 25, 2009
The title tells it all. This book is so handy for the person who likes to make things.
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Steam Punk Dream by J. J. Hall (Ft. Worth) 5 Stars
May 24, 2009
I got this book to serve as inspiration for an Art Nevoux project I'm working on. I've fallen in love with all the movements and mechanisms pictured within. I'm not in the demographic who actually uses this sort of thing, but, if you're looking for a small something for a mechanic or miller/machinist this is a neat little gift and just a generally cool book to have laying around.
The book features individual movements to accomplish tasks within a machine. From watch escapements to self closing weir gates for streams. Also a great assortment of mechanical doo-dads and whatsits from universal joints for your steam work factory to those little lever things villeins tie damsels to shortly before getting beaten up by the hero.
...or you could just look at the pictures (all 507 of them!)
You should buy this book 1. Because it's a classic. 2. It's can give others false impressions about how smart you are. 3. It's too cheap not too.
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SIMILAR PRODUCTS |
| 1800 Mechanical Movements, Devices and Appliances (Dover Science Books)
by Gardner D. Hiscox (Author)
A fascinating compendium of early-20th-century mechanical devices, this expansive work ranges from basic hooks and levers to complex machinery used in steam, motive, hydraulic, air, and electric power, navigation, gearing, clocks, mining, and construction. More than 1,800 engravings include simple illustrations and detailed cross-sections.
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| Basic Machines and How They Work
by Naval Education And Training Program (Author)
Only elementary math skills are needed to follow this manual, which covers many machines and their components, including hydrostatics and hydraulics, internal combustion engines, trains, and more. 204 black-and-white illustrations.
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| Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook, Fourth Edition
by Neil Sclater (Author), Nicholas Chironis (Author)
Over 2000 drawings make this sourcebook a gold mine of information for learning and innovating in mechanical design The fourth edition of this unique engineering reference book covers the past, present, and future of mechanisms and mechanical devices. Among the thousands of proven mechanisms illustrated and described are many suitable for recycling into new mechanical, electromechanical, or mechatronic products and systems. Overviews of robotics, rapid prototyping, MEMS, and...
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| Making Mad Toys & Mechanical Marvels in Wood
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| Creative Kinetics: Making Mechanical Marvels in Wood
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Artist, inventor, and longtime author Rodney Frost is known for wacky, whimsical woodworking books that encourage readers to experiment. With his newest, most creative volume yet, he provides an introduction to the wild and whimsical world of kinetic art—art that moves. Using plenty of informative sidebars and dynamic illustrations, Frost teaches the basic techniques in his own inimitable style, beginning with easy, fun projects like weather vanes and mobiles powered by air currents alone....
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