A Manual of Machinery and Millwork. (1887)

RANKINE, William John Macquorn (1820-72). A Manual of Machinery and Millwork.

“This book is divided into three parts: The first treats of the Geometry of Machinery; The second of the Dynamics of Machinery; and the third of the Materials, Strength and Construction of Machinery”. 

“Great care has been taken to ascertain the values of the factor of safety and of the working stress in successful examples of actual machinery; and some of the problems respecting the strength of special parts of machines have not been published previously except in scientific journals and lectures”. 

Interior: Occasional light spotting and foxing, text block splitting in places.

Exterior: Publisher’s red cloth tooled in blind, lower gutter/joints of front board are broken (cloth is slit here- making upper board partially detached),  fraying to cloth, wear and fading to cloth, webbing revealed inside at front and rear gutters.

8vo. Charles Griffin and Company, 1887. 

Chapters include: Geometry of Machinery, Of the Motions of Primary Moving Pieces in Machines, Of Elementary Combinations in Mechanism, The Performance of Work by Machines, Of Materials Used in Machinery, Principles and Rules Relating to Strength of Materials.

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