Excerpt from Principles of Mechanism: A Treatise on the Modification of Motion, by Means of the Elementary Combinations of Mechanism, or of the Parts of Machines, for Use in College Classes, by Mechanical Engineers, Etc;, Etc This work aims to treat the whole subject of Mechanism in such systematic and comprehensive way that by its aid any machine, however elaborate, may be analyzed into its elementary combinations, and the character of their motions determined. In the classification, the System of Prof. Robert Willis has been followed in the main, as serving best the present purpose; and largely his names and terms as well. The work contains the substance of lectures given in my classes during the past twenty-seven years, with such additions and amplifications as might come by reason of a somewhat extended with an aptitude of the thinking out of inversions involving more or less novel and varied forms and combinations. besides Willis, some of the Authors whose works have been referred to with profit may be named: Prof. C. W. MacCord; Geo. B. Grand; J. W . M. Rankine; F. Renleaux; J. B. Belanger; Ch. Laboulaye. Some of the topics to which special attention is invited, as embracing either entirely new solutions of important questions, or previously unpublished discussions and extension of inquiry concerning them, are: Log-spiral Multilobes as derived form one spiral; also Proportional Sectors. Easements to Angular Pitch Lines. Transformed wheels. General Solution of Non-circular Wheels, External and Internal, for the case of Given Laws of Motion. Similar and other Wheels from Auxilliary Sectors, Plane and Bevel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Principles of Mechanism: Designed for the Use of Students in the Universities, and for Engineering Students Generally In the present work I have employed the term Mechanism as applying to combinations of machinery solely when considered as governing the relations of motion. Machinery as a modifier of force, has in the science of Mechanics occupied the attention of nearly every mathematician of eminence who has arisen in the world; but, by some strange chance, very few have attempted to give a scientific form to the attractive and valuable results of mechanism; for it cannot be said that the few and simple machines which form the examples in books of mechanics, are to be regarded as even forming a foundation for the principles upon which is to be based a science that will enable us either to reduce the movements and actions of a complex engine to system, or to give answers to the questions that naturally arise upon considering such engines; - for example, are the means by which the results are obtained the best that might have been employed? or what are the various methods that might have been substituted for them? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.