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507 Mechanical Movements: Mechanisms and Devices (Dover Science Books)
by Henry T. Brown
from Dover Publications

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Very complete list of mechanical movements
  507 Mechanical Movements: Mechanisms and Devices
  I bought this book to find ideas to make toys. I'm not an engineer but the book is a very complete list with simple diagrams of mechanical movements. If you are not an engineer you may not understand many of the movements, but it is still very enlightening to the untrained. It is a reprint from the original of 1893.

• Good, but could be better.
  Keep in mind that this book 1) is paperback, 2) measures 6 1/4 inches wide by 7 1/8 inches tall, and 3) most every illustration is less than 2" square. All the illustrations are clear - printed in a grid on the left handside with a SHORT explanation of what it does on the right. The movements are described, but a lot of them leave me wondering what the heck you'd use them for in the real world. Certainly not as detailed of a book as I was expecting, but a nice LITTLE reference. On with a search for... more info

• just o.k.
  The illustrations are well done, many of the mechanisms are repeated. The descriptions are dated. All in all, I would not buy this book again.

• It is just important.
  What more can be said about this essential book for all gizmologists? This is a great book just to get the brain working.

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