| Author | Williams, Archibald, 1871-1934 |
|---|---|
| Title |
The Romance of Modern Mechanism
With Interesting Descriptions in Non-technical Language of Wonderful Machinery and Mechanical Devices and Marvellously Delicate Scientific Instruments |
| Contents | Delicate instruments; watches and chronometers; the microtome; the dividing engine; measuring machines -- Calculating machines -- Workshop machinery; the lathe; planing machines; the steam hammer; hydraulic tools; electrical tools in the shipyard -- Portable tools -- The pedrail: a walking steam-engine -- Internal combustion engines; oil engines; engines worked with producer gas; blast furnace gas engines -- Motor-cars; the motor omnibus; railway motor-cars -- The motor afloat; pleasure boats; motor lifeboats; motor fishing boats; a motor fire float; the mechanism of the motor boat; the two-stroke motor; motor boats for the navy -- The motor cycle -- Fire engines -- Fire-alarms and automatic fire extinguishers -- The machinery of a ship; the reversing engine; marine engine speed governors; the steering engine; blowing and ventilating apparatus; pumps; feed heaters; feed-water filters; distillers; refrigerators; the search-light; wireless telegraphy instruments; safety devices; the transmission of power on a ship -- The nurse of the navy -- The mechanism of diving -- Apparatus for raising sunken ships and treasure -- The handling of grain; the elevator; the suction pneumatic grain-lifter; the pneumatic blast grain-lifter; the combined system -- Mechanical transporters and conveyers; ropeways; cableways; telpherage; coaling warships at sea -- Automatic weighers -- Transporter bridges -- Boat- and ship-raising lifts -- A self-moving staircase -- Pneumatic mail tubes -- An electric postal system -- Agricultural machinery; ploughs; drills and seeders; reaping machines; threshing machines; petrol-driven field machinery; electrical farming machinery -- Dairy machinery; milking machines; cream separators; a machine for drying milk -- Sculpturing machines -- An automatic rifle; a ball-bearing rifle. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | T: Technology |
| Subject | Machinery |
| Subject | Electric machinery |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 46094 |
| Release Date | Jun 25, 2014 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 120 downloads in the last 30 days. |
| Price | $0.00 |
