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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2015
      21 August 2014
      ISBN:
      9781107256682
      9781108070010
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107256682
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.79kg, 630 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Science and Technology, History of Science, History, Engineering: General Interest, General Science
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
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    Subjects:
    History of Science and Technology, History of Science, History, Engineering: General Interest, General Science
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    Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
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    One of the great Victorian engineers, Sir William Fairbairn (1789–1874) had started his career as a millwright's apprentice, going on to become a civil engineer, a designer of industrial machinery and an expert on the failure of materials and structures. The present work distils a lifetime's experience of mechanical design into two highly illustrated parts. First published in 1861 and 1863, they are here reissued in a single volume. Part 1 gives a general overview of mechanisms such as gears, cranks and cams, and then moves on to the design of prime movers: waterwheels and turbines, steam engines and boilers, and windmills. Part 2 covers the design of mechanisms in more detail, and discusses power transmissions and their components: shafts, gears, bearings, couplings and so on. Lastly, Fairbairn gives overviews of the most important types of industrial mill - including cotton, wool, paper, iron and gunpowder - and their machinery.

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