The romance of modern mechanism;

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Contributor: Williams, Archibald
Date: 1905

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Date: 1905

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Image 10 of The romance of modern mechanism; A MECHANICAL SCULPTOR The lower illustration shows the Wen/el SculntnrJncr Ar u- stone ranged one on each side of a rnodel^^ Thf ^^f work on two blocks of taneously from one original...

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Date: 1905

Image 11 of The romance of modern mechanism; t THE ROMANCE OF ODERN MECHANISM WITH INTERESTING DESCRIPTIONS IN NON- TECHNICAL LANGUAGE OF WONDERFUL MACHINERY AND MECHANICAL DEVICES AND MARVELLOUSLY DELICATE SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS, Src., c. BY ARCHIBALD WILLIAMS author of the...

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Date: 1905

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Image 13 of The romance of modern mechanism; INTRODUCTION IN the beginning a man depended for his subsistence entirely upon his own efforts, or upon those of his immediate relations and friends. Life was very simple in those days: luxury...

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Date: 1905

Image 14 of The romance of modern mechanism; INTRODUCTION crafts arose. One man no longer depended on his indi- vidual efforts, but was content to barter his own work for the products of another man ^s labour, because it became...

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Date: 1905

Image 15 of The romance of modern mechanism; INTRODUCTION of workmen, let us consider the surroundings, posses- sions, and movements of the average, well-to-do business man. At seven o clock he wakes, and instinctively feels beneath his pillow for his...

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Date: 1905

Image 16 of The romance of modern mechanism; INTRODUCTION his coffee. Machinery aided the capture of the tempting sole helped to cure the rasher of bacon shaped the dishes, the plates, the coffee-pot. Whirr-r-r! The motor-car is at the door,...

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Date: 1905

Image 17 of The romance of modern mechanism; b INTRODUCTION its majestic locomotive a very orgy of mechanism its automatic brakes, its thousand parts all shaped by mechani- cal devices, steam saws, planes, lathes, drills, hammers, presses. In obedience to...

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Date: 1905

Image 18 of The romance of modern mechanism; INTRODUCTION J^to contact with a thousand other mechanical appliances. Space forbids such a tour of inspection; but in the following pages we may rove here and there through the workshops of the...

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Date: 1905

Image 19 of The romance of modern mechanism; AUTHOR S NOTE The author desires to express his indebtedness to the following gentlemen for the kind help they have afforded him in connection with the gathering of materials for the letterpress...

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Date: 1905

Image 20 of The romance of modern mechanism; CONTENTS CHAPTER IX PAGE THE MOTOR CYCLE 175 CHAPTER X riRE ENGINES 185 CHAPTER XI riRE-ALARMS AND AUTOMATIC FIRE EXTINGUISHERS .191 CHAPTER XII THE MACHINERY OF A SHIP THE REVERSING ENGINE MARINE...

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Date: 1905

Image 21 of The romance of modern mechanism; CONTENTS CHAPTER XX PAGE BOAT- AND SHIP-RAISING LIFTS 983 CHAPTER XXI A SELF-MOVING STAIRCASE ^95 CHAPTER XXn PNEUMATIC MAIL TUBES 301 CHAPTER XXni AN ELECTRIC POSTAL SYSTEM 315 CHAPTER XXIV AGRICULTUHAL MACHINERY...

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Date: 1905

Image 22 of The romance of modern mechanism; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS A CARVING MACHINE MEASURING MACHINES A CASH REGISTER LATHE TURNING A BIG GUN LATHE FOR BORING 16-INCH GUN A STEAM HAMMER A HUGE HYDRAULIC PRESS A PEDRAIL TRACTION ENGINE...

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Date: 1905

Image 23 of The romance of modern mechanism; THE EOMANCE OF MODEEN MECHANISM CHAPTER I DELICATE INSTRUMENTS WATCHES AND CHRONOMETERS THE MICROTOME THE DIVIDING ENGINE MEASURING MACHINES OWING to the universal use of watches, resulting from their cheapness, the possessor...

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Date: 1905

Image 24 of The romance of modern mechanism; MODERN MECHANISM coat pocket, to be hauled out many times for its opinion to be taken. The real usefulness of a watch is best learnt by being without one for a day...

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Date: 1905

Image 25 of The romance of modern mechanism; DELICATE INSTRUMENTS by an outer case of ample proportions. From year to year the size has gradually diminished, until we can now purchase a reliable article no thicker than a five-shilling piece,...

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Date: 1905

Image 26 of The romance of modern mechanism; MODERN MECHANISM he is as far west of Greenwich as is represented by four twenty-fourths of the 360° into which the earth s circum- ference is divided; that is, he is in...

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Date: 1905

Image 27 of The romance of modern mechanism; DELICATE INSTRUMENTS and thirty miles respectively of accuracy. John Harrison, the son of a Yorkshire carpenter, who had already in- vented the ingenious gridiron pendulum for compen- sating clocks, took up the...

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Date: 1905

Image 28 of The romance of modern mechanism; MODERN MECHANISM work to do and, conversely, with a fall of temperature the speed would rise. Earnshaw s problem was to con- struct a balance wheel that should be able to keep...

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Date: 1905

Image 29 of The romance of modern mechanism; DELICATE INSTRUMENTS be explained without diagrams, so a mere mention must suffice. Another detail of chronometer making which requires very careful treatment is the method of transmitting power from the main spring...

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Date: 1905

Image 30 of The romance of modern mechanism; MODERN MECHANISM 10 a.m., flashes the hour to other clocks all over Great Britain. In a special room set apart for the purpose are hundreds of instruments, some hanging up, others lying...

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Date: 1905

Image 31 of The romance of modern mechanism; DELICATE INSTRUMENTS performance of the three instruments of s.s. Orellana^ which between them accumulated an error of but 2*3 seconds during a sixty-three-day trip. An instrument which will cut a blood corpuscle...

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Date: 1905

Image 32 of The romance of modern mechanism; MODERN MECHANISM The tail of the lower T terminates in a circular disc, pierced with a hole to accommodate the end of a vertical screw, which has a large circular head with...

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Date: 1905

Image 33 of The romance of modern mechanism; DELICATE INSTRUMENTS across to spread the pieces on If the slices were one- eighth of an inch thick, the cucumber, to keep a pro- portionate total size, would be 260 feet long....

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Date: 1905

Image 34 of The romance of modern mechanism; MODERN MECHANISM tion of Mechanical Engineers,* the President, Mr. William Henry Maw, used the following words: The most recently constructed machine of the kind of which I am aware namely, one made...

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Date: 1905

Image 35 of The romance of modern mechanism; DELICATE INSTRUMENTS about inch in diameter. The problem thus is, says Mr. Maw, to move this twenty-two ton mass (the telescope) with such steadiness in opposition to the motion of the earth,...

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Date: 1905

Image 36 of The romance of modern mechanism; MODERN MECHANISM To get a conception of these figures we must once again resort to comparison. Let us therefore take a furrow as a line, and imagine a ploughman going up and...

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Date: 1905

Image 37 of The romance of modern mechanism; DELICATE INSTRUMENTS inches area, the machine must be left severely alone in its closed case. The slightest jar would cause unparallelism of a few lines, and the ruin of the whole grating....

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Date: 1905

Image 38 of The romance of modern mechanism; MODERN MECHANISM In the Houses of Parliament there is kept at an even temperature a bronze rod, thirty-eight inches long and an inch square in section. Near the ends are two wells,...

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Date: 1905

Image 39 of The romance of modern mechanism; DELICATE INSTRUMENTS The new bar was made, however, not by this method, but by comparing several copies of the original and striking their average length. Four accurate duplicates of the new standard...

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Date: 1905

Image 40 of The romance of modern mechanism; MODERN MECHANISM Hence it became necessary to standardise the foot and the inch by accurate subdivisions of the yard. This was accomplished by Sir Joseph Whit worth, who in 1834 obtained two...

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Date: 1905

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