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Studies in the history of machine tools
- Title
- Studies in the history of machine tools / Robert S. Woodbury.
- Author
- Woodbury, Robert S.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : M.I.T. Press, [©1972]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | TJ1185.W698 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations; 21 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- Previously published separately under the following titles: History of the gear-cutting machine; a historical study in geometry and machines, c1958; History of the grinding machine; a historical study in tools and precision production, c1959; History of the milling machine; a study in technical development, c1960; History of the lathe to 1850; a study in the growth of a technical element of an industrial economy, c1961.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographies.
- Contents
- I: The mathematics of gears -- The geometers -- The translators -- The scientific mechanics -- II: The clock and instrument makers -- The first gear-cutting machines -- Reid, Hindley and Rehé -- The instrument makers -- III: Production gear-cutting machines -- Types of gear-cutting machines -- The first production machines, 1800-1850 -- Evolution of the production machine, 1850-1910 -- Formed-cutter types -- Templet types -- Describing-generating types -- Molding-generating types -- Hobbing types -- Impression types -- Automatic gear-cutting machines, 1875-1910 -- Precision-gear grinding, gear shaving, and gear measurement.
- ISBN
- 0262730332
- 9780262730334
- LCCN
- 72006354
- OCLC
- ocm00609185
- 609185
- SCSB-136962
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library