Modern Mechanism

Abstract

IN order to appreciate this volume thoroughly, it is necessary in the first instance to consider the reason for its existence. Appleton's “Dictionary of Engineering,” an American book, was published in the year 1851, and was the first to gather in cyclopedic form descriptions of products of American mechanical industry. Some thirty years afterwards it became necessary to bring the work up to date, and its complete reconstruction was decided upon. The editor observes that no previous work of a technical character had so signally, and so quickly, demonstrated its own usefulness; it rapidly became a recognized standard of American mechanical practice. Owing, however, to the great progress made in mechanical invention, and the marvellous rapidity with which electrical science has advanced, a new record of the results has become necessary, and hence the present volume.

Modern Mechanism.

Edited by Park Benjamin (London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1892.)