Mechanical Appliances, Mechanical Movements and Novelties of Construction

Abstract

THIS book is luxuriously printed, with clear figures, but it is difficult to say more in its praise. It consists of a series of short paragraphs, each with its illustration, describing some mechanical or constructional device. It is similar in plan to those “Centuries of Invention” of which the Marquis of Worcester's was the earliest (1746). The devices described are of the most heterogeneous character, old and new, important and unimportant, useful and useless. They are arranged in the roughest way in sections which have no relation to any natural order of classification. It is difficult to see to whom such a work appeals, but in fairness to the author it should be stated that a previous work of which this is a continuation appears to have reached a tenth edition.

Mechanical Appliances, Mechanical Movements and Novelties of Construction.

By Gardner D. Hiscox. Pp. 396. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1905.) Price 12s. 6d. net.