Theory of Machines: a textbook covering the Syllabuses of the BSc (Eng), A. M. Inst. C. E., and A. M. I. Mech Eexaminations in this Subject

Abstract

ALTHOUGH written primarily as a text-book for students reading for an engineering degree, this volume should prove equally useful to engineering draughtsmen and designers as a reference handbook spanning the gulf which is still sometimes thought to exist between scientific principles and workshop practice. In the first four chapters the authors lay a sound theoretical foundation, and treat such matters as the laws of dynamics and simple harmonic motion with skill and clearness. Their experience as teachers has taught them where the beginner's difficulties generally lie. The rest of the book is concerned with the application of fundamental principles to actual mechanisms in everyday use, from the simple crank and connecting rod to the gear box and Ackerman steering of a motor-car.

Theory of Machines: a textbook covering the Syllabuses of the B.Sc. (Eng.), A M.Inst.C.E., and A.M.I.Mech Eexaminations in this Subject.

By Louis Tofe A. T. J. Kersey. (Engineering Degree Series.) Pp. ix + 408. (London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd., 1927.) 12s. 6d. net.