Basic Machines and How They Work (Paperback)

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Product Description

Only elementary math skills are needed to follow this manual, which covers many machines and their components, including hydrostatics and hydraulics, internal combustion engines, trains, and more. 204 black-and-white illustrations.

Product Details

• Paperback: 161 pages
• Publisher: Dover Publications; Revised (1994) edition (January 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0486217094
• ISBN-13: 978-0486217093
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #30,329 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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64 of 68 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just a great book, an invaluable reference..A real must-have, August 4, 2000

By	Jeff Small (South Carolina, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I borrowed this book from a friend and held on to it for almost six months, and in that time I poured over it. It's EXTREMELY useful if you're doing model building or playing with simulators and stuff. I use it with LEGOs and LEGO Mindstorm robotics kits. It taught me ALL SORTS of secrets about motion and principles behind gears and gear-driven mechanisms. Just a great book, I highly reccommend it if you're looking for a great reference for basic mechanical devices. I had to buy my own copy to have.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Simple and Straightforward, July 22, 2007

By	M. Stout - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I don't know how the military does it, but somehow they are able to train people quickly and effectively whereas academia gives long-winded answers that get most students lost in derivations.

Buy this book if you, like me, want to understand simple machines (levers to engines). It's straight to the point, the way I like it.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely Useful, January 12, 2008

By	Leo Tolstoy - See all my reviews

As a Mechanical Engineering student I found the book to be extremely useful. I was already familiar with most of the theories from Dynamics and Statics, but it was cool to see how non textbooks refer to certain things (IE rather than saying the pivot point they call it the fulcrum). While we generally go over gear theories and calculations in Dynamics, we certainly don't get into their classifications so that was another useful piece of knowledge that I picked up. The last two chapters were extremely knowledgeable, since neither was in any of my textbooks. The last two chapters covered power trains and the internal combustion engine and were surprisingly in depth. I would highly recommend this book for any Engineering student seeking to get an out of the textbook perspective on your Mechanics classes, or to pick up some information on the inner workings of the engine.