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Treatise on Mills and Millwork

Treatise on Mills and Millwork

Fairbairn, William

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Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Technology

Technology & EngineeringSports GeneralGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1108070019
ISBN13: 9781108070010
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Aug 21 2014
Pages: 630
Weight: 1.74
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
One of the great Victorian engineers, Sir William Fairbairn (1789-1874) had started his career as a millwright's apprentice, going on to become a civil engineer, a designer of industrial machinery and an expert on the failure of materials and structures. The present work distils a lifetime's experience of mechanical design into two highly illustrated parts. First published in 1861 and 1863, they are here reissued in a single volume. Part 1 gives a general overview of mechanisms such as gears, cranks and cams, and then moves on to the design of prime movers: waterwheels and turbines, steam engines and boilers, and windmills. Part 2 covers the design of mechanisms in more detail, and discusses power transmissions and their components: shafts, gears, bearings, couplings and so on. Lastly, Fairbairn gives overviews of the most important types of industrial mill - including cotton, wool, paper, iron and gunpowder - and their machinery.

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