5–39881.
“The authors ... have devoted the first five chapters to discussions of the general principles of kinematics which underlie the design of all classes of machinery.... In the sixth chapter the question of the proportions of machine parts as dictated by stress is taken up.... Fastenings, including rivets, and bolts and nuts, are then considered.... The design of axles and shafts and of their bearings ... is very fully treated in several chapters; and then follow details of the design of couplings.... Fly-wheels and toothed wheel gearing are taken up in the next two chapters.... In the concluding chapter ... the proportions and best shapes for machine frames are discussed.”—Nature.
“All the figures are clear, and the important points in the design which they are intended to illustrate are easily followed. The book should prove a useful text-book for engineering students in their first and second years’ courses in machine design.” T. H. B.
| + | Nature. 75: 172. D. 20, ’06. 490w. |
Smith, Alexander. [Dreamthorp: a book of essays written in the country], with biographical and critical introd. by John Hogben. *$1. Kennerley.
A new edition of Dreamthorp which revives a work first published in 1863.
“Those who are not familiar with Alexander Smith’s prose, with its happy turns and occasionally daring tropes may put down the book as worth buying and reading.”
| + | Nation. 83: 514. D. 13, ’06. 800w. | |
| Spec. 96: 719. My. 5, ’06. 60w. |