The mechanic's text-book and engineer's practical guide
Subtitle: containing a concise treatise on the nature and application of mechanical forces, action of gravity, the elements of machinery, rules and tables for calculating the working effects of machinery, of the strength, resistance, and pressure of materials, with tables of the weight and cohesive strength of iron and other metals
By: compiled and arranged by Thomas Kelt ; to which is added valuable hints to the young mechanic on the choice of a profession, misdirection of industry, intellectual cultivation, and the studies and morals of the mechanic, etc., etc., by John Frost,  LL. D.
Contributors: Frost, John, 1800-1859
Publisher: Phillips, Sampson and Company
Published: 1856
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403