The Engineer and Machinist's Assistant
Subtitle: A series of Plans, Sections, and Elevations, of Stationary, Marine, and Locomotive Engines, Water Wheels, Spinning Machines, Tools, etc., etc., taken from machines of approved construction.
Edition: New and Improved Edition.
Publisher: Blackie & Son
Published: 1853
Place of publication: Glasgow, Scotland
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 390
Description: Two folios. First folio contains text, second folio contains illustrative plates. First folio is divided into two volumes with separate page number sequences.
Notes: Folio 1 volume 1 pagination *i* to *x*, 1 to 244; volume 2 ("Descriptions of the plates") *i* to *viii*, 1 to 128. Volumes 1 and 2 are bound together. Folio 2 is a separate folio of plates, plates numbered I to CXXXIII (*i.e.* 1 to 133). Four additional plates are bound into folio 1, so total number of plates is 137. Preface is dated 'Glasgow July 1850.' No author attribution appears anywhere on folio 1. The four essays that make up volume 1 are by more than one author (see preface) but none are attributed. Authorship appears on title page of folio 2.
Table of contents: label: PART FIRST.
pagenum: 1
title: ESSAY ON THE CONSTRUCTION AND APPLICATION OF THE STEAM ENGINE; label: SECTION I.
pagenum: 1
title: Exposition of Natural Laws Affecting the Steam Engine; label: SECTION II.
pagenum: 7
title: On Combustion and the Properties of Fuel; label: SECTION III.
pagenum: 11
title: Historical Sketch of the Invention and Progressive Development of the Steam Engine; label: SECTION IV.
pagenum: 21
title: On the Construction of the Steam Engine; label: CHAPTER I.
pagenum: 21
title: The Marine Engine; label: CHAPTER II.
pagenum: 39
title: Marine Boilers; label: CHAPTER III.
pagenum: 45
title: Stationary Engines; label: CHAPTER IV.
pagenum: 50
title: Land Engine Boilers; label: CHAPTER V.
pagenum: 53
title: The Locomotive Engine; label: APPENDIX.
pagenum: 63
title: CONTAINING VARIOUS USEFUL TABLES; label: PART SECOND.
pagenum: 69
title: TREATISE ON MILL GEERING; label: SECTION I.
pagenum: 69
title: Varieties of Toothed Geer; label: SECTION II.
pagenum: 76
title: Relative Direction and Velocity of Rotation; label: SECTION III.
pagenum: 81
title: On the Pitch and Number of Wheels; label: SECTION IV.
pagenum: 86
title: On the Strength of the Teeth of Wheels; label: SECTION V.
pagenum: 97
title: On the Principles which Determine the True Form of the Teeth of Wheels; label: SECTION VI.
pagenum: 102
title: Applications of the Foregoing Principles to the Formation of the Teeth Of Wheels; label: SECTION VII.
pagenum: 123
title: On the Construction of Wheel Patterns; label: SECTION VIII.
pagenum: 130
title: On Shafting; label: PART THIRD.
pagenum: 154
title: TREATISE ON TOOLS EMPLOYED IN ENGINEERING OPERATIONS; label: PART FOURTH.
pagenum: 205
title: ESSAY ON THE THEORY AND CONSTRUCTION OF WATER WHEELS; label: SECTION I.
pagenum: 205
title: Characteristic Varieties of Water Wheels and the Theory of their Action; label: SECTION II.
pagenum: 212
title: Bucket Wheels; label: SECTION III
pagenum: 231
title: Undershot Wheels; label: SECTION IV
pagenum: 237
title: Horizontal Water Wheels; label: SECTION V.
pagenum: 243
title: Comparison of the Different Species of Wheels; title: For the references to Descriptions of Plates, see List of Plates in Volume Second.