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Mechanics: The Science of Machinery

Chapter 3: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
By A. Russell Bond
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The work surveys mechanical principles and the historical development of machines, beginning with primitive tool use and progressing through tools for making machines, timekeeping, harnessing water and air, heat engines, and power sources. It examines manufacturing processes, materials such as iron and steel, machining, textile and paper production, printing, earthmoving and agricultural machinery, and transport by land, sea, and air. Illustrations and chapters on automated mechanisms, pneumatic and hydraulic systems, and engines of destruction complete a concise account of technological evolution and practical mechanics.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

The Drop Forge—Forging a Steel Plate Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
Raising Water with a Chain of Pots—a Primitive Pump Used in Egypt 32
Horse-Operated Chain Pump Used in Greece 32
Multiple Spindle Drill in a Motor Car Factory 33
Bucket of a Giant Dredge with Its Jaws Wide Open 64
Gold Dredge Eating Its Way Through River Sands 65
Suction Dredge Excavating a Channel and Building New Land 65
Air Lock of a Pneumatic Caisson 96
Subaqueous Tunnel Showing the Shield in the Background 97
Wharf Protected by a Pneumatic Breakwater 128
Sun-Power Plant in Egypt 129
Close-Up of One of the Reflectors of a Sun-Power Plant 129
Giant Caproni Hydroaeroplane 160
Concrete Steamship “Faith” 161
“Virginian,” the Largest Locomotive in the World 161
Loom Provided with a Jacquard Attachment 224
Battery of Mule Spinning Frames 225
Jacquard Attachment for Loom 225
Digging a Trench with a Machine of the Chain Type 256
Multiple Plowing on a Western Wheat Field 257
Sawing Logs of Pulpwood into 16-Inch Lengths 288
Heater in a Pulp Mill Where the Wood Pulp Is Mixed with Clay 288
Modern Fourdrinier Paper-Making Machines 289
Molten Metal from a Blast Furnace 320
Bessemer Converter Blowing Air Through a Mass of Molten Iron 320
Steel Beam Passing Through the Finishing Rolls 321
Compositor at Work on a Linotype Machine 352
The Optophone, Which Enables the Blind to Read Print 353
Blind Man Reading with His Ears 353