Vintage, introductory guide to applied mechanics aimed at civil engineers, architects and first-year engineering students:
Elementary Manual on Applied Mechanics.
by Andrew Jamieson
Published by Charles Griffin and Company Limited in 1912. Tenth edition (revised and enlarged)
Contents includes: Definition of Applied Mechanics..; Work...; The Moment of a Force...; Practical Applications of the Lever...;The Principles of Work...; Pulleys...; The Wheel and Compound Axle...; Graphic Demonstration of Three Forces in Equilibrium...; Inclined Planes...; Friction...; Tension...; Velocity Ratio...; Single Purchase Winch or Crab...; Screws..; Efficiency...; General Idea of the Mechanism in a Screw-Cutting Lathe...; Hydraulics...; Useful data regarding fresh and salt water...; Hydraulic Machines...; Bramah's Hydraulic Press...; Motion and Velocity...; Properties of Materials...; Stresses in Chains...; Hooke's Coupling or Universal Joint; Reversing Motions; Measuring Tools and Gauges...
Hardback. 452 pages. 13 cm by 19 cm.
Acceptable condition
No dust jacket. Minor marks and wear to the book cover. Binding intact but front end paper just starting to split in the hinge region. . Some foxing to front and back pages but most inner pages look clean. Red stain to top corner edges of a few pages at the end of the book but does not affect text. Small stain to top corner of a few pages in the middle of the book (pages 361-368).