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Told with all the warmth and whimsy of Burgess's stories

in furniture design

and His Men

and Beardsley's Salome

507 Mechanical Movements Told with all the warmthEpicyclic trains, oblique rollers, trip hammers, and lazy tongs are among the ingenious mechanisms defined and illustrated in this intriguing collection. Spanning the first century of the Industrial Revolution, this 1868 compilation features simplified, concise illustrations of the mechanisms used in hydraulics, steam engines, pneumatics, presses, horologes, and scores of other machines. The movements of each of the 507 mechanisms are depicted in

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