Treatise on Mills and Millwork

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-108-07001-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 630 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 876 g

Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - Technology

One of the great Victorian engineers, Sir William Fairbairn (1789–1874) had started his career as a millwright's apprentice, going on to become a civil engineer, a designer of industrial machinery and an expert on the failure of materials and structures. The present work distils a lifetime's experience of mechanical design into two highly illustrated parts. First published in 1861 and 1863, they are here reissued in a single volume. Part 1 gives a general overview of mechanisms such as gears, cranks and cams, and then moves on to the design of prime movers: waterwheels and turbines, steam engines and boilers, and windmills. Part 2 covers the design of mechanisms in more detail, and discusses power transmissions and their components: shafts, gears, bearings, couplings and so on. Lastly, Fairbairn gives overviews of the most important types of industrial mill - including cotton, wool, paper, iron and gunpowder - and their machinery.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fairbairn, William

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technikgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to Part I; Part I: 1. Introduction; 2. The principles of mechanism; 3. Of prime movers; Appendix; Preface to Part II; Part II: 4. On machinery of transmission; 5. The arrangement of mills; Appendices; Index.