A Text-Book of Mechanical Drawing and Elementary Machine Design (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

John S. Reid

9780265868980: A Text-Book of Mechanical Drawing and Elementary Machine Design (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 026586898X ISBN 13: 9780265868980

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from A Text-Book of Mechanical Drawing and Elementary Machine Design<br/><br/>To properly prepare students for advanced machine design it has been found necessary to introduce a course designed to apply the principles of mechanical drawing to the solution of practical problems in machine construction and to familiarize the student with the arrangement and proportions of the most important machines and their details recognized by competent engineers to be the best practice of the present time. It is essential to intelligent study and an economical expenditure of time and labor that, before attempting to design a new machine or improve an old one, the student should post himself with all possible information concerning what has already been done in the same direction. To this end the present work has been prepared. In it we have attempted to show what is the best United States practice in the design and construction of various machines and details of machines, using rules and formulae whenever feasible in working out practical problems....

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David Reid completed all of First Phase, including Hell Week, while serving as an officer and boat crew leader at Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training (BUD/S). He began writing "Suffer in Silence" shortly after his training, resulting in an unprecedented inside look at the agonizing journey that every sailor must complete before he can call himself a SEAL. Reid lives in Menlo Park, California.

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