REULEAUX, Franz.

The Constructor. A Hand-Book of Machine Design...

Authorized translation, complete and unabridged from the Fourth enlarged German edition by Henry Harrison Suplee. Frontis. port. & over 1200 illus. in the text. xviii, 312 pp. Large 4to, orig. cloth (hinges a little cracked but strong, foot of spine with short tear). Philadelphia: H.H. Suplee, 1893. First edition in English of this classic work, first published in 1861 as Der Constructeur. Reuleaux (1829-1905), professor of engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute in Zurich and, in 1879, elected Rector at the Königs Technischen Hochschule in Berlin, was one of the leading mechanical engineers of the period. Reuleaux believed that machines could be abstracted into chains of elements constrained in their motions by adjacent parts in the kinematic chain. He developed a compact symbolic notation to describe the topology of a very wide variety of mechanisms, and showed how it could be used to classify them and even lead to the invention of new useful mechanisms. At the expense of the German government, he directed the design and manufacture of over 300 beautiful models of simple mechanisms, such as the four bar linkage and the crank. These were sold to universities for pedagogical purposes. Today, the most complete set is at Cornell University College of Engineering. Very good copy. Corners a little worn. Ex Bibliotheca Mechanica.

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