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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | Only elementary math skills are needed to follow this instructive manual, which covers many familiar machines and their components, including levers, block and tackle, and the inclined plane and wedge, in addition to hydrostatic and hydraulic machines, internal combustion engines, trains, and more. 204 black-and-white illustrations.
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Naval Education And Training Program | | Paperback: | 128 pages | | Publisher: | Dover Publications | | Publication Date: | January 01, 1997 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0486217094 | | Product Length: | 9.34 inches | | Product Width: | 6.38 inches | | Product Height: | 0.26 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.41 pounds | | Package Length: | 9.0 inches | | Package Width: | 6.0 inches | | Package Height: | 0.3 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.35 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 17 reviews |
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87 of 91 found the following review helpful:
 Just a great book, an invaluable reference..A real must-have Aug 05, 2000
By Jeff Small
I borrowed this book from a friend and held on to it for almost six months, and in that time I poured over it. It's EXTREMELY useful if you're doing model building or playing with simulators and stuff. I use it with LEGOs and LEGO Mindstorm robotics kits. It taught me ALL SORTS of secrets about motion and principles behind gears and gear-driven mechanisms. Just a great book, I highly reccommend it if you're looking for a great reference for basic mechanical devices. I had to buy my own copy to have.
34 of 34 found the following review helpful:
 Simple and Straightforward Jul 22, 2007
By M. Stout
I don't know how the military does it, but somehow they are able to train people quickly and effectively whereas academia gives long-winded answers that get most students lost in derivations.
Buy this book if you, like me, want to understand simple machines (levers to engines). It's straight to the point, the way I like it.
25 of 25 found the following review helpful:
Extremely Useful Jan 12, 2008
By Leo Tolstoy
As a Mechanical Engineering student I found the book to be extremely useful. I was already familiar with most of the theories from Dynamics and Statics, but it was cool to see how non textbooks refer to certain things (IE rather than saying the pivot point they call it the fulcrum). While we generally go over gear theories and calculations in Dynamics, we certainly don't get into their classifications so that was another useful piece of knowledge that I picked up. The last two chapters were extremely knowledgeable, since neither was in any of my textbooks. The last two chapters covered power trains and the internal combustion engine and were surprisingly in depth. I would highly recommend this book for any Engineering student seeking to get an out of the textbook perspective on your Mechanics classes, or to pick up some information on the inner workings of the engine.
13 of 16 found the following review helpful:
 Good but Outdated Sep 19, 2006
By Pheedback
"cobs0861"
Good basic info about the internal combustion engine but could use a revision. There is alot of talk about the side valve, Briggs and Stratton type engines but very little discussion about overhead valves and NO information about overhead cam engines. Other than the need for a revision this is a pretty decent book.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
How basic machines work Feb 24, 2007
By A. J. Mowatt-Wilson
Old but good. Explains things well and although the illustrations are a bit dated (so are Da Vinci's!), it is a very good and interesting book.
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