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1868 Engineer Refuses To Leave Any Mechanism Unexplained

In 1868 Henry T. Brown wrote a book called Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements . The subtitle is an apt description of the contents: EMBRACING ALL THOSE WHICH ARE MOST IMPORTANT IN DYNAMICS, HYDRAULICS, HYDROSTATICS, PNEUMATICS, STEAM ENGINES, MILL AND OTHER GEARING,…