Author : Simon Barley
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 27,2 MB
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 1445649756
Using a wide range of photographs, Simon Barley provides a collector’s guide to British saws.
Author : Simon Barley
Publisher : Choir Press
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 15,40 MB
Release : 2015-04-30
Category :
ISBN : 9781909300972
Historians of the various tools trades have long wanted a work specifically on saws and this, the first, is an attempt to match the detail and scholarship of the best that cover planes, cutlery, spanners and measuring tools. The author is a frequent writer and lecturer on saws and the history of their manufacture, and is able to base his work on 15 years of original research and the building of a personal collection of saws - probably the largest in the world - which is housed with the renowned Ken Hawley Collection in Sheffield's Kelham Island Industrial Museum. Together, these collections form a unique research base and visitor attraction. This scholarly book is illustrated with almost 2000 photographs, the majority by the author, and with its listings of saw makers and dealers forms the most comprehensive directory to date of British names in the tool trades.
Author : Charles Babbage
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 30,75 MB
Release : 1832
Category : Machinery
ISBN :
Author : Fabian Drixler
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 36,87 MB
Release : 2013-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0520272439
This book tells the story of a society reversing deeply held worldviews and revolutionizing its demography. In parts of eighteenth-century Japan, couples raised only two or three children. As villages shrank and domain headcounts dwindled, posters of child-murdering she-devils began to appear, and governments offered to pay their subjects to have more children. In these pages, the long conflict over the meaning of infanticide comes to life once again. Those who killed babies saw themselves as responsible parents to their chosen children. Those who opposed infanticide redrew the boundaries of humanity so as to encompass newborn infants and exclude those who would not raise them. In Eastern Japan, the focus of this book, population growth resumed in the nineteenth century. According to its village registers, more and more parents reared all their children. Others persisted in the old ways, leaving traces of hundreds of thousands of infanticides in the statistics of the modern Japanese state. Nonetheless, by 1925, total fertility rates approached six children per women in the very lands where raising four had once been considered profligate. This reverse fertility transition suggests that the demographic history of the world is more interesting than paradigms of unidirectional change would have us believe, and that the future of fertility and population growth may yet hold many surprises.
Author : Geoffrey W. Beard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1088 pages
File Size : 35,99 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
A reference work on furniture makers active in England between 1660 and 1840. It lists makers in alphabetical order, recording biographical details, commissions, and information about signed or documented pieces, together with full supporting references.
Author : Catharine Melinda North
Publisher :
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 36,64 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Berlin (Conn.)
ISBN :
Author : Jane Rees
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 699 pages
File Size : 19,99 MB
Release : 2020-02-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1931626480
This new edition of the classic reference British Planemakers from 1700 has been completely rewritten, with over 200 pages of new information. Online research tools haven enabled much greater insight into family connections of planemakers, family and business continuities, and the discovery of previously unknown planemakers. Confirmation that planemakers were working in the late 1600s, in fact, inspired the new edition’s title, Goodman’s British Planemakers. The biographic directory covers more than 2400 planemakers and includes 2250 maker's mark illustrations. Like its predecessors, the new edition traces the development of British planemaking, but far more extensively, now confirming that planemakers moved around the country to a much greater extent than previously realized, and identifying several new family planemaking dynasties. The book includes chapters on the planemaking trade and its practices, descriptions and illustrations of the many types of planes and their evolution, and provincial planemaking, as well as sections on apprentice records, trade marks, and a complete index. An absolutely invaluable reference.
Author : Ellen Douglas Larned
Publisher :
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 41,34 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Windham County (Conn.)
ISBN :
Author : Dustyn Roberts
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 25,16 MB
Release : 2010-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0071741682
Get Your Move On! In Making Things Move: DIY Mechanisms for Inventors, Hobbyists, and Artists, you'll learn how to successfully build moving mechanisms through non-technical explanations, examples, and do-it-yourself projects--from kinetic art installations to creative toys to energy-harvesting devices. Photographs, illustrations, screen shots, and images of 3D models are included for each project. This unique resource emphasizes using off-the-shelf components, readily available materials, and accessible fabrication techniques. Simple projects give you hands-on practice applying the skills covered in each chapter, and more complex projects at the end of the book incorporate topics from multiple chapters. Turn your imaginative ideas into reality with help from this practical, inventive guide. Discover how to: Find and select materials Fasten and join parts Measure force, friction, and torque Understand mechanical and electrical power, work, and energy Create and control motion Work with bearings, couplers, gears, screws, and springs Combine simple machines for work and fun Projects include: Rube Goldberg breakfast machine Mousetrap powered car DIY motor with magnet wire Motor direction and speed control Designing and fabricating spur gears Animated creations in paper An interactive rotating platform Small vertical axis wind turbine SADbot: the seasonally affected drawing robot Make Great Stuff! TAB, an imprint of McGraw-Hill Professional, is a leading publisher of DIY technology books for makers, hackers, and electronics hobbyists.
Author : Amandus Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 27,91 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Delaware
ISBN :
