Excerpt from Elements of Mechanism; Elucidating the Scientific Principles of the Practical Construction of Machines: For the Use of Schools, and Students in Mechanical Engineering, With Numerous Specimens of Modern Machines, Remarkable for Their Utility and Ingenuity Is the first part of this work will be found all the most approved elementary or simple parts of mechanism that the ingenuity of man has suggested, in the past and present age, for multiplying power - for increasing and diminishing speed - for changing the direction of motion - for producing straight from curvilinear motions, and vice versa - also irregular from regular motions, and vice versa. The several subjects are accompanied by the methods of calculating and comparing the powers, velocities, &c., of the different parts of each combination. The fundamental principles of these methods are derived from Baker's Principles and Practice of Statics and Dynamics in Mr. Weale's Series, with examples wrought out by common arithmetic; so that they may be understood without a knowledge of the higher branches of the mathematics. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."