Desk Ref
by Thomas J Glover, Richard A Young · first published 2010
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Desk Ref[1]. It's a ref for your desk. It answers almost any question you might have pertaining to workshop activities. Speeds, feeds, that kind of thing. I keep it in our break room in case one of us needs to…
on “Ask HN: What books do you keep on your desk?” ↗There's a bit of a cult classic book, "Pocket Ref" by Thomas Glover, and its big brother "Desk Ref." They're just books that attempt to provide reference tables for most of the things you'd need to look up throughout a wide variety of technical fields, but especially mechanical trades. A random selection…
on “The modern clock; a study of time keeping mechanism (1905)” ↗