Five hundred and seven mechanical movements

embracing all those which are most important in dynamics, hydraulics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, steam engines, mill and other gearing, presses, horology, and miscellaneous machinery, and including many movements never before published and several which have only recently come into use

by Henry T. Brown · first published 1868

"The selection of the movements embraced in this collection has been made from many and various sources. The English works of Johnson, Willcock, Wylson, and Denison have been drawn upon to a considerable extent, and many other works—American and foreign —have been laid under contribution ; but more than one-fourth of the movements—many of purely American origin—have never previously appeared in any published collection. lthough the collection embraces about three times as many movements as have ever been contained in any previous American publication, and a considerably larger number than has