THE need for an extensive collection of diagrams and explanations of MECHANICAL Motions has long been felt seriously by artisans, inventors, and mechanical arts students. It was the knowledge of this want that induced the compilation of the collection here presented. The movements it contains have already been illustrated and represented in occasional installments scattered through five volumes of the AMERICAN ARTISAN, through which the readers were published Received with too much enthusiasm, as was expected to justify the cost of their replication in a separate volume with some examination. The selection of the movements embraced in this collection was made from numerous and different sources. Johnson, Willcock, Wylson, and Denison’s English works were drawn on to a considerable extent, … Continue reading 507 Mechanical Movements Mechanisms and Devices