THE want of a comprehensive collection of illustrations and descriptions of MECHANICAL MOVEMENTS has long been seriously felt by artisans, inventors, and students of the mechanic arts. It was the knowledge of this want that induced the compilation of the collection here presented. The movements which it contains have been already illustrated and described in occasional instalments scattered through five volumes of the AMERICAN ARTISAN, by the readers of which their publication was received with so much favour as was believed to warrant the expense of their reproduction with some revision in a separate volume. 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 … Continue reading 507 Mechanical Movements Mechanisms and Devices