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Title: Very comprehensive, detailed set!
Review: These books are very comprehensive. There are lots of multi-component mechanisms described in great detail for mechanically inclined people.The machines depicted are of an historical nature. I don't see this as a shortcoming, however. Mechanisms of the sort found in these volumes were state-of-the-art at one time. There were no electronic sensors and computer controls at the turn of the last century. Everything had to work -- and had to work mechanically. The mechanisms explained in these volumes are a testament to a certain real-world ingenuity that most of us can't comprehend until we read books like these.
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