title: Kinematic Design of Machines and Mechanisms
author:  Homer D. Eckhardt 
description: The First Complete and Practical Guide to the Integration, Design, and Analysis of Machines and their Motions. Designed to improve the enigneer's intuitive approach to machine design, this highly practical guide offers a clear understanding of the principles of the geometry of motion and the real-world connections between kinematic phenomena and the behavior of actual machines. It provides all of the information and graphical tools and techniques you'll need to select, visualize, integrate, and analyze machines and mechanisms for a wide range of applications. Building logically from the simplest, most easily visualized mechanisms and motions to the more complex, Kinematic Design of Machines and Mechanisms features complete, well-illustrated coverage of: Crank-sliders and inverted crank-sliders; Pin-jointed and general four-bar linkages; Multihoop linkages; Gears and gear trains; Quick-return mechanisms; Cams. In addition, you'll find step-by-step procedures for designing mechanical systems to give prescribed motions--plus, proven methods for analyzing displacements, velocities, accelerations, force and torque relationships, and statically and dynamically balancing systems. This unique reference is a must-reading for every engineer and designer who wants to fully exploit today's powerful CAD software by minimizing the trail-and-error involved in searching for satisfactory machine design solutions.
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  Title:	Kinematics	of	Mechanisms	from	the	Time	of	Watt
  Author:	Eugene	S.	Ferguson
  Release	Date:	October	31,	2008	[EBook	#27106]
  Language:	English
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  THE	MUSEUM	OF	HISTORY	AND
  TECHNOLOGY
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  KINEMATICS	OF	MECHANISMS	FROM	THE
  TIME	OF	WATT
  Eugene	S.	Ferguson
  Contents
  JAMES	WATT,	KINEMATIC	SYNTHESIST
  187
  TO	DRAW	A	STRAIGHT	LINE
  199
  SCHOLARS	AND	MACHINES
  209
  MECHANICIANS	AND	MECHANISMS
  216
  MECHANISMS	IN	AMERICA,	1875-1955
  223
  ADDITIONAL	REFERENC