Excerpt from Machine Design: A Manual of Practical Instruction in the Art of Creating This method or plan of action it is hoped to make clear In the pages of Part I; and, to properly enforce the same, the designing of a simple machine 15 undertaken, and 18 followed from the orig inal data, through the preliminary sketches, to the finished detail drawings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.