507 Mechanical Movements Paperback – Illustrated, 6 Nov. 2013

Just what I wanted

I like the way the mechanisms have been curated: each page spread features a set of related mechanisms, grid of numbered schematic pictures on the left, accompanying descriptions on the right, arranged generally in increasing complexity and subtlety for performing a particular task. This arrangement partially represents a chronological evolution of solutions to the task, and also parallel solutions independently arrived at or specifically aimed at a niche; but it is largely up to you to imagine this as it is only a thin book covering a lot of mechanisms, and to pontificate about each would make it run to many volumes. The illustrations and descriptions are a very concise top-level overview - just enough to let you know that "this is a thing", and if you look and read and understand you can begin to animate them in your mind and maybe even hear the sounds they make!Easy to dip in at any page spread and immerse yourself in a set, then put it down again.

Lots of examples of mechanisms as expected. Only negative comment would be that the explanations of each mechanism aren’t amazingly written - just a brief sentence or 2, but the picture make up for that. But, for the price it’s not a bad buy!

I never knew there were so many ways to convert between linear linear and circular motion.I would not pay a lot for this but at the price it is being sold at it is well worth it.

This book is good to have lying around, so you can pick it up when you have a spare moment. The drawings and short descriptions make it nice and easy to dip in and out of. It is surprising how many of these movements are still used today around the house!

Very technical and not well illustrated.

Really interesting and would recommend to any tinkerer

Nice little book, exactly as I expected and should come in useful