Additional References 



The following list of additional reference material on kinematics may be of help 

 to readers who desire to do independent research. The material is listed according 

 to the section headings in the text of the present article. 



TO DRAW A STRAIGHT LINE 



Kempe, a. B. How to Draw a Straight Line. London, 1877. 



Contains a useful bibliography. Reprinted in Squaring the Circle and Other 

 Monographs, New York, Chelsea Publishing Company, 1953. 



Much attention has been given to straight-line mechanisms since the time of 

 Kempe; at least a half dozen articles have appeared in the United States since 

 1950, but I did not investigate the literature published after 1877. 



SCHOLARS AND MACHINES 



Beck, Theodor. Beitrage zur Geschichte des Maschinenbaues. Berlin, 1899. 



Reviews of early works, such as those by Leonardo da \^inci, Biringuccio, 

 Besson, Zonca, etc. 



BoRGNis, Giuseppe Antonio. Traite complet de mecanique appliquee aux arts. Paris, 

 1818-1821, 9 vols. 

 Contains several hundred finely detailed plates of machines. 



Laboulaye, Charles. Traite de cinematique ou theorie des mecanismes. Paris, 1861 

 (ed. 2). 

 This work was quoted frequently by Laboulaye's contemporaries. 



Royal Society of London. Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 1800-1900, Author Index. 

 London, 1867-1902, and Cambridge, 1914-1925. 



. Catalogue oj Scientific Papers, 1800-1900, Subject Index. London, 1909, vol. 2. 



This subject index was started in 1908, and by 1914 three volumes (the third 

 in two parts) had been published; however, this subject index was never com- 

 pleted. Volume 2, titled Mechanics, has some 200 entries under "Linkages." 

 It is interesting to note that both of the Royal Society's monumental catalogs 

 grew out of a suggestion made by Joseph Henry at a British Association meeting 

 in Glasgow in 1855. 



Weisbach, Julius. The Mechanics of the Machinery of Transmission, vol. 3, pt. 1, sec. 2 

 of Mechanics of Engineering and Machinery, translated by J. F. Klein. New York, 

 1890 (ed. 2). 



MECHANISMS AND MECHANICIANS 



Barber, Thomas W. Engineer's Sketch-Book. London, 1890 (ed. 2). 



Herkimer, Herbert. Engineer's Illustrated Thesaurus. New York, 1952. 



Periodicals. Artizan, from 1843; Practical Mechanic and Engineer's Magazine, from 

 1841; Repertory of Arts and Manufactures, from 1794; Newton's London Journal of Arts 

 and Science, from 1820. (The preceding periodicals have many plates of patent 

 specification drawings.) The Engineer, November 10, 1933, vol. 156, p. 463, and 

 Engineering, November 10, 1933, vol. 136, p. 525. (Recent English views ques- 

 tioning the utility of kinematics.) 



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