An illustrated overview of perpetualmotion machines and their inventors. The deceptively simple task of making a mechanism which would turn forever has fascinated many famous men and physicists throughout the centuries. In fact, the basic tenets of engineering grew from the failures of these perpetual motion machine designers. And, despite the naivete and even the blatant trickery of many inventors, there still exist a handful of mechanisms which defy explanation: * a vast canvascovered wheel which turned by itself was erected in the Tower of London * another wheel turned endlessly in Germany and was discussed by philosophers and scientists throughout Europe, including Sir Isaac Newton

Perpetual motion: The history of an obsession

Science & Math

ARTHUR W.J.G. ORD-HUME

Physics

Allen& Unwin

Book is in good shape. No markings or writings and moderate wear to cover and binding. Former library book with usual markings. Ships immediately.

Collecting Musical Boxes and How to Repair Them

Crown Publishers, Inc.

Clockwork music: An illustrated history of mechanical musical instruments from the musical box to the pianola, from automaton lady virginal players to orchestrion

Arts & Photography

Music

Barrel Organ

A.S. Barnes

This book could be described as a scrapbook - a collection of interesting, amusing, trifling and dated ephemera. It could also be described as the first illuminated history of the musical box, indeed, of mechanical music as a whole. Whatever you, the reader, choose to call it depends on just how much you want to gain from it. For some, a collection of old advertisements of long-defunct companies from aged publications is valueless; for others it is a priceless asset and an aid and inspiration to further study. For the author, his archives, amassed over the twenty or so years in which he worked with and collected mechanical musical instruments, have proved a source of almost endless information and interest. The content here has been subdivided into sections, each provided with an introductory text. Every item also bears a suitable descriptive caption. [From the Author's Preface]

Clockwork Music: An illustrated history of mechanical musical instruments from the musical box to the pianola, from automaton lady virginal players to orchestrion

Crown, Publishers

Perpetual Motion: The History of an Obsession

Barnes&Noble Books

THE MECHANICS OF MECHANICAL MUSIC: The Arrangement of Music for Automatic Instruments

Ord-Hume

Details the history of musical clocks and their makers in Britain, Scandinavia, Continental Europe and the USA. It deals with the various types of musical, clocks, their styles and mechanisms, describing how they differ from chiming clocks, as well as discussing the tunes played and the composers who wrote music specially for them.

Musical Clock, The: Musical and Automaton Clocks and Watches

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Mayfield Books

Restoring Musical Boxes and Musical Clocks

Title: First Home-Built Aeroplanes Binding: Paperback Author: ArthurWJG Ord-Hume Publisher: Stenlake Publishing

First Home-Built Aeroplanes

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Stenlake Publishing

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