Machinery's Handbook Collector's Edition

Note: There is no ebook version of this historic edition.

Respectfully recalling history is the role of Machinery’s Handbook Collector’s Edition: 1914 First Edition Replica. Issued to commemorate and celebrate the 125th anniversary of Industrial Press, this 1,400-page hardcover edition, with it’s textured, leather-like cover and gold-edged pages makes a superb gift. Give it to a worthy colleague or enjoy delving into this classic text yourself.

Imagine this handsome volume gracing the desk or bookshelf. You’ll eagerly tell visitors that this is the book that helped accelerate the industrial revolution by capturing important standards, specifications, and methods in manufacturing and machine design and fabrication. Manufacturing leadership is largely contained between these covers.

The 31st Edition

Coming forward 100-plus years, the 31st Edition, published in 2020, is a hefty 2,996 pages. The current Machinery’s Handbook continues the tradition as the world-renowned reference, “The Bible” of metalworking and mechanical science around the globe. Industrial Press editors endlessly compile new standards and fresh content for publication in a new edition approximately every four to five years.

The latest Machinery’s Handbook, the 31st Edition, includes the most comprehensive and up-to-date selection of practical technical information, data, and standards found between two covers anywhere. Placed next to the Collector’s Edition, the pair form fitting bookends for industrial history.

Please click here to go to a page about the history, development, and perpetual enhancement of the Machinery’s Handbook over more than 100 years.

Contents

• MATHEMATICAL TABLES
• PRINCIPAL METHODS AND FORMULAS IN ARITHMETIC AND ALGEBRA
• LOGARITHMS AND LOGARITHMIC TABLES
• AREAS AND VOLUMES
• SOLUTION OF TRIANGLES AND TRIGONOMETRICAL TABLES
• GEOMETRICAL PROPOSITIONS AND PROBLEMS
• PRINCTPAL METHODS AND FORMULAS IN THEORETICAL MECHANICS
• STRENGTH OF MATERIALS
• RIVETING AND RIVETED JOINTS
• STRENGTH AND PROPERTIES OF STEEL WIRE
• STRENGTH AND PROPERTIES OF WIRE ROPE
• FORMULAS AND TABLES FOR SPRING DESIGN
• TORSIONAL STRENGTH SHAFTING
• FRICTION
• PLAIN, ROLLER AND BALL BEARINGS
• KEYS AND KEYWAYS
• CLUTCHES AND COUPLINGS
• FRICTION BRAKES
• CAM DESIGN AND CAM MILLING
• SPUR GEARING
• BEVEL GEARING
• WORM GEARING
• SPIRAL AND HERRINGBONE GEARING. EPICYCLIC GEARING. BELTS AND PULLEYS — MACHINE TOOL DRIVES
• ROPE TRANSMISSION
• TRANSMISSION CHAIN AND CHAIN DRIVES
• CRANE CHAIN AND HOOKS. BOLTS, NUTS, SCREWS, WRENCHES, HANDLES, HANDWHEELS AND OTHER MACHINE DETAILS
• SPEEDS AND FEEDS FOR MACHINE TOOLS — TOOL GRINDING
• AUTOMATIC SCREW MACHINE PRACTICE
• TAPPING AND THREADING
• LUBRICANTS FOR MACHINING OPERATIONS
• RUNNING, SHRINKAGE AND FORCED FIT ALLOWANCES
• MEASURING INSTRUMENTS AND GAGING METHODS
• CHANGE GEARS FOR SPIRAL MILLING — LEADS AND CORRESPONDING ANGLES
• MILLING MACHINE INDEXING
• JIGS AND FIXTURES
• GRINDING AND GRINDING WHEELS — POLISHING AND LAPPING
• PUNCHES, DIES AND PRESS WORK — DROP-FORGING DIESBROACHES AND BROACHING OPERATIONS
• CLASSIFICATION, TESTING AND APPLICATION OF FILES
• SCREW THREAD SYSTEMS AND THREAD GAGES
• TAPS AND THREADING DIES
• MILLING CUTTERS
• REAMERS
• TWIST DRILLS, COUNTERBORES AND BORING BARS
• HEAT-TREATMENT OF STEEL — HARDENING, TEMPERING AND ANNEALING
• TESTING THE HARDNESS OF METALS
• PRINCIPLES OF IRON AND STEEL MANUFACTURE
• FOUNDRY AND PATTERN SHOP PRACTICE
• EXTRUSION OF METALS
• DIE CASTING
• FORGE SHOP EQUIPMENT
• FORGE SHOP WELDING METHODS
• AUTOGENOUS WELDING
• WELDING WITH THERMIT
• ELECTRIC WELDING
• SOLDERING AND BRAZING
• ETCHING AND ETCHING FLUIDS
• COLORING METALS
• HORSEPOWER REQUIRED FOR MACHINE TOOLS AND FORGING MACHINERY — ELECTRIC MOTOR DRIVE
• CARE OF ELECTRICAL MACHINERY — DYNAMO AND MOTOR TROUBLES
• PROPERTIES AND WEIGHTS OF MATERIALS
• COMPOSITION OF ALLOYS
• INFORMATION RELATING TO HEAT — COMPARISON OF THERMOMETER SCALES. PNEUMATICS — AIR COMPRESSION — FLOW OF AIR
• WATER PRESSURES AND FLOW OF WATER
• PIPE AND PIPE FITTINGS
• LUTES AND CEMENTS
• WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
• METRIC SYSTEM OF MEASUREMENTS AND CONVERSION TABLES
• MANUFACTURING PLANT APPRAISAL
• DRAWING, TRACING AND BLUEPRINT PAPERS
• PRINCIPAL PATENT LAW REGULATIONS
• INDEX