Miscellaneous Papers on Mechanical Subjects

Miscellaneous Papers on Mechanical Subjects  (1858)  by Joseph Whitworth

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Published 1858. Exportable book version

MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS

ON

MECHANICAL SUBJECTS.

BY

JOSEPH WHITWORTH, F.R.S.

LONDON:
LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, LONGMANS, AND ROBERTS.
MANCHESTER : J. AND J. THOMSON.

1858

PRINTED BY HARRISON AND SONS,

ST. MARTIN’S LANE.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• A Paper on Plane Metallic Surfaces or True Planes
• A Paper on an Uniform System of Screw Threads, read at the Institution of Civil Engineers, in 1841
• Address delivered to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Glasgow, 1856
• A Paper on Standard Decimal Measures of Length, read at the Meeting of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Manchester, 1857
• Rifled Fire-arms
• Appendix—New York Industrial Exhibition, 1853: Official Report
• Index

This work published before January 1, 1923 is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.