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I'm not able to find a copy online but the 1933 book this article discusses is truly amazing. Full of techniques for fabricating all sorts of things. If you con
by yodon 3y ago
I'm not able to find a copy online but the 1933 book this article discusses is truly amazing. Full of techniques for fabricating all sorts of things. If you consider yourself a maker you want to read the book.
- cshimmin 3y agoWhat's the title of the book?
- yodon 3y agoFrom the second sentence of the article, The Craft of Experimental Physics, by P.M.S. Blackett.
- gtsnexp 3y agoThat seems to be the title of the essay, not the book in which it was printed
- wolfgang42 3y agoWorking backwards from the header in the linked PDF, I found “University studies, Cambridge, 1933”: https://www.worldcat.org/title/1197571 https://www.worldcat.org/title/1197571 (Contents: Introduction, by Harold Wright; Philosophy, by R.B. Braithwaite; Mathematics, by M.H.A. Newman; The craft of experimental physics, by P.M.S. Blackett; Chemistry, by C.P. Snow; Physiological research, by R.K. Matthews; Biology, by C.H. Waddington; History, by R.E. Balfour; The study of the classics at Cambridge, by B.L. Hallward; English literature, by F.L. Lucas)
- bramblerose 3y agoThere is a link to a scan at the bottom of the article (although it currently doesn't load for me)
- webnrrd2k 3y agoIf you like making things by hand, the old Machinist's Handbooks are also really good to have, with lots of old but still fascinating, and even occasionally useful stuff in 'em.
- OldGuyInTheClub 3y agoI love these, old books on engineering design, and historical technical drawings. The cost of errors must have been astronomical before CAD and Ctrl-Z. I can only imagine how much focus was required to do the complex shadings and exploded diagrams we now take for granted.