Various [ed. by Howard Monroe Raymond] — Modern Shop Practice: Home Study Course and General Reference Work on Machine Shop Work
Detroit, Michigan, Machine Precision Institute, 1944. Cloth. The complete eight volume set of a revised guide to the modern machine shop, written during a time of rapid progression in American industry. Modern Shop Practice: Home Study Course and General Reference Work on Machine Shop Work, edited by Howard Monroe Raymond, formerly the President Emiratus of Illinois Institute of Technology, assisted by chapters from mechanical engineers, designers and specialists. The revised edition, a complete set in eight volumes.In the publisher's original red pictorial cloth, with each volume containing a frontispiece, as well as numerous in-text and full-page illustrations and photographs.Offering a fascinating glimpse into modern manufacturing during a rapid progression of American industry. The Machine Precision Institute was based in Detroit, a major national hub of manufacturing.- Volume I: Includes Machine Shop Work, from common hand tools, to drilling machines, and gearing.- Volume II: Includes Pattern Making, Physics, Slide Rule and Machine Shop Management.- Volume III: Includes Foundry Work and Forging Practice. - Volume IV: Includes Tool Making, Tool Design and Stamping. - Volume V: Includes Metallurgy, Oxyacetylene Welding, and Electric Welding.- Volume VI: Includes Blueprint Reading and Mathematics.- Volume VII: Includes Mechanical Drawing and Machine Drawing. - Volume VIII: Includes Mechanism and Machine Design. In the publisher's original red pictorial cloth. Externally, smart, with minimal marks to boards. Minor edgewear and bumping to the heads and tail of the spines, and to the extremities. A small puncture to head of vol. I front joint, and slight fading to the front boards. End papers are generally bright and clean with slight dulling. Worming to rear end papers of vol. VI and vol. VIII, heavier to vol. VII. Internally, firmly bound, with minor wear to frontispiece hinge of vol. I. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: Various. Very Good .
