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A truly unique and fascinating collection of 385 rare, out-of-print reference books, textbooks and manuals compiled together for the first time on 2 DVD data discs covering all aspects of MACHINE SHOP PRACTICE.

This stunning virtual library includes works on lathe work, milling, forging, blacksmithing, foundry work, gearing, workshop drawing, workshop mathematics, wood turning, pattern making, metal working, mechanics, engineering and much more! It also includes numerous vintage machine and tool catalogues as well as machinery construction and repair manuals. Some of the books contained within this collection are extremely hard-to-find and will provide a valuable library of reference material. Overall, an absolute must for anyone with an interest in all kinds of machine shop practice. The full list of titles included speaks for itself….

This superb compilation of vintage books on 2 DVD data discs provides literally 1,000’s of pages of great content and fabulous photos / illustrations for the reader. All of the books have been scanned in high quality and preserved forever in pdf format - easy to read on your laptop or computer, or transfer to tablet, smartphone, kindle or e-reader. You can also print entire books or select pages.

This is without doubt the most extensive collection of its kind - compiled over time by rare-book-collections, and only available here!

The Full List of Titles Included is as Follows:

20th century machine shop practice (1915)

A Handbook for apprenticed machinists (1901)

A handbook of art smithing (1896)

A handbook on the teeth of gears, their curves, properties and practical construction (1885)

A handbook on the teeth of gears, their curves, properties, and practical construction (1887)

A Manual of Mending and Repairing with Diagrams (1907)

A manual of the hand lathe - comprising concise directions for working metals of all kinds, ivory, bone and precious wood (1869)

A Practical Gudie for the Manufacture of Metallic Alloys (1872)

A practical guide to iron and steel works analyses (1911)

A practical workshop companion for tin, sheet iron and copper plate workers (1865)

A short treatise on the designing and construction of gearing and mill-work (1873)

A system of estmating for foundry work (1885)

A Treatise on Files and Rasps (1878)

A treatise on gear wheels (1897)

A Treatise on Lathes and Turning - Simple, Mechanical and Ornamental (1876)

A Treatise on Machine Tools (1884)

A treatise on milling and milling machines (1916)

A treatise on milling and milling machines (1922)

A Treatise on the construction and use of milling machines (1896)

A treatise on toothed gearing. Containing complete instructions for designing, drawing, and constructing spur wheels, bevel wheels, laterns gear, screw gear, worms, etc. (1901)

AB Jardine and Co Catalogue (1924)

Address, Heat treating of steel (1911)

Advanced metal-work. Lessons on the speed-lathe (1898)

Advanced shop arithmetic for the machinist (1912)

Advanced shop drawing (1920)

Amateur mechanic's manual and catalogue - scroll saws and lathes (1881)

American blacksmithing, toolsmiths' and steelworkers' manual (1911)

American foundry practice (1882)

American foundry practice (1892)

American machinist gear book (1910)

American Machinist Grinding Book (1912)

American machinists' handbook and dictionary of shop terms (1914)

American Pattern Shop Practice (1907)

American Swiss Files (1921)

American tool making and interchangeable manufacturing (1905)

An introduction to the study of metallurgy (1892)

Appleby Illus Handbook of Machinery Sec IV (1897)

Applied mechanics - an elementary general introduction to the theory of structures and machines (1884)

Applied Science for Metal Workers (1919)

Architectural wrought iron (1888)

Art and education in wood-turning (1921)

Automatic screw machines (1916)

Bahco Catalog (1926-27)

Baldwin tuthill bolton (1906)

Barnes Lathes (1912)

Bearings and their lubrication (1911)

Bevel gearing (1912)

Bevel, spiral and worm gearing (1910)

Blacksmith shop practice (1910)

Blacksmith's manual illustrated (1920)

Bolt, nut and rivet forging (1885)

Book of bending allowance tables for aluminum (1918)

Boring, recessing and multiple turning tools (1914)

Camden Forge Company (1919)

Catalogue and price list of presses, drop hammers, shears, dies and special machinery built by E.W. Bliss Co. (1900)

Catalogue of the Niles Tool Works - manufacturers of iron and steel working machinery, railway, car, boiler and machine shop equipments (1891)

Change Gear Devices, Showing the Development of the Screw Cutting Lathe (1903)

Course in wood turning (1919)

Course of study in machine shop practice, intermediate schools; try-out course, industrial course (1922)

Cutting Tools Worked by Hand (1882)

Cyclopedia of modern shop practice (1909)

Deflection of machine tools (1909)

Descriptive pamphlet of the Richmond Mill Furnishing Works (1873)

Design and testing of a lathe-tool dynamometer (1912)

Details of machine tool design (1910)

Diamond Emery Wheel & Machine Co. Fine Machinery and Tools (1883)

Diemaking and die design_ a treatise on the design and practical application of different classes of dies (1915)

Dinanderie - a history and description (1910)

Directions for using Bottum's lathe chucks and improved lathes (1852)

Drawing, forming and bending dies (1914)

Drill jigs (1913)

Drilling, Lathe Work, Boring-mill Work, Working Chilled Iron, Bench Vise & Floor Work (1914)

Drop forging (1912)

Drop forging of steel (1911)

Drop Forging, Die Sinking and Machine Forming of Steel Modern Shop Practice (1911)

Drop forgings (1901)

Edge Tools (1909)

Electric motor drive for machine tools (1913)

Elementary forge practice (1917)

Elementary lathe practice (1917)

Elementary machine shop practice (1918)

Elementary machine shop practice (1920)

Elementary machine shop practice (1921)

Elementary metal work (1894)

Elementary turning (1907)

Engraving Metals (1912)

Essentials of Sheet Metal Work and Pattern Drafting (1918)

Everybodys Handbook of Machinists Kinks (1923)

Evolution of the machine shop (1905)

F. E. Reed Lathes Catalog (unknown date)

Farm Blacksmithing (1921)

Farm Blacksmithing 2nd Ed. (1910)

Farm Blacksmithing 1901

Farm mechanics and drawing (1911)

Farm shop work (1915)

First lessons in metal-working (1890)

First Year Lathe Work - How to build an 8 inch grinder - South Bend Lathe Works (1920)

First year lathe work prepared for students in technical, manual training, and trade schools, and for the apprentice (1917)

Forge craft (1913)

Forge note book (1921)

Forge Work (1912)

Forgecraft (1913)

Forge-practice (elementary) (1908)

Forge-practice and heat treatment of steel (1919)

Forging manual of practical instruction (1919)

Forging of Iron and Steel - A Text Book for the Use of Students in Colleges (1915)

Forging operations (1916)

Formulas in gearing (1900)

Foundry work - a practical handbook on standard foundry practice (1918)

Foundry work (1920)

Foundry work (1923)

Gage making and lapping (1910)

Gear-cutting machinery, comprising a complete review of contemporary American and European practice (1909)

Gear-cutting machinery, comprising a complete review of contemporary American and European practice, together with a logical classification and explanation of the principles involved (1909)

Gearing (1889)

General catalog of power presses and other machinery, dies and special tools designed and built by The Toledo Machine and Tool Company, Toledo, Ohio, U.S.A (1912)

General foundry practice (1910)

Glue and Glue Testing (1900)

Hand Forging (1911)

Handbook of practical smithing and forging engineers, & general smiths' work (1914)

Handbook of small tools (1908)

Hardening and tempering (1912)

Hardening, tempering, annealing and forging of steel (1903)

Hardening, tempering, annealing and forging of steel 4th Ed. (1911)

Hartness flat turret lathe manual (1923)

High speed tool steel on lathe work (1906)

Hill, Clarke & Co. Catalogue of Machine Tools (1893)

Hind's farriery and stud book farriery, taught on a new and easy plan with instructions to the shoeing-smith, farrier (1867)

Hobs and gear hobbing (1914)

Home instruction for sheet metal workers (1922)

How to make an 8' bench lathe in the school shop (1920)

How To Run a Lathe - Part 1 - (1917)

How To Run a Lathe - Part 2 - (1917)

How To Run a Lathe - Part 3 - (1917)

How To Run a Lathe - Part 4 - (1917)

How to run a lathe for the beginner (1914)

How to Run a Lathe. The care and Operation of a Screw cutting Lathe (1923)

How to Use the Screw-Cutting Lathe

Ibbetsons Chuck (1833)

Illustrated catalog of ornamental spun and stamped shells and fittings for gas and electric fixtures manufactured (1914)

Illustrated catalogue and general description of improved machine tools for working metal (1899)

illustrated catalogue in the science museum (1920)

Illustrated cataogue machine tools (1899)

Index to the Geometric Chuck - T. S. Bazley (1875)

Industrial mathematics practically applied (1921)

Iron & Steel of Canada Magazine (1918)

Iron & Steel of Canada Magazine (1919)

Iron & Steel of Canada Magazine (1920)

Iron & Steel of Canada Magazine (1921)

Iron & Steel of Canada Magazine (1922)

Ironwork Vol. 1 (1893)

Ironwork Vol. 2 (1893)

Ironwork Vol. 3 (1893)

James Nasmyth, engineer, an autobiography (1883)

Jig and fixture design (1920)

Jigs and fixtures (1910)

Keep your lathe clean (unknown date)

Kroms ore crushing (1885)

Laboratory course in wood-turning (1897)

Lathe and planer tools (1912)

Lathe bed design (c.1913)

Lathe design for high- and low-speed steels (1908)

Lathe design, construction and operation, with practical examples of the lathe work - C Perrigo (1919)

Lathe Work (1883)

Lathe work for beginners a practical treatise on lathe work (1922)

Lathe-Work (unknown date)

LeBlond's dual drive lathe (ca1920)

Machine blacksmithing (1910)

Machine building for profit, and the Hartness flat turret lathe (1909)

Machine forging (1914)

Machine molding (1906)

Machine shop practice (1923)

Machine Shop Tools and Methods (1905)

Machine shop tools and shop practice (1911)

Machine Shop Work (1919)

Machine shop work a comprehensive manual of approved shop methods (1918)

Machine stops, trips and locking devices (1913)

Machine tool drives (1910)

Machine Tool Operation - Pt. 1 (1919)

Machine Tool Operation - Pt. 2 (1919)

Machine Tools Made In America (1921)

Machinery and equipment (1915)

Machinery Handbook for Machine Shop and Drafting Room (1914)

Machinery pattern making (1892)

Machinery's Handbook (1914)

Machines and tools employed in the working of sheet metals (1903)

Machine-shop mathematics (1922)

Machining tapered and spherical surfaces (1914)

Making the small shop profitable (1918)

Manganese in the foundry (1903)

Manual of instruction in forge and machine work (1901)

Manual of the Bouton Foundry Company (1887)

Manuel du tourneur Vol 1 - L. Bergeron (1792) (French text)

Manuel du tourneur Vol 2 - L. Bergeron (1792) (French text)

Mathematics for machinists (1915)

Mechanical exercises, or, The elements and practice of carpentry, joinery, bricklaying, ...and turning (1812)

Mechanical processes (1906)

Mensuration for sheet metal workers, as applied in working ordinary problems in shop practice (1907)

Metal coloring and finishing (1914)

Metal spinning (1909)

Metal spinning (1910)

Metal spinning (1912)

Metallurgy - an introduction to the study of physical metallurgy (1915)

Methods of machine shop work (1914)

Methods of machine shop work, for apprentices and students in technical and trade schools (1914)

Milling fixtures (1860)

Milling machines and milling practice (1910)

Milling Machines, Shapers, and Planers (1922)

Modern American lathe practice (1907)

Modern american machine tools (1907)

Modern blacksmithing (1904)

Modern Glues and Glue Handling (1922)

Modern Machine Shop Tools (1903)

Modern machine tools (1900)

Modern machine-shop practice (1901)

Modern Sheet Metal Workers Instructor (1906)

Modern shop practice; a general reference work Vol. 1 (1916)

Modern shop practice; a general reference work Vol. 2 (1916)

Modern shop practice; a general reference work Vol. 3 (1916)

Modern shop practice; a general reference work Vol. 4 (1916)

Modern shop practice; a general reference work Vol. 5 (1916)

Modern shop practice; a general reference work Vol. 6 (1916)

Motor drive for machine tools (1913)

Net price list of iron and steel (1909)

Niles toolworks machine tools (1891)

North Brothers Yankee Tools Catalog (1918)

Notes for forge shop practice (1910)

Odontics, or, The theory and practice of the teeth of gears (1891)

Open hearth steel castings (1907)

Ornamental turning, a work of practical instruction in the above art Vol 1 (1903)

Ornamental turning, a work of practical instruction in the above art Vol 2 (1903)

Ornamental turning, a work of practical instruction in the above art Vol 3 (1903)

Oxy Acetylene Welding and Cutting (1917)

Pattern making, a practical treatise for the pattern maker on wood-working and wood turning (1921)

Patternmaking kinks (1908)

Patternmaking, a treatise on the construction and application of patterns (1920)

Planing and milling (1914)

Pocket companion of useful information and tables pertaining to the use of cast and wrought iron work (1887)

Pocket companion of useful information and tables pertaining to the use of wrought iron (1881)

Power consumption of machine tools (1917)

Practical blacksmithing Vol. 1 (1889 - 91)

Practical blacksmithing Vol. 2 (1889 - 91)

Practical blacksmithing Vol. 3 (1889 - 91)

Practical blacksmithing Vol. 4 (1889 - 91)

Practical Mechanical Drawing and Machine Design (1907)

Practical Metal Turning - A Handbook for Engineers, Technical Students, and Amateurs (1906)

Practical sheet metal work and demonstrated patterns Vol. 1 (1910)

Practical sheet metal work and demonstrated patterns Vol. 2 (1910)

Practical sheet metal work and demonstrated patterns Vol. 3 (1910)

Practical sheet metal work and demonstrated patterns Vol. 5 (1910)

Practical sheet metal work and demonstrated patterns Vol. 6 (1910)

Practical sheet metal work and demonstrated patterns Vol. 7 (1910)

Practical sheet metal work and demonstrated patterns Vol. 10 (1910)

Practical sheet metal work and demonstrated patterns Vol. 11 (1910)

Practical sheet metal work and demonstrated patterns Vol. 12 (1910)

Practical treatise on gearing (1902)

Practical treatise on gearing (1920)

Precision tools (1911)

Precision, locating and dividing methods (1914)

Prentiss Tool and Supply Co Illus Catalogue (1896)

Press-working of metals (1896)

Principles of interchangeable manufacturing (1921)

Problems in Wood-turning (1909)

Production engineering and cost keeping, for machine shops (1922)

Production milling (1921)

Progressive lessons in machine shop practice (1923)

Railway shop kinks (1911)

Reading wrought iron pipe structural differences in wrought iron & steel (1921)

Reamers, sockets, drills and milling cutters (1910)

Report on machine-tools and wood-working machinery (1885)

Rogers machinists guide - a practical illustrated treatise on modern machine shop practice (1913)

Safe foundry practice (1921)

Safeguards for machine tools and presses (1914)

Screws and screwmaking (1907)

Sears Roebuck and Co Machinery (1911)

Self-taught mechanical drawing and elementary machine design (1922)

Sheet metal drafting (1921)

Sheet metal work (1920)

Sheet metal workers' manual - a complete, practical instruction book on the sheet metal industry (1918)

Sheet-metal work; a manual of practical self-instruction (1909)

Shop arithmetic for the machinist (1911)

Shop Kinks (1896)

Shop mathematics - a treatise on applied mathematics dealing with various machine-shop and tool-room problems (1920)

Shop Mathematics (1910)

Shop practice for home mechanics, use of tools, shop processes, construction of small machines (1920)

Shop problems (1913)

Shop problems in mathematics (1910)

Simple Decorative Lathe Work (1905)

Slide valve gears (1912)

Smiths' Work (1904)

South Bend Lathe Works, Red Book No. 59 (1920)

South Bend Precision Lathes- Lathe Promotional Brochure (1917)

Spiral and worm gearing (1920)

Spiral gearing (1912)

Spur and bevel gearing (1914)

Spur and bevel gearing (1915)

Spur gearing (1912)

Standard blacksmithing, horseshoeing and wagon making containing 12 lessons in elementary blacksmithing (1907)

Starrett Book for Machinists Apprentices (1917)

Starrett Data Book For Machinists (1918)

Steel working and tool dressing (1914)

Tables and formulas for shop and drafting-room (1911)

Technical Manual Lathes United States Air Corps (1920)

Text-book of advanced machine work (1915)

Text-book of the elements of machine work (1910)

Text-book of the principles of machine work (1912)

The advanced machinist (1903)

The Amateur Mechanic's Workshop (1870)

The Amateur Mechanic's Workshop (1874)

The American machinist shop note book (1919)

The art of double-counting on the lathe (1857)

The blacksmith's guide (1907)

The blacksmiths' hand book (1884)

The Boston machinist (1866)

The Boston machinist 4th Ed. (1896)

The compendium of architectural sheet-metal work (1876)

The complete guide to blacksmithing, horseshoeing (1902)

The complete practical machinist 15th Ed. (1887)

The complete practical machinist 19th Ed. (1895)

The Construction of Wrought Iron Bridges (1858)

The Drill Press (1923)

The economy of workshop manipulation (1876)

The encyclopedia of founding (1894)

The essentials of gearing (1911)

The extrusion of metals (1913)

The handbook of turning (1842)

The Lathe & Its Uses Or, Instruction in the Art of Turning Wood and Metal (1868)

The Lathe (1923)

The Machinist - United States Army Quartemaster Corps (1921)

The mechanician, a treatise on the construction and manipulation of tools, for the use and instruction of young engineers (1879)

The mechanic's tool book. With practical rules and suggestions for use of machinists, iron-workers and others (1868)

The Metal Turner's Handybook - A Practical Manual for Workers at the Foot-lathe (1906)

The metal worker pattern book (1882)

The metallic alloys. A practical guide for the manufacturer of all kinds of alloys, amalgams, and solders (1908)

The Metallurgy of Iron and Steel (1911)

The modern practice of American machinists & engineers (1869)

The new metal worker pattern book (1896)

The pattern maker's assistant - embracing lathe work, branch work, core work, sweep work, and practical gear construction (1878)

The practical brass and iron founder's guide (1853)

The practical metal-worker's assistant with the application of the art of electrometallurgy to manufacturing proceses (1864)

The progressive machinist (1903)

The repair and maintenance of machinery (1895)

The screw-cutting lathe - how to select, set up, adjust and operate (1907)

The silversmith's handbook - containing full instructions for the alloying and working of silver (1921)

The smith's pocket companion, containing useful information and tables on iron and steel (1893)

The Starrett book for motor machinists and auto repair men (1923)

The testing of machine tools (1915)

The theory of shrinkage and forced fits, with tabulated data and examples from practice (1912)

The tinsmith's helper and pattern book, with useful rules, diagrams and tables (1912)

The tinsmiths' Pattern manual (1894)

The treatment of steel (1881)

The turner's companion containing instructions in concentric, elliptic, and eccentric turning (1868)

The universal sheet metal pattern cutter (1920)

The value of science in the smithy and forge (1916)

The watchmakers' lathe, its use and abuse - a story of the lathe in its various forms, past and present (1902)

The Wood Turner's Handybook - A Practical Manual for Workers at the Lathe (1901)

The young mechanic. Containing directions for the use of all kinds of tools (1882)

Things that are usually wrong (1906)

Thread-cutting methods - operation and use of various tools and machines for forming screw threads (1918)

Tin, sheet-iron and copper-plate worker -a practical workshop companion (1904)

Tinsmithing - American School of Correspondence (1903)

Tool engineering - jigs and fixtures (1922)

Tool Making (1919)

Tools and machines (1903)

Tools and Machines for Sheet Metals Made by Niagara Machine & Tool Works (1921)

Tools and patterns (1920)

Tool-steel - a concise handbook on tool-steel in general (1902)

Toothed gearing (1912)

Training in Wood-work - Consisting of Three Parts; Carpentry, Wood-turning and Pattern Work (1902)

Turning and boring (1914)

Turning and boring tapers (1902)

Turning and mechanical manipulation Vol. 1 (1852)

Turning and mechanical manipulation Vol. 2 (1852)

Turning and mechanical manipulation Vol. 3 (1852)

Turning and mechanical manipulation Vol. 4 (1852)

Turning lathes - a manual for technical schools and apprentices (1890)

Union Chucks (1921)

United states navy drop forging book (1919)

William Sellers & Co. - Illustrated Catalogue and General Description of Machine Tools for Working Metal (1895)

Wood turning, prepared for the use of students (1909)

Wood working, wood turning, patternmaking, etc. (1903)

Wood-turning (1921)

Worm gearing (1913)

Wrought iron manuals and tables (1884)

XXth century sheet metal worker a modern treatise on modern sheet metal work (1910)

An absolute must for anyone with an interest in machine shop practice – an unbelievable treasure trove of information for a very small price!

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