The Whitworth Measuring Machine

This may be the most important Engineering book you ever read.

It discusses the very foundation of Precision Engineering.

... It's short, but very sweet.

MichaelG.

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P.S.

If you want the PDF, do not use the GoogleBooks (PDF) link

... use the All Files link at the bottom of the list instead.

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 01/12/2013 21:50:09

Thanks for the pointer. Could you work out how to get the pdf from Google? They seem to be removing them hand over fist

How curious. One Author is Charles Percy Bysshe Shelley. Percy Bysshe Shelley was not his father, however, dying before he was born, and:

"Three children survived Shelley: Ianthe and Charles, his daughter and son by Harriet; and Percy Florence, his son by Mary. Charles, who suffered from tuberculosis, died in 1826 after being struck by lightning during a rainstorm. Percy Florence, who eventually inherited the baronetcy in 1844, died without children. The only lineal descendants of the poet are therefore the children of Ianthe." (wikipedia)

Grace's Guide has two obituaries of our man, but no mention of a connection to the poet.

Neil

You click the HTTPS link at the bottom of the left hand block, then choose the PDF from the list. When it is displayed, press the download button on the top right.

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Neil,

Sorry, perhaps my P.S. was not sufficiently detailed

Go to the All Files link at the bottom of the list: That returns a directory of all the available file types including the PDF that Google would have you believe is not available ... This approach works for many of the PDFs that Google has "disappeared".

If you're really keen, there is even the TIFF from the original scans: This gives usefully better resolution of the Plates [although nothing to compare with the original print that I have been reading at 'John Rylands' in Manchester]

MichaelG.

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 01/12/2013 22:35:40

or you could just click this

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Neil,

Here is a somewhat lengthier obituary

and Wikipedia has a page on the Shelley Baronets.

MichaelG.

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 02/12/2013 08:16:00

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... but you would miss all the fun of discovery

MichaelG.

You click the HTTPS link at the bottom of the left hand block, then choose the PDF from the list. When it is displayed, press the download button on the top right.

Thats a great tip

I right click the link in the list and "save link as" and drop it into the required folder

Thanks for that. I have been increasingly frustrated by Google's disappearing pdfs of great victorian books.

Neil

Michael, the dates are almost right for Eward Shelley Bart.(Born the same year, dead a year earlier).

As his obituaries don't mention any connection to blue blood, i have to assume he was on one of the minor branches of the clan.

Why am I worrying about this????

Neil

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Neil,

Worry about whatever "floats your boat"

Just so long as you read every word of the book.

MichaelG.

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 02/12/2013 20:23:48

Neil,

According to this ... our man was "brother of the celebrated poet"

But I have seen no supporting evidence.

MichaelG.

According to this ... our man was "brother of the celebrated poet"

But was born after he died? And his father was a cleric, not a baronet.

Neil

I have to say that this thread is proving to be a great disappointment to me.

Not one person has yet commented on the content of the Book.

MichaelG.