Structured, multi-part guides that take a subject from first principles to applied practice. 3043 pages.
How to specify engineering workstations for SOLIDWORKS: why single-thread frequency governs rebuild performance, how to size memory against assembly scale, and why graphics supp…
Three milestones in which metal replaces masonry as the primary structural material, and in which someone tests it before building with it.
Gear fundamentals for mechanical design: velocity ratio, hunting teeth, module and tooth proportions, involute profile and pressure angle, face width rules, and tangential, sepa…
Four milestones in which the compact high-pressure engine and the iron hull between them end the age in which transport meant wind, water and muscle.
Four milestones showing a field that acquired chemistry rather than physics, and in which the decisive advance came from a part-time experimenter working in a cellar.
Three milestones producing the clearest example of fail-safe design anywhere in this set: a brake that applies itself when its own control system fails.
Three milestones that made stored electricity dense enough to move a vehicle, then fast enough and cheap enough to stabilise a grid.
Four milestones in the first industry assembled deliberately out of laboratory physics, and the first to design against a transmission medium that could not be inspected.
A structured reference series tracing how engineering stopped learning only from experience and began deriving results from science, with electrical engineering as the paradigm …
Interchangeable manufacture and the lockstitch sewing machine replaced skilled fitting with repeatable process, moving the engineering effort from the product to the system that…
Statutory engineer registration began in 1907, the year the Quebec Bridge fell. How the four-pillar competence model works and what it requires of Australian engineers today.
Three milestones, and an unusually clean case of a first design getting the architecture right, plus a patent case worth knowing.
Four milestones in which builders working without any theory of statics arrived, by observation and by failure, at a structural system of remarkable efficiency.
Six milestones including the single most consequential idea in the whole set: that there are general laws and that they can be known.
Interconnection turned separate power stations into one synchronised machine spanning a country, buying shared reserve and merit order dispatch at the price of propagating faults.
Three milestones in which a ship stopped being a shaped assembly of timbers and became a designed structure with a calculated stress distribution.
Six milestones that together constitute the largest single change in this set: the replacement of human muscle as the primary source of mechanical power.
A cased, drilled well and fractional distillation created an industry in two years. How well construction, barrier philosophy and refinery architecture actually work.
Three milestones that made computation a component rather than a facility, gave it persistent storage, and kept both getting cheaper for five decades.
Three milestones that replaced the vacuum tube, removed the wiring between components, and then removed the assumption that computers must be connected point to point.
Creating and maintaining a SOLIDWORKS administrative image: image types, the option editor and its configuration scopes, path constraints that cause obscure failures, and the ma…
Recursive component traversal through configurations and root components, walking the feature and sub-feature chain, filtering by type name, reading suppression states and repor…
Three milestones that separated communication from place, made position and precise time a free service, and folded a dozen devices into one.
Three milestones between 1854 and 1860 established the modern urban water system: treat what comes in, separate and treat what goes out, and store enough head to survive a failure.
Designing a wedge belt drive: belt types, service factors, section selection, pulley pitch diameters, belt pitch length, exact centre distance, correction factors and the number…
Engineering begins as a response to water. Four milestones in levees, canals, urban drainage and bringing supply inside the walls.
Three milestones showing what happens when concrete construction moves from large to unprecedented, and the governing parameter turns out to be hydrology, creep or heat rather t…
Designing butt and fillet welded joints: full penetration assumptions, leg length against throat thickness, allowable stress, and the weld-as-a-line method for direct, bending a…
Using the SOLIDWORKS selection manager: marks and ordering, identifying picked entities, adding mates, setting materials, driving dimension values, programmatic selection and se…
Selecting worm reduction gearboxes and geared motor units: nominal against actual ratio, load classification and service factor, mechanical against thermal rating, and the overh…
The power-transmission thread: the trapezoidal Acme and Tr forms, the power-screw torque equations, a Tr30×6 jack worked in full — raising, lowering, efficiency and the self-loc…
Joining without holes: how adhesives hold and why surfaces decide, the shear-good-peel-bad design law with a lap joint worked to 4.69 kN, the chemistry shelf from epoxy to silic…
Rearranging formulas, essential identities, linear and simultaneous equations, quadratics and cubics, Newton–Raphson root finding, arithmetic and geometric progressions, binomia…
Limits and fits: why tolerances exist, the vocabulary of limits and deviations, clearance, transition and interference fits, the ISO grade system with the standard tolerance uni…
Holding the work and the tool: three-jaw, four-jaw and collet chucks and their runout, arbors for milling cutters, the spindle that drives them, and why gripping force falls wit…
The screw as a machine axis: Acme in service and the recirculating ball screw side by side, the same five-kilonewton job priced on both bills — drive torque, holding duty, heat …
Rolling replaces sliding: the catalogue family from deep-groove to taper and needle, the L10 life equation worked in hours with its brutal cube law, the statistics of rolling fa…
Bevel gears for intersecting shafts: pitch cones and cone angles, straight versus spiral bevel, cone distance, the back-cone or Tredgold approximation and equivalent teeth, mitr…
The British thread systems and their legacy: the Whitworth 55-degree form with its rounded crests, BSW and BSF, the metric-based British Association series, and British Standard…
Broaching a finished form in a single pass: the broach as a bar of progressively taller teeth, the rise per tooth that sets how much each removes, tooth pitch and cutting force,…
The one-way thread: the asymmetric 7°/45° form, the flank-angle arithmetic showing buttress cuts nut-bursting force 4.7 times below the 60° vee while matching square-thread effi…
One dimension generates the whole thread: where the constants 0.6495, 1.0825, 1.2269 and 0.9382 come from in the 60° triangle, the working diameters of an M10×1.5 computed in fu…
Cams and followers: the displacement diagram, the four standard motion laws (uniform velocity, simple harmonic, parabolic and cycloidal) compared by peak acceleration and smooth…
Two fasteners with opposite jobs: the socket head cap screw that clamps at class 12.9 strength through a hex socket, and the headless set screw that locks a hub to a shaft by pr…
Cemented carbide cutting-tool material: tungsten carbide grains in a cobalt binder, how cobalt content trades hardness against toughness, the ISO application groups, coatings, a…
Programming computer numerical control machines: the coordinate systems and axes, G-codes and M-codes, setting spindle speed and feed from cutting data, linear and circular inte…
One friction physics, three jobs: couplings that join shafts for good, clutches that join them at will, and brakes that turn motion into heat — with the clutch torque line worke…
Choosing the three cutting parameters — speed, feed and depth — and what each controls: tool life through speed, surface finish through feed and nose radius, and metal removal t…