Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Wheeler, Lynde Phelps.

Description

1. vii, 78 p. ill., ports.

Series statement

1. Yale university. Yale medical library. Historical library. Publication no. 17
2. Yale University. Yale Medical Library. Historical Library. Publication ; no. 17.

Subject

1. Governors (Steam-engine)
2. Brakes
3. Gearing

Contents

1. Introduction, by L. P. Wheeler.--On the form of the teeth of wheels in spur gearing, by Willard Gibbs.--Commentary upon the Gibbs monograph "On the form of the teeth of wheels in spur gearing," by E. O. Waters.--An improved railway car brake, by S. W. Dudley.--The Gibbs governor for steam engines, by L. P. Wheeler.

Call number

1. VFG (Gibbs, J. W. Early works of Willard Gibbs)

Note

1. Issued in connection with the centennial anniversary of the Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University, 1847-1947.

Author

1. Gibbs, J. Willard (Josiah Willard), 1839-1903.

Title

1. The early work of Willard Gibbs in applied mechanics, comprising the text of his hitherto unpublished PH. D. thesis and accounts of his mechanical inventions, assembled by Lynde Phelps Wheeler [and others]

Imprint

1. New York, Schuman [c1947]

Series

1. Yale university. Yale medical library. Historical library. Publication no. 17
2. Yale University. Yale Medical Library. Historical Library. Publication ; no. 17.

Added author

1. Wheeler, Lynde Phelps.

LCCN

1. 47006887

Research call number

1. VFG (Gibbs, J. W. Early works of Willard Gibbs)