Books about gears, watch and clock making, machinist gear book

I found these almost by accident in my travels through the internet. As I was trying to learn more about clocks and clockmaking I found a few books digitzed by google that are now in the public domain, so I thought I would share. The gear book was the most helpful to me. I hope these can help someone else as well.

The biggest help with drawing gears was this one: American machinist gear book By Charles Hays Logue, Reginald Trautschold (1922)

The next one has a chapter (chapter 10) on gear trains: Elements of mechanism By Peter Schwamb, Allyne Litchfield Merrill (1904)

And the last one I found is self explanitory: Watch and clock making By David Glasgow (1885)

Great Book: Jules & Hermann Grossman, Lessons in Horology, The Keystone, Philadelphia, 1905, pp. 171-189

A good source for general information, including maintaining power, is the book „A Rudimentary Treatise on Clocks, Watches and Bells“, by Edmund Beckett.  An online version can be found at http://www.nawcc-index.net/Articles/17576.pdf

Harrison’s Chordial Pitch Gearing – Part 1: http://www.livingstonstandardtime.com/misc/Part%201.PDF

Harrison’s Chordial Pitch Gearing – Part 2: http://www.livingstonstandardtime.com/misc/Part%202.PDF

 

Grasshopper escapement

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasshopper_escapement

www.bhi.co.uk/update/Grasshopper.pdf

http://www.woodworkforums.com/attachments/f168/111908d1248573727-grasshopper-escapement-grasshopper0001.pdf

http://www.angelfire.com/ut/horology/grassh.html

http://www.woodworkforums.com/f168/grasshopper-escapement-100836/

http://www.bealltool.com/clockforum/index.php?board=2.0

http://www.vectric.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=10596

 

Free Open Source Cycloidal Gear Software

There is a new free open source software for creating cycloidal gears for wooden clocks. The application generates SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) output for meshing gears

Gear Builder

Gear Builder - Zykloidenverzahnung

Gear Builder - Zahnrad

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.hessmer.org/blog/2012/01/28/cycloidal-gear-builder/

Download: http://code.google.com/p/drh-horology/downloads/list

Uhrenbücher – books for clockmakers

Mehr Bücher gibt es bei www.Archive.org und unter dem Suchbegriff „Clocks and Watches“.

Bitte sendet mir Eure Links zu weiteren Büchern, Seiten über Uhren und Technik an Kontakt. Vielen Dank.

 

Wooden Clock Plans – Pläne für Holzräderuhren

We are looking for free wooden clock plans and technical details. If you have one please send it to us. We would like to share them. Thank you very much.

Wenn Sie Pläne und technische Informationen haben, die Sie gerne mit anderen Teilen möchten so senden Sie uns diese bitte zu. Vielen Dank.

https://www.wooden-clock.de/kontakt/