"Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements" - H. Brown (1871)
A wonderful book of all kinds of mechanisms ! Around 1870 the Franco-Prussian War raged and the German forces victoriously entered Versailles...
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See the attachment for the PDF file.

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| Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements - H. Brown (1871) WW.pdf | 17.66 MB |

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