Product Description

The Newnes Mechanical Engineer's Pocket Book is a comprehensive collection of data for mechanical engineers and students of mechanical engineering. Bringing together the data and information that is required to-hand when designing, making or repairing mechanical devices and systems, it has been revised to keep pace with changes in technology and standards. The Pocket Book emphasises current engineering practice and is supported by clear accounts of the fundamental principles of mechanical engineering.

Key features include the latest BSI engineering data; focus on engineering design issues; enhanced coverage of roller chain drives, pneumatic and hydraulic systems; and expanded and more accessible detail on statics, dynamics and mathematics.

* Over 300 pages of new material, including the latest standards information from BSI
* Exhaustive collection of data for mechanical engineers and students of mechanical engineering
* Unique emphasis on engineering design, theory, materials and properties

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #60798 in Books
• Published on: 2005-10-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 768 pages

Review
"This book, a cross between a dictionary and an encyclopedia, is a useful tool for the workshop or design office." - Mechanical Engineering, April 2006

About the Author
By Mr. Roger Timings

Customer Reviews

An excellent book for engineering standards
Newness Mechanical Engineers Pockect Book gives a great insight into the world of engineering and the standards that control the every day lives of engineers throughout the world. The book gives great detail over such area as thread standards, bolt standards, CNC compputing language standards amongst other things. The book comes in an easy to use format with clearly readable tables that don't take hours to decipher. A great book for anyone looking at doing higher qualifications in Mechanical Engineering or if you've just got interest.

A useful designer's reference
I am constantly searching for a single, compact reference book that covers the majority of the information that I need in day-to-day work. I haven't found one yet and probably never will. This book is very comprehensive (at 3.5 cm thick it would need a very big "pocket") and appears to have chosen to concentrate on more practical information like standard fasteners, power transmission components, etc, and on the specification of these - making it useful for detail design, for instance. The section on the theoretical and mathematical underpinnings of engineering is relatively short, so it is of less use in the early stages of realising your latest brainchild. Like every engineer's reference book I have seen, it is also frustratingly inconsistent in the level of detail afforded to different topics.

Having said all that though, it's far better than many other similar books I've looked at, is based on UK/European standards and represents good value for money compared to trying to claw some of the information contained in it from the BSI at exorbitant prices. If you were to combine this with more a more theoretical reference book, you'd probably have the best "pocket" reference library you could manage with what's currently available.