The early works of Willard Gibbs in applied mechanics : comprising the text of his hitherto unpublished Ph.D. thesis and accounts of his mechanical inventions / assembled by Lynde Phelps Wheeler, Everett Oyler Waters & Samuel William Dudley.

  • Gibbs, J. Willard (Josiah Willard), 1839-1903.
Date:
[1947]
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Publication/Creation

New York : H. Schuman, [1947]

Physical description

3 unnumbered leaves, v-vii, 78 pages : illustrations, portrait, diagrams, facsimiles ; 25 cm.

Notes

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

Contents

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.

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