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FEW if any of the mechanical engineers of last century can have imagined that the academic kinematic theories of Willis, Reuleaux and Maxwell would ever be applied to machinery. Strength and solidity was their ideal, and when portions of structures were to be united, large areas of contact with numerous strong bolts formed their standard practice. The same idea was followed in moving mechanisms, as shown in large flat lathe beds and crosshead guides, and long, closely fitting, rigid bearings. Realising that this practice necessitated in Engineering very perfect fitting, they developed the art of producing large flat and cylindrical surfaces to a very high pitch of perfection, and their success has been shown by the accuracy and endurance of early British machine tools.
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D., C. Kinematic Design. Nature 132, 882–883 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132882a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/132882a0