Links
Sharmanka Kinetic Gallery
Fourteen Balls Toy Company
Cabaret Mechanical Theatre
Paul Spooner
Tim Hunkin
Will Jackson
Keith Newstead
Jean Tinguley
Marcel Duchamp
Arthur Ganson
Chuck Genco
Kugelbahn - Rolling Ball Sculpture
Art-O-Mat
.fernando
Alan Rath
Alan Rath at Solway Gallery
Amorphic Robot Works Machines
Amy Youngs - interactive sculptures, installations and other art work
Art and Emerging Technology
ARTTEC - Guy Marsden's home page
Charles Morgan
Consensual Data Body
The Crucible
Devices of Wonder at The Getty
Ed Osborn - sound art
Edward A. Shanken
NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program
Jack Dollhausen's Shop
Ken Rinaldo - robotic sculpture, interactive art inspired by natural systems
David C. Roy
Gary Goddard
Keith Newstead
Koolkinetics.com
Kinetic-Art.org
Kineticus.com
Luke Blackstone
Marc Bohlen
Matthew Steinke
Mechanical Burlesque
The Modern Automata Museum
Ned Kahn
Ned Kahn at Sculpture.org
Nemo Gould
Norman Tuck Interactive Kinetic Sculpture, Science and Art Exhibits
Omnicircus
Perry Hoberman
Rafelandia
Rein Triefeldt
Robochrist
Rodney Brooks - Projects
S T E L A R C
Sabrina Raaf
Seemen
Sineapsis Experiments
Steve Gerberich Mechanical Sculptor
Strandbeest
Survival Research Labs
Sympathetic Sentience
Michael Sturtz
Tim Prentice
Michael Lozano
Omnicircus
Ylem Art, Science, and Technology
BOOKS
| TITLE | AUTHOR | ISBN | PUBLISHER | ||
The Inventor's Handbook |
Belinda Recio |
1561384593 |
1994 |
Boston Museum of Science | |
507 mechanical Movements |
Henry T. Brown |
0917914252 |
1984 |
Lindsay Publications | |
Cabaret Mechanical Movement |
Onn and Alexander |
0952872900 |
1998 |
Cabaret Mechanical Theater | |
Electric Motors and Mechanical Devices for Hobbyists and Engineers |
Bill Davies |
0968183018 |
1997 |
WERD Technology, Inc. | |
The How and Why of Mechanical Movements |
Harry Walton |
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1968 |
Popular Science Publishing Company, Inc. | |
Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook |
Nicholas P Chironis and Neil Sclater |
0070113564 |
1996 |
McGraw Hill | |
Illustrated Sourcebook of Mechanical Components |
Robert O Parmley |
0070486174 |
2000 |
McGraw Hill | |
Ingenious Mechanisms for Designers and Inventors - Four volumes |
Franklin D. Jones, et al. |
0831110-295,309,317,325 |
1930 |
Industrial Press, Inc | |
How Things Work, 4 volumes (Volume 3 especially) |
Roger Jean Ségalat |
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Bibliographisches Institut and Simon & Schuster, Inc. | |
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Amamzing Machines |
Keith Good |
0237519860 |
1999 |
Evans Brohters Limited | |
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Practical Electronics For Inventors |
Paul Scherz |
0070580782 |
2000 |
McGraw Hill | |
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Kinematics And Linkage Design |
Allen S. Hall Jr. | |
1966 |
Balt Publishers | |
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Tools And Their Uses |
U.S. Navy |
0486220222 |
1973 |
Dover | |
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Basic Machines And How They Work |
U.S. Navy |
0486217094 |
1994 |
Dover | |
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Machines |
Janice VanCleave |
0471571083 |
1993 |
Wiley | |
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How Things Work - The Physics Of Everyday Life |
Louis A. Bloomfield |
0471594733 |
1997 |
Wiley | |
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Inventing Stuff |
Ed Sobey |
0866519378 |
1996 |
Dale Seymour Publications | |
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Basic Electronics |
U.S. Navy |
0486210766 |
1980 |
Dover | |
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Basic Electricity |
U.S. Navy |
0486209733 |
1970 |
Dover | |
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How It Works Illustrated |
Rudolf Graf and George Whalen |
0060115890 |
1974 |
Popular Science | |
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Robots, Androids, and Animatrons |
John Iovine |
0070328048 |
1998 |
McGraw-Hill | |
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Gizmos and Gadgets |
Jill Frankel Hauser |
1885593260 |
1999 |
Williamson Publishing Company | |
| A Manual of Mechanical Movements | W. M. Clark | 1943 | Garden City Publishing | SEARCH | |
| The Engineer's Sketchbook | Thomas Walter Barber | 1940 | Chemical Publishing Company | SEARCH | |
| 970 Mechanical Appliances and Novelties of Construction | Gardner D. Hiscox | 1894572378 | 2001 | Algrove Publishing | SEARCH |
| Mechanical Movements, Powers and Devices | Gardner D. Hiscox | 1927 | Norman W. Henley Publishing | SEARCH |
Many of these books are out of print, but usually available for purchase used.
A very good source for finding any used and/or out of print book is Bookfinder.com.
Where possible, the "SEARCH" link above will take you to a bookfinder.com search.
Another great source for books on electronics and mechanics is RobotBooks.com.
| Catalogs, Parts Sources | |
| McMaster-Carr - The grand-daddy of supply houses. There isn't much made that they don't carry. You can sometimes beat their price, but rarely their selection. | http://www.mcmaster.com |
| Stock Drive Products/Sterling Instruments - excellent supplier for gears, chains, sprockets, couplings, and such. Their set of catalogs is free, and is a wonderful set of resource books. Their prices are pretty good for a lot of their stock, especially as far as new stuff goes. | https://sdp-si.com/ |
| SECS - Another supplier like SDP/SI. I have never ordered from them so I don't know about their prices. | http://www.prosecs.com/ |
| Thomas Register - Power Transmission Couplings - a list of companies who sell power transmission products. | http://www.couplings-ez.com/ |
| Grainger - a national supplier of electrical, electromechanical, and industrial parts. | http://www.grainger.com |
| Reid Tool | http://www.reidtool.com |
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Jameco - Fantastic supplier of electronic and electromechanical supplies. | http://www.jameco.com |
| All Electronics | http://www.allelectronics.com |
| Metal Spermarkets - Supplier of metals in small quantities. Very artist friendly. | http://www.metalsupermarkets.com/ |
| Herbach & Rademan - I can hardly describe this place...just go to the site...but set a hard spending limit before clicking the link because you'll want to SEARCH two of everything. I'm not kidding. | http://www.herbach.com |
| Parallax, Inc - the folks who brought us the Basic Stamp series of microcontrollers. They carry a lot of other stuff as well. | http://www.parallaxinc.com |
| Weird Stuff - Surplus house in Sunnyvale, California. Well worth a visit when in the area. | http://www.weirdstuff.com |
| Halted Specialties - Another great supplier in the South Bay. More geared towards electronic components than Weird Stuff. | http://www.halted.com/ |
| Mondotronics Robot Store - Great resourcee for robotic books, kits, parts, supplies, art, etc. And we all know robot parts can be put to great use in kinetic art! | http://www.robotstore.com |
| Michael's Arts & Crafts - All over the place | Michael's Arts & Crafts |
| ALCO - San Leandro, New and used metals of all types, shapes, and sizes | 510-562-1107 |
| OSH -Orchard Supply Hardware - All over the Bay Area - well stocked chain of hardware stores | OSH |
| Home Depot - All over the place | Home Depot |
| Kelvin - They only sell to teachers and schools, but if you are (or know) one of those, this is an awesome catalog. | http://www.kelvin.com |
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