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Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy
By Wayne R. Moore
Published in 1970 by The Moore Tool Company, Inc.
800 Union Ave., Bridgeport, CT 06607
Library of Congress Catalog Card #73-127307
353 pages, 550 original B&W photos and drawings

This book can be purchased new from Moore Tool Company

Moore Tool Company has made precision machine tools since 1924 in Bridgeport CT. It is the companies’ culmination of knowledge and experience with mechanical accuracy and how to achieve it. This book describes through the written topics, photos and drawings how to attain precision in manufacturing to millionths of an inch and how to control such precision through measuring techniques. This book is divided into four main parts: geometry, standards of length, dividing a circle and roundness with a fifth part on “Universal Measuring Machine Techniques and Applications”.

For someone interested in machine tool rebuilding of sliding surfaces, this book is valuable. It covers using hand scraping techniques to achieve a higher accuracy of sliding surfaces. Determining flatness is the basis of any industrial manufacturing. This topic of what flatness is and how to achieve it is covered showing surface plates along with various styles of planes, as it relates to machine tool surfaces. The pictures are to the point, beautifully printed in black and white. The drawings are simple, also to the point being very easy to understand. Included in the history of the Moore Company are drawings and photos of historic devices that laid the groundwork for Moore’s astonishing advancements in machine tool accuracy.

I highly recommend this book, if only for the beautiful visual experience of what could be a very dry subject. Moore desired to take a block of space within the working area of a machine, and then accurately quantify any point within that space. This idea is of critical importance in the development of manufacturing.