Reading list
Gibbs, Josiah Willard. “On the Form of the Teeth of Wheels in Spur Gearing.” Essay. In The Early Work of Willard Gibbs in Applied Mechanics, Comprising the Text of His Hither to Unpublished PH. D. Thesis and Accounts of His Mechanical Inventions, 1st ed., 7–39. New York, New York: Henry Schuman, 1947.
This is a rather interesting read as these 32 pages are a transcript of one of the first doctorates granted in the United States at Yale University. Gibbs’ interest in mathematics and engineering led him to study how the gears interacted and the geometry that best suited their performance in many ways making him one of the first stem teachers.
Greenwood, Douglas C. Mechanical power transmission; component selection and application. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962.
Like so many of the books on this list mechanical power transmission goes in depth into not only how mechanical gearing works but the interaction of materials and seals within mechanical systems.
Langston, Lee. “Gears Drive the World.” American Scientist 110, no. 2 (2022): 80. https://doi.org/10.1511/2022.110.2.80.
American scientist is a publication that has been around since 1918 with many articles covering science. This specific article looks at how ancient technologies have been modernized through the centuries and continue to be utilized to this day.
Lemire, Jacques. “Gear Backlash in Robotics Applications.” Gear Technology Magazine RSS, April 9, 2024. https://www.geartechnology.com/articles/30637-gear-backlash-in-robotics-applications.
Gear technology magazine is an excellent resource for modern gear and ovation innovation and, in this article, it examines how by using wave gear technology backlash which is the unwanted back and forth movement of gears can be eliminated from modern robotics
Mayor, Adrienne. Gods and robots: Myths, machines, and ancient dreams of Technology. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020.
This may be one of the funniest background reads in my list. It provides a history of automatons and how gearing and automation has advanced through the EIN's not only centuries but eons. From primitive innovations to modern solutions this might be the first book to read to inspire you for this curriculum
Radzevich, S. P., and Darle W. Dudley. Dudley’s Handbook of Practical Gear Design and manufacture. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2021.
This particular book is less of a read and more of a reference material to help design and organize experiments so that the correct verbiage is used throughout. Words have meaning and if you are looking for a big book of terminology this definitely has everything in it for gears.
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