Greg wrote: > This is somthing that I have been interested in for some time now, and have > been looking for more info, as to how to set things up ( like how to build a > tread mill, or a cage wheel ).
I know in some Public & University Libraries I've seen old books and magazines speak to your interests. The late ninetieth century reproduced mail order catalogs are also on the shelves with patent numbers..... I received in the mail: > > When the oil runs low, there's always Muscle Power. The > > March 2002 Issue of Natural History had an article based on the book > > "Prime Mover: A Natural History of Muscle" by Steven Vogel. After a bit of searching the article above can be reviewed at -- Natural History [magazine] MARCH 2002 VOLUME 111 NUMBER 2 A short history of muscle-powered machines: what goes around comes around--and does useful work. Author/s: Steven Vogel http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1134/2_111/83553543/print.jhtml Biologist Steven Vogel ("A Short History of Muscle-Powered Machines" page 84) --who has worked at Duke University since 1966, after finishing graduate work at Harvard--has focused his career on biological fluid mechanics. Along the way he has studied how tiny insects fly, how moving squid refill between jet pulses, how burrows can be made to self-ventilate, how air passes through giant silkmoth antennae, and how leaves cope with problems of solar heating in very low winds and with drag in high winds (see his Natural History article "When Leaves Save the Tree" September 1993). In his forties he developed an addiction to book writing from which he hasn't recovered; the results so far include Life in Moving Fluids, Life's Devices, Vital Circuits, Cats' Paws and Catapults, and Prime Mover: A Natural History of Muscle. AS A SIDE NOTE -- Steven Vogel is James B. Duke Professor of Biology at Duke University. He works÷with both mind and muscle÷in the rapidly growing area of biomechanics, looking at such diverse problems as how leaves protect themselves in high winds and how animals contrive burrows that self-ventilate. He is the author of many books, including the prize-winning Cats' Paws and Catapults, which compares nature's mechanical designs with our own. http://www.wwnorton.com/catalog/fall01/002126.htm ADDITIONAL BOOK REVIEWS July-August 2002 Books - Prime Mover: A Natural History of Muscle, By Steven Vogel. Norton Press, 2001. 370 pages, $12.95 http://www.dukemagazine.duke.edu/dukemag/issues/070802/depbks.html Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People By Steven Vogel. W. W. Norton, 1998. 382 pages. http://www.dukemagazine.duke.edu/alumni/dm18/books.html If you like reading John McPhee, Diane Ackerman, and Stephen Ambrose, you'll love reading Steven Vogel. The previously dry academic fields of the sciences, history, and biography are now publishing darlings as a talented group of witty, accessible, articulate authors make their turf user-friendly to the lay reader. Vogel gets our attention, writes persuasively, and tells some great stories. ___________________________________________ Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
