> My grandfather had a wonderful book series “Ingenious Mechanisms for Inventors and Designers”
Looked interesting so I did a little digging and found the set here...
http://www.opensourcemachinetools.org/archive-manuals/Ingenious_Mechanisms_Vol.1_Jones_1930.pdf
http://www.opensourcemachinetools.org/archive-manuals/Ingenious_Mechanisms_Vol.2_Jones_1930.pdf
http://www.opensourcemachinetools.org/archive-manuals/Ingenious_Mechanisms_Vol.3_Jones_1930.pdf
http://www.opensourcemachinetools.org/archive-manuals/Ingenious_Mechanisms_Vol.4_Jones_1930.pdf
Please note - I kept getting a “The connection was reset” message from Cyberfox but Chrome let me download the .pdf with no problems.
http://www.opensourcemachinetools.org looks like an interesting site.
Fascinating designs, huh? Most all of that mechanical motion control is now handled via digital electronics. All of that will be (or already is) lost art.