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This book provides a compendium of information on human-powered devices for use in and around the home, including their history, fundamental principles, plans for building them, and stories of those who make and use these machines around the globe today.
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Foot Pedal or Hand Crank - No Electricity, 25 Mar 2009
By Book Wookie - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Human-Powered Home: Choosing Muscles Over Motors (Paperback)
Good overview of the history of foot pedal & hand crank devices, & what is being used again today in our times. For example, foot pedal sewing machines, lathes for cutting, emergency radios, etc. Also how to generate some of your electricity needs by foot pedal power. Borrowed this from the library & then decided to buy my own copy. Plenty of references in it for further reading also.
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A Keep ... However ..., 3 Oct 2009
By Royal Meservy "Royal :0)" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Human-Powered Home: Choosing Muscles Over Motors (Paperback)
I will definitely keep this book in my collection. I would have liked more diagrams of parts for construction of more things. The construction descriptions were great and useful. The Vitagoat is prototype #2 from the Rodale Press "Pedal Power" book from 1977. (still available from Amazon)
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An essential book..., 13 Jun 2011
By hamamelis - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Human-Powered Home: Choosing Muscles Over Motors (Paperback)
..for anyone who wants to understand more about pedal powered and other human powered devices. I was looking for this book thirty years ago, but it hadn't been written yet!This book is excellently written. It is both readable and complete. This year, I taught a group of middle schoolers how to adapt a bicycle to generate electricity. This book helped me to prepare my course work, and I hope to use it again to teach kids about intermediate technologies and their use in the carbon-free, nuclear-free future.
I plan to build more pedal powered devices, and this book will be my first and most essential reference.
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