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Mechanical Design for the Stage
Alan Hendrickson
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Description for Mechanical Design for the Stage
Paperback. Provides the basic engineering formulas needed to predict the forces torques, speeds, and power required by a given move. This book describes the common power transmission components used in stage machines: roller chain, cable drums, bearings, and gear reducers. It shows many examples of traditional stage machinery designs. Num Pages: 446 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ANH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 255 x 178 x 23. Weight in Grams: 780.
Scenic effects involving rotating turntables, tracking stage wagons, and the vertical movement of curtains and painted drops have become common in both Broadway and Regional theatre productions. The machines that drive these effects range from small pneumatic cylinders pushing loads of a few pounds an inch or two, to 40 horsepower winches running multi-ton scenery at speeds 6 feet per second or more. Usually this machinery is designed by theatre technicians specifically for a particular show's effect. Compared to general industry, this design process is short, often only a few days long, it is done by one person, design teams ... Read more
Scenic effects involving rotating turntables, tracking stage wagons, and the vertical movement of curtains and painted drops have become common in both Broadway and Regional theatre productions. The machines that drive these effects range from small pneumatic cylinders pushing loads of a few pounds an inch or two, to 40 horsepower winches running multi-ton scenery at speeds 6 feet per second or more. Usually this machinery is designed by theatre technicians specifically for a particular show's effect. Compared to general industry, this design process is short, often only a few days long, it is done by one person, design teams ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Number of Pages
446
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780240806310
SKU
V9780240806310
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Alan Hendrickson
Alan Hendrickson is a Professor (Adjunct) of Technical Design and Production at Yale School of Drama, and an independent consultant in scenery mechanization and control since 1984. Classes taught at Yale include Physics of Stage Machinery, Automation Control, Pneumatics and Hydraulics, and Mechanical Design for Theatre Applications. His outside consultant work includes hydraulic, control, and mechanical design for effects running ... Read more
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