Machinery's Handbook

[loose nut]

What's the difference between Machinery's Handbook and Machinist Handbook?

There IS Machinery's Handbook and there was the American Machinists Handbook. The later was a contemporary of Machinery's published by American Machinist Magazine (Colvin and Stanley) but went out of publication in the late 40"s. You can still find them floating around or you can download them off of the Internet Archive as well as (very) old issues of the magazine . Good reading.

[Ohio Mike]

What's the difference between Machinery's Handbook and Machinist Handbook?

They two books were targeted to the same market from different publishers. Machinery's Handbook is published by Industrial Press. Back in the day Industrial Press published a magazine called "Machinery" and hence the name Machinery's Handbook. Originally written by Erik Oberg and Franklin D. Jones (who wrote several other texts) it’s been updated and rewritten numerous times. I believe we are now on the 31st edition. The Machinists Handbook or more properly "American Machinist Handbook" was created by Hill publishing. Hill publishing also had a magazine called “American Machinist”. American Machinist Handbook was written Fred Colvin and Frank Stanley. Fred was also the editor of “American Machinist”. It was last published in the mid 1950s.

[David Powell]

Hang on here--- I have a copy of The American Machinists Handbook bought brand new in 1981 in Toronto. The Copyright d Renewed date is 1973. It is much more a " Readable" book than Machinery's Handbook. I keep the two together on my bookshelf and often look in both for answers to my questions, or to help me remember what I have forgotten. Regards David Powell.

[Ohio Mike]

Hang on here--- I have a copy of The American Machinists Handbook bought brand new in 1981 in Toronto. The Copyright d Renewed date is 1973. It is much more a " Readable" book than Machinery's Handbook. I keep the two together on my bookshelf and often look in both for answers to my questions, or to help me remember what I have forgotten. Regards David Powell.

I'm glad you said something. You are correct it looks like that 1955 edition, technically re-titled "The New American Machinist Handbook", had its copyright renewed and was published much later.

[loose nut]

Try this one. Kind of like machinery's handbook but older.

https://archive.org/search.php?query=mechanical%20engineers%20pocket%20book