author
Hubert E. (Hubert Edwin) Collins
1872–1932
A practical early-20th-century engineering writer, this author turned years of hands-on mechanical work into clear books for machinists, operators, and students. He is also remembered for a memoir of boyhood on the frontier, showing a very different side of his life and interests.
2 Audiobooks
Steam Turbines A Book of Instruction for the Adjustment and Operation of the Principal Types of this Class of Prime Movers
by Hubert E. (Hubert Edwin) Collins
Shafting, Pulleys, Belting and Rope Transmission
by Hubert E. (Hubert Edwin) Collins
About the author
Born in Iowa in 1872, he became known as an American engineer and technical writer whose books explained steam power, boilers, pumps, valve setting, and power transmission in a direct, useful way. Library and archive records connect his name with works such as Steam Turbines, Boilers, Boilers, Pipes and Piping, Pumps, Valve Setting, and Shafting, Pulleys, Belting, Rope Transmission and Shaft Governors.
Available biographical records describe a career built on practical experience: he worked as a machinist and engineer before writing instructional books for people working with industrial machinery. That practical background helps explain the tone of his books, which were meant to solve real shop and engine-room problems rather than simply teach theory.
He also wrote Warpath and Cattle Trail, a memoir based on time spent in Indian Territory during his youth, giving readers a glimpse of frontier life through personal recollection. He died in 1932. No suitable verified portrait image was found during this search.