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by mech987 1433 days ago
"Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design" is a great textbook if you want to learn the most you can with the fewest books about designing mechanical structures and moving parts from a strength perspective.

Fluid flow/ thermo would be the other main academic area that this book wouldn't cover.

There's a bunch more topics though that you build over years of intuition- manufacturability, design tradeoffs, etc.