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Cyclopaedia of useful arts, mechanical and chemical, manufactures, mining, and engineering. Volume 1, Abattoir to hair-pencils. With an introductory essay on the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851 Tomlinson, Charles, (ed.)
George Virtue & Co., London & New York, . 1/2 leather & boards, clx + 832 pages, profusely illustrated with steel engravings and many wood engravings. 1854 Hardcover. Book
Fair; hinges glued, but weak, first few pages soiled, frontispiece (Britannia Bridge) torn and reinforced by glued-on backing, one other plate found to be torn, water stain affecting some pages; otherwise textblock is sound and complete and most pages clean. The first 160 pages (i-clx) are the illustrated essay on the Crystal Palace Exhibition. A thick, heavy, volume; may require additional shipping.
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General Electric Review. Vol. XXII, No. 8, August, 1919
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY, . 8 x 10.5 inches, pp. xxxii + 561-648. 1919 Soft cover. Book
Good; front cover missing. Articles: CP Steinmetz - Electric power collection; O.F. Allen - Army electrical work in the advance areas in France; I. Langmuir - The arrangement of electrons in atoms and molecules, part II; J.R. Heett - The General Electric Company in the Great World War, Part II; S.A. Moss - Problems in designing small turbines for electrical purposes; L. Arnold - Secondary connections for constant-current transformers; W.P. Davey - Water Japan; S.S. Wyer - Methods for more efficiently utilizing our fuel resources, Part III. Natural gas.
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Hydraulique et Electricite Francaises.
La Houille Blanche, Grenoble, . 413 + XLX pages, the latter being advertising. 22 x 30 cm. Many illustrations; text in English. 1950 Library buckram Book
Ex-library, with the usual ownership markings and withdrawn stamp, otherwise very good condition except for the last three leaves (classified list of advertisers), which are chipped, torn, and taped, although the text is complete. The preface, by the Minister of Trade and Industry, cites the immense task of reconstruction and re-equipment that France faced after the Liberation, and the nation's construction of hydropower and thermal power plants and transmission systems, as described in this work.
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Journal of the Franklin Institute, Vol. CLXXVII, No. 2, February, 1914 Steinmetz, Charles P., Edwin F. Northrup, John R. Carson, D.A. Lyon, Joseph Mayer
The Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1914 Soft cover. Book
Very good condition (no dust jacket).
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Kodo Zuroku: Illustrated Book on the Smelting of Copper. TSUNA, MASUDA
Norwalk, CT, Burndy Library Publication # 35, . 96 pages. 1983 Stiff paper Book
Very good condition; minor cover soil. Color woodcuts by Niwa Motokuni Tokei. A facsimile edition of the original edition (ca. 1801) with English translation by Zenryu Shirakawa and a preface by Bern Dibner. Edited with an introductory essay by Cyril Stanley Smith.
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L'Ingenieur, Revue Scientifique et Critique des travaux publics et de l'industrie. Annee 1858 M.V. Avril, Directeur
Paris: Victor Masson, Langlois et Leclercq, . Nouvelle Serie, Tome Deuxieme, Annee . Library bound in marbled boards, 24x30.5 cm, 439 pages, 38 folding plates, as well as engraved figures and tables in the text. 1858 Boards Book
Ex-library, with the usual ownership markings and withdrawn stamp, covers barely attached and much of backstrip missing; all pages and plates in good condition. An international review (in French, including translations from foreign journals) of developments in science and technology. Many articles on railways in various countries. Also a number of articles on cleaning London, sewers, the Thames and association with epidemic disease.
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Leonardo DaVinci, Technologist: Three essays on some designs and projects of the Florentine master in adapting machinery and technology to the problems in art, industry and war. RETI, LADISLAO, and DIBNER, BERN
Norwalk, CT, Burndy Library Publication # 25, , 96 pages 1969 Stiff paper VG, stain on cover Book
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Men of Achievement: Inventors Hubert, Philip G., Jr.
New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, . 299 pages, illus. 1894 Hardcover. Book
Very good condition (no dust jacket). Franklin, Fulton, Whitney, Howe, Morse, Goodyear, Ericsson, McCormick, Bell, and briefer discussions of several others.
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