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A History of Engineering Metrology by Hume, K. J - 1980

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A History of Engineering Metrology by Hume, K. J - 1980

A History of Engineering Metrology

by Hume, K. J

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London: Mechanical Engineering. Good in Good dust jacket; Ex-library copy with minimal markings, jacket . sunned.. 1980. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0852984480 . Yellow cloth. x, 220 pages. Black and white frontispiece photo, black and white photos, black and white illustrations, figures, chronology, bibliography, acknowledgements, and index. And historical study of scientific, engineering related, measurements. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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  • ISBN 10 0852984480
  • ISBN 13 9780852984482
  • Publisher Mechanical Engineering
  • Place of Publication London
  • Date Published 1980
  • Keywords 0852984480, ENGINEERING, Scientific Measurement, MECHANICAL Engineering

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From Marconi to Telstar: The Story of Radio

From Marconi to Telstar: The Story of Radio

by Wymer, Norman

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London, Longmans Green and Co, 1966, hardcover, 114 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Near Fine in Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings, slight spine end touches. Dustjacket price clipped, light edge nicks, some laminate lifting adjacent to spine, in new Brodart sleeve. This history of the development of radio to the satellite age focuses mainly on the inventors; Marconi, Baird, Watson-Watts, and Lord Reith. Illustrated throughout with drawn figures and black-&-white plates.
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THE SANITARY ENGINEER DEVOTED TO ARCHITECTURE, ENGINEERING, CONSTRUCTION &  SANITATION Volume...

THE SANITARY ENGINEER DEVOTED TO ARCHITECTURE, ENGINEERING, CONSTRUCTION & SANITATION Volume 10, June to November 1884

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New York: The Sanitation Engineer. Good+. 1884. Hardcover. Volume 10, June to November 1884. Text tight, clean & intact. Pages 293 & 295 with small edge tear. Numerous B/W illustrations. The latest in sinks, toilets, tubs and urinals. Public health, drainage, water supply, ventilation, heating & lighting. Clean marbled boards with modest edge wear. Green cloth tape spine with gilt lettering. X-Library with some internal markings including book plate. Technical, Sanitation Engineering; Ex-Library; B&W Drawing; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 618 pages .
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Henley's ABC of Gliding and Sailflying.
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Henley's ABC of Gliding and Sailflying.

by Pagé, Victor W. (ed.)

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London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1931. Duodecimo. Original blue cloth, title to spine gilt, publisher's logo to upper bard in blind. With the dust jacket. Photographic frontispiece, illustrations throughout the text. Ownership inscription dated 1943 to the front free endpaper. Cloth very lightly rubbed at the extremities but otherwise bright and fresh, faint partial toning to the endpapers, faint spotting to the endpapers and edges of text block. An excellent copy in the rubbed and tanned jacket with some spots and marks and an over-price ticket to the spine panel. First UK edition, originally published in the US in the previous year. An attractive copy and uncommon in the jacket. The earliest successful glider was created by the British aeronautical designer Sir George Cayley and flown in 1853, initiating a wave of research into both unpowered and powered flight, and gliders had become relatively sophisticated by the time the Wright Brothers flew the first powered aircraft in 1903. It wasn't until the… Read More
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Computational Methods in Subsurface Flow

Computational Methods in Subsurface Flow

by Peter S.; Pinder, G. F. Huyakorn

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Service Manual Forward Control 4-Wheel-Drive Jeep Trucks FC-150 FC-170

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Toledo: Willys-Overland Export Corporation, 1958. Service manual for these innovative but uncommon light trucks. Mostly scorned by the American public, they found more favor as industrial & government vehicles around the world. Paperback, as pictured. Light wear, some rubbing, minor creases, some internal foxing extending to page edges. Text clean; 210 pages, many tables, diagrams, b/w photos. . First Edition. Paperback. Good. 8½" by 11".
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From Marconi to Telstar: The Story of Radio

From Marconi to Telstar: The Story of Radio

by Wymer, Norman

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London, Longmans Green and Co, 1966, hardcover, 114 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Near Fine in Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings, slight spine end touches. Dustjacket price clipped, light edge nicks, some laminate lifting adjacent to spine, in new Brodart sleeve. This history of the development of radio to the satellite age focuses mainly on the inventors; Marconi, Baird, Watson-Watts, and Lord Reith. Illustrated throughout with drawn figures and black-&-white plates.
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THE SANITARY ENGINEER DEVOTED TO ARCHITECTURE, ENGINEERING, CONSTRUCTION &  SANITATION Volume...

THE SANITARY ENGINEER DEVOTED TO ARCHITECTURE, ENGINEERING, CONSTRUCTION & SANITATION Volume 10, June to November 1884

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New York: The Sanitation Engineer. Good+. 1884. Hardcover. Volume 10, June to November 1884. Text tight, clean & intact. Pages 293 & 295 with small edge tear. Numerous B/W illustrations. The latest in sinks, toilets, tubs and urinals. Public health, drainage, water supply, ventilation, heating & lighting. Clean marbled boards with modest edge wear. Green cloth tape spine with gilt lettering. X-Library with some internal markings including book plate. Technical, Sanitation Engineering; Ex-Library; B&W Drawing; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 618 pages .
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Report on the Mining Methods and Appliances used in the Anthracite Coal Fields
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Report on the Mining Methods and Appliances used in the Anthracite Coal Fields

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Harrisburg, Pa: Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey, 1883. Hardcover. Very Good -. Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania: 1883. xx, 574, 5, [1] p., frontispiece map and 54 leaves of plates: 60 in-text illustrations; 23 cm. Original grey cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. Without the separate atlas containing 25 large plates listed on p. [vii]. Whitpain Library Co. stamps on front endpapers. Printed slip attached to front free endpaper stating that the volume was "Compliments of Theodore M. Harrar, House of Representatives." The Whitpain Library Company was a subscription library established in 1817 in Broad Ax, a village in Whitpain Township, Pennsylvania; in 1884 it contained 2,000 volumes. Theodore M. Harrar (b. 1846) represented Montgomery County in the Pennsylvania House in 1883 and 1884. In Very Good- Condition: cloth is rubbed and faded; most of gilt is lacking from spine; three small splits in cloth; one plate is detached but present; otherwise, clean and tight.
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Henley's ABC of Gliding and Sailflying.
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Henley's ABC of Gliding and Sailflying.

by Pagé, Victor W. (ed.)

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London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1931. Duodecimo. Original blue cloth, title to spine gilt, publisher's logo to upper bard in blind. With the dust jacket. Photographic frontispiece, illustrations throughout the text. Ownership inscription dated 1943 to the front free endpaper. Cloth very lightly rubbed at the extremities but otherwise bright and fresh, faint partial toning to the endpapers, faint spotting to the endpapers and edges of text block. An excellent copy in the rubbed and tanned jacket with some spots and marks and an over-price ticket to the spine panel. First UK edition, originally published in the US in the previous year. An attractive copy and uncommon in the jacket. The earliest successful glider was created by the British aeronautical designer Sir George Cayley and flown in 1853, initiating a wave of research into both unpowered and powered flight, and gliders had become relatively sophisticated by the time the Wright Brothers flew the first powered aircraft in 1903. It wasn't until the… Read More
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Circular No. 164: Practische Erfahrungen im Bau und Bietrieb des Generatoren
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Circular No. 164: Practische Erfahrungen im Bau und Bietrieb des Generatoren

by Oechelhauser, Wilhelm

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Dessau, Germany: Directorium gez. Oechelhauser, 1880. Paperback. Good +. [22] p., 1 leaves of folded plates; 34 cm. Contemporary dark blue card wrapper. Text is in German script reproduced via an early means of reproduction. The leaves of plates are titled: Dessauer Generatorofen, and M. Gladbacher Generatorofen. Final page of text ends: "Dessau, den 23. März 1880. Das Directorium gez. Oechelhauser." This was probably not Wilhelm Oechelhauser (1820-1902), the Shakespeare scholar, but his son by the same name. An early report on the Oechelhauser generator furnace. Very scarce. In Good+ Condition: wrapper is separated, with chipping along edges and fairly illegible writing in black ink; first page lightly soiled, with some notations in margins; minor loss at lower corner of first two leaves; minor chipping at fore-edge of one plate; otherwise, clean and solid.
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A HISTORY OF ENGINEERING METROLOGY
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A HISTORY OF ENGINEERING METROLOGY

by Hume, Kenneth J

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Published by Mechanical Engineering Publications Limited, 1980. 1st edition.. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Yellow cloth with purple title to spine. B/w photos. Light browning to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased and unevenly faded; especially faded to spine and edges.
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Maxim 1992 New Releases Data Book : 1992 Analog Design Guide Series Book 1
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Maxim 1992 New Releases Data Book : 1992 Analog Design Guide Series Book 1

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Sunnyvale, CA, USA: Maxim Integrated Products, 1992. Very Good condition Softcover Octavo, 1992, 1st edition. Light wear of wraps. Interior unmarked and tight. Used, not abused.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Book.
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Maxim 1994 New Releases Data Book Volume III
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Maxim 1994 New Releases Data Book Volume III

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Sunnyvale, CA, USA: Maxim Integrated Products, 1994. Very Good condition Softcover Octavo, 1994, 1st edition. Light wear of wraps, one corner lightly creased. Interior unmarked and solid. Used, not abused.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Book.
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Practical Shop Mathematics
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Practical Shop Mathematics: Volume one, elementary

by John H. Wolfe & Everett R. Phelps, Ph.D

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Burgundy cloth cover with gilt title on spine, no dust jacket, Previous owner's name stamped on paste down and front free endpaper. This revised edition has simplified illustrated presentations, replaced difficult trigonometric problems with simpler ones, etc. John Wolfe taught machine shop and shop mathematics for many years, giving him the background to present the illustrated practical problems.Printed by the Maple Press Company, York, Pa.
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Noise Control in Building Services

Noise Control in Building Services

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New Graphics Workbook

New Graphics Workbook

by Stevenson, Dennis R

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N P E Technical Publishing, Racine, WI, 1991. Softcover. Fine. 157pp; Engineering Technical Graphics workbook, with hundreds of illustrations; Minor wrinkling; No markings or other significant flaws; Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 - 2 pounds. Category: Engineering, Industrial, Trade; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 103201. .
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Great Speckled Bird vol 8 #19 May 8, 1975

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n. 1975. Soft cover. Good. 1975 Soft cover Good hippie counter culture newspaper
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Proceedings Of The Asme 1994 International Mechanical Engineering Congress
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Proceedings Of The Asme 1994 International Mechanical Engineering Congress

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American Society of Mechanical Engineers, T.H.E.. Very Good. 2022. Trade Paperback. Book is in excellent, possibly unread condition and shows very minor edge wear. Please See Photographs; Trade PB .
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The Damned Engineers: How one battalion of Combat Engineers stalled Hitler's offensive in the...

The Damned Engineers: How one battalion of Combat Engineers stalled Hitler's offensive in the Battle of the Bulge

by Giles, Janice Holt

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Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970, hardcover, xxi-409 pp, First Edition, First Printing stated, Very Good+ in Good+ dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight spine-end touches, previous owner's embossing to title page. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, small spine-end and corner nicks, wear to folds, short closed edge tears, some discreet tape repairs, in new Brodart sleeve. The definitive account of the participation of the 291st Engineer Combat Battalion at the Battle of the Bulge compiled by the famous Kentucky author from accounts given by her husband, fellow author Henry Giles, and other members of the Battalion who took part. Illustrated with 22 pages of black-&-white plates and 11 maps. Mapped endpapers show the Kampfgruppe Peiper advance route. ISBN 9780395077443
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Parts Book No. 2 Kelly Automatic Press
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Parts Book No. 2 Kelly Automatic Press

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Elizabeth, New Jersey: American Type Founders, [no date stated]. Wraps. Fair. 68 pages. Oblong 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Publisher's original orange printed paper covers with stapled spine covered with black cloth. Front cover coming detached. A seriously worn and well used copy, soiled, stained, but complete. A note on the front panel indicates: "Note - many of Parts are interchangeable on #1 Kelly Press - be sure to specify parts when ordering for #1 Kelly Press and Give Serial Number". Also stamped "American Type Founders Sales Corporation" with address in Cincinnati Ohio. Wraps. Possibly printed in 1940 with "3M 10 40 Printed in USA" code on rear wrapper. Scarce, with only a few examples in OCLC. We buy these lists and offer them for sale so that those trying to maintain these old pieces of equipment have a better chance of success. "The Kelly, named after it's designer, William Kelly, is claimed to be the first flatbed cylinder machine designed with an integrated sheet feeder. Kelly, born in Kansas… Read More
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John Rennie 1761-1821: The Life and Work of a Great Engineer

John Rennie 1761-1821: The Life and Work of a Great Engineer

by Boucher, Cyril T.G

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Manchester UK, Manchester University Press, 1963, hardcover, x-149 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Very Good in Good dustjacket. Straight, and firmly bound, some darkening to top edge, previous owner details to front endpaper, light spine-end wear. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, light spine-end and corner nicks, some darkening, stray ink mark to bottom edge of front panel, in new Brodart sleeve. An in-depth look at the life and work of one of the leading civil engineers of his time, a significant contributor to the industrial revolution, and the designer of London Bridge, The London and East India Docks, Bell Rock Lighthouse, and many other important bridges, tunnels, and aqueducts throughout the country. Profusely illustrated throughout with sketches, diagrams, and photographs, including 14 black-&-white plates. Appended: Chronological List of Works, Authorities and References, Index.
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