Railroad Curves and Earthwork, plus Field And Office Tables Specifically Applicable To Railroads
by Allen, C. Frank
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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Van Nuys, California, United States
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About This Item
McGraw-Hill Book Company, NY, 1920; Sixth Edition, Revised; 12mo, 525 pages; illustrated; black leatherette; gilt spine titles; all pages edges gilt. Professional civil engineering text and field manual for railroad track and earth work, complete with detailed mathematical formulae. Bound together in a single volume with the exhaustive companion text, "Field And Office Tables Specifically Applicable To Railroads." Authored by C. Allen Frank, Professor of Railroad Engineering at M.I.T., who makes mention in the introduction of the added usefulness of railroad survey methods and calculations in the construction of automobile highways, then in their infancy. Very Good Plus, clean and bright, previous owner name in neat printed hand on front pastedown.
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- Bookseller
- AARDWOLF Fine Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2004
- Title
- Railroad Curves and Earthwork, plus Field And Office Tables Specifically Applicable To Railroads
- Author
- Allen, C. Frank
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Book Company
- Place of Publication
- NY,
- Date Published
- 1920
- Keywords
- Railroads, Engineering, Civil Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Highways, Highway Construction, Automobiles, Travel, Roads
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science and Medicine;
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