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Features: Interpreting Environmental History Through Material Culture; Omar Ramsden and the CNE; "Providential Openings" - the Women Weavers of nineteenth-century Queens County, New Brunswick. Research Reports: George Cove's Solar Energy Device; Researching Alberta's Gas Technology - a case study - The Turner Valley Gas Plant; La pierre de taille des Charentes et les colonies francaises; Exhibit Review - the Bank of Montreal Museum; Conference Review - Material Culture Worlds - a report on 3 conferences; plus 7 book reviews. Average wear. Usual library markings. A sound copy. Book
Features: Through Clouded Eyes - Gas Masks and the Canadian Corps in the First World War; The Making of Public History - a comparative study of Skansen Open Air Museum, Sweden, Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, and the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site, Nova Scotia; La question de l'interculturalite en archeologie - l'exemple d'une region du Subarctique oriental; Making a House a Home - company housing in Cape Breton Island; Newfoundland outport furniture - identifying the Irish Regional Links. Exhibit Reviews: Canadian Museum of Civilization, the Painted Furniture of French Canada, 1700-1840; Clothing in Two Acts; Musee des Arts decoratifs de Montreal, Le plaisir de l'objet - nouveau regard sur les arts decoratifs du XXe siecle. Media Reviews: CBC and BBC - Dawn of the Eye; Our Secret Century - Archival Films from the Darker Side of the American Dream. Fifteen book reviews. Average wear. Usual library markings. A sound copy. Book
Features: The Marmots of Spotted Nellie Ridge; Building a Gas Pipeline Through the Arctic - what will be the environmental impact?; Jim Lumbers; A Great Lakes Tragedy - the effect of chemicals on bird reproduction; Butterflies and Moths in Winter; Nature Canadiana II - The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club in the 1880s. Few library markings. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: Arctic Offshore Drilling - A Calculated Policy of Grave Risk (Editorial); Watching Great Horned Owl Nests in the Alberta Foothills; J. Fenwick Lansdowne; Machias Seal Island; The Hazardous Search for Oil and Gas in Arctic Waters; Digges Island - Fortress home of the Akpa. Few library markings. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: A wilderness canoe trip in September - pickerel, portages, loons and longjohns by Judy Lord; Autumnfest - the magic and mystery of the season; Fuel (Oil and Gas) in the Arctic - the moral and ethical issues; Blackbird Roosting behaviour - fascinating and infuriating; Frank de Matteis - pockets of nature in watercolour. Clear tape along spine. Few library markings. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
112 pages. Features: Decision-Aid System for Survivability of Damaged Conventional Military Submarines; Blue-Green Dye Lasers for Underwater Illumination; Unsteady Airwakes; U.S. High-Speed Destroyers, 1919-1942 - Hull Form Parameters; Gas Turbine Propulsion Plant Control; Monitoring the Navy's Strategic Reserve of Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS). Light wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
112 pages. Contents: Climate change, national security, and naval ship design; A hybrid approach to optimizing worload, manpower, and ship sizing; Navy shipboard CFC-114 elimination program; The influence of the weight of power systems on the performance of fast, long-range sealift ships with a small waterplane area; A ship for the expeditionary warfare sea base; Hydrodynamic characteristics of special type ships; High velocity air filtration system for marine LM2500 gas turbines. Clean, bright and unmarked with negliglbe wear. An excellent copy. Book
Features: Exclusive - I flew the Pterodactyl flex-wing; Silk-screen your own cards; Build a portable 5-minute car wash; 1962 Ford Fairlane with an all-new V8; Crowd Engineering; Football's fabulous foremen - keep your eye on the quarterback - with photos; The gas turbine goes to sea; Guns for the blue and grey; Salmon Fish farming in Washington State - Dr. Lauren Donaldson; and more. Average wear. Sound unmarked copy. Book
Features: *First 1959 Cars*; Are you wasting money on premium gas?; Accident at Windscale - World's first atomic alarm; A Reversing Hot-and-Cold Machine - heats or cools at the flick of a switch; Atomic Engines to Power Rockets and Missiles - Nevada tests for sensational flying reactors; No-hands system to land Airliners; GM bets on Flaring Fins; Buick; Cadillac; Oldsmobile; Rambler boosts mpg; How automatic shotguns work; and more. Average wear. Book
Features: Tacoma's Union Station Thrown Open to the Public - two-page article including grainy photo of the new station; Oregon-Washington Station To Formally Open May 20 - new passenger station in Seattle (article with photo inside the main waiting room); Professional biography of self-made man Carl R. Gray, president of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle (includes photo of Mr. Gray); First Marine Producer Gas Installation on Pacific Coast - on the Barkentine Archer; Ongoing construction by Johnson Brothers & Blanchard, Georgetown of deep-sea motor cruiser designed by Seattle naval architect L.E. Geary for O.O. Denny of Seattle - article with diagram of outboard profile of the vessel; Review of Marine Insurance and Shipping Law; Speediest Steam Yacht is Launched - brief article and photo of the Sovereign; News of Tacoma; One page ad for the new steel trains "The Olympian" and the "Columbia" which represent "The New Steel Trail to the East Through the Golden West, commencing service 29 May, 1911; Nice illustrated one-page ad for "The Finest Train in the West, The Shasta Limited" which speedily connected Seattle with San Francisco; Excellent half-page photo ad for Willamette Iron & Steel Works features photo of fireboat "Geo. H. Williams" belching black smoke while she pumps two heavy streams of water from her hoses; and more. 40 pages including several pages of nostalgic ads, some illustrated in black and white, featuring local marine and rail interests. Printed upon glossy coated stock. Average wear. Binding intact. Few library markings to front cover. A well-preserved copy of this highly-informative memento of Pacific Northwest transportation over a century ago. 12" x 9". Magazine
98 pages. Marion, Ohio - The Haunted City; Western Pacific's F-7 Revival; Cookin' with Gas - Union Pacific's Gas Turbines were an interesting experiment; Early Rock - 1st Generation diesel locos of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; Diesel hydraulics - tried and failed; The Diesel comes to California's Cajon Area; The Maybrook, NY Yards - a spooky place; The story of steam 1920-1950 and why it came to an end; Amtrak's new Superliners; Oregon Live Steam; Old Stations gain new lives. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Magazine
74 pages. Features: Tune it On - Royal Foust can tune 5 extra mpg - part 1 of a series; Norm Grobowsky's 1923 Hennway; Closed cabin close-up photos - Ford, Chrysler, GM, Strange Stuff; Wescott's Auto Restyling; Chevy's Fourever - Chevy Cast Iron Four; Cam Grant of Burnaby B.C. makes a Model A the hard way; Care and Maintenance of Your Puzzle - set up a filing system during teardown; Phase 4 of "Chop it to it" - Jake finishes off the window frame and molding area; Chevy Up - Part 3 - tearing down a $100 Chevy engine; Part 3 of the "Pruf" is in his project - Aluminum fabrication for Tom Prufer by Ron Covell of Covell Race Cars; Pete Heacock's 1938 Bantam; Parts Meet in Hershey, PA; Very Special Buick - Report 5 - Gas Tank; Vintage Tin - photos; and more. Moderate wear. Chips from top corners of a a few pages. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy. Magazine
Features: New trouble in the tide pools; Northern elephant seals return; Sunburst after nightfall; Will the Caribbean hawksbill turtle survive?; Unwanted oil and gas production; Li'l Red; Shark hunting on the Arkansas ocean deep; Follow up - Source of the Bermuda freak waves. Sound copy. Book
64 pages. Features: Simek's latest delivery, a UT755L platform supply vessel; Halmatic's latest delivery to the UK MCA; HMS TYNE; HMS ECHO; Quiet power for fishery research; Thai Wood - quality construction survives; Bakur and Stelkur; Azimuthing thrusters seek higher speed capability; Aeroderivative gas turbines offer alternative power; DBC Marine Safety Systems - 25th Anniversary; Construction of the Mirabella V - long article and great photos. Moderate wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
98 pages. Features: Five Years of Legal Flying with Auto Gas; Sand Casting; Ross Grady's Kittyhawk Mk.III; Midget Mustang 1944; the Whitehead No. 21. Sound copy. Book
98 pages. Features: John Shively's D.H. 5; First Flight Impressions in the Voyager; Judging the Homebuilts; The Q2 and Me Too; For Tri-Motor NC8407; Experimental Aircraft Certificates; Who Says - Bad Gas. Sound copy. Magazine
62 pages. Featuring Antiques as Hobbies: Old Quilts (color); Old Glass, Silver, Bookmarks; Barber's Bottles; Collector's Homes. Includes these nice ads: Hellmann's Mayonnaise (color); Refrigerators; Listerine (shows boys fighting); Natural Gas; Heinz Spaghetti; Shredded Ralston; Aluminum Hoods for Milk Bottles; Scot Paper Towels; Marlboro Cigarettes - "Mild as May... Ivory Tips protect the Lips" - with photo of man and woman (wow, definitely pre-dates the Marlboro Man!); Lovely colour illustrated ad for Bon Ami inside back cover; Gulfspray insect killer cartoon ad; Nice colour photo ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes on back cover features photo of Billie Branch - veteran of 2,000 tobacco auctions. Somewhat above-average external wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy Magazine
96 pages. Features: Reports on Wasthington, North Africa, and Israel - David Ben-Gurion becomes Minister of Defense; Owen Wister's Journals - the unpublished journals; Russia's Calamity, by Edward Crankshaw; The Grand Trunk Road to Agra, by Vice Admiral Leslie C. Stevens; Streams (poem), by W.H. Auden; A Patron of the Arts, story by Donald Heiney; Have we Conquered the Business Cycle?, by Sumner H. Slichter; The Diamond Cutters (poem), by Adrienne Cecile Rich; The Oedipus Myth, by Robert Graves; The Under-Educated, by Robert C. Wilson; What Happened to the Girl Scouts?, by Ben H. Bagdikian; Twenty Years of Writing, by William Saroyan; Teaching Creative Writing, by Roy Cowden; Styrian Festivities, by Merloyd Lawrence. Color ad for the Tennessee Gas Transmission Company inside front cover. Color ad for Old Charter Straight Bourbon Whisky on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
114 pages. Features: Reports on Canada's Boom, Washington, and Jordan; Other Worlds Than Ours, by Donald H. Menzel; British Cultural Fatique, by Kenneth Tynan; Hunting Moon, by William Wister Haines; The Kidnaping of Kamlon, by Agnes Newton Keith; Horizon Thong (a poem), by George Abbe; Soviet Industry, by Edward Crankshaw; Cockles, Brambles, and Fern Hill - Dylan Thomas in Wales, by John Malcolm Brinnin; Saturday Night, a Story, by Marjorie Anais Housepian; Educational Television, by Leland Hazard; The Wreath - a story, by Frank O'Connor; T.E. Lawrenc- Man or Myth?, by B.H. Liddell Hart; Charles de Gaulle, by Curtis Cate; Air Travel with Stopovers, by Mitchell Goodman (part 2). Interesting colour ad by the Tennessee Gas Transmission Company inside front cover; Black and white photo ad by the Bell Telephone System shows damage of Hurricane Diane. Nice black and white photo ad by Columbia Records features pianist Robert Casadesus; Colour ad for the European Travel Commission inside back cover; Nice color ad for I.W. Harper Kentucky Straight Bourbon on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A quality copy. Book
55 pages. Black and white illustrations. Articles include: A Photo Voyage Around the Charlottes; Seabirds on the Charlottes - Thumps and Grunts in the Night; The Story of the Ninstints; The Haida - an outline of early contacts with Europeans; Captain Dixon on the Coast of the Queen Charlotte Islands, 1789; Notes on a Haida Text -1; Early Years in Masset, 1909-1915; Hudson's Bay Company Post at Masset Queen Charlotte Islands 1869-1898; The Sandspit Saga; The One Room School of Yesteryear; A Few Adventurous Years; The Last Trip of the Gas Boad 'Mabel'; Memories of the Queen Charlotte Islands. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
This listing consists of pages 1-4 and 7-14 of this issue which measures 23.5"x17". Contents: Interesting stories about Honours for Victoria man F. A. Lindsay, B.C. Amateur Golf Championship, Mussolini talking war, Canada-US Fishery treaties, B.C. commences hunt for natural gas, Saanich arsonist, hunters attacked by eagles at Bull Harbour, Smuggling of tools suspected for use in construction of stills, and many more; Photo of Royal Oak Burial Park being developed; editorial page; Social pages; Hudson's Bay Company ad; Fred L. Foster comes to B.C.; photo ad for Dodge trucks sold by Begg Motor Co., Limited; Entertainment page; large ad for Daily Colonist amateur Snapshot Competition; David Spencer Limited ads; Assorted additional vintage ads. Average wear and soiling. Bit of writing atop page one. A great heirloom from earlier days in Victoria, B.C. Newspaper
Cover portrait of Sir Robert S. Horne, K.C., M.P., Minister of Labour. Please note: does not include colur map. Includes final portion of the chapter entitled "The Demobilisation of the British Army", with photos. Centerfold photos of captured German booty, including a large cache of gas shells at Luttre, Belgium. Chapter CCCVIII - The Demobilisation and Resettlement of the War Workers, with photos. Chapter CCCIX - The Wonders of Wireless in the War, with photos. Above-average wear and soiling. Staples disintegrated. A worthy reference copy. Book
Features: Ruins of the Cloth Hall at Ypres; 2 page illustration of a steamer's Smoke-Box Defence against a U-boat; "Standard Ships" - 4 photos; The Menin Road Battle - 3 photos; nice 2-page photo of a YMCA catering hut in action with German shell range; The Canadian Artillery Regiment - one page story with 2 photos; Laying a rail line during the battle for Lens; Menin Road battle - many photos; Destruction in Ypres; Great 2-page photo with caption "During a Bombardment on the Flanders front - Artillerymen (wearing gas masks) with a heavy Gun in Action". Staples disintegrating. Average wear. Book
Features: ARCOP aims to improve Arctic transport; Laser mapping for accurate 3D modeling; Diesel and gas turbine technology; Offshore technology; Noise and vibration control; Interiors. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
Features: Deeper draughts for optimum mega container liners; ship speed trials - a new method of analysis; Correlating model and full-scale propeller cavitation; Diesel and gas turbine technology; New-generation bulk-carriers; Offshore technology; Noise and vibration control; Korean update. Clean and unmarked with light wear. A quality copy. Book
