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The Erection of Engineering Structures and Plant: A Handbook for Engineers, Erectors, Foremen and Students [The Directly-Useful [D.U.] Technical Series

vii, 198 pages. Generously illustrated with detailed drawings and black and white reproductions of marvelous old photos. Provides "that complementary knowledge whereby the draughtsman or other technical man may tackle the job of erection on site with assurance, or at least the understand that the erecting squad are doing nothing likely to cause damage to the property entrusted to its charge, nor accidents to those persons employed on the work." - Preface. Chapters include: Cranes and Substitutes; Winches; Rope-blocks; Chain-blocks; Jacks; Ropes; Knots; Slings; Sundry Tackle; Foundations; Shafting; Pulleys; and much more. Bit of writing atop front free endpaper otherwise clean and unmarked with light wear. Tight and square. Handsomely embossed black cloth-covered boards. Brilliant gilt lettering upon backstrip. An attractive and very well-preserved copy of this vintage millwrighting text. Book

The Engineers' Manual for Water Well Design *SIGNED BY AUTHOR/INCLUDES LETTER FROM AUTHOR*

250 pages. Index. Author inscribed and signed the front free endpaper with the name 'Kenny'. Laid inside front cover is a letter from author to a friend apparently affiliated with the Salt River Valley Water Users' Association. This interesting letter is also signed "Kenny." According to the letter, it would appear that a total of three unnamed authors are responsible for this work. True to its title, this excellent reference includes the following chapters, most of which are broken down into many sub-chapters: Well Designs (gravel envelope, naturally developed); The Engineer's Decision - Selection of Design; General Considerations; Scope of Work and Qualifications; Casing and Screen; Drill Fluid; Drilling and Logging; Formation Stabilizer and Filter Pack; Preliminary Well Development; Development and Test Pumping; Logs and Records; The Owner, The Engineer, and the Well. Appendix A - Preparing Specifications. Appendix B- Casing Collapse Strength. Book clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Light wear to dust jacket which is preserved in a Brodart cover. An extra special copy of this otherwise rare and highly technical yet thorougly practical work. Book

THE ENGINEER'S REFERENCE LIBRARY.

The engineer's companion; a concise handbook of engineering fundamentals.

Small Octavo in dark blue/black limp cloth; viii, 426 p. illus. 22 cm. Engineering; Handbooks, manuals, etc.†; Engineering - Technical data Class

The Energy Age : A Guide to the Use and Abuse of Energy in the World Today

No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased with minor traces of storage. 320pp.

The End of Eternity

Appears unread. No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, tanned, lightly foxed page edges and no bumping to corners. 189pp. Classic science fiction from Isaac Asimov about a Technician whose job it was to range through past and present centuries monitoring and even altering time - who then fell in love with a mortal.

The Elements of Machine Design: An Introduction to the Principles Which Determine the Arrangement and Proportions of the Parts of MacHines, and a Collection of Rules for Machine Design

Hardcover in good condition for age. No jacket. Third edition. Leather spine and half-leather boards. Illustrated with black and white diagrams. Boards and spine are worn, marked and slightly faded. Tear across spine head. Leading corners are bumped and nicked. Embossed stamps on spine and some pages. Page block and pages are tanned and marked. Library plate on front pastedown. Ink stamps, minor tears and creases on a few pages. Early pages are stained. Pastedown hinges are split but binding remains intact. Contents remain clear throughout. HCW Used

The Elements of Hydrostatics

Ex company library book with usual (minimal) marks and stamps, to end papers only No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with slightly marked boards, dusty page edges and bump to lower rear corner. 253pp. Text book on physics/hydrostatics with questions and answers at the end.

The Elements of Graphic Statics - The Broadway Engineering Handbooks

196 pages. Index. "A text-book for students, engineers and architects." - subtitle. Average wear. Prior owner's details upon front free endpaper. Last page rumpled. Lean to spine. A sound working copy of this vintage text. Book

THE ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES OF WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY

G (no dj, olive green cloth with black lettering, spine lightly darkened and creasing to top corner of front cover, small faint mug ring front board, binding tight and pages clean, light browning free endpapers and outside page edges) 12mo 160pp plus 4pp publisher's list.

The Electronic Theory of Valency

Hardcover, no dust jacket, very good condition. Light wear to boards and sunning to spine. Foxing to page block as well as to paste down, FEP and REP. Blackwell sticker to front paste down and previous owner's name penned to title page. Internal pages free from markings. AD Used

The Electrical Year Book 1963

Name to front end paper. No other marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright green boards, tiny mark to upper front corner, nick to top of spine and no bumping to corners. Attached book mark. 362pp.

The Electrical Properties and Applications of Thin Films

Paperback in acceptable condition. Ex - library. A symposium held at the Woolwich Polytechnic. Covers, page block and pages are marked and foxed. Spine is slightly sunned. Leading corners, edges and spine are worn, bumped and creased, slightly affecting pages within. One inch tear on spine head. Labels on spine, front inside cover and copyright page. Half title page is torn out. Pen on copyright page. Stamps throughout pages. Contents remain clear throughout. Binding remains intact. HCW Ex - Library

The Electrical Industry: Lighting, Traction and Power

192 pages plus 47 pages of ads at back. "Before 1879 the electrical industry did not exist. It has made tremendous progress in the twenty odd years since it was born - progress much more rapid than that made, say, by the steam-engine a century ago." - from page 2. Doesn't that sound like the state of the internet in the mid-1990s, or the blockchain explosion of recent years? Chapters include: The Birth of the Electrical Industry; The Early Days of Electric Lighting; Electric Lighting in London and the Provinces; The Early Days of Electric Traction; The Development of Electric Inter-Urban Tramways; Electric Railways; Electric Power - An Industrial Revolution; The Economies of Electric Power; Electric-Power Distribution Schemes; Electrical Engineering as a Career; The Future of the Electrical Industry. Above-average but not excessive wear to red cloth exterior. Binding intact. Two small contemporary book vendor artifacts inside back board, otherwise unmarked. A worthy vintage copy of this fascinating historical item. Book

The Electrical Engineer Vol. III No. 10 January 22nd, 1937

Approx. 40 pages. Features: Sir Thomas F. Purves; Electric Motor Mainenance cards; Electric Motors for Turbo Compressors; Electro-Medical Apparatus; A New Portable Electric Pump-Sprayer set; The Theory and Practice of Automobile Electrical Engineering - Part 5; Some notes on Exhaust Fans; Rectifier Type Photo-cells; How Transmission Line Faults Affect the User of Electric Power; Large Moving-Coil Voltage Regulators; Coronation Lighting Equipment; Physical Society's Exhibition - 1937; Lighting a reconstructed public hall. Well worn but intact. Unmarked. Book

The Effect of Strength on Performance and Economics of Concrete Pavements (Road Research Laboratory, Department of the Environment) RRL Report LR 423

The Effect of Polyelectrolytes on Floc Blanket Performance

Staple bound booklet, in very good condition. Used

The Economics of Automatic Testing

No Jacket Hardcover, very good condition, w. ltly rubbed brds, sme lt marks. Ltly slanted, ltly compressed sp, ltly bumped corners. V. ltly tanned p. edges, sme v. lt soil. V. ltly tanned eps. Business card stapled to ffep. O/w cln, tight, unmarked.

The Eagle Book of Cutaways

No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked red cloth boards with Eagle motif and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with a little creasing to edges and minor traces of storage. 95pp. A collection of cutaway scientific and transport models taken from the Eagle comic of the 1950s with labelled description of the components revealed and a general description of each print. With mostlry images of scientific sites and transport vehicles in existence at the time plus some futuristic proposals including a railway engine powered by an atomic reactor. These were all first shown in the Eagle comic between 1946 and 1960.

The Dynamic Analysis of Automatic Process Control

IRP (Instructional Resource Package) Student Text. Minor edgewear to spine. Name of former owner penned on the inside front cover. The pages are sound and clear. Used

The Dreaming Void (Void Trilogy #1)

No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, minor bump to front fore-edge and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with minor bump to front fore-edge. 652pp. Science fiction set in the distant future when over a thousand star systems have been colonised. At its centre is the Void and the story focuses around dreams of life within the Void, telepathic powers and much more.

The Drainage of Fens and Low Lands By Gravitation and Steam Power (Cambridge Library Collection)

Paperback in very good condition. Facsimile reprint of original 1888 edition. Page block is lightly marked. Pages are clean and text is clear throughout. HCW Used

The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culture

Ex library book with minimal (copyright page only) stamp. No other marks or inscriptions. Light creasing to covers, none to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slight damage to half-title page and no bumping to corners. 220pp. Essays by participants in the Communia project who argue that the public domain, ie the informational works owned by all of us - literature, music, scientific research, educational material or public sector information - is fundamental to a healthy society.

The Development of Small Tool & Tooling Equipment Manufacture

All pages very dusty. The booklet has been stored folded. Rusty staples only just holding. 12pp. The works and method of the B.S.A. Tools Ltd Sparkbrook. Fascinating piece of engineering history. Reprinted from 'Machinery' June 10th 1920..