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2012x-3642623824Springer Verlag 2012. Paperback. New. multilingual edition. 591 pages. German language. 9.30x6.20x1.00 inches. Springer Verlag paperback
1985SONG0860105040Springer 1985-01-31. 1984. hardcover. Used: Good. 7.75x0.75x10.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Springer hardcover
1992AE-89VancouverWA.: Hoerner Fluid Dynamics 1992. Classic updated and expanded reference text contains detailed topics covering: skin-friction drag; pressure drag; wind forces on structures; surface irregularities; drag of streamlined shapes; drag due to lift; interference drag; internal-flow systems; hydrodynamic drag; water-borne craft; land-borne vehicles; aircraft components; influence of compressibility; drag at transonic supersonic and hypersonic speeds; drag at high speeds affected by viscosity and rarefaction; etc. 430 pgs. Illustrated. One small paragraph of neat highlights in chapter V- does not adversely affect the general text. Dustjacket has a closed tear on the rear cover; in mylar. Very minimal shelfwear. Second Edition Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hoerner Fluid Dynamics Hardcover
AE-68New York: McGraw-Hill 1964. Classic comprehensive text presents detailed topics in inertial and optical components; inertial platforms; single-channel error propagation; supporting subsystems; mechanization and error analysis; design of a high-precision inertial autonavigator; steller reference systems; combination systems; ballistic guidance; mathematics of ballistic trajectories; kinematics of angular transformations; etc. 442 pgs. Illustrated. Photo frontispiece first title pg. Prior owner's name on front endpaper and outer edges. Some rubbing to corners and spine edges. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. McGraw-Hill Hardcover
1990ZB394544Society for Experimental Mechanics 1990. first edition complete volume library markings textually clean & tight. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Photos available upon request. Society for Experimental Mechanics unknown
185730293Chicago: John Gager & Co. for Chicago Mechanics' Institute 1857. Pages 293 - 372 4 advt pp plus eight full-page engravings frontis. Original printed decorated and illustrated green wrappers. Bound in later marbled cloth with gilt-lettered spine title light scuffing. Very Good.<br /> <br /> Only five issues of this magazine were published all in 1857. This one has engraved illustrations of Wolf's Point; the Foster House; the Metropolitan Hotel; Hillsdale College in Hillsdale Michigan; the Chicago Orphan Asylum; George Foster; George Gray; and Jason Gurley. The text includes the History of Chicago continued from earlier issue; biographies of Foster Gray and Gurley self-made Chicagoans all; and several articles one on the western stage coach another entitled 'Aurora Illustrated' with text illustrations the history of Adrian Michigan an article on 'Life in the West' and more. Interesting advertisements complete the issue.<br /> Lomazow A646. Not in Mott or Ante-Fire Imprints. See 104 Eberstadt 140. John Gager & Co. for Chicago Mechanics' Institute unknown
1956MH-20Tokyo Japan: Daito Art Printing 1956. Classic pictorial text presents the 1956 yearbook of the USS Yorktown known as the "Fighting Lady". The 20000 ton aircraft carrier commissioned in 1943 is one of the Navy's most famous fighting ships the fourth ship of the fleet to bear the name. This present ship received eleven battle stars between 1943-1945 and was placed in the reserve fleet in 1946. The ship underwent an extensive modernization program at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and was again placed in commission on Dec. 15 1952. After completing two more Far Eastern cruises the ship underwent more intensive technical and structural modifications and was returned to the Far East in 1956 with Air Task Group Four embarked under the command of Captain Emmet O'Beirne and Commander Alvin C. Berg. Includes numerous color and black/white photographs some with accompanying text of the officers crew and equipment of the Air Group Gunnery engineering operations medical dental supply executive fighter squadrons ATG-4 guests etc. complete personnel roster; and photographs taken during the Far East Cruise in Japan Philippines Hong Kong and Hawaii. Prior ownership nameplate label pastedown on front endpaper. Upper front corner seam of spine split and repaired. Minor small scuffs to rear cover. Some rubbing to corners and edges. Decorative endpapers. Scarce. Hard Cover. Very Good. Oblong. Daito Art Printing Hardcover
1970AE-10New York: Academic Press 1970. Classic comprehensive text presents an in-depth coverage of high-speed impact phenomena including topics on reactions of materials to high-speed impact; nature of strong shock waves generated by impact; metallurgical observations and energy partitioning; numerical evaluation of hypervelocity impact phenomena; equation of state of solids from shock wave studies; hypervelocity accelerators; stress wave propagation in solids; theory of impact: general principles and the method of Eulerian codes; shock wave data for standard and porous materials solids and Hugoniot cross checks; etc. 579 pgs. Illustrated. Pg.377 has four lines of very neat underlines which does not alter the text. Virtually no shelfwear. Dustjacket in mylar. Scarce. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Academic Press Hardcover
2005EG-656New York: Springer 2005. This is the 13th volume in the International Cryocoolers Conference series. Over the years the International Cryocoolers Conference has become the preeminent worldwide conference for the presentation of the latest developments and test experiences with cryocoolers. The typical applications of this technology include cooling space and terrestrial infrared focal plane arrays space x-ray detectors medical applications and a growing number of high-temperature super-capacitor applications. Volume 13 contains detailed technical papers and contributions by leading international experts in the following topics: Space Cryocoolers for 418 K Applications 20 to 80 K Long-life Stirling Cryocoolers Space Pulse Tube Cryocooler Developments Commercial and Industrial Pulse Tube Cryocoolers Thermoacoustically-Driven Pulse Tube Cryocoolers Linear Compressor Development and Modeling Pulse Tube Analysis and Experimental Measurements Regenerator Materials Development and Testing Regenerator Modeling and Performance Investigations J-T and Throttle-Cycle Cryocooler Developments Sorption Cryocooler Developments Sub-Kelvin Magnetic and Optical Refrigerators Cryocooler Integration Technologies Space Cryocooler Applications Commercial Cryocooler Applications. 726 pp. Illustrated. . First Edition. Hard Cover. New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Springer Hardcover
1852000013458New York / Philadelphia: D. Appleton & Co. / Geo. S. Appleton 1852. Early Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 vol. Large 8vo. 3 10-960 2; 3 4-960 2 pp. Quarter contemporary brown sheep over brown publisher's cloth with the spines in six compartments gilt lettering and decorations on the spines; all edges marbled. Marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Volume one likely lacking the publisher's advertisements. Both volumes illustrated with numerous in-text and full-page engravings: diagrams of steam engines trains gears mills architecture and other aspects of industrialization. The title page states four thousand engravings on wood. First published in 1850 these are early reprints of Appleton's informative and copious engineering references. Two hinges neatly repaired some foxing to the boards and the versos of the endpapers. D. Appleton & Co. / Geo. S. Appleton hardcover
19553554907258891955. Symmetry of Physical Laws - Part 1 Symmetry in Space -Time and Balance Theorems & Part 2 Q-Number Theory of Space-time Inversions and Charge Conjugation. Published by: U.S. Naval Postgraduate School Monterey California circa 1955-1956. Two stapled papers offprints from Review of Modern Physics - Reprinted from Review of Modern Physics Vol 27 No. 1 pp 26-39 and pp 40-76 January 1955 printed in the U.S.A". Watanabe Satoshi 26 May 1910 15 October 1993 was a theoretical physicist. He studied various topics such as the time reversal of quantum mechanics pattern recognition cognitive science and the concept of time. He was the first physicist who claimed that quantum probability theory is time-asymmetric irreversible; non-invariant under time reversal and reject the conventional analysis of the time reversal of probability laws. He developed the Double Inferential Vector Formalism DIVF later known as the Two-state vector formalism TSVF which is sometimes interpreted as contradicting his claim of time-asymmetry but this is a misunderstanding. Watanabe investigated how symmetries in space-time relate to various "balance theorems" which are consequences of inversibility and reversibility. EXTREMELY RARE AND IMPORTANT. No results on COPAC. Worldcat locates no copies apart from one printed in 1953 Monterey CA : U.S. Naval Postgraduate School - NPS Dudley Knox Library Naval Postgraduate School. NB: These original offprints should not be mistaken for modern reprints. Further photographs available upon request. unknown
1999__9058091074Aa Balkema 1999. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 760 pages. 9.00x6.25x1.50 inches. Aa Balkema hardcover
179355802London: Printed for F. Wingrave successor to Mr. Nourse in the Strand 1793. Two works in one vol. 8vo. 2 xxii 172; iv 164 pp. With 27 copper-engraved folding plates some w/ minor creasing dustsoiling to fore-edges a few creases mis-folded 1 w/ small closed tear. Contemporary polished calf red & gilt morocco spine label rebacked minor thumbing & soiling to fore-edges very minor staining to very lower fore-edge of a few signatures endpapers renewed still a VG- copy. Revised edition of these popular works by the well-known Newton proponent including sections on a broad range of engines and devices including applications involving pendulums material strength mills hydrostatics watches time-pieces and physics. Emerson 1701-1782 was an amateur English mathematician and teacher horologist and harpsichord tuner in Hurworth County Durham. He wrote a popular defense of Newton’s Principia a treatise on fluxions calculus as well as constructed clocks and sundials -- one of which still exists. Printed for F. Wingrave, successor to Mr. Nourse, in the Strand, unknown
192447166Corning N.Y. and Menasha Wisc. The Physical Review 1924. Royal8vo. Full buckram. Gilt lettering to spine. A stamp to top of titlepage and to front free endpaper. In: "The Physical Review. A Journal of Experimental and theoretical Physics" Vol. 24 Second Series. V704 pp. textillustr. Van Vleck's papers: pp. 330-346 a. pp. 347-365. Internally clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of Van Vleck's two importent papers in which he clarifies and extends the Principle of Correspondence."Van Vleck made his greatest contribution to the old quantum theory in 1924 when he conceived his correspondence principle for absorption. He demonstrated that in the limit of high quantum numbers there would be a correspondence between absorption by classical multiply periodic systems and by their quantum analogues. His proof depended on interpreting net absorption in the quantum theory as the difference between gross absorption and stimulated emission of radiation an interpretation prompted by a remark of Breit’s. Van Vleck was particularly pleased that his classical theory reproduced the quantum result without the need for stimulated emission which he referred to as "negative absorption." DSB."Van Vleck’s theory of absorption by multiply periodic systems was consistent with the newly derived Kramers theory of dispersion and it convinced Bohr that his correspondence principle applied not only to emission but also to absorption. Further Van Vleck’s 1924 calculation made use of several of the ideas that Werner Heisenberg used in his matrix mechanics a year later. Van Vleck’s work however did not lead in the direction of matrix mechanics. His intent was to explain quantum phenomena especially "negative absorption" in classical terms rather than to devise an internally consistent quantum theory." DSB.In 1977 he shared the Nobel Prize with Philip Anderson and N. F. Mott.Van der Waerden "Sources of Quantum Mechanics" pp. 203 ff. </em> hardcover
197310145US: Commission of the European Communities 1973. First Edition. Paperback. Good/No dust jacket. 9.5 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches. Very Rare book. Former library book with stamps are on the edges of the text block and title page. Library stickers on the front cover and at the tail of the spine. There is light shelf wear and faint creases to the corners. The binding is tight. The interior is clean and unmarked. Electronic delivery tracking will be issued free of charge. Structural mechanics in reactor technology Commission of the European Communities paperback
1928AE-4New York: Ronald Press 1928. Classic text presents a detailed treatment of the fundamentals and performance of aircraft float design including topics covering types of float action; suction effect and step action; ground looping; twin and central float systems; water rudders; operating conditions; hydrovane blades; reserve buoyancy; design procedures; stability and structural considerations; float proportions; model testing; Froude's Law; wing lift; dangerous tip floats; wooden and metal floats; seaplanes versus landplanes; etc. 111 pgs. Illustrated. Pgs. 11 & 13 have a small sealed closed tear on the outer page edge; pg. 15 has a small corner crease. Prior ownership name and nameplate pastedown on front endpapers; small stamp to title page and outer edges; small black label on lower front cover. Gilt spine. Spine edges slightly bumped. Minimal shelfwear. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ronald Press Hardcover
BN106025Transvalor - Presses des mines. Softcover. Manuel de mécanique des roches - Tome III: Retours d'expériences. Génie minier et pétrolier. <br/><br/>Manuel de mécanique des roches - Tome III: Retours d'expériences. Génie minier et pétrolier. Transvalor - Presses des mines paperback
1911AE-3London England: Macmillan & Co. Ltd 1911. Classic text presents detailed topics dealing with the fundamental principles and problems of stability in aviation including topics covering symmetrical derivatives; graphic statics of longitudinal equilibrium; longitudinal stability of double-lifting systems; asymmetric stability- straight planes and vertical fins; lateral stability- bent up planes; mathematical theories; etc. 192 pgs. Illustrated. Prior ownership name and nameplate pastedown on front endpaper. Minor foxing and slight age discoloration to front and rear endpapers. Gilt spine. Minimal rubbing to corners and spine edges. Scarce. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/ . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Professional Library. Macmillan & Co. Ltd Hardcover
192448872Braunschweig Berlin Vieweg & Sohn u. Julius Springer 1924. 8vo. Contemp. hcloth. In: Zeitschrift für Physik" Bd. 24. IV412 pp. Entire volume offered. The paper: pp. 69-87. A stamp on titlepage. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First apperance simultaneously printed in Philosophical Magazine of a fundamental paper in the development of the Quantum Theory as it here was set forth three fundamental ideas: 1. Slater's idea of 'a Virtual radiation field' 2. statistical conservation of energy and momentum and 3. statistical independence of the processes of emission and absorption in distant atoms. See Van der Waerden "Sources of Quantum Mechanics" No. 5. </em> hardcover
192646991London Roayl Society 1926. Royal 8vo. Full cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. In: "Proceedings of the Royal Society". Series A Vol. 111. V753LIII pp. textillustr. and plates. Entire volume offered. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of these papers constituting Dirac's own theory of quantum mechanics."Dirac wanted to establish an algebra for quantum variables or as he now termed them q-numbers. He wanted his q-number algebra to be a general and purely mathematical theory that could then be applied to problem of physics. Although it soon turned out that q-number algebra was equivalent to matrix mechanics in 1926 Dirac's theory was developed as an original alternative to both wave mechanics and matric mechanics. It was very much Dirac's own theory and he stuck to it without paying much attention to what went on inmatrix mechanics. In the summer of 1926 Dirac published a new and very general version of q-number algebra this timepresented as a purely mathematical theory. In this paper offered here he did not refer to physics at all. The work had little impact on the physics community but seems to have been appreciated by those who cultivated the mathematical aspects of quantum physics. Most of the results obtained by Dirac in his paper "The Elimination of the Nodes in Quantum Mechanics" had been found earlier by the German theorists using a method of matric mechanics but Dirac was able to improve on some of the results and deduce them from his own system of quantum mechanics."Helge Kragh. </em> hardcover
186737280New Orleans: Printed at the Commercial Bulletin Job Office 1867. 60 25- advertisements 3 blanks pp. Original printed yellow wrappers some extremity chipping. Originally stitched now loosened. Illustration on rear wrapper: 'Front Entrance Gentilly Road. Several institutional stamps scattered foxing and dusting. The final 25 pages are advertisements from various commercial enterprises mostly from New Orleans. Good.<br /> <br /> The Report announces Louisiana's entry into the post-War New South displaying its "improvements" in agriculture and the "Mechanic Arts." The advertisements alone demonstrate impressively Louisiana's determined recovery from the War. <br /> Officers Directors and Committee Members are listed after the title page. The Fair's President was the merchant I.N. Marks. "As indicated by his name ISAAC N. MARKS is of Hebrew descent and is a distinguished representative of his highly favored race but contrary to the usual customs of that people he has adopted the Christian faith. This change in his creed is due to the independent manner of thought which has characterized him from his boyhood and has ever made him master of his personality in the domain of both his sentiments and business. Mr. Marks is a native of South Carolina having been born at Charleston on the 5th of May 1817. At the age of nineteen he came to New Orleans and linked his career with that of his adopted city then lacking much of the greatness and grandeur which to-day places her a queen among cities" online 'Genealogy Trails History Group Orleans Parish <br /> The pamphlet records Louisiana's first Fair after the War's end in late November 1866. An essay explains its establishment and inauguration in late November 1866. "The mellow light of an Indian Summer's sun shone down." The various exhibits are listed followed by Marks's Address lamenting the "long and disastrous war leaving in its desolated path ruin upon every side; agriculture paralyzed; commerce languishing; a well-regulated labor system grown venerable in its usefulness and its humane tendencies suddenly and violently destroyed." Other Addresses call for immigration manufactures agricultural improvements and modernization.<br /> Not in Thompson which records later fairs of this Association. OCLC 24446596 1- Historic New Orleans Collection as of December 2020 but not collating the 25-page advertisement section. Printed at the Commercial Bulletin Job Office unknown
1845880Q32Kington: Charles Humphreys 1845 . First edition. Cloth. Good Only. 9" by 6". None. A very scarce first edition of this historical work on Kington by Richard Parry a member of The Mechanics Institute. First edition in the publisher's original cloth binding. Very scarce. Contains the first published work of the famous naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace being 'An Essay on the Best Way of Conducting the Kington Mechanics' Institution'.Written by Richard Parry who was a member of The Mechanics Institute at the time with the aim to provide adult education on technical and historical subjects. This particular work surrounds the history of Kington a market town in Herefordshire. Comprised of chapters on areas including the town's police markets religious building agriculture and schools. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally a trifle worn. Slight rubbing and bumping to the extremities with loss to the cloth at the head and tail of the spine. Damp staining and marks to boards. Darkening to the spine. Endpapers have been renewed with the odd mark and light tide mark. Internally generally firmly bound. Pages lightly age toned with the occasional spot. Tide mark to the page margins on pages 280-288 not affecting text. Good Only Charles Humphreys hardcover
1823974F5London: J. C. Robinson; Knight and Lacey; M. Salmon 1823-1842 . First edition. Cloth. Good Only. 9" by 6.5". Not Stated. Eight informative and illustrated first edition volumes of 'The Mechanics' Magazine' a periodical from the nineteenth century covering important developments in the world of mechanics including the very scarce first volume. Eight volumes of this periodical bound in seven. Multi-volume sets of this work are scarce.Present here are volumes I III XX XXI XXIV XXXII and XXXVI-XXXVII.An interesting snapshot of the scientific and technological developments of this period towards the end of the Industrial Revolution including discussion of Tantalius's Cup a memoir of James Watt account of the London fires of 1833 hydraulic projectors the parallax of mars and further diverse subjects.With full page and vignette illustrations and diagrams throughout.Present here are:Volume I August 30 1823 - March 6 1824. Rebound in cloth with endpapers renewed. Lacking the volume title page to the start of the work.Volume III September 26 1824 - March 19 1825. In a half calf binding with a frontispiece.Vol. XX October 5 1833 - March 29 1834. In a half calf binding with a frontispiece.Vol. XXI April 5 1834 - September 27 1834. In a half calf binding with a frontispiece.Vol. XXIV October 3 1836 - April 2 1836. In the publisher's original half cloth binding with frontispiece.Vol. XXXII October 5 1839 - May 30 1840. In a half calf binding.Vols. XXXVI-XXXVII January 1st 1842 - December 31st 1842. In half calf. Library bookplate to front pastedown of volume III with library stamps to endpapers. Bookplate to front pastedown of vol XX. Five half calf volumes - one repaired with tape to the back strip - one half cloth volume and one full cloth volume. Endpapers of volume I renewed. Volume XX lacking back strip with joints starting and boards tender. Joint heads and tails of volume III starting with boards holding firm. Vol XXIV joints starting with boards a touch tender. Front joint head of vol XXXII starting with board firmly held. Rear joint of vols XXXVI- II starting with board tender. Hinges of vol XXI strained and a touch tender. Library bookplate to front pastedown of volume III with library stamps to endpapers. Bookplate to front pastedown of vol XX. Internally firmly bound. Pages of earliest volumes age toned with spotting throughout with later volumes generally clean and bright. Good Only J. C. Robinson; Knight and Lacey; M. Salmon hardcover
188541897Stockholm F.& G. Beier 1885. 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Acta Mathematica" Vol. 7. Pp. 259-288. Clean and fine. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of one of Poincaré's main papers."Another famous paper of Poincar´we in celestial mechanics is the one he wrote in 1885 on the shape of a rotationg fluid mass submitted only to the forces of gravitation. Maclaurin had found as possible shapes some ellipsoids of revolution to which Jacobi had added other types of ellipsoids with unequal axes and P.G. Tait and W.Thomson some annular shapes. By a penetrating analysis of the problem Poincaré showed that still other "pyriform" shaoes exosted. One of the features of his interesting argument is that apparently for the first time he was confronted with the problem of minimizing a quadratic form in "infinitely" many variables."DSB. </em> unknown
192748881Berlin Julius Springer 1927. 8vo. Contemp. hcloth. Gilt lettering to spine. In: Zeitschrift für Physik Vol. 44. VIII903 pp. Entire volume offered. Heitler & London's paper: pp. 455-472. A stamp to titlepage. Clean. <br/><br/><em>First appearance of grounbreaking paper which was the first to explain the nature of the chemical bound using wave mechanics and thus explaining the forces active when atoms exchange electrons and creating molecules."In June Heitler and London published their famous paper on the hydrogen molecule in which they showed the existence of a new kind of saturable nondynamic forces the so-called "exchange forces" of attraction or repulsion between like particles and developed a schematic theory of the homopolar valence which eventually BROUGHT THE WHOLE OF CHEMISTRY UNDER THE SOVEREIGNTY OF QUANTUM MECHANICS. These results not only lent weight to the concept of like particles they also showed that like particles may be indistinguishable that is may lose their identity a conclusion which follows from the uncertainty relations or more precisely from the impossibility of keeping track of the individual particles in case of interactions of like particles. Jammer in "The Conceptual Development of Quantum Mechanic" pp. 343 ff.Parkinson "Breakthroughs" 1927 C. </em> hardcover