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By: N/A
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Headquarters American Expeditionary Forces / Berger-Levrault: 1918
Seller ID: 2199900
Wrappers lightly creased, ink names of military personnel on front cover and in front and end matter (George O. Huber, Clayton E. Seachman). 1918 Hard Cover. 356 pp. Stiff cardstock binding with cloth spine. A World War I era guide to firing artillery, published by the American Expeditionary Forces (A.E.F.) in France, March 1918, with black-and-white diagrams and illustrations, including several fold-outs. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Department of Public Relations General Motors: 1942
Seller ID: 2206686
No publisher date (circa 1940's), edges very minimally rubbed, top page corners very lightly bumped, pencil number to title page. 1942 Stapled Binding. 23 pp. Based on informal talk by O.E. Hunt, Engineer, General Motors Corporation, at meeting of Automotive Council for War Production, Detroit, Michigan, January 24, 1942.KEYWORDS: MODEL CHANGES WAR STYLE BLUEPRINT FOR VICTORY MILITARY SECOND WORLD WAR TWO WWII WW2 TRANSPORTATION AUTOMOBILES AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING MACHINE... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Government Printing Office: 1917
Seller ID: 2267149
No jacket, spine slightly cocked, page ridges lightly foxed, pencil note on front paste-down endpaper. 1917 Small Hard Cover. 541 pp. Engineer Field Manual, Parts I-VII: I. Reconnaissance, II. Bridges, III. Roads, IV. Railroads, V. Field Fortification, VI. Animal Transportation, VII. Tables, Weights, Measures, and Specific Gravities (Professional Papers of the Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, No. 29). View more info
By: N/A
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Government Printing Office: 1916
Seller ID: 2280073
Ink stamp on front wrapper, ink name and pencil name on front flyleaf, ink crossover on front wrapper verso, front hinge starting, faint stain to top page corner of pages 23-38. 1916 Small Softcover. 64 pp. Personal copy of Camp Lee soldier Candidate F.H. Kelly, 35th Company, 7th Bn. Central Officer's Training School, Camp Lee, Virginia. A U.S. Army handbook on Morse Code and signaling. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York: Doubleday, Page & Co.: 1902
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2164109
1909 reprint. Boards soiled, ink school library information on front endpaper - no other marks. 1902 Hard Cover. viii, 231 pp. 8vo. Includes fold-out view of Homestead, Duquesne, and Edgar Thompson Steel Works in Pennsylvania. A biography of the prominent 19th century businessman who made his fortune in steel. View more info
By: American Society for Testing Materials
Price: $3.00
Publisher: American Society for Testing Materials: 1950
Seller ID: 1306699
Wrappers a bit rubbed, ink on front cover. 1950 Soft Cover. Stapled binding. 62 pp. CONTENTS: Introduction -- A.O. Schaefer; Low Temperature Behavior of Organic Plastics -- H.K. Nason, T.S. Carswell, and C.H. Adams; Low Temperature Properties of Elastomers -- John W. Liska; Discussion; Effects of Subatmospheric Temperatures on the Properties of Non-Ferrous Metals -- Norman L. Mochel; Discussion; Properties of Weldments at Low Temperatures -- Robert D. Stout; Discussion. View more info
By: American Society of Civil Engineers
Price: $2.00
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers: 1975
Seller ID: 1536499
Pencil marks on front cover. 1975 Stapled Binding. ASCE National Structural Engineering Convention April 14-18, 1975. Index of Meeting Preprints View more info
By: ASME International History and Heritage
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Purdue University Press: 1997
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2208586
1st printing. A nice copy. 1997 Large Softcover. xvii, 364 pp. The book describes, and where possible illustrates, historic mechanical engineering landmarks, representing the accomplishments of mechanical engineers over the past 250 years-from the steam engine of Thomas Newcomen (1712), which launched the Industrial Revolution, to the Saturn V rocket (1967). Some of them are recognizable to us all, such as Xerography, Sikorsky's helicopter, and Disneyland's monorail. Oth... View more info
By: AWS Committee on Welding COncrete Reinforcing Steel
Price: $2.00
Publisher: American Welding Society: 1961
Seller ID: 1536520
Crayon underlining in text. 1961 Stapled Binding. Contents include: General Provisions, Design of Welded Connections, Details of Welded Connections, Workmanship and Procedure, Welder Qualification and Inspection, Designs View more info
By: Ball, Kenneth
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Autopress Ltd.: 1969
Seller ID: 2281523
Lightly rubbed. 1969 Hard Cover. A workshop manual on the restoration and care of Austin Healey automobiles. View more info
By: Bamsey, Ian
Price: $175.00
Publisher: Motorbooks International: 1991
Seller ID: 2200667
Minor wear to jacket corners, sticker ghost on rear jacket corner. 1991 Hard Cover. 218 pp. 8vo. Bamsey has tackled this subject with clarity and expertise to reveal fully the technical development of today's World Sports Car Championship contenders. Historical introduction to revolutionary technology design to achieve undreamed-of maximum speeds. New possibilities for increased aerodynamic performance are described and analysed in detail. AND in-depth study of WSCC str... View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: The MIT Press: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2284472
First edition. Jacket spine head bumped, minor tear to top corner of rear jacket panel. 1999 Hard Cover. x, 416 pp. Technology is business, and dealing with the media, the public, financiers, and government agencies can be as important to an invention's success as effective product development. To understand how rhetoric works in technology, one cannot do better than to start with the American inventor Thomas Alva Edison and the incandescent light bulb. Charles Bazerman ... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons: 1996
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2202953
First edition. A fine copy.Near Fine. 1996 Hard Cover. x, 245 pp. Enter the workshops of America's early engineering geniuses and discover how they came up with their ideas and applied them to the marketplace. David Billington, acclaimed author of The Tower and the Bridge, reveals the strokes of brilliance behind such landmark developments as the steamboat, electric power, and the rise of the iron and steel industry. He explains each major innovation through the story of... View more info
By: Brillouin, Leon
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc.: 1953
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 2266485
Second edition. Large closed tear on rear wrapper, wrappers lightly toned, ink name and details of previous owner on half-title page (he was a member of the physics department at the University of Illinois). 1953 Trade Paperback. xii, 255, [21] pp. Classic treatment of wave propagation covers a broad variety of problems with a common mathematical background, from solid state physics to propagation along electric lines, X-rays, rest rays, certain optical reflections, elec... View more info
By: Chen, W.F.; Manson, J.A.; Mehta, H.C..; Vanderhoff, J.W.
Price: $2.00
Publisher: American National Society of Civil Engineers: 1975
Seller ID: 1536493
1975 Stapled Binding. ASCE National Structural Engineering Convention April 14-18, 1975. Meeting Preprint 2472 View more info
By: COhn, M.Z.
Price: $2.00
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers: 1975
Seller ID: 1536505
Spine edge toned. 1975 Stapled Binding. ASCE National Structural Engineering Convention April 14-18, 1975. Meeting Preprint 2428 View more info
By: Committee on Automatic Train Control, American Railway Assocaition
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Committee on Automatic Train Control, American Railway Assocaition: 1931
Seller ID: 1826230
Lightly rubbed. 1931 Trade Paperback. 218 pp. Original wrappers. In-depth description of the devices used by the Union Switch & Signal Company, part of a series released by the American Railway Association. Includes photographs, diagrams, and detailed charts regarding locomotives, gasoline electric motor cars, engine circuits, related apparatus, and signals, with descriptions of over a dozen railroad routes throughout the United States. View more info
![Image for A Text-Book of Paper-Making [Textbook of Papermaking]](/assets/images/product/2197665.jpg "A Text-Book of Paper-Making [Textbook of Papermaking]")
Price: $20.00
Publisher: E. & F.N. Spon, Ltd.: 1920
Edition: 5th Printing
Seller ID: 2197665
Boards rubbed and somewhat soiled, shallow chip from spine head. Binding tight and square, interior clean with pages only lightly toned. 1920 Hard Cover. xi, 527, 12 pp. 8vo. An extensive guide to the manufacture of paper, originally published in 1888. This edition, according to the preface 'has been carefully revised with reference to technical and scientific progress. The disturbance of the Paper-making Industry under the stress of war conditions [referring to World Wa... View more info
By: Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation
Price: $250.00
Publisher: Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation: 1918
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2198471
First edition. Fold-out diagrams included. Faintly stained along spine, owner bookplate on front endpaper, first plate and adjacent page foxed, illustration of airplane affixed to title page. 1918 Hard Cover. 72 pp. A handbook of the workings of the Curtiss Standard JN4-D Military Tractor. Contents include specifications, examination of parts, general construction, flying, landing, tables, and more. Black and white illustrations included. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Macmillan and Co., Limited: 1908
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2282797
First edition. No jacket, front hinge starting, ink stamp on front endpaper. 1908 Hard Cover. viii, 594 pp. Twelve plates, including two fold-outs. CONTENTS: Definition of Terms; Stresses in Beams, Bending Moments and Shearing Forces; Stresses in Framed Structures; Braced Girders with Inclined or Polygonal Chords; Cantilever Bridges; Moment of Inertia and Moment of Resistance; Strength and Fatigue of Timber, Iron, and Steel; Strength of Columns; Rivetted Joints and Conne... View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc.: 1943
Seller ID: 1501359
Cover toned, ink name & date stamp on front flyleaf. 1943 Trade Paperback. 261 pp. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: William Edwards Deming (October 14, 1900 - December 20, 1993) was an American statistician, college professor, author, lecturer, and consultant. Deming is widely credited with improving production in the United States during World War II, although he is perhaps best known for his work in Japan. There, from 1950 onward he taught top management how to improve design (and th... View more info
By: Deschanel, A. Privat; Everett, J.D.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: D. Appleton and Company: 1883
Seller ID: 2267138
Edges lightly rubbed, front wrapper creased, ink name and date on front endpaper, light pencil marginalia throughout text, pages faintly toned. 1883 Soft Cover. xii, 256 pp. Elementary Treatise on Natural Philosophy. Illustrated by 180 engravings on wood, and one colored plate. CONTENTS: Introductory; First Principles on Dynamics, Statics; Gravity; The Mechanical Powers; The Balance; First Principles of Kinetics; Laws of Falling Bodies; The Pendulum; Energy; Elasticity; ... View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Bear & Company: 2010
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2284277
Second printing. Bottom corner lightly bumped. 2010 Trade Paperback. xxv, 357 pp. A unique study of the engineering and tools used to create Egyptian monuments. Presents a stone-by-stone analysis of key Egyptian monuments, including the statues of Ramses II and the tunnels of the Serapeum. Reveals that highly refined tools and mega-machines were used in ancient Egypt. From the pyramids in the north to the temples in the south, ancient artisans left their marks all over E... View more info
By: Foschi, Ricardo O.; Longworth, John
Price: $2.00
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers: 1975
Seller ID: 1536508
Pages lightly toned. 1975 Stapled Binding. ASCE National Structural Engineering Convention April 14-18, 1975. Meeting Preprint 2419 View more info
By: Foster, Bruce E.
Price: $2.00
Publisher: American Concrete Institute: 1963
Seller ID: 1536521
1963 Stapled Binding. Contents Include: Accelerating admixtures, Water-reducing admixtures and set-controlling admixtures, Grouting admixtures, Air-entraining admixtures, Gas-forming admixtures, Expansion-producing admixtures, Finely divided mineral admixtures, Damp-proofing and permeability-reducing admixtures, Bonding admixtures, Chemical admixtures. View more info
By: Fraas, Arthur P.
Price: $75.00
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons: 1989
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 1761498
1989 second edition. Corners lightly pushed, shallow 1 inch scratch on front jacket panel. x, 547 pp. This second edition of the well-received work on design, construction, and operation of heat exchangers. Demonstrates how to apply theories of fluid mechanics and heat transfer to practical problems posed by design, testing, and installation of heat exchangers. Tables and data have been brought up to date, and there is new material on problems of vibration and fouling, a... View more info
Price: $2.00
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers: 1975
Seller ID: 1536500
Pages lightly toned. 1975 Stapled Binding. ASCE National Structural Engineering Convention April 14-18, 1975. Meeting Preprint 2462 View more info
By: Gardner, Martin
Price: $10.00
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company: 1958
Seller ID: 2206177
No jacket, faint spots to boards, faint stain to top page ridge. 1958 Hard Cover. ix, 157 pp. The advent of the digital computer has rendered logic diagrams and manipulatives into historical footnotes. Nevertheless, they are significant in the historical development of logic as an area of mathematics. In this book Gardner describes the various ways syllogisms and propositions have been represented in diagrams, but he also spends a great deal of time explaining the person... View more info
By: Gilbert, A.C. [Alfred Carlton]
Price: $25.00
Publisher: The A.C. Gilbert Company: 1920
Seller ID: 2206878
Ink name on front endpaper. 1920 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 93 pp. One of a series of works encouraging young boys to explore engineering, machinery, and science, published by the company famous for the Erector Set. Written by the company's co-founder Alfred Carlton Gilbert, who invented the Erector Set. Each of these books was marketed along with a kit made by A.C. Gilbert Company. View more info
By: Gilbert, A.C. [Alfred Carlton]
Price: $25.00
Publisher: The A.C. Gilbert Company: 1920
Seller ID: 2206880
Ink name on front endpaper. 1920 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 116 pp. One of a series of works encouraging young boys to explore engineering, machinery, and science, published by the company famous for the Erector Set. Written by the company's co-founder Alfred Carlton Gilbert, who invented the Erector Set. Each of these books was marketed along with a kit made by A.C. Gilbert Company. View more info
