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By: N/A
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Headquarters American Expeditionary Forces / Berger-Levrault: 1918
Seller ID: 2199900
Condition: Good
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
Condition: Near Fine
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 MACHINERY AVIATION View more info
By: N/A
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Government Printing Office: 1916
Seller ID: 2280073
Condition: Very Good
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
By: N/A
Price: $8.00
Publisher: War Department: 1941
Seller ID: 2287626
Condition: Good
Ink name on front wrapper, minor water damage. 1941 Soft Cover. 155 pp. CONTENTS: Electrical Energy; Batteries; Solution of Circuits; Magnetism; Alternating Current; Inductance; Capacitance; Power Equipment; Electrical Measuring Instruments; Appendix I. Electrical Symbols; Appendix II. Summary of Formulas; Appendix III. Mathematical Table of Squares and Square Roots; Appendix IV. Glossary. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: War Department: 1941
Seller ID: 2287627
Condition: Good
Minor water damage. 1941 Soft Cover. 120 pp. CONTENTS: Section I. General: Employment. Section II. Use and Care of Hand Tools: Hammers; Screw Drivers; Shears, Pliers, and Nippers; Wrenches; Holding Devices; Files and Filing; Hacksaws; Punches and Punching; Chisels and Chipping; Drills and Drilling; Grinding and Sharpening Drills; Counterboring and Counterskinking; Reamers and Reaming; Threads, Taps, and Dies; Threads; Use of Taps; Tapping; Use of Dies; Cutting and Threading Pipe; Driving Rivets; Scrapers. Section III. Use and Care of Measuring Tools: Rules and Scales; Scribers; Squares; Calipe... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: War Department: 1942
Seller ID: 2287629
Condition: Very Good
Minor general wear. 1942 Soft Cover. 234 pp. CONTENTS: General; Maintenance, Storage, and Repair; Installation; Fuel Pressure Gages; Suction Gages; Manifold Pressure Gages; De-Icing Pressure Gages; Oil Pressure Gage; Landing Gear Pressure Gage; Engine Gage Units; Chronometric Tachometers; Generator-Voltmeter Tachometers; Engine Synchronism Indicator (Weston); Engine Synchroscope (Eclipse); Vapor Pressure Thermometers; Cylinder Temperature Gages; Fuel Mixture Indicators; Self-Synchronous Instruments; Selsyn Instruments; Fuel Level Gages; Aircraft Compasses (Magnetic); Air Speed Indicators; Air ... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: War Department: 1941
Seller ID: 2287631
Condition: Very Good
Minor loss to spine head and spine base. 1941 Soft Cover. 182 pp. CONTENTS: General; Fundamentals of Aerodynamics; Airfoils; Parasite Drag; Propellers; Performance; Equilibrium, Stability, and Control; Dynamic Loads; Appendix: Nomenclature; Index. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: War Department: 1940
Seller ID: 2287632
Condition: Very Good
Ink name on front wrapper. 1940 Soft Cover. 107 pp. CONTENTS: General; Ground Adjustable Propeller; Lycoming-Smith Controllable Propeller; Curtiss Controllable Propeller; Hamilton Standard Two-Position Propeller; Hamilton Standard Constant Speed Propeller; Hamilton Standard Hydromatic Propeller; Propeller Anti-Icer Equipment; General Maintenance and Repair; Index. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: War Department: 1941
Seller ID: 2287633
Condition: Very Good
Ink name on front wrapper. 1941 Soft Cover. 132 pp. CONTENTS: General; Fuselages; Engine Mounts; Wings; Stabilizers; Flight Control Surfaces and Wing Flaps; Flight Control Mechanisms; Landing Gear; Tires and Tubes; Wheels; Brakes; Cockpits and Cabins; Cowling and Fairing; Shielding and Bonding; Towing, Mooring, and Handling; Hydraulic Jacks; Cleaning; Lubricants; Insignia and Markings; Index. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: War Department: 1940
Seller ID: 2287634
Condition: Near Fine
A nice copy. 1940 Stapled Binding. 62 pp. CONTENTS: Control Systems; Operation; Testing; Troubles; Storage and Shipment. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: War Department: 1941
Seller ID: 2287635
Condition: Very Good
Ink name on front wrapper. 1941 Stapled Binding. 81 pp. CONTENTS: Internal-Combustion Engine Principles; Classification and Description of Engine Types; Description and Construction of Engine Units; Repair Principles; Engine Lubrications; Engine Cooling. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: War Department: 1941
Seller ID: 2287636
Condition: Very Good
Minor general wear. 1941 Stapled Binding. 66 pp. CONTENTS: General; Resistance; Power Requirements; Stability; Control; Aerodynamic Stress. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: War Department: 1941
Seller ID: 2287637
Condition: Good
Ink name on front wrapper of both volumes, page ridges lightly foxed on Technical Manual Airplane Hydraulic Systems and Miscellaneous Equipment, October 20, 1941.. 106; 12 pp. 2 volume set. CONTENTS: Hydraulic Principles; Hydraulic System Units; Airplane Hydraulic Systems; Inspection of Hydraulic Systems; Gases; Fire-Extinguishing Equipment; Flotation Equipment; Oxygen Equipment; Ice Eliminating Equipment; Heating and Ventilating Equipment; Aircraft Parachute Flare; Index. SUPPLEMENT CONTENTS: Master Cylinder Hydraulic Brake Systems. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Headquarters, Army Air Forces Technical Training Command: 1942
Seller ID: 2287638
Condition: Very Good
Ink name on front wrapper, front wrapper faintly foxed. 1942 Stapled Binding. 12 pp. CONTENTS: Master Cylinder Hydraulic Brake Systems. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York: Doubleday, Page & Co.: 1902
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2164109
Condition: Very Good
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 of Civil Engineers
Price: $2.00
Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers: 1975
Seller ID: 1536499
Condition: Good
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
ISBN: 1557530947
Condition: Near Fine
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. Others work behind the scenes or have been superseded, such as the Owens AR bottle machine and the Jackson Ferry Shot Tower. T... View more info
By: AWS Committee on Welding COncrete Reinforcing Steel
Price: $2.00
Publisher: American Welding Society: 1961
Seller ID: 1536520
Condition: Good
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
ISBN: 0851470351
Condition: Very Good
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
Condition: Near Fine
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 structural technology and concludes with an introduction to the 3.5 ATMO regulations. View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: The MIT Press: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2284472
ISBN: 026202456X
Condition: Near Fine
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 tells the story of the emergence of electric light as one of symbols and communication. He examines how Edison and his collea... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons: 1996
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2202953
ISBN: 0471140260
Condition: Near Fine
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 the remarkable new engineering formulas that made it possible, showing that one key to engineering progress is the discovery... View more info
By: Brillouin, Leon
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc.: 1953
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 2266485
Condition: Good
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, electrical engineering, and wave mechanics of the spinning electron. 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
Condition: Very Good
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
Condition: Very Good
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
Condition: Near Fine
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
By: Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation
Price: $250.00
Publisher: Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation: 1918
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2198471
Condition: Very Good
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
Condition: Very Good
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 Connections; Deflection of Beams; Continuous Girders; Loads in Bridges, Wind Pressure, Etc.; Arches; Suspension Bridges; Opening o... View more info
By: Deschanel, A. Privat; Everett, J.D.
Price: $15.00
Publisher: D. Appleton and Company: 1883
Seller ID: 2267138
Condition: Good
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; Friction; Hydrostatics; Principle of Archimedes; Density and its Determination; Vessels in Communication. Levels.; Capillarit... View more info
By: Diderot, Denis; Veyrier, Henri
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Henri Veyrier: 1965
Seller ID: 2290882
Condition: Very Good
Single faint spine crease, wrappers lightly soiled. 1965 Large Softcover. 15 x 10. This particular volume, featuring hundreds of detailed technical drawings, deals with various forms of industry, from tanneries to textiles. It details specifics of setup, equipment, uses, etc. of looms, mills, and other industrial subjects. Includes many fold-out illustrations. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (English: Encyclopedia, or a systematic dictionary of the sciences, arts, and crafts) was a general encyclopedia published in France between 1751 and 1772, w... View more info
