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Signal Book United States Army, 1916

By: N/A

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Government Printing Office: 1916

Seller ID: 2280073

Binding: Small Softcover

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.
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Technical Manual Electrical Fundamentals (War Department TM 1-455)

By: N/A

Price: $8.00

Publisher: War Department: 1941

Seller ID: 2287626

Binding: Soft Cover

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.
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Technical Manual Airplane Structures (War Department TM 1-410)

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: War Department: 1941

Seller ID: 2287633

Binding: Soft Cover

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.
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Technical Manual Hand, Measuring, and Power Tools, May 26, 1941 (War Department TM 10-590)

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: War Department: 1941

Seller ID: 2287627

Binding: Soft Cover

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...
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Technical Manual Aircraft Engine Operation and Test (War Department TM 1-408)

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: War Department: 1940

Seller ID: 2287634

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Near Fine

A nice copy. 1940 Stapled Binding. 62 pp. CONTENTS: Control Systems; Operation; Testing; Troubles; Storage and Shipment.
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Technical Manual Airplane Hydraulic Systems and Miscellaneous Equipment, October 20, 1941 (War Department TM 1-411); Plus Supplement No. 1

By: N/A

Price: $15.00

Publisher: War Department: 1941

Seller ID: 2287637

Binding: Soft Cover

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.
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Supplement Technical Manual Airplane Hydraulic Systems and Miscellaneous Equipment, August 1, 1942 (Army Air Forces Technical Training Command, Supplement No. 1, TM 1-411)

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Headquarters, Army Air Forces Technical Training Command: 1942

Seller ID: 2287638

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Very Good

Ink name on front wrapper, front wrapper faintly foxed. 1942 Stapled Binding. 12 pp. CONTENTS: Master Cylinder Hydraulic Brake Systems.
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Official Guide Book of the Fair, 1933

By: N/A

Price: $25.00

Publisher: A Century of Progress: 1933

Seller ID: 2298323

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Spine and front wrapper lightly creased, half inch tear along spine base, ink notes on rear of fold-out map. 1933 Soft Cover. 194 pp. Fold-out map, color ads for Firestone and Kraft. CONTENTS: Map of Grounds; Foreword; View of Fair Grounds; Your Book of the Fair; Theme of Fair in Science; A Brief History of a Century of Progress; The Symbol of Arcturus; The Basic Sciences; From Wagons to Wings--Transportation; The Servant that Has Transformed the World--Electricity; Radio and Communications Building and Garden; The Stirring Story of Mankind's Rise--Social Science; Beautiful Homes; The Drama of...
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The Anatomy & Development of the Sports Prototype Racing Car

By: Bamsey, Ian

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Motorbooks International: 1991

Seller ID: 2200667

ISBN: 0879385863

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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The Innovators: The Engineering Pioneers Who Made America Modern (Wiley Popular Science)

By: Billington, David P.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons: 1996

Seller ID: 2202953

ISBN: 0471140260

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. An excellent copy. 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 of ...
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Putnam's Automobile Handbook: The Care and Management of the Modern Motor-Car

By: Brokaw, H. Clifford; Starr, Charles A.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1918

Seller ID: 2292773

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Spine very slightly faded with minimal loss of gilt. 1918 Hard Cover. xiii, 348 pp. CONTENTS: What to do on purchasing a car; Some things to avoid; What an automobile is; What makes the engine go; Equipment and accessories; If well slicked the engine runs; Where lubrication is neglected; Sometimes the car smokes; The carburetor and its failings; Getting the most out of a gallon of gas; Things which make gas bills high; Care of the Tires; Skidding may be minimized; Can't-slip Heels lessen skidding; Avoid newly oiled roads; Watch your brakes; Why the auto steers easily; The elusiv...
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Spanning the Gate: The Golden Gate Bridge

By: Cassady, Stephen

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Squarebooks: 1986

Seller ID: 2295901

ISBN: 0916290360

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Revised edition. A very nice copy. 1986 Large Softcover. 133 pp. The Golden Gate Bridge should never have been built. The waters at the ocean entrance to San Francisco Bay were too menacing; the Gate was too wide to be spanned by a suspension bridge; the costs of so ambitious a project were too high for an economy in the midst of Depression. But impossible odds are fuel for the determination of a visionary engineer like Joseph Strauss, and danger is no more than a welcome companion to the steel-nerved bridgemen who willingly risk their lives to turn dreams such as his into reality. In 1916, th...
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Automatic Train Control Bulletin No. 8: Description of Continuous Inductive Train Control Systems of the Union Switch and Signal Company

By: Committee on Automatic Train Control, American Railway Assocaition

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Committee on Automatic Train Control, American Railway Assocaition: 1931

Seller ID: 1826230

Binding: Trade Paperback

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.
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The Curtiss Standard JN4-D Military Tractor Handbook

By: Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation

Price: $195.00

Publisher: Buffalo, Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Corporation: 1918

Seller ID: 2198471

Binding: Hard Cover

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.
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Deschanel's Natural Philosophy, Part I: Mechanics, Hydrostatics, and Pneumatics

By: Deschanel, A. Privat; Everett, J.D.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: D. Appleton and Company: 1883

Seller ID: 2267138

Binding: Soft Cover

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...
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L'Encyclopedie De Diderot Et D'Alembert (Recueil De Planches, Sur les Sciences, Les Arts Liberaux, Et Les Arts Mechaniques, Avec Leur Explication)

By: Diderot, Denis; Veyrier, Henri

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Henri Veyrier: 1965

Seller ID: 2290882

Binding: Large Softcover

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...
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Gear Handbook: The Design, Manufacture and Application of Gears

By: Dudley, Darle W.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill: 1962

Seller ID: 2304678

ISBN: 0070179026

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Lacks jacket. A few pencil marks to table of contents, faint edge wear. 1962 Hard Cover. A unique, single source reference for all aspects of gears, Dudley's Handbook of Practical Gear Design and Manufacture, Second Edition provides comprehensive and consistent information on the design and manufacture of gears for the expert and novice alike.
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Heat Exchanger Design

By: Fraas, Arthur P.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, John Wiley & Sons: 1989

Seller ID: 2304150

ISBN: 0471628689

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Second edition. A very nice copy. 1989 Large Hardcover. 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, and on optimization of energy use in the chemical process and manufacturing industries. Covers all basic principles of heat exchanger design, and addresses many ...
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Automotive Encyclopedia: Fundamental Principles, Operation, Construction, Service, and Repair (Instructor's Manual)

By: Gauthier, W. Scott

Price: $25.00

Publisher: The Goodheart-Willcox Company, Inc.: 1995

Seller ID: 2295099

ISBN: 156637152X

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Ink stamp on front wrapper verso, a few pages loose but included. 1995 Large Softcover. 346 pp. Automotive Encyclopedia is a complete automotive library in one easy-to-understand volume. In addition to exploring the many sciences involved in vehicle operation, electricity and electronics, hydraulics, pneumatics, etc.this comprehensive textbook details the design, operation, diagnosis, service, and repair of today's cars and light trucks. Automotive Encyclopedias concise presentation gives students a thorough understanding of automotive technology, service, and repair without overwhelming them ...
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Steam Generation Steps Ahead

By: Gould, G.B.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Fuel Engineering Company of New York / The Marchbanks Press: 1930

Seller ID: 2289753

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Boards lightly soiled, a few pencil marks on front endpaper and margin of a few pages. 1930 Hard Cover. 102 pp. CONTENTS: Advancing Standards in Steam Generation; RELATION OF PLANT DESIGN AND OPERATION TO THE COAL MARKET: Predicting Clinker Trouble; Equipment and Operation Limit Coal Buying; Necessity of Knowing One's Exact Requirements; Elastic Methods and Standards; IMPORTANCE OF SEPARATELY APPRAISING PLANT PERFORMANCE AND COAL VALUES: Conflicting Methods of Coal Valuation; Plant Performance -- the Concealed Influence; Heat Balance Reveals the Truth; COAL CHARACTERISTICS WHICH MAY MODIFY PLA...
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Up the Infinite Corridor: MIT and the Technical Imagination

By: Hapgood, Fred

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co: 1993

Seller ID: 2203076

ISBN: 0201082934

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. A very nice copy. Fine. 1993 Hard Cover. xii, 203 pp. In Up the Infinite Corridor, Fred Hapgood explores the mental landscape of engineering a style of thought, a mode of operation, a particular form of creativity that increasingly defines the trajectory of modern life. With the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as his point of reference, Hapgood traces the emergence of the profession from its mud-on-the-boots days preoccupied with canals and roads to its present absorption with cyber-space and micromachines. He also shows the evolution in how engineers are trained, from the...
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Model Changes War Style (Blueprint for Victory)

By: Hunt, O.E.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Detroit, Michigan, Department of Public Relations General Motors: 1942

Seller ID: 2206686

Binding: Stapled Binding

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.
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The Compleat Collier: Or, The Whole Art of Sinking, Getting, and Working, Coal-Mines, &c. as is now used in the Northern Parts, Especially about Sunderland and New-Castle.

By: J.C.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Picks Publishing: 1990

Seller ID: 2203518

ISBN: 0951684310

Binding: Stapled Binding

Condition: Near Fine

1990 printing of the 1968 third edition. iv, 48 pp. 1990 reissue of the work originally published in 1708. Illustrated with reproductions of engravings throughout.
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Bridges, Canals & Tunnels: The Engineering Conquest of America (The Smithsonian Library)

By: Jacobs, David; Neville, Anthony E.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: American Heritage: 1968

Seller ID: 2262156

ISBN: 0442040407

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

No jacket, endpapers very faintly toned. 1968 Hard Cover. 159 pp. CONTENTS: Introduction; Heyday of the Canals; Timber Spans and Iron Horses; The Importance of Being Level; And Then Came Steel; The Suspension Spectacle; Portfolio: The Brooklyn Bridge; A Great Time for Doing; In the Age of the Automobile; Appendix: Chronology, Mr. Beach's Pneumatic Secret, The Essentials of Bridge Building, Cause for Celebration, A History in Song, Further Reading, Index.
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Marine Engine and Fire Room Guide

By: Jacobs, Robert H.; Cady, E.L.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press: 1943

Seller ID: 2287391

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

One inch by half inch chip to jacket spine base, multiple tears and chips to jacket edges. 1943 Hard Cover. xii, 740 pp. Includes 242 illustrations. Complete, basic handbook and textbook for the unlicensed personnel of the engine department. An enumeration of the duties of each man and what he is expected to know is followed by discussions on piping, valves, packing, bearings, lubrication, temperature and pressure control equipment.
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The Design of Highway Bridges of Steel, Timber and Concrete

By: Ketchum, Milo S.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.: 1920

Seller ID: 2298060

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light stain on front board, pencil note on front paste-down endpaper, pencil drawing on rear free endpaper. 1920 Hard Cover. xv, 548 pp. CONTENTS: Part I. The Calculation of Stresses in Bridge Trusses: Methods for the Calculation of Stresses in Framed Structures - Stresses in Beams - Stresses in Highway Bridge Trusses - Stresses in Railway Bridge Trusses - Stresses in Lateral Systems - Stresses in Pins, Eccentric and Combined Stresses, Deflection of Trusses, Stresses in Rollers, and Camber - The Solution of Problems in the Calculation of Stresses in Bridge Trusses; Part II. Design of Steel and...
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Resonance: A History of the University of Rochester Electrical Engineering Department

By: Kinnen, Edwin

Price: $20.00

Publisher: University of Rochester Press:

Seller ID: 2296436

ISBN: 1580461425

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

Still encased in shrink wrap. A fine copy. Kinnen's book is a detailed history of the department from its establishment in 1958 to the present day. Kinnen chronicles the appointment of faculty, their evolving research interests, and some of the more prominent inventions and patents by department faculty. A postscript pays tribute to an undergraduate in the department, Zhe Zeng '95, who lost his life in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
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Seaway: The Untold Story of North America's Fourth Seacoast

By: LesStrang, Jacques

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Salisbury Press Book: 1976

Seller ID: 2277213

ISBN: 0875642160

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Jacket edges lightly rubbed. Ink note on front endpaper. 1976 Large Hardcover. 214 pp. When President Dwight Eisenhower and Great Britain's Queen Elizabeth II dedicated the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1959, the waterway opened the Great Lakes to the international commerce of the world, and gave birth and identity to some 50 US and Canadian Great Lakes ports. Seaway is the story of the saga of legislative in-fighting and construction impossibilities which went into the creation of the waterway. The reader can view efforts to navigate the ice-packed Great Lakes during the winter months...
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Seaway: The Untold Story of North America's Fourth Seacoast

By: LesStrang, Jacques

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Salisbury Press Book: 1976

Seller ID: 2299202

ISBN: 0875642160

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket rubbed. 1976 Large Hardcover. 214 pp. When President Dwight Eisenhower and Great Britain's Queen Elizabeth II dedicated the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1959, the waterway opened the Great Lakes to the international commerce of the world, and gave birth and identity to some 50 US and Canadian Great Lakes ports. Seaway is the story of the saga of legislative in-fighting and construction impossibilities which went into the creation of the waterway. The reader can view efforts to navigate the ice-packed Great Lakes during the winter months under a federal demonstration program to ...
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Tanker Operations: A Handbook for the Ship's Officer

By: Marton, G.S.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press: 1981

Seller ID: 2263672

ISBN: 0870332406

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Jacket stained along bottom edges, jacket lightly toned. Stains along bottom edge of boards. 1981 Hard Cover. xiv, 207 pp. ...a straightforward handbook on the basic problems of tanker operations. It is directed primarily toward the newcomer to tankers; specifically, the new officer. Generally speaking, it is not a step-by-step manual covering every possible situation. Instead, it is intended as: An introductory guide designed to make the new officer's adjustment to tanker life smoother, less perilous; a source of useful information for the more experienced officer; a reference book for other ...
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