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By: N/A
Price: $35.00 $28.00
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 $32.00
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 $16.00
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 $24.00
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
By: N/A
Price: $8.00 $6.40
Publisher: War Department: 1941
Seller ID: 2287626
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 $8.00
Publisher: War Department: 1941
Seller ID: 2287627
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 Thread... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00 $12.00
Publisher: War Department: 1942
Seller ID: 2287629
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; ... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $8.00 $6.40
Publisher: War Department: 1941
Seller ID: 2287630
Ink note on front wrapper verso and on rear wrapper recto. 1941 Soft Cover. 342 pp. CONTENTS: General; Elementary Photography; Chemistry; Sensitized Materials; Optics; Filters; Sensitometry; Ground Camera Photography; Negative Making; Printing; Copying; Lantern Slides and Film Slides; Color Photography; Laboratory Operations; Appendix I. Formulary; Appendix II. List of Chemicals; Appendix III. Tables Used in Photography; Appendix IV. Glossary of Terms; Index. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $10.00 $8.00
Publisher: War Department: 1941
Seller ID: 2287631
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 $8.00
Publisher: War Department: 1940
Seller ID: 2287632
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 $8.00
Publisher: War Department: 1941
Seller ID: 2287633
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 $8.00
Publisher: War Department: 1940
Seller ID: 2287634
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 $8.00
Publisher: War Department: 1941
Seller ID: 2287635
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 $12.00
Publisher: War Department: 1941
Seller ID: 2287636
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 $12.00
Publisher: War Department: 1941
Seller ID: 2287637
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; Inde... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $25.00 $20.00
Publisher: Headquarters, Army Air Forces Technical Training Command: 1942
Seller ID: 2287638
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 $8.00
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 of Civil Engineers
Price: $2.00 $1.60
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 $20.00
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 $1.60
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 $16.00
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 $140.00
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 $5.60
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 $16.00
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 $24.00
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 $1.60
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 $1.60
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 $36.00
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 $16.00
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 $200.00
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
