The Electromagnet and Electromagnetic Mechanism (Finsbury Technical Manuals)
London: E. & F. N. Spon, 1892. second edition, revised. Hardcover. Blue cloth over beveled boards. xxiv + 452 pp + 28 pp catalogue. 207 bw figures. More
London: E. & F. N. Spon, 1892. second edition, revised. Hardcover. Blue cloth over beveled boards. xxiv + 452 pp + 28 pp catalogue. 207 bw figures. More
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1958. Hardcover. Navy blue cloth/boards; gilt lettering. Palest green dj with turquoise decoration and red lettering. lv, 8 bw maps, 827 pp., 36 bw plates. Includes a color frontis with tissue guard and 570 bw illustrations. A bit heavy at 5 pounds and may require extra..... More
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1908. Hardcover. Tan cloth/boards with black lettering. 127 pp. with 28 bw plates. Senate documents from the 60th Congress, 1st Session, according to general title page; Senate Report No. 6460, 59th Congress, Second Session, according to the actual document. Arguments in favor of supporting the..... More
USA: Mercantile Printing, 1984. Softbound. Illustrated wrap, 143pp, profuse b/w and 5 color illustrations. Exhibition catalogue Cooper-Hewitt Museum of New York 1984 show of patent models. More
Italy: Caprari, 1984. Hardcover. Black cloth with beige lettering at spine and front cover; Color pictorial dj.; 60 pp. plus approx. 60 pp. of color photos, unpaginated; 17 duotone illustrations, 110 color photos. Text in English; Includes photos by Mario Rebeschini; Includes information on the history of water-pumping technology and..... More
New York: A&W Publishers, 1979. Hardcover. Yellow cloth, white ill. DJ. 240 pp. Numerous color and bw ills. Compelling and fascinating account of machinery - from the lever developed by early man to the 20th century computer. More
NY: D. Van Nostrand Co., 1910. Hardcover. Navy blue library buckram. xi + 146 pp. 64 bw illustrations plus 2 bw photographic plates. Exceedingly uncommon and a seminal publication in the field that would eventually become known as telivision. More
Poole, U.K. Blanford Press, 1980. Softcover. Color pictorial wraps; 168 pp; 69 color figures; several bw plates. An informative publication that describes and illustrates many different types of scientific instruments used from the 17th century onwards. More
Berkeley, Calif. University of California Press, 1983. Hardcover. Brown cloth, gilt letters on spine, blue & decorated dust jacket, 320 pp., many BW & color illus. "This is the first book to deal with the vast range of instruments and apparatus made and used during the exciting years of the..... More
Washington [DC]: Government Printing Office, 1885. Hardcover. Leather boards with red and black title blocks on spine with gilt lettering, Volume 13, vi, v, 12pp, x, Part I Machine-Tools, Part II Wood-Working Machinery 293 pp, Report on Steam Pumps and Pumping Engines 64 pp, Report on Wool and Silk Machinery..... More
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1856. Hardcover. 3/4 brown leather with brown cloth; gilt lettering and decoration. Decorative end papers. Vol. I: 1118 pp.; Vol. II: 998 pp., both with bw frontis and occasional bw illustrations and plates. Heavy at 12 pounds (5.4 kilos) and will require extra postage.-+..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1940. Eighth Printing. Hardcover. Brick cloth/boards with gold spine lettering. 388 pp. with 32 bw plates. Part of the Product Development Series. Includes sections such as The New Profession, Fundamentals, Technique, and Practice with chapters including The Designer's Place in Industry, His Creative Contribution..... More
Pittsburgh, Penna. The Iron and Steel Engineer, 1930. Hardcover. Charcoal gray buckram with gilt spine lettering, 13 pp., illustrative diagrams and tables throughout. Oversized book. In English, translated from Dr. Puppe's complete report of 1913, in in German text. More
Richmond, Virginia: Willmann-Bell, Inc. / National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, 1995. Second Edition. Hardcover. Glossy blue & illus. boards, 298 pp., 121 BW illus. "Alvan Clark and his two sons, George Bassett and Alvan Graham, figured importantly in the great expansion of astronomical facilities which occurred during the..... More
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Henry Carey Baird & Co., 1898. Hardcover. Brown cloth over boards; Gilt titling at spine; 136 pp. plus 28 pp. of other titles available from the publisher; 78 bw figures. Includes directions for working with all kinds of metals, ivory, bone, and woods; dyeing, coloring, and French polishing;..... More
Boston, MA: Irwin / McGraw-Hill, 1998. Hardcover. Illustrated tan boards. xxii, 724 pp. Many graphs and charts. This book is a practical textbook addressing information systems development methods. More
no info listed: no info listed, no info listed. Hardcover. Tan cloth over boards, non-original binding; 198 pp.; No illustrations. More
New York: Hungry Minds, 2002. Softcover. Black ill. wraps. x, 341 pp. Profuse color plates. Guidebook to creating usable, well-designed and sophisticated websites. Chapters on content, technical considerations, organization principles, creating a personality, web elements, home page organization, and dynamic designs. More
Bangalore, India: Visvesvaraya Industrial & Technological Museum, no date given (circa 1960s or 1970s?). Softcover. Color illus. stapled wraps; Unpaginated, 20 pp.; 14 bw figures. An overview of the Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum in Bangalore, India. More
Schenectady, New York: General Electric, 1924. Softcover. Tan paper, stapled wraps with illustration of Thomas Edison and brown lettering; 47 pp. with no illustrations. The texts of the addresses broadcast over the radio on Electric Night by prominent public utility and General Electric officials. The addresses were broadcast from 12..... More
Toledo, Ohio: Toledo Scale Company, 1951. Paperback. Oblong blue wraps, stapled; gilt lettering and insignia. 32 pp. full of bw images. Published to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Toledo Scale Company. Quite an interesting history, full of archival photos. More
Brooklyn, New York: Henry J. Green, 1944 circa. Softcover. Grey stapled wraps with black lettering; 51 pp. with bw illustrations throughout; two additional folded catalogue sheets and a price list laid in. Sales catalogue of instruments, including barometers, hygrometers, thermometers, psychrometers, etc. More
New York, NY: Electro Importing Company, 1907. Softcover. Yellow decorated stapled wraps; 88 pp.; Profusely illustrated with bw drawings. Catalog selling all manner of electric materials, including Christmas lights, doorbells, telephones, lightbulbs, cords, etc. More
Pittsburgh: U. S. Department of Energy, 1985. Softcover. White wraps with illustration and black lettering; 1134 pp. and numerous tables, graphs, diagrams, etc. From the conference held May 21-24, 1985 in New Orleans. More
Washington, DC: War Department, 1946, July. Hardbound. green library buckram. xiii, [1], 298 pp., profusely illustrated. A solid, clean copy of this service manual. More