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A History of Engineering Metrology by Hume, K. J - 1980

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A History of Engineering Metrology by Hume, K. J - 1980

A History of Engineering Metrology

by Hume, K. J

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London: Mechanical Engineering. Good in Good dust jacket; Ex-library copy with minimal markings, jacket . sunned.. 1980. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0852984480 . Yellow cloth. x, 220 pages. Black and white frontispiece photo, black and white photos, black and white illustrations, figures, chronology, bibliography, acknowledgements, and index. And historical study of scientific, engineering related, measurements. ; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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  • ISBN 10 0852984480
  • ISBN 13 9780852984482
  • Publisher Mechanical Engineering
  • Place of Publication London
  • Date Published 1980
  • Keywords 0852984480, ENGINEERING, Scientific Measurement, MECHANICAL Engineering

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From Marconi to Telstar: The Story of Radio

From Marconi to Telstar: The Story of Radio

by Wymer, Norman

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London, Longmans Green and Co, 1966, hardcover, 114 pp, First Edition, First Printing, Near Fine in Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no wear or markings, slight spine end touches. Dustjacket price clipped, light edge nicks, some laminate lifting adjacent to spine, in new Brodart sleeve. This history of the development of radio to the satellite age focuses mainly on the inventors; Marconi, Baird, Watson-Watts, and Lord Reith. Illustrated throughout with drawn figures and black-&-white plates.
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THE SANITARY ENGINEER DEVOTED TO ARCHITECTURE, ENGINEERING, CONSTRUCTION &  SANITATION Volume...

THE SANITARY ENGINEER DEVOTED TO ARCHITECTURE, ENGINEERING, CONSTRUCTION & SANITATION Volume 10, June to November 1884

by Various Authors

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New York: The Sanitation Engineer. Good+. 1884. Hardcover. Volume 10, June to November 1884. Text tight, clean & intact. Pages 293 & 295 with small edge tear. Numerous B/W illustrations. The latest in sinks, toilets, tubs and urinals. Public health, drainage, water supply, ventilation, heating & lighting. Clean marbled boards with modest edge wear. Green cloth tape spine with gilt lettering. X-Library with some internal markings including book plate. Technical, Sanitation Engineering; Ex-Library; B&W Drawing; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 618 pages .
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Report on the Mining Methods and Appliances used in the Anthracite Coal Fields
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Report on the Mining Methods and Appliances used in the Anthracite Coal Fields

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Harrisburg, Pa: Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey, 1883. Hardcover. Very Good -. Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania: 1883. xx, 574, 5, [1] p., frontispiece map and 54 leaves of plates: 60 in-text illustrations; 23 cm. Original grey cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. Without the separate atlas containing 25 large plates listed on p. [vii]. Whitpain Library Co. stamps on front endpapers. Printed slip attached to front free endpaper stating that the volume was "Compliments of Theodore M. Harrar, House of Representatives." The Whitpain Library Company was a subscription library established in 1817 in Broad Ax, a village in Whitpain Township, Pennsylvania; in 1884 it contained 2,000 volumes. Theodore M. Harrar (b. 1846) represented Montgomery County in the Pennsylvania House in 1883 and 1884. In Very Good- Condition: cloth is rubbed and faded; most of gilt is lacking from spine; three small splits in cloth; one plate is detached but present; otherwise, clean and tight.
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Henley's ABC of Gliding and Sailflying.
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Henley's ABC of Gliding and Sailflying.

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London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1931. Duodecimo. Original blue cloth, title to spine gilt, publisher's logo to upper bard in blind. With the dust jacket. Photographic frontispiece, illustrations throughout the text. Ownership inscription dated 1943 to the front free endpaper. Cloth very lightly rubbed at the extremities but otherwise bright and fresh, faint partial toning to the endpapers, faint spotting to the endpapers and edges of text block. An excellent copy in the rubbed and tanned jacket with some spots and marks and an over-price ticket to the spine panel. First UK edition, originally published in the US in the previous year. An attractive copy and uncommon in the jacket. The earliest successful glider was created by the British aeronautical designer Sir George Cayley and flown in 1853, initiating a wave of research into both unpowered and powered flight, and gliders had become relatively sophisticated by the time the Wright Brothers flew the first powered aircraft in 1903. It wasn't until the… Read More
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Circular No. 164: Practische Erfahrungen im Bau und Bietrieb des Generatoren
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Circular No. 164: Practische Erfahrungen im Bau und Bietrieb des Generatoren

by Oechelhauser, Wilhelm

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Dessau, Germany: Directorium gez. Oechelhauser, 1880. Paperback. Good +. [22] p., 1 leaves of folded plates; 34 cm. Contemporary dark blue card wrapper. Text is in German script reproduced via an early means of reproduction. The leaves of plates are titled: Dessauer Generatorofen, and M. Gladbacher Generatorofen. Final page of text ends: "Dessau, den 23. März 1880. Das Directorium gez. Oechelhauser." This was probably not Wilhelm Oechelhauser (1820-1902), the Shakespeare scholar, but his son by the same name. An early report on the Oechelhauser generator furnace. Very scarce. In Good+ Condition: wrapper is separated, with chipping along edges and fairly illegible writing in black ink; first page lightly soiled, with some notations in margins; minor loss at lower corner of first two leaves; minor chipping at fore-edge of one plate; otherwise, clean and solid.
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EXPOSITION OF ADAPTIVE CONTROL Proceedings of a Symposium Held At the  Imperial College of...

EXPOSITION OF ADAPTIVE CONTROL Proceedings of a Symposium Held At the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, 1961

by Westcott, J. H. editor

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New York: Pergamon Press. 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn at edges. ; B&W Illustrations; 135 pages .
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THE ENGINEERING RECORD, BUILDING RECORD & THE SANITARY ENGINEER Volume  XXXVII, December to...

THE ENGINEERING RECORD, BUILDING RECORD & THE SANITARY ENGINEER Volume XXXVII, December to May 1897-1898

by Meyer, Henry C. , Conducted by

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New York: The Engineer Record. Very Good+. 1897-98. Hardcover. Volume XXXVII, December 1897 -May 1898. Clean marbled boards with brown cloth corners & spine. Paper spine label with gilt lettering. Text tight, clean & intact. Illustrated with B/W photographs and architectural drawings. X-Library: with some internal markings, including a book plate. Technical, Engineering; Ex-Library; B/W Photo & Drawings; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 576 pages .
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Mechanics Of Non-Homogeneous And Anisotropic Foundations: Foundations of  Engineering Mechanics...

Mechanics Of Non-Homogeneous And Anisotropic Foundations: Foundations of Engineering Mechanics Series

by Muravskii, B. Grigori (Author) / Krasovitski, Boris (Translator)

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Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag. New with No Dust Jacket as issued. 2001. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 364 pages: 6.25 x 9.5 in.: 2: KB#007495: No Jacket As Issued. BRAND NEW. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "This book contains new results in the area of statics and dynamics of heterogeneous and anisotropic foundations. The book is directed at engineers and scientists in the area of soil mechanics, soil-structures interaction, seismology and geophysics. Some characteristic features of the book are the construction of general solutions of harmonic vibrations in the transversely isotropic half-space and the presentation of new analytic solutions relating to the homogeneous transversely isotropic elastic half-space subjected to the action of external forces or for half-spaces with stiffness varying exponentially with depth. Numerical-analytical methods for the considered problems of static and… Read More
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Atomic Scale Structure of Interfaces Symposium Held November 27-29, 1989 Boston, Massachusetts,...

Atomic Scale Structure of Interfaces Symposium Held November 27-29, 1989 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedi (Materials Research Society Symposium Proceedings)

by R. D. Bringans; Randall M. Feenstra

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Materials Research Society, n. Apr-90. 155899047X. as New. Materials Research Society as new
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Introduction to Directional and Horizontal Drilling
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Introduction to Directional and Horizontal Drilling

by Short, J. A

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Pennwell Corp, 1993-05-01. Hardcover. Good. 9x6x0. Name / short inscription on inside cover or title page. Additional pages appear to be clean and unmarked, no highlighting, underlining or writing. Cover has chip on spine, mended with clear book binder tape, shows edge and shelf wear from normal use, storage. First edition, First Printing, Full Print Line Displayed. A currently OOP (out of print), uncommon, or hard to find book. Thank you for shopping with us!
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A HISTORY OF ENGINEERING METROLOGY
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A HISTORY OF ENGINEERING METROLOGY

by Hume, Kenneth J

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Published by Mechanical Engineering Publications Limited, 1980. 1st edition.. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Yellow cloth with purple title to spine. B/w photos. Light browning to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased and unevenly faded; especially faded to spine and edges.
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Maxim 1992 New Releases Data Book : 1992 Analog Design Guide Series Book 1
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Maxim 1992 New Releases Data Book : 1992 Analog Design Guide Series Book 1

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Sunnyvale, CA, USA: Maxim Integrated Products, 1992. Very Good condition Softcover Octavo, 1992, 1st edition. Light wear of wraps. Interior unmarked and tight. Used, not abused.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Book.
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Maxim 1994 New Releases Data Book Volume III
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Maxim 1994 New Releases Data Book Volume III

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Sunnyvale, CA, USA: Maxim Integrated Products, 1994. Very Good condition Softcover Octavo, 1994, 1st edition. Light wear of wraps, one corner lightly creased. Interior unmarked and solid. Used, not abused.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Book.
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Practical Shop Mathematics
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Practical Shop Mathematics: Volume one, elementary

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Burgundy cloth cover with gilt title on spine, no dust jacket, Previous owner's name stamped on paste down and front free endpaper. This revised edition has simplified illustrated presentations, replaced difficult trigonometric problems with simpler ones, etc. John Wolfe taught machine shop and shop mathematics for many years, giving him the background to present the illustrated practical problems.Printed by the Maple Press Company, York, Pa.
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Noise Control in Building Services

Noise Control in Building Services

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New Graphics Workbook

New Graphics Workbook

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N P E Technical Publishing, Racine, WI, 1991. Softcover. Fine. 157pp; Engineering Technical Graphics workbook, with hundreds of illustrations; Minor wrinkling; No markings or other significant flaws; Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1 - 2 pounds. Category: Engineering, Industrial, Trade; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 103201. .
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Great Speckled Bird vol 8 #19 May 8, 1975

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n. 1975. Soft cover. Good. 1975 Soft cover Good hippie counter culture newspaper
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Proceedings Of The Asme 1994 International Mechanical Engineering Congress
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Proceedings Of The Asme 1994 International Mechanical Engineering Congress

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The Damned Engineers: How one battalion of Combat Engineers stalled Hitler's offensive in the...

The Damned Engineers: How one battalion of Combat Engineers stalled Hitler's offensive in the Battle of the Bulge

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Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970, hardcover, xxi-409 pp, First Edition, First Printing stated, Very Good+ in Good+ dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight spine-end touches, previous owner's embossing to title page. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, small spine-end and corner nicks, wear to folds, short closed edge tears, some discreet tape repairs, in new Brodart sleeve. The definitive account of the participation of the 291st Engineer Combat Battalion at the Battle of the Bulge compiled by the famous Kentucky author from accounts given by her husband, fellow author Henry Giles, and other members of the Battalion who took part. Illustrated with 22 pages of black-&-white plates and 11 maps. Mapped endpapers show the Kampfgruppe Peiper advance route. ISBN 9780395077443
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Parts Book No. 2 Kelly Automatic Press
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Parts Book No. 2 Kelly Automatic Press

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Elizabeth, New Jersey: American Type Founders, [no date stated]. Wraps. Fair. 68 pages. Oblong 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Publisher's original orange printed paper covers with stapled spine covered with black cloth. Front cover coming detached. A seriously worn and well used copy, soiled, stained, but complete. A note on the front panel indicates: "Note - many of Parts are interchangeable on #1 Kelly Press - be sure to specify parts when ordering for #1 Kelly Press and Give Serial Number". Also stamped "American Type Founders Sales Corporation" with address in Cincinnati Ohio. Wraps. Possibly printed in 1940 with "3M 10 40 Printed in USA" code on rear wrapper. Scarce, with only a few examples in OCLC. We buy these lists and offer them for sale so that those trying to maintain these old pieces of equipment have a better chance of success. "The Kelly, named after it's designer, William Kelly, is claimed to be the first flatbed cylinder machine designed with an integrated sheet feeder. Kelly, born in Kansas… Read More
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La Ciudad Canals: A Study of Hohokam Irrigation Systems at the Community Level

La Ciudad Canals: A Study of Hohokam Irrigation Systems at the Community Level

by Ackerly, Neal (with Jerry Howard and Randall H. McGuire)

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Phoenix, Arizona State University, Department of Anthropology, Office of Cultural Resource Management, 1985, bound paperback draft report (8.5" x 11"), ix-169 pp, Very Good condition, no dustjacket as issued. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, light bumps to cover corners and edges. An in-depth study of the ancient irrigation systems developed, built, and used by the prehistoric Hohokam people in the Salt River Valley where today we find the modern cities of Phoenix, Tempe, Mesa, and other Anglo communities. Profusely illustrated throughout with drawn figures, graphs, charts, maps, and photographs. Appended: References Cited.
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