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London.: Macmillan and Co., 1884. Author Preface dated Dec. 1st, 1883, College, Edinburgh.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Bound well, intact. Cover soiling. Light spine sun-fade.. 1 368 p. Red flexible cloth covered boards. Red speckled page blocks. 5x7.25in. Pen&Ink illustrations, technical. Graphs. Publisher lists at back. Stamped cover & spine titles. Red speckled page edges. Thermodynamics: research, study, effects, etc. a classic 19th century academic volume regarding this area of applied physics.

Austin TX.: Holt Rinehart & Winston / CNN., 2002. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Edge and corner bumps to boards; surface minor wear. Classroom inventory; multiple users.. 1 Illustrated glossy paper over boards. 136 p. Color photos. Audience: General/trade. Science and technology high school level education course, with laboratory exercises. Appendixes, 8 reference sections; Glossary; Index; Self-Check Answers.

New York.: Dover Publications., 1973. Trade paperback. Very good. Minor cover wear. Clean interior.. 1 Trade paperback, 9x11 in. Glued binding. 223 p. Pen & Ink diagrams. Glossary. Audience: General/trade. "With 179 Illustrations and 11 Tables", subtitle. First published in 1973 is an unabridged and unaltered republication of there revised 1970 edition of Agriculture Handbook No 73., "Wood-Frame House Construction". Author is an Engineer with the Forest Products Laboratory, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

New York: American Radiator Company., 1929. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Durable covers have soiling from technician's use. Titles darkened from soil.. 1 Red leather over boards, some flexibility. 5x7.25in. Gold stamped titles. 2-Post binding for changing pages. Color frontispiece. Handy reference for heating and plumbing professionals: bluprints, B&W and color photos and illustrations; charts; commercial and residential radiator and furnace catalog; gauges; fittings; engineering section. Frontispiece is colorization art or photo of American Radiator Building, 40 West 40th Street, New York City.

Niagara Power Service / Printer: JW Clement Co., Buffalo NY. No date, circa 1930s.. Hard cover. Fine in good dust jacket. DJ chipped at spine, overlap folds. Book clean, sound, historic.. 1 32 p. Illustrations, diagrams. 5.5x8 in. brown paper covered boards; Rainbow Falls color photo wraparound DJ w/yellow titles. Blue line art & decorations, color plates, B&W grayscale photos. Facts and figures; chart showing erosian at Horseshoe Falls from 1764-1925; an engineering model described; Niagara Gorge Railroad notes; economic service of the falls from a single sawmill to energy for hundreds of thousands of homes and thousands of factories; Hydraulic Canal, 1852; electric lights, 1879; metals; electricity; end page, facts about Niagara Falls and other great waterfalls: Victoria Falls (Africa, Zambesi River), Iguassi (Brazil), Yosemite (California).

New York.: Viking Books., 2002. First edition. 1st printing.. Hard cover. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 1 Paper over boards. 212 p. B&W photos (section), facsimile ads. Audience: General/trade. The Erector Set was created by A.C. Gilbert, 1884-1961, in 1913, and 30 million sets were sold by his company. Gilbert was an Olympic athlete, marketing genius, and millionaire. Author and journalist Bruce Watson asks whether Gilbert's quest to divert boys away from destructiveness. Do today's high-tech toys encourage or stifle creativity? Can girls build as well as boys?

Cambridge MA / London.: MIT Press., 1983. Presumed 1st. No print line.. Hard cover. Good in good dust jacket. Lower back cover, book and interior jacket damp stain.. 1 Blue cloth over boards. 214 p. 24 cm. White spine titles. Color photo jacket w/ white titles. Audience: General/trade. Biography of architect visionary Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867-1959, "son of the wide open American prairie", who had a tumultuous relationship with New York City for some 30 years, as well as people with whom he worked and lived, and reporters.

Vintage Contemporaries / Random, 1997. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued.. 0 293p. Vintage blue-tone pictorial cover, NYC hotel, flags-a-flying. Pulitzer Prize Novel about late 19th century New York City and of one of its young men who dreams of building hotels...and does.

Chicago / London.: University of Chicago Press., 1985. Later printing.. Trade paperback. Very good. Near fine; slight cover surface blemishing.. 1 Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 355 p. 8x10in. B&W photos; diagrams. Audience: General/trade. Architecture / American Studies / Art and Design / In association with the Mies van der Rohe Archive of the Museum of Modern Art. German born in provincial Aachen, and then named Ludwig Mies, the young architectural assistant made his home in Berlin. His career that followed was prolific, and by 1936, brought his life and international reputation to the United States, escaping Hitler's repressive Germany. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was in the forefront of Modernism, design in steel and glass. Art historian, professor and researcher Franz Schulze of Lake Forest College, IL, offers here a history of changing eras as well as the challenges and art of an architect with a world-based legacy.

A Bantam Book., 1974. First edition. No other printings listed.. Mass-market paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Minor edge wear; light spine creasing. Age-toning.. 1 374 p. Includes: index, bibliography. Mass-market (rack) paperback. Illustrated w/ Pen&ink drawings and diagrams. This volume hit the market during the early 1970s energy crisis in America, and continues to be relevant. Sections: Wood, Water, Wind, Solar, Methane.

Coit OH / Stanton OH / Windsor VT/: The National Acme Company., 1920. Wraps. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Minor cover wear. Residual odor, not mildew, more like machinery fluid of some kind from storage area... 1 16 p. Santa Claus Illustarted paper covers. 9x11.75in. Stapled binding. Trade magazine: "Published by and for the employees of The National Acme Company." Acme had 3 machine tooling or preciusion metalworking manufacturing branches: in Coit and Stanton OH, and in Windsor VT. Contents: general company news, features for each plant location, employee achievements with pictures, company sports teams, bands, and other activities, jokes, amusing reprints. Generally good-humored.

North Branch MN.: Natural Spaces Inc., 1985. Trade paperback. Good. Ex-library. Clean with minor cover stress. Binding very good.. 1 64 p. Includes: illustrations, diagrams. White glossy card stock covers; black Pen&Ink cover drawing, titles. Stapled binding. 28 cm. B&W photos. Pen&Ink technical artwork. Architectural innovation of the 1970s-1980s. This company offers numerous illustrated options with plans available, as is the company support network. Company innovators Janis and Dennis Johnson formed this company in 1978, having previously built domes under the business name, Big Outdoors People, producing over 300 domes. Structural Engineer John T Hanley is this company's consultant, employing computer engineering in customizing dome models.

New York.: Bell Publishing by arr. w/ University Books., 1965. First edition. "a" begins print line, this edition.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Tight, clean text pages w/ edge random foxing.. Critchlow, Dennis (Jacket design by).. 1 Brick red paper over boards. Gold spine titles. 228 p. 24 cm. Index. Audience: General/trade. Containing the strange and fantastic, engaging the analytical mind, or simply entertaining (from end flap). Author Gould, b.1890-d.1948, was a nautical and mechanical expert, author, broadcaster, WWI Royal Navy veteran. In 1923 he published "The Marine Chronometer" emerged after 12 years in cleaning and restoring historic chronometers made by John Harrison in the 18th century. Goukld did the same in becoming an expert in the history of the 18th to 20th century typewriters.

MacMillan Publishing Company, 1978. Book Club Edition.. Hard cover. Good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library.. 0 168 p. B&W photos throughout. Bibliography. Books. A house suspended from a pole (Dymaxion House), a 3-wheeled car, a fog gun for personal showering, and more...An inventor, b. 1895, much needed today, who searched for ways to work with nature's own geometry. A Junior Literary Guild Selection.

Penguin Books, 1984. Reprint.. Trade paperback. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Prior owner sketches.. 0 264p. Subjects: from 1851 to 1914. Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, Modern Movement (before 1914); painting, engineering, architecture.

Cleveland OH.: The Lincoln Electric Company., 1957. Eleventh Edition.. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Light edge, corner wear.. 1 Red cloth over boards. Gold titles. B&W photos, diagrams, charts. 23 cm. Professional technical skills. Contents: Aids, History, Equipment, Nomenclature; Welding Steel; Weldability of Metals; Basic Design and Production Data; Machinery Design; Arc Welded Structures; Applications; Reference Data, Index.

New York: Whitehead Metals, 1950. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Stain, tp right. Page edge soiling, minor chips.. 0 272 p. Includes: illustrations, diagrams, maps, index. Blue plastic spiral bound. Blue, gray, orange white covers. Whitehead Metals circular logo on cover. Section tabs. Northeast US map. A durable reference, resource for industry small and large with product lists, charts: aluminum, brass, bronze, copper, inconel, monel, nickel, stainless steel.

Freeport ME.: The Bond Wheelwright Company., 1960. First edition. No additional printings mentioned.. Hard cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Sun-fade to jacket spine. Top jacket edge wear; small chips to spine ends of jacket. Sun-fade, book lower edge. 1st end paper glue residue, not sticky, perhaps from bookplate. No library markings.. 1 206 p. Includes illustrations. Dark blue cloth over boards. Gold spine titles. Gold jacket w/ black titles, gray machinery reproduced images. Biography of an individual and American manufacturing roots: In 1789, a young man with a photographic memory of machinery detail for cotton spinning, arrived in New York from England. Protective of its new manufacturing methods by machine, England prohibited the export of machines and the emigration of its mechanics and manufacturers. Young Samuel Slater had been an apprentice in England's town of Belper, and had learned much about the innovative Arkwright machinery. Put in touch with Moses Brown of Providence… Leer más

Moscow, USSR / Radnor PA: V/O Vneshtorgreklama / Chilton International, 1976. Hard cover. Good. No dust jacket. Binding loosening, spine damage top and bottom, corner rubs; 3 red marker lines of front cover, 3 inches; 12x 14;. 0 198 p. Includes: illustrations, diagrams, index. Blue cloth covered boards; gold titles; v.1 No.1; Many dramatic photos. This issue is endorsed by the U.S. -U.S.S.R. Trade and Economic Council; Contents: Soviet Foreign Trade in 1971-1975 and Prospects for 1976-1980, Soviet Economy in 1976-1980 Increased Efficiency and Product Quality, Soviet Licenses on the World Market, Power, Metallurgy, Engineering, Chemistry, Electronics and Instrumentation; Soviet Foreign Trade Organizations.

New York.: Hastings House., 1955. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. Sun-fade to spine. Well-bound. Clean.. 1 Light blue cloth over boards. 308 p 21 cm. Pen&Ink line drawings. Selected Bibliography. Index. American Inventiveness, beginning in the 18th century, among 16 chapters: Captain Nemo in Connecticut; Water and Wheels, Saws and Stones; Iron and Indians, Silver and Bells; Puritan Hatches into Yankee; The Swimmer; Boats and Steam; Spinners; Weavers; Bridge Builders. Dedicated to Kent School, "in its 50th year of service".