The Miscellaneous Documents of the House of Representatives for the Second Session of the Forty-Seventh Congress. 1882- ;83, Volume 13. Part 22

Washington [DC]: Government Printing Office, 1885. Hardcover. Good (major wear to boards and spine, age toning to pages and block edges but all pages are clear and readable). 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 27 pp, Report on the Manufacture of Engines and Boilers 66 pp, Report on Marine Engines and Steam Vessels in the United Stat es Merchant Service, 106 pp; The Ice Industry of the United States 44 pp. Contains numerous bw illustrations, diagrams and charts. Volume 13; Contents include: General letter of transmittal / W.P. Trowbridge -- Statistics of steam and water power used in the manufacture of iron and steel / Herman Hollerith -- Machine tools and wood-working machinery / F.R. Hutton -- Wool and silk machinery / Knight Neftel -- Pumps and pumping engines / F.R. Hutton -- Manufacture of engines and boilers / Charles H. Fitch -- Marine engines and steam vessels / Charles H. Fitch -- Report on the ice industry of the United States / Henry Hall.