Search Results: Technical and Engineering from The Owl at the Bridge

Philadelphia: Printed... by B. Franklin. 1744; reprint Providence, R. I., Associates of the JCB, 1974. Soft Cover. Wherein Their Construction and Manner of Operation is particularly explained; Their Advantages above every other Method of Warming Rooms demonstrated; And all Objections that have been raised against the Use of Them, answered and obviated. With Directions for putting them up, and for Using them to the best Advantage. And a Copper-Plate, in which the several Parts of the Machine are exactly laid down, from a Scale of equal Parts. Introduction by Thomas R. Adams. [6], [ii], 37, [1] p., folding plate; paper; fine. Stock#20407x.

NY: American Society of Civil Engineers [1974]. Hard Cover. ix, 464 p., illus.; 24 cm. The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) was founded in 1852, its constitution based on the older Boston Society of Civil Engineers (1848). ISBN (10): 087262000X. Stock#47954. Fine, still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Cambridge [Eng.] University Press, 1967, c1962.. Soft Cover. 222 p. 23 cm. The development of technology in the United States and Great Britain History in the19th century. Stock# 40,224. Good+/ used paperback.

Rochelle Park, NJ, Hayden, [c1955]. Soft Cover. vii, 118 p. , illus., 23 cm. Originally prepared to teach naval trainees. Stock# 40,998. Good+ / paper

London, 1922; reprint Martino [1991]. Hard Cover. 8vo; xx, 673 p., illus. Sheehy EJ198; Besterman 1930; Walford (1973) I: 110. Title continues: Researches into the Domain of the Early Sciences, Especially from the Period of the Revival of Scholasticism, with Biographical and Other Accounts of the Most Distinguished Natural Philosophers throughout the Middle Ages. With Introduction by the late Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson and Foreword by Sir R. T. Glazebrook. With Frontispiece and Plates. A chronological history with many bibliographical references. Binder's cloth; new from publisher. stock#24503x.

Staten Island, N.Y. Pober, 1998. Hard Cover. 750 p., 23.5 cm. 850 indexed entries. The mysterious arcane wisdom revealed by books of secrets is the knowledge of the craftsman, artisan, physician, cook and homemaker, as well as that of the practitioner of the occult arts. Books of secrets were the technical manuals of all the trades and professions. First published in parts Glasgow, 1882-1911, and was hard to use because it lacked an index. Stephen Pober has provided excellent indexes which allow penetration to the secrets of rich bibliographical annotation. Stock# 32,098x. New copies from the publisher.

Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 2004.. Soft Cover. xiii, 152 p., illus.(28 halftones; 18 line drawings) ; index, 23.5 cm. Originally published : Cambridge, Mass. : MIT, 1970. Stock# 41,125. Fine, new from publisher/ paper.

"SBN 262 16031 5." Contents include: Measures and Values; Note on Technical Manuscripts Influenced by Brunelleschi; Beginnings of Brunelleschian Concepts; Brunelleschi's "Masonry Work"; The New Concepts for Construction: Vaulting without Armature, Confluence of Classic and Gothic, The Wood Chain, The Stone Chains, Brunelleschi as Structural Engineer; Drawings of Brunelleschian Machines; History of Brunelleschi's Machines; Brunelleschi as Patentee and Contractor; Brunelleschi on Invention and Building. xiii, 152 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Very Good in shelfworn dust jacket. Stock#ofc0669.

Milwaukee, WI, Bradley Washfountain Co. Soft Cover. 16 p. incl. color pictorial paper covers, photos, diagrams, illus.; 28 cm. A.I.A. File No, 29-H with Washroom layouts from Bradley files, 12 p. incl. paper covers, diagrams. This company had offices in Milwaukee, London and Johannesburg and provided industrial and institutional plumbing. Two pamphlets. Stock#40506. Vg/ paper.

London, 1880; reprint Martino 1994. Hard Cover. Edited by Alfred J. Frost. An alphabetical compilation of over 13,000 titles by a man who, as well as being himself an inventor, lived several years in Italy and consequently had exceptional opportunity to obtain foreign works on the subject, including many of Volta, Faraday, Arago and Roget. 8vo; xxvii, 564 p. 21,5 cm. New from publisher. 28474x.

NY: American Society of Civil Engineers, 1970. Soft Cover. v, 116 p., illus.; 23 cm. Contents: The origin of the word "engineer" by Hunter McDonald --The beginnings of engineering by John Elfreth Watkins --Historical notes upon ancient and modern surveying and surveying instruments by H.D. Hoskold. Stock#47953. Vg / softcover.

Stroud (UK), Budding Books, 1997. Hard Cover. x, 181 p., 104 plates in the text; 24.5 cm. "Shows the achievements of British engineers at home and overseas, as well as major works of other nations' engineers, including such important structures as the Eiffel Tower, Roeblin's Niagara and Brooklyn Bridges, the Suez Canal and the Forth Railway Bridge." Fine/dj. fine. 101918.

Chicago, The Association, 1951. Hard Cover. [vii], 384, 56 p.; 22.5 cm. Appendix (56 p.): A. S. T. M. specifications C14, C75, C76 [and] A. A. S. H. O. specifications M86, M87, M41, T33. Hardcover; no dj; VG. stock#46507.

Waterbury, CT, American Brass Company [1958]. Soft Cover. 23p., illus., 20 cm. This metal lexicon contains definitions of a broad spectrum of copper products. The entry for "brasses" includes 46 types; "bronzes" 13, and "copper types" 16. So this is a pretty definitive view of the copper industry in the mid 29th Century. Stock# 45,099. Vg / soft cover.

Darnstadt, Wissenschaftliche, 1982. Hard Cover. 200p. 80 plates; 20 cm. Industrial archaeology, with a strong emphasis on mining techniques and how to identify them. Stock# 40,363. Vg / no dj.

NY, Experimenter Pub. Co., June 1917. Periodical. pp. 81-160, illus.; 30.5 cm. America's entry into World War I in April 1917 is noted in this war issue. The cover, and a story at p. 90, proposes a bizarre plan for "Electrocuting the Enemy," Wilson's executive order nationalizing all wireless stations. Articles include: Talking Motion Pictures via Wireless; the Use of High-Frequency Currents in Medicine; The Naval Radio Operator; Electricity and Water To Run Our Autos. The ads are revelations and there are notes of thing that have lasted (motorized sewing machines) and ones that never had a chance (electric cradle rocker). Stock#OB1055. Good; water stains in irregular places suggest spills.

London, Office, 37 Bedford Street, Strand, W.C., 1867. Also includes Vol. IV, July to December 1867. Zerah Colburn was an American engineer specialising in steam locomotive design as well as a technical journalist and publisher. This volume reports on and illustrates the engineering marvels of his era. It includes double-page spreads of The General Plan of the Paris Exposition; St Pancras Station, the largest single-span roof of iron; Roebling's suspension bridge at Cincinnati; 12 views of the Central Pacific line in California. New locomotives, steamships, bridges, and devices of all sorts are shown in sharp, clear engravings. Proposes a tunnel to France and other impossible ideas. Hard Cover. vii, 682; vii, 606 pages; illustrations; 34.5 cm. Very Good, rebound with new leather spine & corners. Stock#LL001/h.

New York, J. Wiley & sons, inc.; 1929.. Hard Cover. xiv, 294 p. incl. front., illus. fold. plates, fold. tab., diagrs. (part fold.) 23.5 cm. Second edition; first, 1919. Translated into French and reissued in 1945, this was the best book on the subject. Stock# 39,892. Vg/ no dj.

Paris, Baillière, 1922. Soft Cover. 559 pages, charts, diagrams, formulae, many advertisements. Encyclopédie d'Électricité Industrielle, Directeur A. Blondel. French electrical engineering in the early decades of the 20th century. Not in the Bakken catalog. Paper, as issued; uncut, but time has soiled covers and first signature, and front cover is loose. Stock#OB228.

Introduzione di Aldo Palazzeschi. "con una Pianta del centro distrutto di Firenze e 163 illustrazioni." Photographic record of those parts of Florence which were altered or destroyed as the city grew. 171 pages of text; 163 black & white illustrations. Very Good; pictorial dust jacket has small closed tears; slipcase beginning to come apart but still useful. With separate folding map, "Pianta del centro distrutto di Firenze". Stock#ofc0660.