Audel's Engineers and Mechanics Guide 1-8: A Progressive Illustrated Series with Questions-Answers-Calculations Govering Modern Engineering Practice. This item is unavailable.Audel's Engineers and Mechanics Guide 1-8: A Progressive Illustrated Series with Questions-Answers-Calculations Govering Modern Engineering Practice

Number of Volumes: 8 Profusely illustrated. Complete set, volumes 1-7 are dated 1921, and volume 8 is the 1927 edition of a 1924 imprint. Original soft black cloth covers with gilt lettering on spines, embossed lettering on covers, and gilt page-edges. Covers are lightly worn, and spines are creased slightly. Pages are clean and without marginalia; some light tanning to pages and pastedowns. A handsome set "covering modern engineering practice" of the early 20th century, including guide number 1: basic principles of physics and engineering related to steam engines, engine and pump operation and valve settings; guide number 2: the Corliss engine, Uniflow engine, Poppet valve engines, locomobiles, air compressors, rock drills, concrete mixers, stream hoists and hammers, traction engines, and more; guide number 3: locomotives, marine engines, turbines, and lubricants; guide number 4: gas, oil, and diesel engines, aeroplanes, how to select and design an engine, propellers, and hot air engines; guide number 5: boilers, fuels and fuel analysis, combustion, boiler materials, shell boilers and water tube boilers, and more; guide number 6: how to select, operate, and design a boiler, how a boiler is built, furnaces, mechanical stokers, oil burners, chimneys and stacks, mechanical draught, and more; guide number 7: pipes, fittings, and pipe fitting, heating and ventilation, refrigeration, condensers, evaporating and distilling apparatuses, cooling ponds and towers, elevators, ropes, knots, and splices, cranes and hoists; and guide number 8: electricity, conductors and insulators, magnetism, storage batteries, electro-plating, alternating and direct currents, wiring and splicing, electro-magnetic induction, motors, ignition, telegraph, telephone, radio, motion pictures, x-rays, electro-theraputics, and treating electric shock. Softcover, very good condition. 4346 pages plus indices and publishers lists, 16mo, eight volumes.…