Somer Jack Helmut Behling (2 results)

Hardcover. First Impression. Demy table, , [10 by 12 inches], full pictorial cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 187. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. Sulzer Ltd. is a Swiss industrial engineering and manufacturing firm, founded by Salomon Sulzer-Bernet in 1775 and established as Sulzer Brothers Ltd. (Gebrüder Sulzer) in 1834 in Winterthur, Switzerland. Today it is a publicly traded company with international subsidiaries. The company's shares are listed on the Swiss Stock Exchange. Sulzer Brothers helped develop shuttleless weaving, and their core business was loom manufacture. Rudolf Diesel worked for Sulzer in 1879[citation needed], and in 1893 Sulzer bought certain rights to diesel engines. Sulzer built their first diesel engine in 1898. In exceptionally good condition.…

1997 Wartsila Switzerland, hardcover 187 pages, with many photos. "From The Mountains To The Seas" by Jack A. Somer is a comprehensive historical account of the Sulzer diesel engine, documenting its development and evolution from the company's origins in the Swiss mountains to its widespread marine applications across the world's seas. The book, published in 1997 by Wärtsilä NSD Switzerland, chronicles the technical innovations and industrial significance of this influential engine design that became crucial for maritime propulsion ISBN 9783952156100 / 3952156108 In very good condition.…