Technology Steam Engines Sharp Joel (1 results)

Oblong 8vo. [6], 86, [2] pp., text throughout w/ woodcut engraved borders, 4 woodcut-engraved steam engine plates, diagrams, charts, graphs, tables, text illustrations. Brown publisher's cloth, gilt lettering stamped on front cover, decorated endpapers (scuffing, soot soiling around fore-edges, old varnish brush marks to fore-edges front cover), still a VG- copy. First edition of this very rare original catalogue/manual for the Buckeye Engine Company's steam engine, and one of the earliest to adapt J.W. Thompson and Nathan Hunt's groundbreaking high-speed, variable automatic cut-off engines, featuring a centrifugal governor, and flywheel allowing for more controllable power supply, primarily for sawmills and logging operations. Simeon & Joel Sharp, Milton Davis, and Joel Bonsall first began manufacturing steam engines, and direct-acting reciprocating muley sawmills by 1851, and in 1870 reorganized the business as the Buckeye Engine Co. by 1888, the company featured over 200 employees, sales of nearly $ 500,000, and produced steam engines, sawmills, planing mills, shingle machines, and more. No copies in Worldcat.…