Illustrated Weekly Journal by Engineering (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. THE AMERICAN ENGINEER. ORIGINAL SINGLE ISSUE, October 30, 1889, Vol. 18, No. 18. Softcover, original blue wrappers, 14.5" x 10.5", 9 pages of text (numbered 154-162) + 9 pages of advertisements, including covers. The text is illustrated with detailed technical antique engravings. GOOD CONDITION: The wrappers have light age-wear, small closed edge-tears, corner creasing, corner-tip chips, and the spine is mostly split at the fold but holding by a few inches, otherwise the covers remain very bright. Internally, the two binding staples have completely oxidized leaving a rust stain/hole, light wear from age and use, edge-wear, and corner-creases, overall the 125 year old inner pages are bright, clean, unmarked and complete. Rare.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. THE AMERICAN ENGINEER. ORIGINAL SINGLE ISSUE, September 20, 1890, Vol. 20, No. 12. Softcover, blue paper wrappers, 14.5" x 10.5", 9 pages of text (numbered 122-132) + 9 pages of Illustrated Advertisements for Victorian engineering products and firms. The text is illustrated with detailed antique engravings, including Technical Drafting Instruments, and Engines. VERY GOOD CONDITION: The paper wrappers have a touch of age wear, but remain very clean and bright. Internally, the two binding staples are lacking but the journal sheets are unaffected; a touch of wear from age and use; overall the inner pages are complete, bright, clean, and unmarked. Rare.

582, 498 S., sehr zahlreiche s/w-Abbildungen, teils auf doppelseitigen Tafeln, Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 0 4°, Halb-Leder, Einband berieben und mit kleinem Rückenschild, Stempel auf Titelblatt, insgesamt gutes Exemplar.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Book measures 14 x 10 1/2 inches. From July 6th, to December 28th, 1956, 832 pages, illustrated throughout. Bound in modern buckram cloth. Cloth slightly faded, very minor abrasion wear. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Internally, pages clean throughout. A very good well bound clean volume. Some of the contents of this volumes. Turning, Screwing and Threading.Britain's First Nuclear Power Station at Calder Hall. Cast-Iron Tunnel Linings. Rational Design of Stayed Tube-Plates. Clearing the Suez Canal. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Book measures 14 x 10 1/2 inches. From July 1st, to December 30th,1955, 904 pages, illustrated throughout. Bound in modern buckram cloth. Cloth slightly faded, very minor abrasion wear. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Internally, pages clean throughout. A very good well bound clean volume. Some of the contents of this volumes. Irrigation and Power Potential of the Jordan Basin. Electric and Diesel-Electric Traction for Mail-line Railway.The Dounreay Fast Reactor. Soil Mechanics in Railway Civil Engineering. Diesel-Mechanical Shunting Locomotives for New Zealand. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 890 pages; London: Offices of "Engineering". Very Good. 1907. First Edition. 890 pages; With the original title page for the semi-annual volume and the several indices for vol. LXXXIV (issued with the first numbers of 1908) . Large folio. Bound around time of receipt in full green buckram, spine lettered in gilt -- plain endpapers, edges of the leaves decoratively marbled. Originally, this volume was in the Library of the U. S. Bureau of Standards. There is a small performated stamp of the Bureau of Standards on the title page, now overstamped: "Cancelled. " The Surplus-Duplicate stamp of the Library of Congress appears in blue ink on the front free endpaper, making this volume legal to buy and sell. This heavy volume never circulated; there is no card pocket or circulation slip. One of the most interesting and consequential volumes of this standard publication covering the world's engineering achievements during the first decade of the twentieth century. During the second half of 1906, the huge Cunard turbine-powered ocean liners "Lusitania" and "Mauretania" were built separately and first launched for their respective sea trials. The richly detailed accounts here in "Engineering" coincide with the maiden voyages of the two ships. Each was, at its time of launching, the largest and most powerful vessel the world had yet seen. Each, also, took the "Blue Riband" -- the informal (but highly prized) award for the fastest Atlantic crossing by a passenger liner. Cunard was under pressure at the time these two ships were designed and built. The German firms German Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) and Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) had each built ships larger, faster and more luxurious ships than Cunard's flag ships. The American financier J. P. Morgan entered the liner business by forming a trust (IMM) consisting of Frederick Leyland Ltd. -- which he bought outright, and his controlling interest in the British White Star Line. Additionally, Morgan made an attempt to purchase Cunard, as well. Cunard hoped to regain their position atop the Atlantic liner trade and struck a deal with the British government. In June 1903, Cunard obtained a loan of £2.6 million to finance two ships -- (a 20-year loan at a rate of 2.75%) . The proposed Cunard ships would receive an annual government operating subsidy of £75, 000 each plus a mail contract worth £68, 000. The only catch was that the ships were required to be built to Admiralty specifications -- implying that they might potentially serve as auxiliary cruisers in a time of war. The massive task of building these two ships was so complex and demanding that the two commissions were awarded to two different firms. "Lusitania" was designed by Leonard Peskett and built by John Brown and Company of Clydebank, Scotland. Its vast size required that the shipyard be reorganized in order that "Lusitania" might be launched diagonally across the widest possible part of the river Clyde where it met a tributary. The Clyde itself was too narrow to accomodate the 786 foot length of "Lusitania. " Even considering this creative diagonal launching, undertaking the commission required that John Brown spend £8, 000 to dredge the Clyde, £18, 000 to extend the dock plus £19, 000 for a new crane capable of lifting 150 tons, etc. Photographs and detailed textual descriptions of all aspects are included in this volume. The texts published here were timed to coincide with the respective maiden voyages: 'Lusitania' was put into Atlantic service July 7, 1907; 'Mautiania' followed at the end of 1908 on November 16. Like "Lusitania, " "Mauretania was designed by Leonard Peskett, but was built by the firm of John Wigham Richardson Swan Hunter, in Northumberland, England. Upon launch, "Mauretania" was the largest moving structure ever built -- slightly larger in gross tonnage than Lusitania. She was also about five feet longer than her sister Cunard ship. Although initiall; Military History, Travel and Exploration, Most Recent L.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. A near complete run from 1866 to 1994. 231 volumes. Lacking July-Decenber, 1948, & January-June, 1949. Books measure 36x26.5, last 31 volumes measure, 30x21.5. Illustrated throughout. Most volume bound in modern black cloth, with gilt lettering, others bound in quarter calf. The calf volumes are faded on spines. Generally all bindings in very good clean firm condition. Internally, very occasional library mark, stamp. Pages and illustrations in very good clean condition. Size: Small Folio.

Condition: Very Good. Book measures 14 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches. From July 4th to December 26th, 1947, 624 pages, illustrated. Bound in cloth. Cloth lightly rubbed, some scuff marking. A good clean solid working binding. Internally, pages clean throughout. Some of the articles in this volume. Manufacture of Fuel-Injection Equipment. Jet-Propelled Flying-Boat Fighter. Flying Display at Radlett. Southern Railway Channel Streamer '' Falaise '' Manufacture of Cast-Steel Bomb Bodies. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Condition: Very Good. A run in the engineering Weekly Journal, from 1941 to 1946, January, 1941, to December, 1946, lacking January to June, 1943. 11 volumes in all. circa 6,000 pages. Books measure 14 x 11 inches. Bound in cloth. Cloth light rubbed, faded on spines, scuff marking. Good solid working bindings. Internally, pages clean throughout. A nice run, in good solid working bindings. Some of the articles in these volumes. Early Naval Flying. The '' Marathon '' Civil-Transport Aircraft. North Atlantic Ice Patrol. The British '' Valentine '' Infantry Tank Air Raid Shelter Air Purification. Side Launching of Submarines. Ranney Water-Collecting Installation; Indian Ordnance Work. Mud Mountain Dam. Washington. Production-Line Welded Shipbuiling. Pre-Fabricated Ship Construction in the United States. Timber Hanger for the United States Navy. Rebuilt 2-8-0 Locomotive for the L.N.E.R. Trench-Excavation Machine. The '' Superfortress '' Long-Range Bomber. Floating Concrete Arch Bridge Across River Derwent at Hobart. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.