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FEHRENBATCH, JOHN A Library of Steam Engineering
Cincinnati, The Ohio Valley Company. 1897. Hard Cover. Hardcover, size: tall octavo. Green blindstamped cloth with gilt stamped titles. Red text block edges. 803 pages, plus ads. Hundreds of illustrations and diagrams, plus frontis photo of author. Includes mathematics, safety valves, boiler plate, steam boilers, riveted joints, boiler flues, pumps, smoke stacks, boiler testing, machinery, electricity ("this newly developed science"), inspection, engineer licence laws, U.S. battleships, Western river steamboat practice, slide-valve engines, locomotives, and steam boiler injectors. Includes the following engines: Corliss, Atlas automatic, Brown, Buckeye, Porter-Allen, and Weir-Harden compound. Solid book with much rubbing and moderate edge-fraying to boards. Last page of ads is creased and tape repaired. Scattered minor soiling in text; several pages have erased pencil scribbles or small edge-tears. Good. Good.
Offered for US$ 50.00 by: Baumgartner Books - Book number: 36437
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