Author: Maw, W.H. & Dredge, J. (ed.).
Title: Engineering: an illustrated weekly journal. Vol. LXXII- from July to December 1901.
Description: London; 1901; Office for Publication and Advertisements; halfcloth with marbled boards; with a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and overlooking innovative projects, machinery, engines, tools, etc.; numerous ills., fig., plates, plans, diagrams, wood engravings; articles/ reviews in this volume i.a. : 80-ton floating crane for the Santos harbour works (constructed by the Royal Dutch Forge Company, Leyden, Holland), with double paged enclosure; the New York subway, with double paged enclosure, plans and figures; the temporary inclines on the Kikuyu escarpment, Uganda railway, with double paged enclosure and ills.; the gun-mounting department of the naval construction works of Messrs. Vickers, Sons, and Maxim, Barrow-in-Furness, with double paged enclosure and ills.; the turbine-propelled passenger steamer "King Edward" (constructed by Messrs. William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton), with ill.; suction hopper dredger, Seine navigation (constructed by the Société Anonyme des Anciens Etablissements Satre, Lyons and Arles), with ills.; Salford electricity works, with double paged enclosure and figures; compound goods locomotive for the Prussian State Railways, with double paged enclosure and plans; the Whitehead torpedo works at Fiume, with double paged enclosure; launch of the H.M. armoured cruiser "King Alfred", with double paged enclosure; extensive index; complete with 22 double page enclosures; XXXIX, 886 pp. Former library copy. Binding slightly loosening.

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