Author: James Weir French [editor]
Title: Modern Power Generators: Steam Electric and Internal Combustion and Their Application to Present-Day Requirements
Description: London , The Gresham Publishing Company , 1908. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition set of works discussing the nature and qualities of modern power generators, embellished with detailed illustrations and interactive folding models. The first edition. Complete in two volumes.In the publisher's original green cloth binding with Art Nouveau board designs.A detailed work on the progress of the Mechanical Arts by the work of the engineer and the mechanic, with chapters on steam generators, steam engines, steam locomotives.Written by James Weir French, a British Chairman of Barr and Stroud Engineers and Instrument Makers and Optical Glass Manufacturers.Volume I covers Steam Generators, The Steam Engine, The Steam Locomotive and Continuous Railway Brakes. Illustrated with five colour folding composite sectional models and over two hundred in-text images. Volume II covers Electrical Generators and Motors and and the Motor Car. Illustrated with six colour folding composite sectional models and over two hundred in-text images. Collated, complete. In the original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor rubbing and bumping to the extremities, heaviest to the spine head and tail. Light marks to the boards, heavier to volume I. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with the odd spotting, mainly to the first and last few leaves. Very Good . Ill.: Not stated. Very Good .

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