Niles - Bement - Pond

Niles Electric Traveling Cranes

New York, Niles, Bement, Pond Company, 1914. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Oblong 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, bound in dark blue, oblong format softpaper wraps with red lettering to front cover, rubbed, and chipping to spine. The Shepard Electric Crane and Hoist Co. joined with the Sprague Electric Hoist Division to make electric cranes for construction in the 1910s and '20s from their headquarters in Montour Falls, New York. Niles, Bement, and Pond were a key manufacturer of industrial equipment and mechanical machinery (including supplies and components). This kind of trade literature is available only at the American History Museum Library. Electric cranes and hoisting machinery catalogues offer a unique lens through which to view U.S. manufacturing history. 90 pp., with previous owner's bookplate inside rear flap, penned inscription at first free endpaper.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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N° du livre: 357333

Catalogue: Science::Engineering/Technical

Mots-clés: trains railroads traveling cranes Niles Bement Pond engines motors engineering

Stevenson & Brookes

Standard American Gas and Oil Engine, Automobile and Farm Engine Guide

Chicago, Illinois, Sears, Roebuck & Company, 1912. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy bound in a black flexible, pebbly leather cover with folding flap, minor wear of covers and text-block beyond missing (probably) first two endpapers to title page, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Sections are paginated separately, and with 719, 232, and 243 pp. Gilt spine and flap titles and flourishes; all page edges gilt. Black-and-white illustrations galore, diagrams, four foldout diagrams; empty pocket to inner rear flap perhaps to keep scratch-paper? Quite sharply distinct title in gilt on spine reads: "Traction Engines, Young Engineer's Guide."Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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N° du livre: 349508

Catalogue: Science::Engineering/Technical

Mots-clés: Stevenson & Brookes|Sears, Roebuck & Company small engine repairs tractors|engines|engineering|traction engines|mechanics

De Fonvielle, W.

Thunder and Lightning

New York, Charles Scribner & Company, 1869. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Another fine contribution to the Illustrated Library of Wonders series, published in the mid-late 1800s by Charles Scribner and dedicated to topics natural and scientific, mechanical and engineering. First Edition thus, having been translated from the original French and edited by T.L. Fipson. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining, and now protected by stiff Mylar coat. Previous owner's penned inscription at second free endpaper. "Marvels of Nature, Science & Art" blind-stamped to front cover. Brick-red cloth, bound handsomely in gold-stamped cloth. Contains also 36 pages of period advertisement and 39 attractive black-and-white wood engravings. [6], 7-285 [36] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Very Good

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N° du livre: 348449

Catalogue: Science::Engineering/Technical

Mots-clés: W. de Fonvielle|electricity|Benjamin Franklin|French language|thunder|lightning

Kulenkampff, H.

Rã¶Ntgenstrahlen (Zum Funfzigjahrigen Jubilaum Ihrer Entdeckung)

Munchen, Germany, Leibniz Verlag, 1848. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Deutsches Museum Abhandlungen und Berichte 6. Jahrgang 1948, Heft 1. Published on the fiftieth anniversary of their discovery, 36 pp. with a portrait panel at frontis of Wilhelm Rontgen, quite fine. Softpaper brochure, heavily toned, chipped at upper tip, else clean and unmarked of interior, and with plentiful black-and-white illustrations. Another fine contribution to the series on treatises and reports owing to science and discover. A fine contribution to German Museum publications History, Medicine, Munich, Natural Science, Physics and the like. German language publication.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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N° du livre: 357063

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Mots-clés: H. Kulenkampff rontgenstrahlen physics commemoration

United States Naval Observatory

A Lot of Eleven (11) United States Naval Observatory Volumes

Washington, D.C., United States Government Printing Office, . First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 9 1/2" x 11 3/4. The lot is comprised of eleven (11) tall quarto hardcover volumes bound in dark green buckram cloth, covers blind-stamped in two logos of bi-directional arrows, both front and rear, with sharp and distinct lettering to spine. Bumping to spine heads and feet, bumping to some tips, else and withal, clean and quite sturdily bound. Withdrawn from an academic library (the University of California, Santa Clara), but with just blue ink-stamps denoting such. Volume XII: Part I: Equatorial Observations, 1908-1926, comprised of Two Parts and Appendix, devoted to equatorial observations made between 1908 and 1926. Part I discourses upon the equipment used (a 26-inch Equatorial telescope, The Clark Micrometer II, The Warner and Swasey Micrometer of the 26-inch Equatorial, the 12-inch Equatorial, and others), and then observations of asteroids, comets, occultations, solar eclipses and transit of Mercury, eclipses of Satellites, Double Stars, Miscellaneous stats, and satellites of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and other planets. Part II is comprised of photographic equatorial observations, including of asteroids, and use of the photoheliograph to make observations. Eleven plates, all sharp and distinct, printed on high-gloss paper, including of the Repsold Micrometer, and the electric driving clock of the photographic equatorial. 592 pp. H.R. Morgan, Volume XIII, "Results of Observations With the Nine-Inch Transit Circle 1913-1926 -- observations of the Sun, Moon, and Planets, a catalogue of 9,989 standard and intermediary stars, and miscellaneous stars." Hundreds and hundreds of tables and graphs and charts. The Observatory was to attempt to observe the Backlund stars in addition to the intermediary stars observable there, and to undertake to secure four observations of each of the intermediary stars observable there. 365 pp. Second Series, Volume XI, "Results of Observations with the Six-Inch Transit Circle 1909-1918," reduced under the direction of J.C. Hammond, discussed by J.C. Hammond and C.B. Watts, with five sharp and distinct black-and-white photographic plates printed on high-gloss paper, including of the 6-inch transit circle with accessories, the 6-inch transit circle house, and the axial microscope. 712 pp.(Two copies). Second Series, Volume VI, "Equatorial Observations, 1893-1907," and devoted to the use of the 16-inch and 12-inch Equatorial telescopes, observations satellites of the major planets, including of Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, then measurements of diameters of planets and satellites, including of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Ten black-and-white plates, including of the buildings that house the Equatorial and Dome telescopes. lxvii + multiple appendices, unpaginated, but roughly 750 pp. W.S. Eichelberger and F.B. Littell, "Catalogue of 23521 Stars between 13 degrees 35’ and 45 degrees 25’ South Declination for the Equinox 1850, from zone observations made at the United States Naval Observatory, 1846-1852." Second Series, Volume VII, xlvii + 558 pp. F.B. Littell, G.A. Hill and H.B. Evans, reduced by F.B. Littell, "Vertical circle observations made with the five-inch alt-azimuth instrument, 1898-1907," Second Series, Volume VIII. Descriptions of instruments, methods of observing, double stars, state of the seeing, thermometers and barometers, levels, clock corrections, the Zenith Distance Micrometer, and other technical topics and disciplines. Fine black-and-white illustration of the alt-azimuth instrument just opposite first page of Introduction. xxxvii + 465 pp. W.S. Eichelberger, "Results of Observations With The Nine-Inch Transit Circle, 1903-1911," being Series II, Volume IX, Part I (1920). Contains also Results of Observations 1903-1911 and Catalogue of 4526 stars for 1900, with some scuffing to and discoloration of the green buckram cloth boards, short closed tear to the penultimate endpaper, else clean and unmarked of interior. Six sharp and distinct black-and-white plates printed on high-gloss paper, and hundreds of other black-and-white illustrations, tables, charts and graphs. Sequentially paginated appendices ~750 pp. W.S. Eichelberger, "Observations Made With The Nine-Inch Transit Circle, 1903-1908," being Series II, Volume IX, Part II (1915). Hundreds of other black-and-white illustrations, tables, charts and graphs, the volume being split into two long sections, "Introduction" and "Observations and Reductions." Alphabettically sequential pagination, but roughly 780 pp. W.S. Eichelberger, "Observations Made With The Nine-Inch Transit Circle, 1903-1908-1911," being Series II, Volume IX, Part III and IV (1918), with inch-long ding to upper rear board, else clean and unmarked of interior. Hundreds of other black-and-white illustrations, tables, charts and graphs, the volume being split into four long sections, including Errata, Part III.--Observations made with the nine-inch transit circle, 1908-1911, Part IV.--Observations made with the nine-inch transit circle, 1912-1913, and Appendix.--Determination of the difference of longitude between Washington and Paris, 1913-1914. Alphabetically sequential pagination ~450 pp. George A. Hill, Volume X, Part I: "Observations Made With the Prime Vertical Transit Instrument 1893-1912" (1926). Hundreds of other black-and-white illustrations, tables, charts and graphs. Nine sharp black-and-white plates, including at frontis. Volume X, Part II: "Total Solar Eclipses of August 30, 1905, and June 8, 1918, aviators' note on the total solar eclipse of Sept 10, 1923. Alphabetically sequential pagination ~ 780 pp., including xlix. J.H.C. Coffin, T.J. Page, and Charles Steedman, "Zones of Stars Observed at the United States Naval Observatory With the Mural Circle in the years 1846, 1847, 1848, and 1849" (1872). Comprising Washington Observations for 1869—Appendix II. 329 pp. A description of the â€oemeridianâ€� instrument, method of observing and observers, corrections and reductions for micrometer wires, table of reductions to the meridian, values of Delta R, corrections and rates of the clock, coincidence of wires, value of the micrometer-screw, and values of the Zenith Point, and then a note of errata, and a clarification of zones. xxv + 331 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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N° du livre: 345136

Catalogue: Science::Engineering/Technical

Mots-clés: Astronomy|U.S. Naval Observatory|Science|Technology|Solar Eclipse|Lunar Eclipse|Equatorial Telescope|Clark Micrometer II|Warner Micrometer|Swasey Micrometer|Twenty-six-inch equatorial telescope|Transit of Mercury|Satelite of Mars |Satellite of Jupiter|Sat

Valles, Francisco Sans

Evolucion de la Fisica Del Atomo Y Posibilidad de Arpvoechamiento de la Energia Intraatomica

Barcelona, Spain, Elzeviriana, 1945. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Exceedingly scarce in the trade, there being only one additional copy available on-line currently. Heavily foxed and moderately toned interior, but clean and unmarked. Printed softpaper wraps, mildly soiled exterior. An early and unusual contribution to physical theory and chemistry just prior to the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 68 pp. plus tables and charts, index.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fair

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N° du livre: 357168

Catalogue: Science::Engineering/Technical

Mots-clés: Spanish language physics atomic energy nuclear energy Francisco sans Valles