‎Technology‎

‎"Mechanical Wonderland" compiled and Sold in Connection with the Exhibiting of‎

‎Manual of Mechanical Movements: A Collection of Mechanical Movements for Study in Connection with Developments in the Line of Machine Design: Dynamics: Hydraulics: Pneumatics: Ostatics: Horology: Electricity: Prime Movers: Misc. Machines‎

‎New Jersey: W. M. Clark 1933. Faint foxing to fep and rear ep else textblock is in great condition clean and tight. No remainder marks. Green cloth binding small black ink stain along upper edge of front cover scuffed covers rubbing/bumping to head and foot of spine and to the corners as well. Lacks dust jacket; 122pp. Cloth. Good. Illus. by Diagrams. 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall. Hardcover. W. M. Clark Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : SB10605

‎"MEYER, GUSTAV.‎

‎Der Grundbau unter Ausschlufs der Druckluftgründungen. Als Ergänzung des ersten Bandes des Handbuchs der Ingenieurwissenschaften Kapitel VII.‎

‎Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1896. Royal8vo. In contemporary half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Paper-label pasted on to top of spine and stamp to title-page. Occassional light brown-spotting throughout. (4), 60 pp.‎

‎Supplement to ""Handbuchs der Ingenieurwissenschaften"".‎

Bookseller reference : 52401

‎"MIETH, MICHAEL (+) CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICHS von GEISSLER.‎

‎Neue curieuse Beschreibung Der gantzen Artillerie Worinnen nicht allein ausführlich gehandelt wird von unterschiedlichen Manieren und Gestalten derer Giss-Oefen, darinnen allerhand Arten Stücken, Haupitzen und Mörser, ec. zu giessen, Ingleichen, wie u...‎

‎Dresden und Leipzig, Hilschern, 1736. + Dresden, Zimmermann, 1718. Folio. Bound in one contemp. full calf. Raised bands. Richly gilt compartments. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Light wear to top of spine. A paperlabel pasted on lower compartment. Stamp on title-page. MIETH: Engraved, double-page frontispiece. (2),192,(2) pp., 32 double-page (or triple) folded engraved plates. Clean and fine. + GEISSLER: Engraved frontispiece. Title-page in red/black. (16),177,(4) pp. (pp. 5-13 a. 119 engraved), 3 engraved plates, 175 larger and smaller engravings in the text. The portrait of Geissler missing (supplied in xerox-copi). A few leaves with light browning.‎

‎Mieth is third edition of his ""Artilleriae Recentior Praxis"", 1684. - Sloos. Warfare and the Age of Printing, 7048. - Rumpf, 1300.Geissler is first edition. - Sloos. Warfare and the Age of Printing, 7041. - Rumpf, 1120.‎

Bookseller reference : 56394

‎"MILNE, J. and T. GRAY. - MAPPING THE SHAKING EARTH - THE INVENTION OF THE SEISMOGRAPH‎

‎On Seismic Experiments. Communicated by A.C. Ramsay. Received November 5, - Read December 8, 1881.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1883). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" Year 1882, Volume 173 - 1883. - Pp. 863-883 and 1 plate. Margin of plate with small tears.Otherwise clean and fine.‎

‎"MONTAHYE, E.‎

‎Krupp et de Bange. Avec 4 planches et la photographie des usines de Krupp.‎

‎Bruxelles, C. Marquardt, 1887. Contemp. hcalf. Spine gilt and titlelabel with gilt lettering. One corner bumped. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. Stamp on titlepage. An original photo as frontispiece: ""Vue générale des aciéries Krupp à Essen"". VII,238 pp. and 4 folded plates.‎

‎The scarce first edition.‎

Bookseller reference : 39664

‎"MORRISON, L. W.‎

‎The Radar Receiver.‎

‎New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1947. 8vo. In the original printed blue wrappers. In ""The Bell System Technical Journal"", Volume XXVI, October, Number 4, 1947. Entire issue offered. Light miscolouring to spine. A fine fine and clean copy. Pp. 693-817. [Entire issue: 693-904 pp.].‎

‎First printing of Morrison's extensive paper of different models of the radar receiver.‎

Bookseller reference : 50445

‎"MORSE, SAMUEL F.B.‎

‎Examination of the telegraphic Apparatus and the Processes in Telegraphy. (Paris Universal Exposition, 1867. Reports of the United States Commissioners).‎

‎Washington, Philip & Solomons, 1869. Orig. full cloth. Spine with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. A stamp on title-page. 166 pp., 23 textillustrations.‎

‎First edition. This is Morse's comprehensive description of the telegrapic apparatus exhibited in Paris 1867.""This extensive illustrated report, probably Morse's most lenghtly published discussion of telegraphy, includes a detailed account of Morse's own telegraph system and of the morse code, a brief report on submarine telegraphy, a section on automatic recording telegraphs and information on telegraph systems in various countries."" (Hook & Norman No. 396).Weaver Gift: 1749. - Sabin: 50963.‎

Bookseller reference : 51743

‎"MOUCHOT, A.‎

‎La Chaleur solaire et ses applications industrielles. 35 Gravures intercalées dans le texte. - [PRESENTATION-COPY]‎

‎Paris, 1869. 8vo. Contemporary green half cloth with gilt red leather title-label to spine. A bit of wear to extremities and title-label with wear. A bit of brownspotting to first and last leaves. VII, (1), 238 pp. Illustrated.‎

‎Scarce first edition, presentation-copy, of the first book explicitly devoted to solar energy, ""Solar Energy and its Industrial Applications"", which coincided with the unveiling of Mouchot's largest solar steam engine, the so-called ""Sun Engine"", in 1869, which caused a revolution in the development of solar thermal power. His 1869 work constitutes a milestone of what we now call ""green energy"", as it laid the foundation for our understanding of the conversion of solar radiation into mechanical power driven by steam.The PRESENTATION-INSCRIPTION, to the half-title reads: ""|a Monsieur Burdallot/ hommage de l'auteur/ A. Mouchot"". Auguste Mouchot was a French mathematics teacher, who in the 1860'ies became famous as the designer (and patent-taker) of the first machine that generated electricity with solar thermal energy electricity by the exposure of the sun. Mouchot began his work with solar energy in 1860 after expressing grave concerns about his country's dependence on coal. His work on solar energy and on the development of his sun machine forms the basis for the later developments on solar energy. ""The work of Adams, Ericsson, and Shuman had been directly influenced by the solar conceptions of Augustin Mouchot, a man who arrived on the scene in nineteenth century France at precisely that moment when his ideas were likely to attract the most attention. It was a time when French industrial might was at a peak and her leaders open to new ideas, none more so than her emperor. In 1867, to commemorate the explosion of technology that had accompanied the industrial and artistic carnival over which he had presided for 15 years, France's Napoleon III decided to invite the whole world to an international exposition that he would host in Paris."" (Kryza, The Power of Light, p. 147). ""His initial experiments involved a glass-enclosed, water-filled iron cauldron, in which sunlight passed through a glass cover, heating the water. This simple arrangement boiled water, but it also produced small quantities of steam. Mouchot added a reflector to concentrate additional radiation onto the cauldron, thus increasing the steam output. He succeeded in using his apparatus to operate a small, conventional steam engine. Impressed by Mouchot's device, Emperor Napoleon III offered financial assistance, which Mouchot used to produce refinements to the energy system. Mouchot's work help lay the foundation for our current understanding of the conversion of solar radiation into mechanical power driven by steam.The publication of his book on solar energy, ""La Chaleur solaire et ses Applications industrielles"" (1869), coincided with the unveiling of the largest solar steam engine he had yet built. This engine was displayed in Paris until the city fell under siege during the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, and was not found after the siege ended."" (The Energy Library).‎

Bookseller reference : 47528

‎"MOUCHOT, A.‎

‎Résultats obtenus dans les essais d'applications industrielles de la chaleaur solaire. [In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome LXXXI (No.14)]. - [THE SOLAR GENERATOR]‎

‎(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1875. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 81, No 14. [Mouchot's paper:] Pp. 571-574. (Entire issue offered). (1), 546-604 pp. Clean and fine.‎

‎"MOUCHOT, A.‎

‎Résultats obtenus dans les essais d'applications industrielles de la chaleaur solaire. [In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome LXXXI (No.14)]. - [THE SOLAR GENERATOR]‎

‎(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1875. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 81, No 14. [Mouchot's paper:] Pp. 571-574. (Entire issue offered). (1), 546-604 pp. Clean and fine.‎

‎First printing of the paper in which Mouchot presents his seminal solar generator. Auguste Mouchot was a French mathematics teacher, who in the 1860'ies became famous as the designer (and patent-taker) of the first machine that generated electricity with solar thermal energy electricity by the exposure of the sun. Mouchot began his work with solar energy in 1860 after expressing grave concerns about his country's dependence on coal. His work on solar energy and on the development of his sun machine forms the basis for the later developments on solar energy. ""The work of Adams, Ericsson, and Shuman had been directly influenced by the solar conceptions of Augustin Mouchot, a man who arrived on the scene in nineteenth century France at precisely that moment when his ideas were likely to attract the most attention. It was a time when French industrial might was at a peak and her leaders open to new ideas, none more so than her emperor. In 1867, to commemorate the explosion of technology that had accompanied the industrial and artistic carnival over which he had presided for 15 years, France's Napoleon III decided to invite the whole world to an international exposition that he would host in Paris."" (Kryza, The Power of Light, p. 147). ""His initial experiments involved a glass-enclosed, water-filled iron cauldron, in which sunlight passed through a glass cover, heating the water. This simple arrangement boiled water, but it also produced small quantities of steam. Mouchot added a reflector to concentrate additional radiation onto the cauldron, thus increasing the steam output. He succeeded in using his apparatus to operate a small, conventional steam engine. Impressed by Mouchot's device, Emperor Napoleon III offered financial assistance, which Mouchot used to produce refinements to the energy system. Mouchot's work help lay the foundation for our current understanding of the conversion of solar radiation into mechanical power driven by steam.The publication of his book on solar energy, ""La Chaleur solaire et ses Applications industrielles"" (1869), coincided with the unveiling of the largest solar steam engine he had yet built. This engine was displayed in Paris until the city fell under siege during the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, and was not found after the siege ended.In September 1872, Mouchout received financial assistance from the General Council of Indre-et-Loire to install an experimental solar generator at the Tours library. He presented a paper on the generator to the Academy of Sciences on 4 October 1875, and in December of the same year he presented to the Academy a device he claimed would, in optimal sunshine, provide a steam flow of 140 liters per minute. (The Energy Library).Mouchot is the first author to write explicitly about solar energy and how to convert solar radiation into usable energy, thus laying the foundation for what we now call ""green energy"".‎

Bookseller reference : 57118

‎"NOBLE, CAPTAIN.‎

‎On the Pressure required to give Rotation to rifled Projectiles.‎

‎(London), 1873. Contemp. clothbacked. boards. Titlelabel with gilt læettering to frontboard. Stamps to titlepage. Extracted from ""The hilosophical Magazine for March 1873"" pp. (1-) 12 and 1 folded plate.‎

Bookseller reference : 40024

‎"PAMBOUR, F.M.G. de.‎

‎Théorie de la Machine a Vapeur. Ouvrage destiné à prouver des méthodes en usage pour évaluer les effets ou les proportions des machines à vapeur... formules analytiques... suivi d'un Appendice.‎

‎Paris, Bachelier, 1839. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. (4),XVI,432 pp. Internally clean and fine.‎

‎First Paris-edition. ""His Théorie de la machine à vapeur, which went through several editions and translations, had a fundamental and mathematical approach such as might be expected from an applied physicist rather than a practical engineer. As late as 1876 the work was authoritatively referred to as ""the most celebrated treatise of Pambour ... published in 1844, then far superior to other works and still in many respects one of the best standards on the subject."" In his definitive treatise, R. H. Thurston frequently refers to Pambour’s work in the highest terms. He points out that much of his original work has been ""demonstrated anew by a certain number of modern writers who appear to ignore the works of Pambour."" (DSB).‎

Bookseller reference : 51851

‎"PAMBOUR, F.M.G. VON.‎

‎Theorie der Dampfmaschinen, in welcher die Umgenauigkeit der gewöhnlichen Berechnungs-Arten der Wirkungen und der Verhältnisse der Dampfmaschinen gezeigt und dann eine Reihe von Formeln aufgestellet wird.... Nach der zweiten, mit vielen Figurentafeln ...‎

‎Berlin, G. Reimer, 1849. 4to. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine with gilt lettering. Light wear along fronthinge. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. VIII,512 pp. and 24 large folded lithographed plates. Some scattered brownspots.‎

‎First German edition. - ""The investigations of the Count de Pambour on the theory of the steam engine were conductive to the progress of thermodynamics by pointing out the proper mode of applying mechanucal principles to the expansive action of an elastic fluid."" (Rankine).‎

Bookseller reference : 51847

‎"PETERSON, E.‎

‎Coil Pulsers for Radar.‎

‎New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1946. 8vo. In the original printed blue wrappers. In ""The Bell System Technical Journal"", Volume XXV, October, Number 4, 1946. Entire issue offered. Light miscolouring to spine. A fine fine and clean copy. Pp. 603-615. [Entire issue: 539-655 pp.].‎

‎"PICARD, (JEAN) & J.H. LAMBERT. - WATER-LEVELLING.‎

‎Abhandlung vom Wasserwägen mit neuen Beyträgen von J.H. Lambert. Mit Kupfern.‎

‎Berlin, Haude und Spener, 1770. 8vo. Cont. hcalf. Gilt back and gilt titlelabel. A paperlabel pated on upper compartment of back. Stamps on titlepage. XVI,296 pp. and 10 folded engraved plates (8+2). Lambert's 8 appendixes pp. 187-296 with 2 plates. Some light browning, but a good copy.‎

‎This is the second German edition (the first from 1749 was abridged) by the famous French astronomer and geographer Jean Picard, who was the first to measure the lenght of a degree of a meridian. It is the first appearance of Lambert's 8 tracts where he treats the measuring with the water-levelling instruments mathematically, and applies some of the principles he introduced in his epochal work on theoretical carthography in 1772. The book has de la Hire's ""Vorrede"". - Not in Rosenthal, Litteratur der Technologie (only 1749 ed.). - Poggendorff II:442 (as part of Picard's ""Nivellement"").‎

Bookseller reference : 31521

‎"PIERCE, J R.‎

‎Waves in Electron Streams and Circuits.‎

‎New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1951. 8vo. In the original printed blue wrappers. In ""The Bell System Technical Journal."", Volume XXX, July, 1951, No. 3. The entire no. 3 offered. Wear to spine and previous owner's name to front wrapper. Otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 626-651. [Entire volume: Pp. 491-778].‎

‎"POLENI, GIOVANNI.‎

‎Miscellanea. Hoc est I. Dissertation de Barometris, & Thermometris, II. Machinae Arithmeticae, ejusque usus Decriptio, III. De Sectionibus Conicis Parallelorum in Horologiis Solaribus Tractatus. - [""THE FIRST DETAILED PRINTED DESCRIPTION OF A MECHANICAL CALCULATING MACHINE""]‎

‎Venice, Aloysius Pavinus, 1709. 4to. Completely uncut in the original stitched blank boards. Some brownspotting. Untouched and unrestored in completely original condition. A magnificent copy. Engraved title-vignette. (8), 56 pp. + 9 folded engraved plates.‎

‎"RAILWAY, TRAIN, STEAMENGINES -‎

‎Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées. Collection de dessins distribués aux Elèves. 32 plates. - [COLLECTION OF PLATES RELATING TO TRAINS, RAILWAYS & STEAMENGINES]‎

‎(No place, nor year, but Paris, presumably 1875). Folio. 32 plates (505 x 640) loosely incerted in two portfolios. A few plates with a few small nicks, otherwise fine and clean.‎

‎"REUSS, CHRISTIAN GOTTLOB.‎

‎Anweisung zur Zimmermannskunst, den Anfängern und Liebhabern der Baukunst, besonders den Zimmerleuten, zum Besten aufgesetzt, und mit nöthigen Kupfern erkläret. Dritte Auflage mit neuen Zusätzen und Kupfern vermehret. (+) Anhang. In welchem Viere im C...‎

‎Leipzig, Breitkopf, 1789. Folio. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine, titlelabel with gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on upper part of spine. Stamps on title-page. (6),65,(1) pp., 36 engraved plates and ""Anhang"" with 4 large folded engraved plates (Bridges). Scattered brownspotting, mainly to text.‎

‎"RICE, S. O.‎

‎Statistical Properties of a Sine Wave Plus Random Noise. - [THE RICE DISTRIBUTION]‎

‎New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1948. 8vo. In the original printed blue wrappers. In ""The Bell System Technical Journal"", Volume XXVII, Number 1, 1948. Entire issue offered. Light miscolouring to spine. A fine fine and clean copy. Pp. 109-157. [Entire issue: Pp. 1-181.].‎

‎"RICHARDSON, ROBERT & WILLIAM BRIDGE ADAMS.‎

‎Railways, Engines, Carriages, &c. &c. Patent for an Invention of ""CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF RAILWAYS, AND OF ENGINES AND CARRIAGES USED THEREON."" [British Patent] No. 11715..‎

‎[London, Eyre and Spottiswoode], 1847. Royal8vo. Bound in contemporary blue cardboard. With title label pasted on to spine. Bound with patents: 11701-25. 22 pp. + large folded plate.‎

‎"ROBBINS, C. W.‎

‎Automatic Machine Gaging.‎

‎New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1928. 8vo. Volume VII, October, No. 4, 1928 of ""The Bell System Technical Journal"". In the original printed bluish grey wrappers. A bit of sunning to extremities, stamp to front wrapper. Internally clean. Pp. 708-729.‎

‎First printing of this very early paper on the advantages to be gained in certain types of large-scale production by substitution of automatic machine gaging for hand testing.‎

Bookseller reference : 44982

‎"ROBINSON, THOMAS RODNEY - THE ROBINSON CUP-ANEMOMETER.‎

‎On the Determination of the Constants of the Cup Anemometer by Experiments with a Whirling Machine. Received March 14 - Read April 4, 1878.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1879). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1879 - Vol. 169 - Part II. Pp. 777-822 a. 5 plates.‎

‎First printing of Robinson's new experiments and researches into the constants of the Cup-Anemometer which he invented in 1846 by modifying Whewell's instrument by the introduction of the now-familiar windmill with hemispherical cups.""A simple type of anemometer is the cup anemometer, invented (1846) by Dr. John Thomas Romney Robinson, of Armagh Observatory. It consisted of four hemispherical cups each mounted on one end of four horizontal arms, which in turn were mounted at equal angles to each other on a vertical shaft. The air flow past the cups in any horizontal direction turned the cups in a manner that was proportional to the wind speed. Therefore, counting the turns of the cups over a set time period produced the average wind speed for a wide range of speeds. On an anemometer with four cups it is easy to see that since the cups are arranged symmetrically on the end of the arms, the wind always has the hollow of one cup presented to it and is blowing on the back of the cup on the opposite end of the cross.""‎

Bookseller reference : 42674

‎"ROCKETRY - M. de MONTGÉRY (JACQUES-PHILIPPE MÉRIGON de MONTGÉRY).‎

‎Traité des Fusées de Guerre, nommées autrefois Rochettes et maintenant Fusées a la Congrève.‎

‎Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale, 1826. Contemp. hcalf. Gilt spine. Gilt lettering. A paperlabel pasted on lower part of spine. Stamps on title-page. Offprint/ Extrait from ""Annales Maritimes. - Décembre 1825"". (2),177 pp., 6 folded engraved plates.‎

‎Scarce offprint-edition (printed the same year in Annales as the first book-edition) of Montgéry's notable work on the mechanics, chemistry and useability of rockets in warfare.""Montgéry’s investigations of pyrotechnics led him to do research into the war rockets of William Congreve and to the production of what may be the first documented history of rocketry, Traité des fusées de guerre (1825). Known throughout Europe, it became the standard work on the subject, appeared in serial form in several official journals, and was republished in 1841. Montgéry’s coverage was exhaustive and analytical, particularly in his treatment of rocket physics.""(DSB).‎

Bookseller reference : 57644

‎"RONALDS, FRANCIS. - RONALDS' METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS‎

‎On the Photographic Self-registering Mateorological and Magnetical Instruments. Received November 18, 1846, - Read January 21, 1847.‎

‎(London, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1847). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1847 - Part I. Pp. 111-117 a. 2 engraved plates. Faint dampstains to upper margins of plates. Clean and fine.‎

‎First printing. The self-registering instruments referred to are the barometrograph, thermograph, declination-magnetograph and the electrograph. - The instrumental developments by Ronalds and Brooke establishedthe standard technique employed for magnetic observatory recording for more thana century.He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in February, 1844 for being the ""Inventor or Improver of several Electrical Meteorological & Mechanical Instruments"" , some of these depicted here. Ronalds was a pioneer and inventor of the elextric telegraph and he worked with meteorological systems. He collected a famous library, now in the Institute of Electrical Engineers: Catalogue of Books and Paers relating to Eæectricity etc..incl. the Ronalds Library. Compiled by Francis Ronalds. 1880.Wheeler Gift No 2873. - Ronald Library, p.438.‎

Bookseller reference : 43534