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194546 pages. Many wonderful black and white photos. Features: NYC replaces Busy Switches - new slip switches at Harmon, N.Y.; The Rio Grande - General Palmer's little narrow gauge road of the Colorado mountains grew into one of America's most important 'bridge' systems; Driving Gear for Turbine Locomotives - Pennsylvania Railroad's experimental unit has uniform torque, fully balanced drive wheels, high efficiency at speed; new locomotive; Built in Roanoke - Norfolk & Western has been building most of its locomotives at its Roanoke Shops; Railroad Ticket Man - What does the passenger look like to the man on the other side of the ticket window?; Tall Stacked Old Timers - Three gems from a leading locomotive photo collection; Chicago Station Gets New Shed - Illinois Central Rebuilds - Illinois Central tears down old high arch and builds slotted roof. Average wear. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Magazine
1981Features: The Cow Business and Joe Kirley; Riding the Rails with Hood River Blackie - Old Joe Bennett; The First Colorado Mountain Man - Jim Pursley; The Baking Soda Book - Luisa and Henry Benedict; Rice, Dice and Lichee Nuts - America was not the promised land for those who crossed the wrong ocean to get here - Chinese immigrants; Graveyard of Violence - the W.S. Ranch, just north of Alma, New Mexico; Idaho Volunteers and the Nez Perce - an uncovered report reveals how professional some local militia units could be; Licensed Murder - Captain William Byrnes; Deputy Marshal Joe Morgan of New Mexico; A Girl and Her Horse - Chief Plenty Coups invited young women to race, but they weren't supposed to win!; Battle of the Deschutes - sabotage prevailed in the railroaders' war for the key route to San Francisco - with fantastic photo of workers 'walking the plank' to get to work building a bridge 348 feet above the Crooked River Gorge!; Wild Old Days!. Somewhat above-average wear as staples have almost torn free from covers, else a sound copy. Book
1978Features: Dave Walker - Long on Nerve - the Dave Walker Ranch in the east part of Poncha Park on Cottonwood Creek, Colorado; Roaming the Back Country with Hood River Blackie - Strange Animals - Bigfoot, Sasquatch; Clara Baasch lived next door to the infamous Vicente Silva; The Peculiarities of Sam Smith - An Old Man's Three Treasures - A. C. Lucas and his Chinatown discoveries; The 'Cutter' - his profession was devilment!; Addison P. Day - Rodeo Great; Cyclone Cave - Natural Bridge Park, Arkansas; J.K. Carper - Mountain Man; Towns Without Whistles in Oklahoma Territory; An Artist's Two Years Alone in the Desert - Frederick Melville DuMond lived in a cave to reproduce 'the West's insanity of color'; Cromwell Dixon's Fatal Ride - biplane pilot, Blossburg, Montana. Average wear. Unmarked. Sound copy. Book
199274 ages. Features: Ceylon strike; Doolittle Raider; Willys Jeep; Allied Oil Plot; Bridge Busters; U-boat Turkey Shoot. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Good working copy. Book
1931A particularly interesting issue with topics ranging from the 100 horsepower blower for the organ in the new Chicago Stadium to an English vending machine which dispenses individual lit cigarettes. Features: The eyes and ears of the railroad - the complicated signal system that spells safety for rail travel; Editorials - Arthur G. Halfpenny - An Awakening Due - Lopsided progress; International Affairs; Did a meteorite strike a car in Crawfordsville?; New light on old fools - ultr-violet irradiation to create vitamin D; Unique solutions of bridge construction problems - caissons sunk on artificial islands - divers employed; Vacuum tubes in industry - thermionic tubes, grid-glow relays, photo cells find wide use; A new use for radium - radiography possible without combersome apparatus; Radio goes man-hunting - radio alarm system reduces the criminal's chance of escape; New temperature measurements of the sun, moon, mars - sensitive thermo-couples reveal surface conditions; Chicago's "Madison Square Garden" - called "world's largest sports arena"; has unusual features; Butterfly farming - an intriguing business started by Iowa youth; When locomotives go to sea - special steamers built to accomodate monsters of the rails (excellent photos); A machine-age "milk maid" - the "rotolactor' milks 240 cows in one hour; Centrifugally spun concrete piles - new manufacturing process; mass production of preserved foods - a huge industry that grew from a market basket; Salt making in India - Primitive methods illustrated and described. Average wear. Unmarked. Crease to front cover. Advertisement inside front cover features photo of luxurious Cord front drive automobile manufactured by the Auburn Automotive Company. Book
1932Features: Announcement, with photos, that after seven years of research, the Caterpillar Tractor Company has applied the diesel engine successfully to the tractor. Contains fascinating two-page wide graphic which illustrates and describes business cycles and patent applications from 1840 to 1932 Articles: The transmission engineer's job - to design a n electrical transmission line, tie in a number of power stations, and solve the many attendant problems oftern requires years of work; Editorials - too old at 40? - airplane engine reliability - peace in radio - expensive babies; Gold from goldfish - goldfish, once imported, now raised in great numbers here; Star colors and star temperatures - the problems with which astrophysicists deal in determining the heat given off by flaming heavenly bodies; The business man takes wings - an account of an actual business trip around the country in which much time and money were saved; New light on Sasanian culture - culture of the peoples whose lands were the scene of the wars of Alexander the Great, as shown by recent archeological finds; Concrete bridge makes new record - George Westinghouse Bridge has America's longest concrete span; Is space curved? - some confusing concepts of the physicists cleared up by simple scissors work; Looking at stresses - complex stresses in structures directly vivible by new method; Big Springs - Some springs in this country flow great rivers of water; Why a watch keeps time - two years' time is often required to design a watch that will consistently keep accurate time; Gun recoil control - simple muzzle attachment reduces recoil of guns and prevents lift of the muzzle off the target; Endurance cut from the hillside - stone for modern buildings is cut in huge blocks by methods that have felt the touch of the machine age. Moderate to average wear. Magazine
1929Features: A motoris may be asleep even if his eyes are open; Editorials: save Old Ironsides, Humanizing science, Television's future, Submarine safety; Skilled workmanship on organs for church, theater and home; Architects as room designers; The strangest thing in physics; Firsts in aviation; Towers of Hudson River bridge are rising rapidly; The highest known velocity; Prospecting with artificial earthquakes; the month in medical science - punch drunk, u.v. rays, compressed air pranks, posture, yellow fever, rider's legs, tar poison, childhood teeth, food colors; The search for the first American; Education adopts the motion picture; Pointers from a pen maker; Death Valley; Egyptian vandalism 3400 years ago; Aerodynamic wind mills; Television advances; Protecting paintings for posterity; Roman engineering triumphs; Light airplaine design contest; Wasteful cotton baling methods; Early Indians in Florida.Major damage to front cover along spine. Half of spine missing. Back cover features colour Camel cigarette advertisement with the caption "Now it's unanimous. I'd walk a mile for a Camel... So would I" Two-colour "Dodge Brothers Trucks" advertisement inside front cover. Inside back cover is a very attractive colour Packard automobile advertisement with a few small spots of soiling. Ad shows a strapping young man fabricating auto parts. Well-worn. Magazine
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1920Best.-Nr. 2824Leipzig: Grethlein um 1920. Mit Register, 219 S. und Verlagsanzeigen, 8°, OLn., Rotschnitt
Best.-Nr. 0266928137.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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1828Best.-Nr. 2111902160201307Itamoto's seal is also unknown 1828. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Itamoto's seal is also unknown paperback
Best.-Nr. 2080502106914119Not Available N.A. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Not Available paperback
2026Best.-Nr. LRB22002794Paris: Editions Recreasoft 2026 Language: English. Approximately 800 pages. English : Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1884. Detailed report issued by the Board of Trustees of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge reflecting the administrative and technical concerns surrounding one of the major infrastructure projects of the period. Of interest for researchers in urban history civil engineering municipal governance and the development of New York in the late nineteenth century. Book images are non-contractual. Editions Recreasoft. Softcover. New. Editions Recreasoft paperback
2026Best.-Nr. LRB39022853Paris: Editions Recreasoft 2026 Hardcover binding. Language: English. Approximately 828 pages. English: Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1884. Text in English. This comprehensive report details the financial examination of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge conducted by a committee appointed by the Board of Trustees including the mayors of New York and Brooklyn. The accountants' report provides an in-depth analysis of the bridge's financial affairs as of December 31 1883. The document offers valuable insights into the financial management and challenges faced during the construction of this iconic engineering project. Book images are non-contractual. Editions Recreasoft. Softcover. New. Editions Recreasoft paperback
Best.-Nr. 0266861903.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Best.-Nr. LCS-14623New York, Joseph Koehler, 1903. 645 x 975 mm.
Best.-Nr. 0265831857.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1850Best.-Nr. 23992New York 1850. Very good overall. An interesting letter detailing the negotiation over wooden vs. iron railroad bridges. In this letter addressed to Strong M. M. White agent of the New York Iron Bridge Co. seeking to persuade the Vermont railroad to eschew a wooden bridge and setting out advantageous terms for purchasing an iron bridge. Strong was "liable as endorser on paper for the Rutland and Washington Railroad Company which subsequently failed to an amount considerable exceeding all his property." He was sued in the Supreme Court of Vermont lter in the 1850s and looks to have been bankrupted losing his real estate marble quarry share etc. See "Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Vermont vol. 42 Montpelier Vt 1870 by Wheelock Veazey a Vermont Civil War hero. Letter written on blue laid paper 4pp 8 x 10 1/4"written on 1pp docketed on the verso with period folds. A small raised oval in the top left corner unreadable by this cataloguer. Verso a little marked a little creased. unknown
Best.-Nr. 0666050570.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 014056Albany 1922-1929 A collection of 8 annual reports 1922 to 1929 of the NYSB&TC Documenting the design construction and operation of the Holland Tunnel connecting New York City with New Jersey. Reports with photographs drawings and folding plates thoroughly document every step in the process of designing digging and opening the automobile tunnel under the Hudson River referred to at the time as the "Eighth Wonder of the World". First editions. 23 cm; 559 pp.; illustrated. Ex-library copy 8 reports bound as one in library buckram. Albany, 1922-1929 hardcover
2013Best.-Nr. Gyan-9789333138123Isha Books 2013. Hardcover. New. 25.13 x 18.78 x 2.59 cm. English Isha Books hardcover
