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[AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL -- WESTERN AMERICANA]. [CLARK, Claude N (Pres), GUEST, Larry A (Director), et alBiblio.com

United Motor Courts: indivudually owned -- free . . . Arizona California Colorado Idaho Iowa Montana Nebraska Nevada New Mexico Oregon Texas Utah Washington Wyoming National Parks and Old Mexico.

1936réf. 58355Santa Barbara CA: United Motor Courts Inc. 3230 Hollister Ave. 1936. 4to. 8 x 9 in. 15 1 pp. Printed in red & black photo- illustrated throughout w/ strip maps printed in red & black in landscape double-page formated self-printed colour illustrated softcovers cover art of scenic Spanish Revival style bungalows w/ 1930’s style sedans pulling into a California motor court minor dustsoiling shelfwear small tear to upper right corner still VG- copy w/ stamp of Beechwood Auto-o-Tel on back cover. Fourth revised edition of this well-illustrated motel guide for Western automobile travelers as the country slowly emerged from the Great Depression. This association based in Santa Barbara California was one of the earliest motel referral services in the U.S. and managed to garner independent motel and motor inn operators across the country to subscribe and maintain their standards of comfort and courteous service. These illustrated guides prove invaluable in charting roadside architecture across the West amenities to be found by travelers and the variety of signage. This guide combines elements of the earlier Photo-mobile Western travel guides with mileage information phone numbers and images of the well-appointed motels. Scattered across the West these include the Utah Motor Park Sunset Cottage Court in Pocatello ID the Home Motel in Las Vegas NV the Craftsman inspired Wa-Wona Court in Corvallis OR the Jones Autel in Merced CA featuring a service station & cottages Bear Creek Lodge on the Yosemite Highway and many more. No copies located in Worldcat; See: Andrew Wood The Rise and Fall of the Great American Motel: Mom and Pop Motels once dominated American Highways Smithsonian Magazine June 30 2017. United Motor Courts, Inc., 3230 Hollister Ave., paperback

Zephyr Used & Rare Books · États-Unis175,00 $US≈ 156,35 €

[Aviation] [Western Front]Biblio.com

A collection of ten aerial photographs taken during the First World War

réf. 118696Very Good. All are gelatin silver prints on thick stock; eight are oblique photographs 207 × 154 mm; two are vertical views approximately 165 × 220 mm; the larger ones are slightly creased at the corners one of them a little more so; the others are in excellent condition. All images are captioned in the negative. All eight oblique views carry the same date 25 June 1918 preceded by 'A3 AEO 62°' ranges from 110 to 121. Place names on them are Hamel Hamel Wood Somme Accroche Wood Tailloux Wood and Vaire Wood. The vertical images are dated 3 May and 27 June 1918 and carry a larger set of alpha-numeric references commencing 'A3 AE A 715' and '35 AE B 929' respectively. All ten prints have the signature 'Capt Sexton' in indelible pencil on the verso. Digitised service records indicate the signature is that of Eric James Sexton of the Adelaide suburb of Hindmarsh; he enlisted on 14 August 1914 shortly before his 21st birthday and was appointed to the 10th Battalion with the rank of lieutenant. He was wounded at the landing at Gallipoli promoted to captain the following day and later invalided back to Australia disembarking on 6 August 1915. By January 1916 he was declared fit again for active service and re-embarked in April for England where he performed various training roles. On 14 February 1917 he transferred to the Australian Machine Gun Training Depot with the rank of major. He embarked for Australia on 12 March 1918 arriving in Melbourne on 22 May 1918. Accordingly Sexton did not serve in France and was a major not a captain by the time these photographs were produced. We cannot explain the anomalies but will let the photographs speak for themselves. Significantly they show the area where the important Battle of Hamel was fought on 4 July 1918. 'Hamel was a big battle in miniature involving the experimentation of tanks and small ammunition drops as part of a broader all-arms offensive. While a coordinated offensive was not a new approach to warfare Hamel represented the culmination of three years of learning and innovation on the Western Front testing an all-inclusive approach to mobile warfare. The flawless execution of the operation resulted in Hamel becoming a model for future operations on the Western Front. In his account of the event Monash famously wrote that "the perfected modern battle plan is like nothing so much as a score for an orchestral composition where the various arms and units are the instruments and the tasks they perform are their respective musical phrases' Ellen Cresswell: 'The Experiment - Innovations at the Battle of Hamel' Australian War Memorial website. 10 items. unknown

Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers · Australie550,00 $AU≈ 345,07 €

[Bell Telephone Laboratories ; Western Electric Co, Inc]; Shockley, William ; Shive, J N and othersBiblio.com

THE TRANSISTOR : Selected Reference Material on Characteristics & Applications Contract DA 36-039 SC-5589 Task 3

1951réf. 29849New York: Bell Telephone Laboratories Inc. for Western Electric Co. Inc 1951. First Thus. Stiff wraps. Near Fine. First Thus. 1-blank 7 792 pages. Large 4to 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Original printed thick grey cardstock covers. Previous owner name "A.E. Smith Code 434 ONR" written at head of top wrapper. The best copy of this work we have handled - it is notorious for the spine bowing away from the textblock and copies with provenance are difficult to find. Stiff wraps. The previous owner was Albert Eugene Smith a computer pioneer. He was the Acting Head of the Computer Branch of the Office of Naval Research ONR in 1949 see Redmond & Smith founder of the Digital Computer Newsletter and a participant in the development of the COBOL programming language working along side Grace Hopper and others. He was ONR's representative at the Moore School Lectures. See Wikipedia and Grokipedia for more information on Smith. THE TRANSISTOR contains 34 articles plus the introduction covering material given at a symposium on transistors held at the Bell Telephone Laboratories during the week beginning Sept. 17 1951. It includes work from luminaries like William Shockley 1956 Nobel Laureate in Physics with Bardeen and Brittain for "their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect" who contributed to three articles including "Holes and Electrons" derived from his similarly named book and "The Theory of p-n Junctions in Semi-Conductors and p-n Junction Transistors" published previously in the Bell System Technical Journal. From the transistor's invention in 1948 through the early 1950s the fledgling electronics industry was encouraged and funded by the military driving significant research into this startling new technology and it's potential. In retrospect the transistor was one of the most signficant inventions of the 20th century. Moore's law and the continual shrinking of transistor devices from a single device the size of a pea illustrated herein to many many thousands of transistors in the same space have driven the computer revolution and fundamentally changed our society in the process. This symposium details work conducted by primarily Bell System researchers to share what was then known much of it conducted under government contracts and previously unpublished. The symposium treats "theory transistor properties circuit design principles applications and finally characteristics of different transistor types then under development." As the Foreword notes: "It will be recognized that in a broad sense this constitutes by a progress report. The art is moving rapidly. There are still many problems to be solved and some of the material reported may be soon out of date. It is too early for a full appraisal of the extent to which the transistor may find its place in the field of electronics. Just now it is a promising infant trying to shed its swaddling clothes. It is hoped that this report will assist in this effort. Bell Telephone Laboratories Inc. Murray Hill N.J. November 5 1951." Important early work in the field of electronics. PROVENANCE: Purchased from Smith's descendants LITERATURE: Kent C. Redmond and Thomas M. Smith "Manuscript Edition Project Whirlwind Case History Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. for Western Electric Co., Inc unknown

Kuenzig Books · États-Unis825,00 $US≈ 737,07 €

[Bell Telephone Laboratories ; Western Electric Co, Inc]; Shockley, William ; Shive, J N and othersABAA

THE TRANSISTOR : Selected Reference Material on Characteristics & Applications Contract DA 36-039 SC-5589 Task 3

Kuenzig Books · États-Unis825,00 $US≈ 737,07 €

[CHICAGO & NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY - UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD]Biblio.com

SUMMER TOURS. YELLOWSTONE. ZION. BRYCE. GRAND CANYON. CALIFORNIA. PACIFIC NORTHWEST. COLORADO. SUN VALLEY IDAHO

1939réf. 46531Chicago: John C. Pollock Department of Tours 1939. 1939. 9 7/8" x 7" in bright colorful pictorial wrappers depicting a man and woman riding on a train and looking at the beautiful mountain view through a large window. 65 pp. index illustrations many in color maps schedules itineraries. Booklet filled with information about pictures of and Itineraries for 15 different tours lasting from 8 - 20 days and costing from $82.02 to $363.47. Most of the tours include Yellowstone National Park and go on to offer extending tours to Salt Lake City The Royal Gorge Colorado Springs Denver Zion Bryce Canyon Grand Canyon Cedar Breaks Estes Park. Offers a 14-day tour to California Old Mexico and Yosemite and the Golden Gate International Exposition as well as a 13-day tour that visits the Pacific Northwest Mt. Rainier the Canadian Rockies Banff and Lake Louise. Descriptions of and information about Yellowstone National Park Salt Lake City Zion Bryce & Grand Canyon National Parks. Map of Yellowstone National Park with route of railroad and route of auto trips marked; Map of Southern Utah Parks with bus tour and bus side-trips marked along with a small table of distances; Map showing the routes of all tours of the National Parks. General information offered including information on hotels and lodges in the parks baggage what to wear church services information for the woman who travels alone touts the comfort convenience and pleasure of each and every tour etc. Numerous photographs throughout probably about half of all photographs are in color. Pictures include interior of train Old Faithful the Tetons Tower Canyon various wildlife important buildings Royal Gorge Bear Creek Canyon individuals participating in various activities Horseshoe Park Garden of the Gods Columbia River Lake Louise San Francisco Mariposa Grove Grand Canyon Bryce Canyon etc. Light soiling light rubbing to spine and light wear to the extremities as well as creasing to corners. Very good. A nicely produced booklet. John C. Pollock, Department of Tours, 1939. unknown

BUCKINGHAM BOOKS · États-Unis125,00 $US≈ 111,68 €

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