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rif. BN360141Oldenbourg RVM. Hardcover. Wasseraufbereitung - Grundlagen und Verfahren mit CD-ROM Wasseraufbereitung - Grundlagen und Verfahren mit CD-ROM Hrsg. v.DVGW Deutsche Vereinigung d. Gas- u. Wasserfaches e.V. Bearb. v. Gimbel RolfJekel MartinLießfeld Rainer Oldenbourg, RVM hardcover
rif. ORD-4356de 1895 à 1962, une bonne partie illustrée souvent en couleurs, provenant de nombreuses villes de France. Réunis dans un classeur, sous protection plastique (23x31cm).
193796 pages. Index of advertisers. Features: Cover photo of the vessel 'Orient City' fully loaded with lumber; Two-color ad for Broderick yellow-strand wire rope inside front cover; Nicely logging-theme illustrated Timken bearing full-page ad; American Tiger Brand Wire Rope ad features great photo (circa 1885) of steam (bull) donkey and many loggers; R.G. LeTourneau ad features photo of their bulldozer and a Willamette-Hyster arch at work; Full-page two-color photo ad for Caterpillar features A.E. Baker of Fruit Growers Supply, Susanville, CA; Durable Douglas Fir Cross Arms used on telephone poles by the British Columbia Telephone Company - article with photo; Hand Methods Must Give Way to Mechanization in Eastern Canada - article; Photos of sawmill scenes in Sweden and Finland; Novel Effects in Wood at Paris Exposition - article with photos; Unique Power Plant of Vancouver Island Lumber Operation - Nootka Wood Products, Ltd. mill at Port Tasis (Tahsis) is driven by wood gas - article with photos - including photo of John P. Blenkinsop and Harry Smith and another photo of plant manager Lute D. Rogers with George M. Cornwall of this publication; Fantastic two-page two-color illustrated ad for the Ross Lumber Carrier, Model 90; S.A. Woods Machine Company ad features their new 412 planer and matcher; Magnificent full-page ad for Disston precision ground cross-cut saws includes photos of fallers at work with this two-man saw; Distinct saving shown to be possible with two-man bucking crews - article; Plywood's outdoor uses are increasing - photo-illustrated article; Meeting of the Wooden Box Association at San Francisco; Mark Markkula and his logging Bunks and Chunks - article with photos of products and Mr. Markkula; Nicely illustrated one-page ad for Hercules Engines of Canton, Ohio; Logging in Tillamook - article with photos; Super one-page photo ad for Feenaughty Machinery Co.'s FWD trucks - with photo showing a massive load being hauled; Nice truck-logging themed photo ad for Waukesha engines; Awesome photos of Allis-Chalmers tractors at work for the Big Lakes Box Company in Klamath Basin; Fantastic full-page ad with photos of the Washington Diesel Yarder made by Washington Iron Works; Crazy photo of trucks driving 132' logs across the Bloedel Donovan Lumber Mills' narrow old logging bridge above Skykomish, WA; Photo of a Dow low stump power saw at work; Small illustrated ad for P. Sharkey & Son Horse Collars; Photo of an FWD truck at work for Mr. W.S. Jeans of Culp Creek, OR; Superheaters - their use on Donkeys and Locomotives - article; Oriental strife affects Pacific Lumber Trade - article; France decides between steel and wood rail cars; Foreign Lumber Fleet - list of lumber vessels visiting Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia - and their capacities; Three Bamfiled, B.C. photos accompany brief article about Pacific Cable and Wireless, Ltd. and their cable which extends from Bamfield to New Zealand; Photo of G.L. Graiff with redwood charcoal experimental wood gas-powered truck - Hammond Redwood Co. of Samoa, CA; Reunion of pioneer members of the Southwestern Washington Lumber Manufacturers Association - with photos of T.H. MacLafferty, C.A. Doty, Charles Gilchrist, W.C. Miles, Jerry Startup, S.S. Somerville; Obituary of August K. Berter; Nice illustrated ad for the Warren Axe and Tool Co. of Warren, PA.; and more. Unmarked. Above-average but not excessive wear. Chips missing from backstrip. Binding intact. A rare surviving issue of this highly informative vintage lumber periodical. Magazine
1902rif. 6057Verzinkerei. Eschweiler 2. (Katalog: Sonder-Erzeugnisse: Gas u. Wasserbehälter. 6. Auflage. Februar 1902). Mit zahlr. (1 farb.) Abb. meist nach Photographien. Eschweiler, Selbstverlag (Druck: Aachener Verlags- und Druckerei-Ges.), 1902. 4to. (32,0 x 24,0 cm). 151, (1) S. Farbig illustrierter Orig.-Leinwandband mit geprägter Vignette auf dem Vorderdeckel.
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1929rif. 2111902160201233Dainippon Fire Association Nagano Branch 1929. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Dainippon Fire Association Nagano Branch paperback
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1911rif. 58482New York Brooklyn Newark Jersey City & Philadelphia: Delaware Gas Light Co. ca. 1911. Small 4to. 5.75 x 7 in. 24 pp unpaginated on thick paper stock. With 7 silver gelatin photos on thick glossy photo paper stock hinged at gutter margin minor soiling to upper fore-edges of a couple images. Pebbled calf split-pin post-binder gilt lettering stamped on front cover black silk pastedowns wear & scuffing to fore-edges minor rubbing minor wear to corners minor fraying to the fore-edges of the silk pastedowns still VG- copy. First edition of this very scarce Progressive Era sales catalogue for the Delaware Gas Light Co. lighting system. Using patented gas lighting equipment developed by Roessler & Armington this Easton Gas Co. subsidiary marketed this lighting system as better light than electric arc lighting at one fifth the cost steady brilliant illumination no blackening of mantles no smoked ceilings and no abnormal heat. The systems which were only rented to the consumer featured a small high pressure pump invented by Roessler 1872-1939 and a separate reservoir and piping -- all installed and maintained by the company. The photos show the styles which were available in copper or black enamel assorted size and density glass globes from clear to opaque and could be fitted with by-pass lever or chains to control the lighting. The Delaware Gas Light Co. had originated in Delaware OH in the 1870’s and in 1903 was absorbed into the Easton Gas Co. along with Easton Fuel Gas William’s Township Gas Co. Forks Township Gas Co. and others becoming the Easton Gas & Electric Co. No copies in Worldcat; See: Pennsylvania News Items Light Vol. III No. 1 August 1903 p. 285; Gas-Lamp; Combined High & Low Pressure Gas-Lamp Amandus C. Roessler & William A. Armington U.S. Patent Office Vol. 184 1911-1912 pp. x xxxiii 150-152 290. Delaware Gas Light Co., unknown
191893 pages plus 8 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: My Bear Hunt in the B.C. Rockies - Part I, by E. Ashmead-Bartlett; Thrilling stories of the Air, with amazing crash photos; A Doctor in the Holy Land - Dr. H.J. Bailey in Palestine - Gaza and Nablus; Facing Death for Cinema Thrills - some hairbreadth escapes of well-known motion-picture stars, related by themselves, with photos; Tales of the Service - part IV - Tossed into the Bog - a true tale by a Customs Officer from the West Coast of Scotland; The Pirate of the Pacific - Count von Luckner - with photos; A Woman's Journey Across Africa - part V of Eva J. Jordan's 4,000 mile honeymoon trip across the dark continent; Beyond the Law - part IV, by Emmett Dalton, the sole survivor of the Dalton Gang; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part IV, by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman - with photos by the authors; The Drover Dempster - A.A. Beattie relates a deadly drive of 500 miles in Australia; The Disappearing Island - Helen Darbishire describes Ocean Island in the South Pacific - built entirely of phosphates - with nice photos; "Lionel - Because of the Lions" - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Porch) explains how she came to name a lonely station near the Congo, on the Cape-to-Cairo Railway; The Water Miracles of India - how the engineer has wiped out India's famine scourge and reclaimed millions of acres of land by the erection of vast irrigation works - with great photos; Photo of 28-lb lobster; Photo of French school-children in war zone wearing gas masks; Photo of a Mormon Church in Salt Lake City converted into an auto shop; photo of the quaint circumcision garb worn in Uganda. Nostalgic back cover ad by the Haywood Tire & Equipment Co. of Indianapolis proves that the tire repair business was booming in 1918! Full-page ad inside back cover boasts that the Newell Pharmacal Co. can banish the smoking habit in 48 to 72 hours. Small ad for Emblem motorcycles and bicycles. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
1944Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest to those engaged in the plant, traffic, commercial, operating, accounting and other departments of the service. Each issue is replete with black and white photos and information on topics such as: company, industry and technological news, traffic levels, expansion plans, personnel announcements, publicity and social events, deaths, weddings, lists of exchanges, and more. As such, these issues serve as a vital preserve of rare and fascinating British Columbia history. This volume covers topics including: "All circuits are busy; I will call you" - the phrase of operators dealing with heavy traffic; Good-bye to the Seymour and Trinity manual offices - photos; Photo of the ladies of the Nelson small bore rifle club; adding switching equipment in Victoria; Gas masks, helmets, and more in Alma operating room - photo; Action photo of the First Vancouver Cadet Training Corps; Record load of telephone calls handled in B.C. in 1942 - article and photos; George Friend - Alma plant man - article and photos; Second birthday of the Van-Tel Credit Union; A few lines from the front lines - parts of letters from phone men on active service; John Jessop dies - photo and article; Back cover wartime announcement "Be Careful What You Say"; Photos of females filling in for males in the Vancouver Engineering department; Victory Bond ad.; Wire Shortage - here's why; "Behind the Lines!" - by George Matthew Adams; Wartime Problems of Telephone Business set forth in Annual Report; Great Cheque mystery solved by new payroll machine - 2 pages of photos and text; Popular traffic official dies - Robert A Henderson; Honour Roll, World War II; Honour Roll, World War I; Credit Union article; Letter by operator Elsie Forman; variety of photos emphasizing wartime parts shortages and recycling; Victory Bond ad.; E.E. (Slim) Sinden, wire chief at Chilliwack; Operator's form association; Roland Arthur Chute, former Kamloops Manager, retires; John Sowerby - survived fire and earthquake to become a phone man - article and photos; P.J. (Pete) McCormick retires; Illustrated letter from G.R. Peakes, Major-General, G.O.C.-in-C., Pacific Command, saluting the telephone industry; Many additional war photos/content; Using phones to report forest fires; Article on operator 'Quiz Kids' - information operators; honour roll of employees who have joined the war effort; Oliver Plant man Reuben Echlis retires; article from Reader's Digest arguing for wartime wage and price controls; James D. Baker passes away; William Henry Cooke retires; Update from Pipe-Major Edmund Esson in Sicily; Ex-operators rally to aid of telephone company, including newspaper ad.; Miss Leonie Michaud retires; Hockey star and telephone man Leslie Steel dies in Vancouver; many wonderful Victory Garden photos; war bond ad; Victory Loan depends on the Phone; Introducing Jack Veitch; Ads showing the wartime contributions of operators; in memory of Henry G. E. Goult; Victoria construction gang at work in photos; Photo of Victoria's operators at work; Farewell to Ernest F. Helliwell; Cranbrook operator, Minnie Egan, retires; Edward Dawson dies suddenly; Sergeant James Clark, R.C.A.F., reported a missing; Ernest S. Harris bids farewell; Cover photo of Pilot Officer Gordon Heselton, the first B.C. man to win a decoration in WWII (with story inside); photo of '25 club' war savings stamp booklet; 40 miles of phone bills - many photos; Record long distance load in 1943 but local calls show decline; John D. Johnston, general commercial manager; Full page instructions with the heading "Strict Conservation of Paper now a Necessity"; Jim Baigent and Arthur (Pop) Harness retire; "Lick Stamps to Lick Hitler" on back cover of one issue; Telephone Talk is shrunk to conserve paper; Net Revenue decrease in 1943; Full-page article o Book
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1944rif. 233061944. East Ohio Gas explosion photographs recording the October 20 1944 liquefied natural gas disaster in Cleveland Ohio one of the deadliest industrial catastrophes in city history. The unidentified photographer assembled photos of collapsed gas tanks burned automobiles leveled brick buildings ash fields and rescue activity after the blast and fire that tore through the East 55th Street and St. Clair Avenue district. The event killed roughly 130 people and destroyed a broad swath of the surrounding neighborhood after gas escaped entered sewers and gutters and ignited across the district. Photo archive of 14 silver gelatin photographs photos measure 2.75" x 4.75" mounted on 10.5" x 13" black album leaf Cleveland Ohio October 1944. A few carry captions including "East Ohio Gas Explosion." The strongest images center on the damaged storage plant itself including two views of the large spherical gas holders with torn metal skins and collapsed structures at their base. Other photographs move outward into the destroyed neighborhood: a burned sedan sits twisted in rubble; brick factory walls stand roofless and hollow; streets are reduced to ash mud and broken masonry; and leafless tree trunks rise from a flattened landscape where houses and smaller structures had stood. One photograph shows a crowd of civilians and workers gathered amid debris before a shattered industrial building. Another isolates a man standing in the wreckage. A second group portrait includes several men in coats and hats beside uniformed personnel probably police or fire officials. The repeated emphasis on wrecked tanks gutted streets and pulverized building shells makes the archive a sequential record of blast damage rather than a general view of a fire scene. The East Ohio plant was an early liquefied natural gas facility and the 1944 disaster became a turning point in the history of gas storage in American cities. A Bureau of Mines investigation followed and later historical accounts note that the fire destroyed 79 homes 2 factories and 217 automobiles while forcing new attention to safer low temperature gas storage methods. The destruction covered roughly a square mile on Cleveland's east side and exposed the danger of placing large fuel reserves beside dense working class neighborhoods and urban utility systems. Light wear and chipping to album leaf; images remain clear and well preserved. Overall very good condition. These photographs preserve that system after failure when industrial modernity appeared not as progress but as wreckage displaced residents and a city forced to rethink how fuel infrastructure should be built. unknown
1944rif. 233061944. East Ohio Gas explosion photographs recording the October 20 1944 liquefied natural gas disaster in Cleveland Ohio one of the deadliest industrial catastrophes in city history. The unidentified photographer assembled photos of collapsed gas tanks burned automobiles leveled brick buildings ash fields and rescue activity after the blast and fire that tore through the East 55th Street and St. Clair Avenue district. The event killed roughly 130 people and destroyed a broad swath of the surrounding neighborhood after gas escaped entered sewers and gutters and ignited across the district. Photo archive of 14 silver gelatin photographs photos measure 2.75" x 4.75" mounted on 10.5" x 13" black album leaf Cleveland Ohio October 1944. A few carry captions including "East Ohio Gas Explosion." The strongest images center on the damaged storage plant itself including two views of the large spherical gas holders with torn metal skins and collapsed structures at their base. Other photographs move outward into the destroyed neighborhood: a burned sedan sits twisted in rubble; brick factory walls stand roofless and hollow; streets are reduced to ash mud and broken masonry; and leafless tree trunks rise from a flattened landscape where houses and smaller structures had stood. One photograph shows a crowd of civilians and workers gathered amid debris before a shattered industrial building. Another isolates a man standing in the wreckage. A second group portrait includes several men in coats and hats beside uniformed personnel probably police or fire officials. The repeated emphasis on wrecked tanks gutted streets and pulverized building shells makes the archive a sequential record of blast damage rather than a general view of a fire scene. The East Ohio plant was an early liquefied natural gas facility and the 1944 disaster became a turning point in the history of gas storage in American cities. A Bureau of Mines investigation followed and later historical accounts note that the fire destroyed 79 homes 2 factories and 217 automobiles while forcing new attention to safer low temperature gas storage methods. The destruction covered roughly a square mile on Cleveland's east side and exposed the danger of placing large fuel reserves beside dense working class neighborhoods and urban utility systems. Light wear and chipping to album leaf; images remain clear and well preserved. Overall very good condition. These photographs preserve that system after failure when industrial modernity appeared not as progress but as wreckage displaced residents and a city forced to rethink how fuel infrastructure should be built. unknown books
rif. 9781685079857NOVA SCIENCE PUBLISHERS INC
rif. SONG1909416487Used: Good unknown
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1894rif. 2508Pittsburgh 1894. Very good. Three volumes 99 90 and 102 leaves printed rectos only. Oblong octavo. Contemporary half brown cloth and marbled paper-covered boards. Moderate edge wear some creasing and scuffing to covers. Occasional dust-soiling to text. An informative trio of daily report books recording work performed by a field worker of the West Penn Gas Company in the last decade of the 19th century. Each leaf is a separate partially-printed daily report filled out by Samuel McCutcheon from June 1 1892 to March 24 1894. McCutcheon records the numbers and names of wells the "estimated amount of water blown off" the "location of line drip" and the "estimated amount of water blown off" of each line drip. McCutcheon's maintenance records provide unique insight into the functionality of dozens of gas wells near Pittsburgh belonging to the West Penn Gas Company during the peak of the Pennsylvania oil boom. unknown
1894rif. 2508Pittsburgh 1894. Very good. Three volumes 99 90 and 102 leaves printed rectos only. Oblong octavo. Contemporary half brown cloth and marbled paper-covered boards. Moderate edge wear some creasing and scuffing to covers. Occasional dust-soiling to text. An informative trio of daily report books recording work performed by a field worker of the West Penn Gas Company in the last decade of the 19th century. Each leaf is a separate partially-printed daily report filled out by Samuel McCutcheon from June 1 1892 to March 24 1894. McCutcheon records the numbers and names of wells the "estimated amount of water blown off" the "location of line drip" and the "estimated amount of water blown off" of each line drip. McCutcheon's maintenance records provide unique insight into the functionality of dozens of gas wells near Pittsburgh belonging to the West Penn Gas Company during the peak of the Pennsylvania oil boom. unknown books
1817rif. 13376Wien, Gerold, 1817. XIV, 138 S. 2 gefalt. lithograph. Tafeln. 8°. Interims-Kart. der Zeit (Gebrssprn.).
192340 pages. Oblong 12" x 9.5". Circa 1923. Profusely illustrated with glorious contemporary black and white photos. Considerable supporting text. A sumptuous promotional work intended to highlight the investment potential of the British Columbia Electric Railway Company and its subsidiary companies: Vancouver Power Company Limited; Vancouver Island Power Company Limited; Western Power Company of Canada Limited; Vancouver Gas Company Limited; Victoria Gas Company Limited. Very attractive gilt lettering and decoration upon chocolate brown front cover. Clean and fresh with very light wear. Discrete prior owner's name atop front cover. Two short openings to fore-edge of front cover. An exceptional and rare copy of this exquisite vintage item. Book
1992rif. SONG0419176705Routledge 1992-12-10. 1. hardcover. Used: Good. 8.27x0.00x11.69. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Routledge hardcover