Technical And Engineering from The Owl at the Bridge

"SBN 262 16031 5." Contents include: Measures and Values; Note on Technical Manuscripts Influenced by Brunelleschi; Beginnings of Brunelleschian Concepts; Brunelleschi's "Masonry Work"; The New Concepts for Construction: Vaulting without Armature, Confluence of Classic and Gothic, The Wood Chain, The Stone Chains, Brunelleschi as Structural Engineer; Drawings of Brunelleschian Machines; History of Brunelleschi's Machines; Brunelleschi as Patentee and… Ler mais sobre este item

Introduzione di Aldo Palazzeschi. "con una Pianta del centro distrutto di Firenze e 163 illustrazioni." Photographic record of those parts of Florence which were altered or destroyed as the city grew. 171 pages of text; 163 black & white illustrations. Very Good; pictorial dust jacket has small closed tears; slipcase beginning to come apart but still… Ler mais sobre este item

"Leonardo called his notebooks 'a collection without order taken from many papers which I have copied here, hoping afterward to arrange them in order, each in its place, according to the subjects treated of.' He died before he could carry out this plan. Now more than 400 years after his death, the contemplated arrangement has been made in… Ler mais sobre este item

"Three essays on some designs and projects of the Florentine master in adapting machinery and technology to the problems in art, industry and war." Reti, The Two Unpublished Manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci in Madrid; Dibner, Leonardo da Vinci, Prophet of Automation; Reti, Leonardo da Vinci the Technologist: The Problem of Prime Movers. 96 pages, 33 facsimile illustrations… Ler mais sobre este item

N.Y., McGraw Hill, 1946. . Hard Cover. An Illustrated Reference Book for Designing, Drafting, and Use. xvi, 416 p. First published in 1938. World War II propelled development of machine tools so dramatically that this new edition contains many new processes and standards. Stock #100,683. Vg/no dj. American technology

Cambridge, MIT Press, [1972]. Hard Cover. xiii, 230 p. 129 plates; 23 cm. The Sienese Archimedes they called the Quattrocento engineer Mariano Taccola. His treatise, De Ingeneis, of 1433 contains military machinery, but also bridges, harbor equipment, machinery for qcquaductss, mills, wells,. Scaglia points out that he was an artist of some talent as well. Leonardo wasn't the first.… Ler mais sobre este item

Boston, B. F. Sturtevant Co., 1906. Hard Cover. 169 p., illus.; 23 cm. Sixth edition; copyright, 1896. Photographs of equipment plus schematics of factories, hospitals, churches, theaters, steamships and other large challenges to heating and cooling the environment. Stock#33012. Vg/ no dj.

Staten Island, N.Y. Pober, 1998. Hard Cover. 750 p., 23.5 cm. 850 indexed entries. The mysterious arcane wisdom revealed by books of secrets is the knowledge of the craftsman, artisan, physician, cook and homemaker, as well as that of the practitioner of the occult arts. Books of secrets were the technical manuals of all the trades and professions. First… Ler mais sobre este item

Paris, Baillière, 1922. Soft Cover. 559 pages, charts, diagrams, formulae, many advertisements. Encyclopédie d'Électricité Industrielle, Directeur A. Blondel. French electrical engineering in the early decades of the 20th century. Not in the Bakken catalog. Paper, as issued; uncut, but time has soiled covers and first signature, and front cover is loose. Stock#OB228.

Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 2004.. Soft Cover. xiii, 152 p., illus.(28 halftones; 18 line drawings) ; index, 23.5 cm. Originally published : Cambridge, Mass. : MIT, 1970. Stock# 41,125. Fine, new from publisher/ paper.

Audel, NY, 1900. . Hard Cover. Comprising Instructions & Suggestions on Construction, Setting, Control & Management of Various Forms of Steam Boilers; on Theory & Practical Operation of Steam Pump; Steam Heating; Practical Plumbing; also Rules for Safety Valve, Strength of Boilers, Capacity of Pumps, etc. 331 p., index, illus., diagrams; partly printed in black & green; 21.5… Ler mais sobre este item

Philadelphia [Pa.] Published by the Franklin Institute, at their Hall, 1842. Hard Cover. 1 leaf, 430 p., illus., folding plate, 3 folding tables; 22.5 cm. The usual patent news, meteorological tables, steam & railroad developments. This volume includes "New Photographic Discoveries" by M. Daguerre (p. 109); river improvements on the James (p. 160) and Ohio (p. 235); new track… Ler mais sobre este item

Carrara, Nuova Europa, 1963.. Soft Cover. 175 p. , illus., 24 cm. A book on the marble quarries of Carrara, the techniques, and the men who cut and haul the marble. Includes poetry. Stock# 40,206. Stiff boards. Vg/ vg.

NY, 1910. Soft Cover. 46 p., diagrams, charts; stapled in printed yellow paper covers.

Philadelphia [Pa.] Published by the Franklin Institute, at their Hall, 1844. The usual patent news, meteorological tables, steam & railroad developments. Includes "Goodyear's Patent on Rubber (p. 295); "Report on the Explosion of the Gun on Board the Steam Frigate 'Princeton'" (p. 206-218); "On the 14th Exhibition of American Manufacturers" (p. 372-408). Hard Cover. 1 leaf, 442 pages,… Ler mais sobre este item

University of Chicago Press, 1964. . Soft Cover. xiii, 289 p. First published in 1944 as 'Down to Earth: Mapping for Everybody'. On how to read a map as well as how maps are made. Stock #25811. Vg/paperback. Maps Cartography

NY, Experimenter Pub. Co., June 1917. Periodical. pp. 81-160, illus.; 30.5 cm. America's entry into World War I in April 1917 is noted in this war issue. The cover, and a story at p. 90, proposes a bizarre plan for "Electrocuting the Enemy," Wilson's executive order nationalizing all wireless stations. Articles include: Talking Motion Pictures via Wireless; the Use… Ler mais sobre este item

Waterbury, CT, American Brass Company [1958]. Soft Cover. 23p., illus., 20 cm. This metal lexicon contains definitions of a broad spectrum of copper products. The entry for "brasses" includes 46 types; "bronzes" 13, and "copper types" 16. So this is a pretty definitive view of the copper industry in the mid 29th Century. Stock# 45,099. Vg / soft cover.

Torino, Unione Tipografico, 1891. Hard Cover. 288 p., 554 illus.; 30 cm. The technology of generating and transforming electricity with machines and equipment available in 1891. Red cloth binding with initials N.T. (Nicola Tropea) on spine. Stock#36512. Good, some splattering to binding.

New York, T. Audel & company [c1913]. Hard Cover. 123 p. illus., plates (1 blue print, part double) diagrs. 23.5 cm. A standard textbbook on Mechanical drawing. Stock# 39,899.