HILL (Woodman, AMICE)
Lectures. Machinery & Appliances used in Engineering Works, Delivered at the School of Military Engineering, Chatham. Winter Session, 1975. And Revised & Redelivered in 1880.
Further revised & enlarged by C.H. Meyer, AMICE, in Conjunction with The Author, 1886. viii+81pp., 4to (ledger format), 99 plates (many fldg.). Printed for Private Circulation Only. Printed at The School of Military Engineering, Chatham.
1886
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A series of lectures presented in a large format, high quality production, with an outstanding selection of illustrations of types of machinery & equipment including Traction Engine & Waggon; Brunton's Tunnelling Machine; Priestman's Excavating Buckets or Grab, & Large Dredger; Pulsometer Pumps; Horse & Hand Mortar Mills, Cylindrical Sand Screen, & many other Victorian innovations of a technical nature. A remarkable work for the range & quality of illustrations. Orig. blue cloth, gilt, minor wear, generally VG & rare. See illustrations on our website.
£250
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