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Steam and machinery management : a guide to the arrangement and economical management of machinery with hints on construction and selection / by Powis Bale.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1884 Bale
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bale, M. Powis (Manfred Powis)
- Series:
- Weale's rudimentary series.
- Weale's rudimentary series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Machinery.
- Steam-engines.
- Genre:
- Binders' tickets (Binding) -- 1884.
- Physical Description:
- 191 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Crosby Lockwood, 1884. (London : J.S. Virtue and Co.)
- Contents:
- Management of steam engines and boilers
- Consuming smoke and economising fuel
- Management of gas and hot air engines
- Water-wheels and turbines
- Windmills
- Pumping machinery
- Agricultural machinery, management of thrashing machines, etc.
- Builders' machinery
- Arrangement of shafting and gearing
- Bearings and lubrication
- Management of belts
- Notes on the management of manufactories
- The steam engine indicator and how to work it
- Selection of machinery, useful rules, etc.
- Useful recipes for machinery users.
- Notes:
- Publisher's catalogue in back: 32 p.
- Binder's ticket on lower pastedown: "Bound by W. Bone & Son, 76 Fleet Street, London."
- Includes "A New List of Weale's Series...".
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Ex libris: NY Mercantile Library.
- OCLC:
- 12164727
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