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A dictionary of mechanical science, arts, manufactures, and miscellaneous knowledge. : comprising the pure sciences of mathematics, geometry, arthimetic, algebra &c.;--the mixed sciences of mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, optics and astronomy;--experimental philosophy;--the fine arts:--agriculture, and its implements;--manufactures and their various processes;--commerce and domestic economy;--natural history;--with biographical and historical notices of eminent men, who have adorned science by their inventions and discoveries. : Illustrated with many hundred engravings. / by Alexander Jamieson, LL. D.
Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia 1828 Jamieson
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jamieson, Alexander.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Industrial arts--Dictionaries.
- Industrial arts.
- Technology--Dictionaries.
- Technology.
- Manufactures--Dictionaries.
- Manufactures.
- Manufacturing processes--Dictionaries.
- Manufacturing processes.
- Engineering--Dictionaries.
- Engineering.
- Mechanics, Applied--Dictionaries.
- Mechanics, Applied.
- Metaphysics--Dictionaries.
- Metaphysics.
- Genre:
- Publishers' advertisements.
- Physical Description:
- [2], 1006, [2] p., [71] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 29 cm.
- Edition:
- Sixth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London: : Printed for Henry Fisher, Son, and Co. Newgate-Street., 1828.
- Notes:
- Includes [71] plates engraved by J.W. Lowry, R. Roffe, W. Symns, Kelsall, H. Simmons, W. Mallinson and others.
- Edition statement precedes statement of responsibility on title page.
- "London: printed at the Caxton Press, by Henry Fisher, Son, and Co."--p. 1006.
- Publisher's advertisement on p. [1] at end.
- Local Notes:
- Title is held at Carpenters' Hall in the Library of the Carpenters' Company of the City and County of Philadelphia. Access to the books is restricted and available to researchers only by permission requested in advance.
- Carpenters' Company copy has accession number 1688; first recorded in 1840 Carpenters' Company Library inventory as no. 110.
- OCLC:
- 235149474
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