ISBN: 9780714624297 - coal viewer and engine builder's practical companion (1 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: VG. Condizione sovraccoperta: VG-. 2nd. High quality reprint of this classic 1797 book on Steam Engines and mining techniques. Contains one of the first detailed accounts of metal plateway type early railways with illustrations of trackwork and wagons. Also contains a detailed account of the Newcomen steam pumping engine at the hight of its development. New introduction by Charles Lee. 4pp, introduction, 96pp plus 5 fold out plates. VG clean copy in dw, just a little bumping to corners. Scarce even as a reprint.…