Editore: WEALE, John, 1841
Lingua: Inglese
Da: Roger Collicott Books, Widecombe in the Moor, DEVON, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
EUR 823,25
Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. viii, 40 pages, folding tables, 4vo, original cloth, Gilt lettering to upper cover and spine, which is a little rubbed. Bookplates of John Blowey, and Robert W Mylne in the front end paper and front paste down. Contents very good, with a large folding plate detailing the 'Detail of Experiments on the Cornish and Boulton and Watt pumping engines.' "Wicksteed, acting on behalf of the Institution of Civil Engineers, investigated the claims of the high pressure Cornish engine and Cornish boiler, against the older Boulton and Watt principle. the Success of the Cornish engine resulted in wicksteed installing it at the east London water works.".