M walton brown editor (4 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Large octavo, 717 pages, index, illustrated with pictures, diagrams, plans etc. 2 inch split down one side of the spine, shaken. Contains the following papers: Maurice: A Spark-Arrester for Locomotives; Woodworth: Proposed Plant for Winding 250 Tons of Coal per hour from a Depth of 3.000 Feet; Peasegood: A Gob-Fire in the Ten-Feet Seam, North Staffordshire; Crawford: Hydraulic Pumping-Installation at Loanhead Colliery, near Edinburgh; Teasdale: The Barton & Forcett Limestone Quarries; Wood: Determination of the Specific Electrical Resistance of Coal, Ores &c; Fryar: A Mechanical Coal-Cutter in Queensland; Morris: The Unwatering of the Achddu Colliery, with a Description of the Riedler Express Pump; Kerr: Corundum in Ontario, Canada: Its Occurrence, Working, Milling, Concentration and Preparation for the Market as an Abrasive; Halbaum: The Great Planes of Strain in the Absolute Roof of Mines; Mottram: Description of the Sinking of Shafts through Sand at Ardeer, Ayrshire, by the Pneumatic Process, with Notes on the Subject of Caisson-Ventilation and Sickness; Mitchell: Further Notes on Capels for Winding-Ropes; Treglown: The Tangye Suction Gas-Producer; Hooghwinkel: The Generation of Electricity by the Waste gases of Modern Coke-Ovens; Dickinson: The Leading Features of the Lancashire Coal-Field; Gamlen: Electrical Power-Distribution; Thwaite: Can Explosions in Coal-Mines with their Toxic Fatalities, be Prevented?; Walker: Earth in Collieries, with Reference to the "Special Rules for the Installation and use of Electricity; Winstanley: Mining Education in the Victoria University of Manchester; Stobbs: The Value of Fossil Mollusca in Coal-Measure Stratigraphy; Ashworth: The Elba & Clydach Vale Colliery Explosions; Piggford: The Two-Stage Air-Compressing Plant at Teversal Collieries; Longden: Colliery Consumption; Barraclough: Practical Notes on Winding-Ropes and Capels; Abell: The Reavell Air-Compressor at Work; Beach: "Black Ends" Their Cause, Cost & Cure; Hall: The Stanley Double-Heading Machine plus Discussions, Presidential Addresses, Accounts, Annual Reports, List of Members &c.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Large octavo, 634 pages, index, some folding diagrams. Modern binding. Contains: Dixon: Notes on Work Done by the Stanley-Heading Machines at Hamilton Place Colliery; Hamilton: On the Report of the Royal Commission on Mining Royalties; Leach: Corliss-Engined Fan at Seghill Colliery; Halse: Note on the Occurrence of Mercury at Quindiu, Tolima, U.S. Colombia; Charleton: The Choice of Coarse and Fine-Crushing Machinery and Processes of Ore Treatment Part IV Gold; Gibson: Geology of the Southern Transvaal; Murgue: The Friction of, or Resistance to, Air-Currents in Mines; Aitken: The Hilderston Silver-Mine, near Linlithgow; Morison: Limestone Mining in Scotland; Cameron: Geology, Mining, and Economic Uses of Fullers' Earth; Aitken: The Formation of the Earth's Crust and its Destruction; Dobinson: The Victoria Friction-Clutch; Graves: A Contribution to the History of Fire-Damp; Doubleday: The Sussmann Electric Lamp; Charleton: The Choice of Coarse and Fine-Crushing Machinery and Processes of Ore Treatment Part V Gold Milling; Kayll; Mining Explosives, Their Definition as Authorized under the Explosives Act (1875); Bennett: The Best Means of Conveying Electric Energy in a Fiery Mine; Dunbar: Coal-Dust in Mines and its Relation to Explosions; Martin: The Mid-Lothian Coal Basin; Hogg: Coal-Washing at North Motherwell Colliery; Kirkup: Singareni Coal-Field, Hyderabad, India; Collins: The Ghorband Lead-Mines, Afghanistan; Charleton: The Choice of Coarse and Fine-Crushing Machinery and Processes of Ore Treatment Part VI - Gold-Milling continued; Thomson: Result of an Experimental Research into Choke-Damp Poisoning, with Special Reference to Oxygen as a Restorative; Thomson: A New Pit Pump; Wither: Notes on Blasting in Coal-Mines; Johnson: A New Method of Tamping and Ramming Bore-Holes; Wynne: The Application of Mechanical Arrangements in Underground Operations; Wain: Stoppings on Underground Roads; plus discussions, annual reports notes &c.…

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Large octavo, 591 pages, index, folding plates. Half-leather, covers scuffed and marked, internally VG. Contains: Stirling: Water-Tube Boilers; Mountain: The Design, Efficiency, and Application of Electric-Motors for Transmission of Power in Mines; Elwen: The Effect of an Obstruction in the Air-Way of a Mine; Wood: The Murton Coal-Washer; Brunck: The Brunck Coke-Oven and System for the Recovery of Bye-Products; Darby: The Semet-Solvay Coke-Oven; Thwaite: Engineering Heliography, or the Sun-Print Copying of Engineering Drawings; Haarmann: Description of the Arrangements at the Maybach Colliery (Germany) for Watering Coal-Dust; Mitchell: Electric Coal-Cutting at Glenclelland Colliery; Wormald: Designs for Pump-Valves; Routledge: The Garforth Collieries, with Special Reference to the Failures of the Turbing and Inundations which occurred in 1872 and 1883; Nevin: The Mexican or Patio Process of Reducing Silver Ores; Bonser: Improvements in Exploders for Shot-Firing; Hay: Banking-Out, Screening, and Mechanical Arrangements for Direct-Sorting and packing of Coal; de Grave: Continous Current Dynamos and Motors; Heath: A Modified Form of Longwall Working as Applied to Thin Seams of Moderate Inclination; Prest: Modern Coal-Tipplers; Winkhaus: Experiments with Explosives; Washington: An Outburst of Gas at Mitchell Main Colliery; Thirkell: Watering Underground Roadways, and a Lighted Lucifer Match at the New Oaks Collieries; Clarkson: Sampling; Lewes: Mining Explosives; Charleton: The Gold-Milling Process at Pestarena, Italy; Sawyer: Remarks on the Banket Formation at Johannesburg, Transvaal; Clowes: The Limiting Explosive Mixtures of Various Combustible Gases with Air; Clowes: The Change of Composition Produced in Air by Flames and by Respiration; Van Verveke: The Occurrence, Mode of Working, and Origin of Petroleum in Lower Alsace; McConnell: The MacArthur-Forrest Process; Rucker: The Magnetic Survey of Great Britain; Oates: The Copper and Tin Deposits of Chota-Nagpore, Bengal, India plus discussion &c.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Poor. First Edition. Contains Frontier of the Unknown (Part 1 of 2) by Knight, Seeker of To-morrow by Russell and Johnson, Sterile Planet by Schachner, Dawn-World Echoes by Gallun, Zero as a Limit by Moore Williams, The Great Ones by Stone, Einleill by Winterbotham, Quicksilver, Unlimited by Walton, Interplanetary Dividents by Campbell Jr. and Fusible Alloys by Ley. Cover by Brown and interior art by Marchioni, Wesso, Saaty and Dold. Book shop stamp on the front cover. More than half the surface of the spine is missing and there is tearing at the edges of the front and rear covers next to the spine. Three inch piece missing from the top left corner of the rear cover. A 12 page section towards the back is detached. Some corner creasing to the pages with a three inch piece torn from one top corner. The pages are browned with occasional spotting but they are generally otherwise unmarked. Brown, Howard V; Wesso, H.W.; Dold, Elliott Jr.; Marchioni, M; Saaty, Wallace (ilustrador). …