Water-Power: An Outline of the Development and Application of the Energy of Flowing Water.

Descripción

First edition (first printing) of this treatise on all aspects of water power, including watercourses, dams, reservoirs, dam failure, canals & gates, water-wheels & hydraulic motors, turbines, transmission of power (including mechanical, compressed air & electric), measurement & storage of water. Hardcover, full brown cloth, as pictured. Shows some wear, some insect nibbling - mostly to the spine, corners lightly rubbed & bumped, name/address stamp to each endsheet & flyleaf - see note following; a few page corners creased. Text clean; vii, blank, 563 pages + 16 pages publisher's list; index, equations, figures. Bears the stamp of Herbert T. Hills of Salt Lake City on each endsheet, and on the flyleaf, with the ink name & sign of his son Louis. The elder Hills was an early graduate of the University of Utah's engineering department who worked for the US Surveyor General before meeting his death in 1905 at the age of 29 in a freak accident: he picked up a steel surveying tape which was in contact with a live wire bringing current to a disused mine and was instantly electrocuted. Size: Octavo.

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Título

Water-Power: An Outline of the Development and Application of the Energy of Flowing Water.

Editor

John Wiley & Sons / Chapman & Hall, New York / London

Fecha de publicación

1901

Encuadernación

Hard Cover

Edición

First Edition.

Estado

Good

Estado de la sobrecubierta

No Jacket

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• Engineering
• History of Science
• Physics