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Catechism of Central Station Gas Engineering in the United States, Compiled from the Questions and Answers sent out to the Practical Class
by Secretary, Trustees Gas Educational Fund, compiler
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Trustees Gas Educational Fund, 1909. Hardcover. xxi, 683p., illustrated primarily with line-drawn diagrams (some rubricated for emphasis, see pp.458-462) and a few fuzzy photos, first edition brownish maroon cloth boards. Bevelled edges with decorative ruling in blind, spine panel gilt-lettered and -ruled. Slightly edgeworn with a little color-loss round cover's margins, front hinge is cracked but holding, only one little old pencilled note directing reader to "Hydraulic Main," an otherwise clean sound copy. We urge somebody out there to send a copy to PG&E, specially the SF peninsula office. ..looks pretty useful, if you're a pick and helve guy, maybe even if you're a back-hoe guy. "Records should be made and kept" (random sample, p.423) "of the size of the main, its distance from the curb and its depth at every point where it is exposed, and these records should also give the locations of every bell exposed in the course of repairs, so that in future it will be easy to see that the holes are driven at the right points to strike the joints.
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- Bookseller
- Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 231004
- Title
- Catechism of Central Station Gas Engineering in the United States, Compiled from the Questions and Answers sent out to the Practical Class
- Author
- Secretary, Trustees Gas Educational Fund, compiler
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Trustees Gas Educational Fund
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1909
- Bookseller catalogs
- 1900S; Engineering; Urban history; Planning; Household, home maintenance;
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Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
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About Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB
Established in 1981 in San Francisco, we specialize in books and ephemeral materials related to the history of Labor and other social movements, including the struggles for Black and Chicano equality, the Gay liberation movement, Feminism, and Asian-American activism, as well as the Far Right. In recent years Bolerium has expanded into materials in non-western languages, especially from East Asia, and has also placed more emphasis on ephemera, with tens of thousands of original leaflets, pamphlets, and posters in stock. You can sign up for free email lists in our subject areas at www.bolerium.com. We are located in San Francisco at 2141 Mission, Suite 300 (between 17th & 18th St.). We're open by appointment only..
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