User's Guide to Industrial Diamonds [1974 Hardcover]

Hutchinson Benham [London], 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. 8x5x0. UNCOMMON 1974 hardcover with dust jacket. Well-preserved UNMARKED, UNREAD COPY is bright and clean inside and out. Sharp edges and corners. Rear jacket shows very minor scratching. Nice copy, scarce in this well-preserved condition. Glossy paper stock, illustrated throughout. A unique technical and descriptive guide. ("Norman Smith, the Technical Director of L.M. Van Moppen & Sons Ltd, is well qualified... his USERS' GUIDE TO INDUSTRIAL DIAMONDS is an 'open sesame' to the world of industrial diamonds. Mr Smith has spent 45 years in the diamond tool industry - indeed, he has helped to shape the course of the industry's development. This book contains a wealth of practical information and advice - accompanied by more than 100 descriptive photographs and diagrams - on industrial uses of the diamond; it is particularly valuable because the author has had on-site personal experience in virtually ever major industrial nation. The reader will learn when to use diamond and how to use diamond, what size of diamond and how much diamond. It is usual to recommend such books to a particular section of industry; in the present case it would be difficult to find any exclusions.