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Bradford, Great Britain: World Power Conference, Fuel Conference, 1928. 15 x 24 cm. Report for World Fuel Conference explores alternative fuels to anthracite, because they may be less costly and more readily available. F.G. Tryon writes about Processed Coals --Briquettes; Low-temperature Carbonisation, Gas Coke, Domestic By-Product Coke. Tables show cost of coal per ton of coke, changes in price of Domestic Coke and other Household Fuels. Part II Domestic Heating from Coals Below the Rank of Anthracite by F.M. Shore. Part III Heating with Oil by E.B. Swanson. Tables show oil consumed for heating of buildings in U.S., by regions, and annual oil consumption for domestic heating. This report includes a R�sum� (summary) in French. Paper booklet, marks on cover wrap, in ink: ""Coal & Oil No. 0 File 3 rear"". Good. . Catalogs: Scientific/Engineering.

New York, NY: D.K. Minor and J.E. Challis, 1834. 16 x 24.5 cm. Front page shows drawing for steam heating a factory. Mr. Snodgrass of Glasgow, Scotland, the inventor, notes that the American atmosphere sometimes is highly electrical and destitute of hydrogen. Lessons about Tin and Lead, Nickel, Cadmium and Zinc. Animal Mechanics: Look at the feet and legs of an Irish peasant, barefooted. Look at the leg of our English peasant, wearing shoes with wooden soles, how he walks as if on stilts. Studying the circulation of blood in the body, considering the principles of hydraulics-- elaborate comparison with a sail. Recipe for cleaning furniture uses beeswax and turpentine. Mechanics in Canton--17,000 employed in silk weaving. Paper periodical, disbound from larger collection. Good. . Catalogs: Scientific/Engineering.

New York, NY: D.K. Minor and J.E. Challis, 1834. 16 x 24.5 cm. Front page shows View of a Cotton Scutching and Lapping Engine invented by N. Snodgrass. Information on obtaining patents in England. Drawing and description of Beecher's Portable Horse Power, for thrashing, drinding, turning and sawing. Newly Invented Railways. Railroad from Tuscumbia to Tuskaloosa, Ala. Statistics of French Manufactures includes commentary about French monarch revoking the Edicts of Nantes. Paper periodical, disbound from larger collection. Good. . Catalogs: Scientific/Engineering.

Santa Barbara, CA: Editors and Engineers Ltd, 1949. 14 x 21 cm. Booklet helps to prepare people for commercial radio operator's license examination. Questions on neutralization, inductance, reactance, resistance, phase difference, power factor, ""skin effect"", radiation resistance, capacitance, carrier wave envelopes, frequency shift, Hartley oscillator, Colpitts oscillator, grid bias voltage, radio frequency chokes, more. Includes diagrams of circuits, etc. Paper booklet, worn, cover soiled, fair. . Catalogs: Scientific/Engineering.

Washington, DC: United States House of Representatives, 1877. 15 x 23 cm. Letter from President U.S. Grant of Jan. 12, 1877 transmits letter from Secretary of War J.D. Cameron of Jan. 11, 1877 with the whole package of indorsements and statements for the Chief of Engineers for the improvement of the Mississippi, Missouri, and Arkansas Rivers; the Ohio River; the Columbia River; the harbor at Racine, WI; Kennebunk River; the Channel between Staten Island and New Jersey; the improvement of Sabine Pass, Blue Buck Bar and Sabine Bay; the Harbor at Fall River, MA; for gauging the waters of the Lower Mississippi and its tributaries; work on the Galveston, TX ship channel; and much more. Paper booklet, some pages loose, fair. . Catalogs: Scientific/Engineering.