curr john (18 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher.

Zustand: New. pp. 184.

Zustand: New. pp. 184.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. No dust jacket.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: VG. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: VG-. 2nd. High quality reprint of this classic 1797 book on Steam Engines and mining techniques. Contains one of the first detailed accounts of metal plateway type early railways with illustrations of trackwork and wagons. Also contains a detailed account of the Newcomen steam pumping engine at the hight of its development. New introduction by Charles Lee. 4pp, introduction, 96pp plus 5 fold out plates. VG clean copy in dw, just a little bumping to corners. Scarce even as a reprint.

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 96pp, folding diagrams, tables, d/w sl worn at edges, previous owner's address label on half-title page. Facsimile reprint of original 1797 edition on the author's cast iron railway and Newcomen pumping engine with new introduction by Charles Lee.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Henry W. Kerr, John Duncan, Hamish Paterson, and Tom Curr (illustrator). First Edition. 1923. First edition. 114pp., frontispiece and four other black and white illustrations. James William Herries was a Scottish journalist, and was chief reporter for The Scotsman newspaper in the 1930s and '40s. In this book he describes a journey he made along the rivers Tweed and Tay in a skin-covered coracle. The book is bound in the original grey cloth covered boards with black titling on the spine and front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with shelf wear and some soiling and a little staining on the boards. The top of the spine is lightly bumped and there is slightly heavier bumping to the bottom of the spine. The contents are tight and clean with browning to the free endpapers and a name and date (1925) has been written on the front free endpaper.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

First thus edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, gilt title, author and maroon block lettering to the spine and to the upper panel. Quarto 10'' x 7½''. A Facsimile of the 1797 edition with new introduction. Contains [vi] 96 printed pages of text with five fold-out monochrome plates. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as published. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 678051046 MINING & GEOLOGY.

Tower, Wells (short stories) and Angus Cook (artist interview). JOHN CURRIN. 144 pages, with roughly 50 color plates. 4to, cloth. New York, Gagosian Gallery in association with Rizzoli Publications, 2011. Accompanies an exhibition.

4to. pp. 96; 5 folding plates. Contemporary boards, later sheep spine and corners, coloured leather spine label. Clean and fresh internally. With the bookplate of The Society for Promoting Arts and Commerce, Instituted London, 1753.

4to, 96 pages, and 5 folding engraved plates. Twentieth century speckled sheep, red morocco label on spine. A little spotting on the plates, otherwise a very good copy. Owner?s blind stamp on front free endpaper and bookseller?s slip on pastedown. SOLE EDITION of the principal printed source for John Curr (1756?1823), a ?coal viewer?, i.e. a mining engineer, and of his inventions and technical innovations, including the first printed account of an iron railway. ?His first invention was the flanged cast-iron railway?described as ?plate ways? or ?railroads? which were the first flanged iron rails installed underground for the hauling of coal? Curr?s use of iron rails dramatically improved the hurrying of coal by reducing the number of horses needed to pull the corves [i.e., baskets of coal], and by enabling an additional 2000 corves to be moved annually?? (ODNB). The idea of plate rails was taken up by the engineer Benjamin Outram, who became a leading promoter of their use. ?Curr also sought to improve the efficiency of the steam engine, and discovered that raising the cistern higher above the cylinder produced a stronger vacuum without additional fuel. For these experiments he became an acknowledged expert in the construction of atmospheric steam engines and was regarded as a successor to John Smeaton. In 1797 [in the present book] he published plans and descriptions of his modified Newcomen steam engines, with detailed comparisons between the power of different types of boiler? (ibid). Skempton 335: ?Includes the first printed account of plate rails.? See Skempton et al (eds.), A biographical dictionary of civil engineers: ??was responsible for a number of innovations, the most important of which was his introduction of flanged iron plateways.?