DISCOVERIES AND INVENTIONS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Published by George Routledge & Sons Ltd.. 1st. 1914
Good condition. Chapters on the revival or water power, economy in the use of fuel, modern steam engines, gas, oil, and petrol engines, and the generation and distribution of electricity. Followed by chapters on electric lighting and heating, new processes in the manufacture and treatment of steel, some typical modern devices in the engineering workshop and the factory, and the extraordinary number of manufacturing processes which have their birth in the electric furnaces. Blue cloth, gilt titles. Gilt illustration to front cover. Colour frontis. B/w photos and diagrams. xvi and 398 pages including index.
Rear joint split. Corners worn. Boards rubbed and marked. Text block browned. Half-title page heavily browned and has a gift inscription ink from father to son dated 1915. Foxing throughout. Some pencil annotation.
Stock no. 557833
- Categorised in:
- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
- INVENTIONS
- WATERWHEELS
- ELECTRICITY
- STEELMAKING
- ENGINEERING
