Author: No author.
Title: The Engineer. Weekly issue. Vol. LXVII- from January to June, 1889.
Description: London; 1889; Office for Publication and Advertisements; halfcloth with marbled boards; 4o; with a wide range of articles and reviews; relating industrial developments and overlooking innovative projects, machinery, engines, tools, etc.; numerous ills., fig., plates, plans, diagrams, wood engravings; articles, reviews in this volume i.a.: passenger locomotive, London and South-Western Railway (Mr. W. Adams, engineer), with double page woodengraved view of the locomotive; twin-screw yacht "Ormea" (the Ardrossan shipbuilding company, builders), with folding plate with plans and fig.; Mogul engine, class S.L., Central Pacific Railway (Mr. Francis F. Brown, engineer), with folding plate with plans and fig.; Her Majesty's first-class battle-ship "Benbow", 10,600 tons (constructed by the Thames ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, Millwall), with folding, woodengraved, plate with a view of the ship; construction of the Eiffel Tower (M. Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, Paris, engineer), with woodengraved illustrations; Mogul engine, class S.L., Central Pacific Railway, with folding plate with fig. and plans; the Chapin iron ore mine, Michigan, with ills.; triple expansion engines, steamship "Benmore" (the North-Eastern Company, Sunderland and Wallsend-on-Tyne), with double page, woodengraved, ills.; the Antofagasta railway, Bolivia- viaduct over the river Loa (Mr. Edward Woods, engineer, the Horseley Company, Tipton, builders), with a folding plate with a view of the viaduct; Her Majesty's first-class battle ship "Edinburgh", with a folding, woodengraved, plate with a view of the ship; Her Majesty's first-class battle ship "Victoria" (constructed by Armstrong, Mitchell and Co., Newcastle-on-Tyne), with a double page, woodengraved, view of the ship; index; VIII, 560 pp. Former library copy. Spine ends slightly damaged, a few leaves loose(ning).

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