Author: No author.
Title: The Engineer. Weekly issue. Vol. LXXIV- from July to December 1892.
Description: London; 1892; 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.: Vyrnwy aqueduct- the Norton Tower- details, with plans, fig., ills.; express passenger engine, Great Western Railway (Mr. W. Dean, Swindon, engineer), with a folding, woodengraved, view of the engine; the Russian navy- belted cruiser "Pamyat Azova", with a view of the ship; express passenger locomotive, Great Northern Railway (Mr. Patrick Stirling, Doncaster, engineer), with a folding, woodengraved, view of the locomotive (86x56 cm.); Her Majesty's first-class battleship "Revenge", with a view of the ship; state carriages for an Indian Rajah, with ills.; Her Majesty's torpedo depôt ship "Vulcan" (constructed at Portsmouth dockyard), with a folding, woodengraved, view of the ship; Rotterdam water supply- sinking a flexible main in the Maas, with ill. and fig.; sand pump dredger "Thyboron" (Messrs. Lobnitz and Co., Renfrew, builders and engineers), with a folding plate with plans and fig.; screw tug boats Noordzee and Oostzee (Messrs. L. Smit and Zoon, Kinderdyk, builders ¶ the Royal Engineering Company, Flushing, engineer), with ill., plans and fig.; the Pollet swing bridge, Dieppe (M. Alexandre, Paris, engineer), with a folding plate with plans and fig.; the river Thames steamer "Koh-I-Noor" (The Fairfield shipbuilding and engineering company, Govan, builders), with plans and fig.; index; XII, 594 pp. Former library copy. Cover slightly worn.

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