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Title: Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1889, plates volume.
Description: Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 1889. 1889 volume, plates only (no text). 8vo, 133 plates. Half brown calf. Binding tatty (most of the backstrip is missing, and the joints are cracked), but the plates are clean and tightly bound, so this copy would rebind well. Contents as follows: Petroleum Fuel in Locomotives (plates 1 - 21); Liquid Fuel in Locomotives (22); Compound Locomotives (23 - 35); Roller Flour Milling (36 - 44); Marine Engine Trials (45 - 55); Drying in Vacuum (56 - 60); Eiffel Tower Lifts (61 - 77); Ether-Pressure Theory (78 - 79); Regnault's steam experiments (80 - 87); Warp Weaving (88 - 100); Gas Engines (101 - 112); Calais Harbour Works (113); Bag-making Machine (114 - 118); Condensation and Re-evaporation (119 - 133).

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