Author: KOHN, Ferdinand.
Title: Iron and Steel Manufacture. ... iron and steel in the Paris Exhibition of 1867; ... the state and progress of the manufacture during ... 1867 & 1868 ... descriptions of many of the principal iron and steel works in Great Britain, the continent of Europe, and the United States.
Description: London, Mackenzie; NY, Virtue [1869]. folio modern half calf; xii,270pp, frontispiece and 64 plates numbered to 63 with one bis, many double page. A stain in the top corner towards the end, but still a very decent copy. ¶ A proper great lump of Victorian technology, with marvelous machine plates, and probably even useful as a source of information. Kohn saw it as "work of utility rather than ambition", working this up from a series of articles in 'Engineering' with the help of some pretty impressive assistants and sources: Colburn, Maw, Fairbairn and Vickers. This exists with a mildly different title that leaves out the United States. As Virtue in New York shares the imprint of this issue the omission has been fixed in large clear type. I'm sure the contents are identical.

Keywords: engineering technology c19th metal metallurgy machines manufactures industry