Author: COOLEY, MORTIMER E
Title: Scientific Blacksmith
Description: Ann Arbor, Michigan: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1947. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; 6 1/4 x 9 3/4 x 1; 290 pages; Hard cover is brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. Light rubbing, bumping, some sunning to edges. Pages are clean and tight. Illustrated with 7 b/w photographs. Mortimer Elwyn Cooley (1855 – 1944) was an American mechanical and consulting engineer, US Naval officer, and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. He served as president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in the year 1919-20....After his graduation in 1878 he first served at the USS Quinnebaug, cruising the North Sea, and Mediterranean, together with Ira Nelson Hollis. In the year 1879-1880 he cruised the North Atlantic on the screw gunboat USS Alliance (1875). In 1880-81 he was assistant at the Bureau of Steam Engineering in the Navy Department, and in 1881 was appointed Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, lecturing Steam Engineering and Iron Shipbuilding. Index.. Very Good+ .

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