HC&M: "A Catechism of High Pressure or Non-Condensing Steam Engines"


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Name "A Catechism of High Pressure or Non-Condensing Steam Engines"



Catalog ID HCM4682
Year 1882
Description "A Catechism | of | High Pressure | or | Non-Condensing Steam Engines. | Including the | MOdelling, Constructing, Running and | Management | of | Steam Engines and Steam Boilers. | With Illustrations. | By | Stephen Roper, Engineer, | Author of "Roper's Hand-Book of the Locomotive," "Roper's Hand- | Book of Land and Marine Engines, " " Roper's Hand-Book of | Modern Steam Fire-Engines," "Roper's Handy-Book for En- | gineers," "Roper's Improvements in Steam-Engines," | "Roper's Use and Abuse of the Steam-Boiler," etc. | Fourteenth Edition, Revised and Enlarged. | Philadelphia: | E. Claxton & Company, | 930 Market Street. | 1882."

Frontispiece of "Oliver Evens, the Watt of America". 232 pages plus catalog at rear. Supple leather folding cover, "ROPER'S CATECHISM OF STEAM ENGINES" in gilt on spine. Three steam engines in gilt on folding flap.
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