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Cranes and Derricks, Fourth Edition
McGraw-Hill Education 2010; US$ 99.95The Definitive Handbook on Cranes and Derricks--Updated Per the Latest Standards and Equipment Fully revised throughout, Cranes and Derricks . Fourth Edition, offers comprehensive coverage of the selection, installation, and safe use of cranes and derricks on construction sites. Written for both engineers and non-engineers by the principals... more...
Distinguished Figures in Mechanism and Machine Science
Springer 2007; US$ 99.99This is the first part of a series of books whose aim is to collect contributed papers describing the work of famous persons in MMS (Mechanism and Machine Science). The current work treats mainly technical developments in the historical evolution of the fields that today are grouped in MMS. Thus, the emphasis is on biographical notes describing the... more...
Distinguished Figures in Mechanism and Machine Science
Springer 2009; US$ 84.99Aims to collect contributed papers in a frame that can be a sort of dictionary of personalities in MMS (Mechanism and Machine Science). This work illustrates personalities by recognizing persons and their activity, by looking mainly at technical developments in the historical evolution of the fields that are grouped in MMS. more...
Elevator Traffic Handbook
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 42.95Vertical transportation systems (elevators, lifts, escalators and passenger conveyors) are used in almost all buildings of more than a few stories high. Traffic design and control, namely the movement of people by natural and mechanical means, need to be planned carefully as the costs of under- or over-provision are considerable and changes are not... more...
Handbook of Rigging
McGraw-Hill 2008; US$ 105.00The Ultimate Guide to Designing and Operating Safe, Efficient Rigging Systems. Recent years have seen an abundance of changes in the rigging industry. This popular, hands-on reference brings you completely up to date on equipment, materials, systems, and regulations that affect your profession. Whether you are a maintenance technician, hoist operator,... more...
James Allison
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 35.00Among the engineers fueling the rapid rise of the automotive industry at the dawn of the 20th century was James Allison, a fountain pen maker who joined with Carl G. Fisher in 1904 to found Prest-O-Lite, an early manufacturer of the power source for automotive headlights. This biography tracks Allison's involvement in the Indianapolis 500, which... more...
James Watt
The Floating Press 1913; US$ 5.99The essential improvements that Scottish inventor James Watt (1736 - 1819) made to the steam engine were fundamental to the Industrial Revolution. It would be hard to overstate the value of this invention to technological and social change - it gave us the modern world we live in today. This is his biography as written by Andrew Carnegie, the Scottish-born... more...
James Watt, Chemist
Pickering & Chatto Publishers 2009; US$ 99.00Miller examines Watt?s illustrious engineering career in light of his parallel interest in chemistry, arguing that Watt?s conception of steam engineering relied upon chemical understandings. more...
Matthew Boulton
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 119.95Matthew Boulton was a leading industrialist, entrepreneur and Enlightenment figure. Often overshadowed through his association with James Watt, his Soho manufactories put Birmingham at the centre of what has recently been termed 'The Industrial Enlightenment'. Exploring his many activities and manufactures, and the regional, national and international... more...









