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[Istanbul]: Ahmed İhsan ve Şürekası Matbaacılık Osmanlı Şirketi, A.H. 1330 [= 1914 C.E.]. First edition of this comprehensive maritime work detailing the history, operations, and employees of the Şirket-i Hayriye (the Bosphorus Ferry Company), Turkey’s first joint-stock company, which operated passenger and freight transport services on the Bosphorus from 1854.....  Read More Item Details for Boğaziçi Şirket-i Hayriye, Tarihçe, Salname Add to Wish List

Item #371558

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New York: Waller Scott Shinn, photographer, n.d. [c. 1920]. Inscribed beneath the photo: "In memory 1847-1937" "To Mr. Ludwig F. Ott / from / Mina M. Edison Hughes [Edison's daughter] Ludwig Ott was a lifelong employee of Thomas Edison. Read More Item Details for Photogravure Portrait of Thomas Edison Add to Wish List

Item #26011

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Oak Ridge, Tennessee: Atomic Energy Commission, 12/2/46. Declassified Document. MDDC 509. For use within the Atomic Energy Commission only. Read More Item Details for Five Photographs of the Chain Reacting File and Attached Instrument by Argonne National Labratory Add to Wish List

Item #369288

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Paris: Imprimerie de E. Duverger, 1836. Nouvelle edition “augmentée de la Manière de considérer ce traité et de s'en servir”. With a leaf at the front captioned “Pétition” signed by Monteil the 9th March 1836. Among the areas his collection covered are roads, canals, history of finance and financiers, history.....  Read More Item Details for Traite de matériaux manuscripts de divers genres d'histoire Add to Wish List

Item #28728

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London: Printed for J. Wyatt, 1804. Contains the specifications of patents including Freemantle's improvements on the steam-engine as well as those of Mr. Willcox, Atkins' on the hydrometer, Logan's on canal locks and Alderson on lining lead pipes with tin. Among the original communications are articles on Von Gedda's condenser.....  Read More Item Details for The Repertory of Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture. Consisting of Original Communications, Specifications of Patent Inventions, Practical and Interesting Papers selected from the Philosophical Transactions and Scientific Journals of all Nations. Monthly Intelligence relating to the Useful Arts, Proceedings of learned Societies and Notices of All Patents granted for Inventions. Volume V. 2nd series Add to Wish List

Item #28248

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New York: Published by Alexander V. Blake, 1842. In addition to the Steam Engine, chemical and mechanical engineering portions and the recipes not only for dyeing fabrics, there are also recipes for making inks, dyeing woods, glues, varnishes, water-proofing boots, curing hams, making hand lotion, candles and other sundries. Read More Item Details for The Artist's Guide and Mechanic's Own Book, embracing the Portion of Chemistry applicable to the Mechanic Arts, with Abstracts of Electricity, Galvanism, Magnetism, Pneumatics, Optics, Astronomy and Mechanical Philosophy. Also Mechanical exercises in Iron, Steel, Lead, Zinc, Copper and Tin Soldering: and a Variety of Useful Receipts, extending to every Profession and Occupation of Life; particularly dyeing [on] silk, woollen, cotton and Leather [including] A Supplement to the Artist's Guide and mechanic's Own book. With Practical Rules and Tables for Engineers, Millwrights, Machine Makers, Carpenters, Bricklayers, Smiths & connected with the Steam Engine, Water Wheels, Pumps and Mechanics in General. Also the Steam Engine Rendered Easy...to which is added The Manager's Assistant in a Cotton Mill Add to Wish List

Item #28242

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Lowell: [Press of Damrell & Moore, September 1, 1850. An offering of Norcross's machine plans and instructions for $50.00 and providing affadavits confirming its differences from the Woodworth and Woodbury's machines. Read More Item Details for N. G. Norcross's Planing Machine Patented February 12, 1850 and Circular Saw Mill. Affadavits of Skilful Experts, Showing that the Norcross Machine is Different from, and Superior to the Woodworth Machine Add to Wish List

Item #22910

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Washington, D.C: J. & G. S. Gideon, 1845. First edition. "When in 1843 Congress approved the construction of an experimental telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington, Vail acted as Morse's chief assistant and received Morse's 'What hath God Wrought' message on May 24, 1844 ... [The present pamphlet] containts one.....  Read More Item Details for Description of the Electro Magnetic Telegraph: Now in Operation Between the Cities of Washington and Baltimore Add to Wish List

Item #352853

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[N.p: n.p, 1914?]. Signed on the title page: "Thomas A Watson/Aug. 14th 1930/Boothbay Harbor/Maine". Watson entered American legend in March 1876 as the recipient of the first ever message transmitted by telephone, spoken of course by Alexander Graham Bell: "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you." Watson had.....  Read More Item Details for The Birth and Babyhood of the Telephone (An address delivered before the Third Annual Convention of the Telephone Pioneers of America at Chicago, October 17, 1913) Add to Wish List

Item #314552