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Price: $149.95
Publisher: USA, Popular Science Monthly: 1933
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 536g1143
96 pages. Features: Nice Plymouth Six ad featuring interview with G.R. Stevens of Elgin, Illinois; ATT ad features woman using old-style phone; Buying automatic refrigerators; "Human-Eye" camera opens new way to television; Snakeskin and marble made by photography; Planes to dump rain on crops; Photo of tidal wave in the River Severn, in England; Queer jobs in the Arctic - Major L.T. Burwash in pursuit of the North Magnetic Pole; Two-passenger sailplane has clos... View more info
By: Ausubel, Jesse H.; Guillet, James; Nesse, Randolph M.; Cannon, Aubrey; Tsipis, Kosta
Price: $39.95
Publisher: New York, The New York Academy of Sciences: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 316g2368
56 pages. Features: Mimicking a leaf's ability to trap the energy of light; The evolutiionary benefits of psychic pain; The role of fashion in ancient burial customs; The tangled history of nuclear missile guidance - a review of 'Inventing Accuracy' by Donald MacKenzie; What fate awaits Chernobyl in the New World Order?; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. View more info
Price: $69.95
Publisher: Chicago, Simmons-Boardman: 1946
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 556c9979
pages 565-628. Features: Reverse Running on the Pennsylvania - on 226 miles of track between New York and Washington certain sections of track... are signaled for train movements in both directions; S.P.&S. installs all-relay interlocking; Regulated Track Circuit - automatically regulates a D.C. track circuit; Interlocking on the Grand Trunk - all-relay plant eliminates train stops at a crossing with the New York Central; Rio Grande Installs Radio to Improve Through Fre... View more info
Price: $79.95
Publisher: Canada, Canadian Liquid Air Company Limited: 1947
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 662g2944
14 pages. Illustrated with black and white photos. Features: Flame conditioning paper mill machinery; The welding of process piping; Broken rock drills can be salvaged; Leaks in boiler feed system permanently stopped; Impeller casing saved by bronze welding; hardfacing auto tire chains with stellite; fire and explosion wrongly attributed to acetylene cylinders - Joseph Dewasha, an Indian war veteran and apprentice auto mechanic, was killed in a garage fire and explosi... View more info
Price: $129.95
Publisher: USA, Munn & Company: 1935
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 813g1359
56 pages. Features: Dr. John D. Strong; The Appalachian Trail; Detailed drawing of a newly designed lightship which will replace the ill-fated Nantucket; Surprising discoveries in the near east show that iron, glass, the arch, and bathrooms were in use far earlier than formerly supposed; Telepathy and Clairvoyance in a Trance Medium - an intensive series of tests conducted with a medium (Mrs. Eileen J. Garrett) and her spirit control showed the spirit to be no better as... View more info
Price: $39.95
Publisher: New York, Popular Radio Inc.: 1924
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 844g0428
70 pages. Black and white photos. Features: How radio is helping the deaf to hear; Where the costs of broadcasting should lie; How to avoid local interference; What the manager of a broadcasting station hears; How "resistance" affects radio circuits; An ideal set for summer-time reception; 100 best hook-ups - #8; The Circus that came to Willie; Will the broadcast listeners listen in on advertising?; The lingo of the ham; How to do your soldering correctly; A cl... View more info
By: Buck, Risa; Nelson, Kurt; Whitaker, Mark; Hackleman, Michael; Prange, Shari; McCrea, Steve
Price: $49.95
Publisher: USA, Home Power Inc.: 1995
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 316g2110
112 pages. Features: Risa Buck went off the grid in Ashland; Kurt Nelson combines solar electricity and science education in a space station simulator for students in Wausau, WI; Mark Whitaker powers some of his appliances with solar electricity; Ely Schless's electric power bike; Electric Vehicle Charging and Maintenance; Visit to a lead recycling factory; The evolution of hot water heaters; and more. Moderate wear. Clean and unmarked. A quality copy. View more info
Price: $299.95
Publisher: Winnipeg, National Home Monthly / Stovel: 1937
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 201g4828
72 pages. Features: Editorial touches on Communism, Unemployment and Social Credit; One-page Parker Vacumatic pen ad; Canada New Heart of Empire; The Timid Soul - Harold Tucker Webster; The Enchanted Chorus Girl (short story); Story Lady (short story); Hot Money (short story); The Electrical Industry - an interesting survey of new electrical technology with we now take for granted; Lonely Lady (short story); The Murder on the Linds (part II); Hockey article with photos ... View more info
Price: $199.95
Publisher: New York, The New York Times: 1970
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 202g3985
120 pages. Features: Many gorgeous fashion ads; The Hip Baroness Wooton of Abinger - photo-illustrated article - she calls for reduced marijuana penalties; Laird Apple Jack ad features photo of company President Jack Laird; One-page photo ad for the ILGWU features photo of historic labor organizer Mother Jones; Fantastic two-page color-photo ad for Talon zippers entitled "The 10 Worst Dressed Women of the Year"; The Silent Black Majority;; The Viokent Black Mino... View more info
By: Cornwall, George M.: Editor; Koroleff, A.
Price: $399.95
Publisher: Portland, Oregon, The Timberman: 1937
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 813g1657
96 pages. Index of advertisers. Features: Cover photo of the vessel 'Orient City' fully loaded with lumber; Two-color ad for Broderick yellow-strand wire rope inside front cover; Nicely logging-theme illustrated Timken bearing full-page ad; American Tiger Brand Wire Rope ad features great photo (circa 1885) of steam (bull) donkey and many loggers; R.G. LeTourneau ad features photo of their bulldozer and a Willamette-Hyster arch at work; Full-page two-color photo ad for... View more info
Price: $129.95
Publisher: Chicago, The American Contractor: 1929
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 813g1362
40 pages. Features: Labor efficiency more important than wages; Inspector's salaries on government work; lien law injustice and loose credits; Arbitration to cut cost of disputes; bar joist floors expedite construction - photos of construction of the Lake Shore Hotel at Lakewood, Ohio; Akron Airship hangar presents some interesting steel problems; detailing concrete form work (1); Build school over unvacated roadway - the Joseph Heberle Memorial public school in Cincinn... View more info
Price: $129.95
Publisher: Chicago, The American Contractor: 1929
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 813g1363
36 pages. Features: Labor trouble in New York; Definite basis for wage settlement; Opportunity in airport construction; Cuts cost of handling stone - article with nice photos of Youngstown, Ohio Hospital construction; Steel core reinforcing in construction of Denver bus station - article with photos; Concrete volume formula; Bookkeeping for contractors - part I; Why grade-marked lumber?; The contractor and the courts; Mack offer new dump warp-resistant truck body; Oxwel... View more info
Price: $129.95
Publisher: Chicago, The American Contractor: 1929
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 813g1364
36 pages. Features: Nice cover photo of J.C. Penney warehouse, St. Louis; Great vintage photo full-page ad for the Koehring Dandie cement mixer; Great photo ad for Gypsteel shows construction of the Convention Hall at Atlantic City - the world's largest single span roof; Skilsaw ad; Interesting illustrated ad for Kernerator incineration systems; The New Paxton Hotel in Omaha is featured in an ad for Meyer Steelforms; A residence is constructed beneath a temporary winter... View more info
Price: $129.95
Publisher: Chicago, The American Contractor: 1929
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 813g1365
40 pages. Features: The Sears Roebuck office building in Minneapolis is featured in an ad for the Dovetail Anchor Slot Co. inside front cover; Super full-page photo ad for the Indiana Limestone company features the Palmolive Building in Chicago; Photo ad for Tidewater Red Cypress lumber; Nice pull-page photo ad for the Foley Saw Filer; Photo of the Ambassador Hotel Apartment Building in Milwaukee is featured in an ad for "Tie-To" inserts; Vintage full-page illus... View more info
Price: $129.95
Publisher: Chicago, The American Contractor: 1929
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 813g1366
40 pages. Features: Dovetail Anchor Slot Co. photo ad inside front cover features photo of the Sunset Mausoleum at Berkeley, California; Can construction work be made safe?; Keeping up interestin accident prevention; Job precautions are the best safety tactics - article with great vintage illustrations; Underbidding in Florida is ruining business, says builder; The A.G.C. Safety Promotion Program; Accident control in construction work; National Safety Campaign under way... View more info