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Price: $149.95
Publisher: USA, Popular Science Monthly: 1933
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 536g1143
Condition: Good
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 closed cockpits; Rare Stamp Racketeers thwarted by black light; Human body gets machine tests; Freak vehicles for air, land, and ... View more info
By: Ausubel, Jesse H.; Guillet, James; Nesse, Randolph M.; Cannon, Aubrey; Tsipis, Kosta
Price: $49.95
Publisher: New York, The New York Academy of Sciences: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 316g2368
Condition: Good
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
Condition: Fair
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 Freight Service - improving a 576 mile section between Denver and Salt Lake City; New Signal Control Line Circuits in Centralize... View more info
Price: $79.95
Publisher: Canada, Canadian Liquid Air Company Limited: 1947
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 662g2944
Condition: Fair
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 explosion in Bala, Ontario; back cover ad for Canadian Liquid Air features photo of Niagara's Rainbow Bridge which was flame-conditi... View more info
Price: $129.95
Publisher: USA, Munn & Company: 1935
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 813g1359
Condition: Fair
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 a telepathist than the medium; How bright is a lightning bug?; Various types of photographic exposure meters; Planets much l... View more info
Price: $39.95
Publisher: New York, Popular Radio Inc.: 1924
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 844g0428
Condition: Good
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 classroom 2,000 miles in diameter; How to build the Popular Radio portable; Important trifles; and more. Many great ads. Some... 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
Condition: Good
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
Condition: Fair
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 of Bill Cook, Murray Armstrong, "Mickey" Blake, Jack Church and Jack Howard; Pond's Extract one-page ad features phot... View more info
Price: $199.95
Publisher: New York, The New York Times: 1970
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 202g3985
Condition: Good
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 Minority; The American Psychodrama called 'Everyone Hates Us'; Space Odyssey of Tomorrow - a Trip to Mars; How to pay for 15,000,... View more info
By: Cornwall, George M.: Editor; Koroleff, A.
Price: $450.00
Publisher: Portland, Oregon, The Timberman: 1937
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 813g1657
Condition: Fair
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 Caterpillar features A.E. Baker of Fruit Growers Supply, Susanville, CA; Durable Douglas Fir Cross Arms used on telephone po... View more info
Price: $129.95
Publisher: Chicago, The American Contractor: 1929
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 813g1362
Condition: Good
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 Cincinnati; Using truck-mounted crane to wreck the Phelps Building in Binghampton, NY to make way for the new First National Bank Bu... View more info
Price: $129.95
Publisher: Chicago, The American Contractor: 1929
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 813g1363
Condition: Good
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; Oxweld generator; Oldest skyscraper coming down - the Tacoma Building in Chicago comes down - article with photo; Lockout in New Y... View more info
Price: $129.95
Publisher: Chicago, The American Contractor: 1929
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 813g1364
Condition: Good
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 shell - the Henry C. Ulen residence in Indiana - article with photo; Bookkeeping for the contractor - II; Improving bidding... View more info
Price: $129.95
Publisher: Chicago, The American Contractor: 1929
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 813g1365
Condition: Good
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 illustrated ad for International Trucks shows dump truck being loaded; vintage Skilsaw ad; The Missouri Pacific Building in St. Lo... View more info
Price: $129.95
Publisher: Chicago, The American Contractor: 1929
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 813g1366
Condition: Good
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; The contractor and the courts; Hawk Co. offers new incenerator; vintage Skilsaw ad; Latest prices of materials; constructio... View more info
Price: $199.95
Publisher: Chicago, The American Contractor: 1929
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 813g1367
Condition: Good
40 pages. Features: Dovetail Anchor Slot Co. ad inside front cover features photo of the Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company Building in Philadelphia; Nice full-page ad for the Indiana Limestone Company features photo of the Industrial Trust Co. Building in Providence, RI; Tidewater Red Cypress lumber ad features photo of 40-year-old water tank; Nice photo ad for the Bates-Truss Joists company; Tie-To Insert Company ad features photo of St. Mary's School of Nursing in Milwaukee; vintage Skilsaw ad; Largest Moving Job Successfully Completed - article and fantastic photos document moving th... View more info
Price: $199.95
Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co., Ltd.: 1936
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 336h0159
Condition: Good
Pages 883-920 plus outer layer of 8 pages of ads. Features: Metabolism of cold-blooded animals in different latitudes; Interpretation of Shankland's Experiment; Colour of the luminous background of the extra-galactic nebulae; Cross-section measurements with slow neutrons of different velocities; Structure of neutrons and beta-disintegration; Thermal decomposition of acetaldehyde and ethylene oxides - existence of short-lived intermediates; Absorption spectra and linkage of inorganic salts in the vapour state; Isotope displacement in the arc spectrum of platinum; Reported occurrence of Europea... View more info
Price: $199.95
Publisher: New York, The New York Times: 1963
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 202g4097
Condition: Good
200 pages. Features: Cover photos of Charles de Gaulle; Attractive fashion ads; One-page RCA Victor ad for Sid Caesar's album "Little Me" says "Sex, Caesar and Song"; Peugeot 404 ad; Fallacies and Facts About Automation; Photos of scenes in France; A Long Look at Stalin Ten Years Later - remembered as 'a man who did dreadful things but built a great power'; Fourteen Clues to Washington News - article on Washington correspondents with nice photo of JFK at press conference; The Brave 'Buddelers' of Berlin - photo-illustrated article on the daring escapes by tunnel by refugees f... View more info
Price: $149.95
Publisher: Springfield MA, USA, Radcraft Publications Inc.: 1945
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 301g3787
Condition: Good
Pages 539-610. Features: Cover art by Alex Schomburg supports the 7th War loan to 'finish the Nips'; Prescient Editorial entitled "Radio-Light' says "We are still at thevery beginning of the radio and electronic arts. The greatest and undreamt of applications lie as yet in the future. There is sttill much unknown territory in the electromagnetic spectrum which holds out great promist."; Air Radio Mechanic - a great career opportunity;; Television and the Amateur; No Selectivity in This Radio - the Panoramoscope; Motorola Handie-Talkie; "Photopulse"; FM U.H.F. Converter f... View more info
Price: $149.95
Publisher: Springfield MA, USA, Radcraft Publications Inc.: 1945
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 301g3786
Condition: Good
Pages 611-678. Features: Fantastic cover art by Alex Schomburg illustrates thousand-mile lifeboat radio being put to use; Microwaves - part I; Yesterday's Circuits; Parasitic Oscillations, Part I; New Lifeboat Radio; World's Biggest "Portable" Radio - U.S. Signal Corps H.Q. for the west front in Europe uses a 60 kilowatt radio housed in 17 large trailers - article with illustrations ; Battle Radio Tricks; Oscilloscopes for Trainees; Broadcast Equipment, Part X; Radio Filter Circuits; A "Jewell" Ohmeter; An Electronic Ohmichecker, Part II; Tube Replacements, Part I; Radio Repa... View more info
