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Practical Residential Wiring 1960 $13.00

Second Edition 1960 (originally publ. 1948)
511 pages
393 illustrations
by John Nowack Assistant Coordinater, Evening Trade Schools Board of Ed. NYC
Publ. by D. Van Nostrand Co.
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Farm Services Buildings by Harold Gray - $17.00

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Description: Farm Service Buildings (Agricultural Engineering Publications) H. Gray
McGraw-Hill Education, 1955
Includes b/w photos and drawings of out-buildings. Green-brown cloth with title in bright gilt on spine in green title block. Information on building / planning of Barns and silos, storage buildings, machinery houses, cattle, swine, poultry, sheep, grain, apples, corn, potatoes.
Condition: Good clean condition. Original owner's name and bookplate inside cover. Top edge is darkened.
Size: 6 3/8" X 9 1/4"
458 pages



Farm Electrification by Robert H. Brown $13.00

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Publisher: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. 1956.
Hard Cover. First Edition? Non Fiction. - good condition, slight darkening along top edge.No dust cover
367 pages
clear illustrated drawings & b&w photographs.

Chapter Titles:

The Power Distribution Story
The Electric Bill
Electric Wiring Practices
Electricity for the Farm Residence
The Farmstead Distribution System
Wiring for Farm Buildings
Electricity for Light
Electrical Controls for Farm Use
Electricity for Heat
Farm Electric Motors
Electricity for theWater Supply
Electricity for Cooling
Special Equipment for the Electrified Farm


International Rectifier Corporation Zener Diode Handbook - $19.00

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Description: International Rectifier Corporation Zener Diode Handbook
Basic Theory Characteristics and Application Data
Third Printing 1961
Condition: Good Condition - minor fading and stamped on front and back covers "Spectropolarimetry …"
Size: 6" X 9"
96 pages



How to Build Your Own Home in the Woods by Bradford Angier - $19.00 w/s&h

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Description: Hart Pub., 1952. Paperback
How to build Log Cabins, Camping Shelters, Rustic Furniture. Profusely illustrated with drawings and plans.
Well used copy has underlines by intrepid off-grid planner. A good resource whether you're a survivalist, a camper, an outdoorsman or a beginning log cabin builder. The trick these days is to find your piece of the woods where the building inspector won't come knocking. The author discusses siting issues for 1952, that may or may not be legally standing 60 years later, but the building techniques still work.
Condition: Good condition, but see pictures.
Size: 5 3/8" X 8"
310 pages



Measured Drawings of Early American Furniture by Burl & Bernice Osburn $15.00

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The Bruce Publishing Co. 1936, Milwaukee WI, 1936 Third Printing
Cloth hardcover
Original owners name on front endpaper.
No Jacket.
Illustrated.
Very Good Condition
Featuring a mahogany sideboard, banister-back chair, 18th century mahogany mirror, trestle-footed gate leg table, banjo clock, pine chest, mahogany card table, signers table, tavern table, shield-back chair and many others.
7.5"X11"
94 pages


Automobile Maintenance Kuns - Plumridge 1948 - $32.00

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No dust jacket. Good condition. Two owners names and oil stain on inside front cover Clean inside. Slight wobble on the hinge.
753 pages
5 1/2" X 8 1/2"

Chapters include:



Heating Ventilating Air Conditioning Guide 1940 - $39.00

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Description: Published by American Society of Heating and Ventilating Engineers. 46 chapters on the state of the art understanding of the field at the time. The catalog has a wide variety of items, many that are of a visual design that are associated with the 1940s. I was especially interested to see the products for insulation, including the asbestos products that I remember installing with my father on our steam pipes about 20 years later.
Condition: Good clean condition
Size:6" X 9"
Intro:xxiii pages + Content & Advertiser Catalog Guide = 1088 pages + 1940 Membership Roll 96 pages



"Metallic Materials in Engineering" by Carl H. Samans, Ph.D. 1963
$13.00

hardcover book in good condition
1st Edition and 1st Printing!
DIMENSIONS:  6 1/4" x 9 1/2"
532 pages

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SOAP: Its Composition, Manufacture, & Properties by William Simmons $16.95

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Pitman's Common Commodities & Industries
London: Isaac Pitman & Sons, circa 1919
124 pages plus 16 page publisher catalog
Frontispiece & 11 illustrations: soap making machines, plant
7 1/4" x 4 7/8"
cloth hard cover, no dj
ex library book Boston University Library College of Business Administration 1919
Other than library markings and library card pocket on back inside cover, this book is in good condition.



Industrial Safety Blake, Armstrong etc. 1944  $13.00

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By T.O. Armstrong, M Gimbel, Roland Blake, S Homan, J Bloomfield, W Dean Keefer, C Boulet, R Page
Edited By - Roland P. Blake
Prentice-Hall, New York, 1944 Third Printing
435 pages
Hardcover
6" X 9 1/8"


Very Good Condition- there is a wobble on the hinge, though the cover binding is still tight.

Contents include chapters on safety engineering; brief history of industrial saftey; Accident Costs, Appraising Safety Performance; statistics; causes of accidents; acccident prevention; safety analysis; plant inspection; low voltage electrical hazards; guarding of various types of machines; prevention of falls; fire prevention; first aid; industrial health hazards; protective equipment ...



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