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Introduction to Low Temperature Differential Stirling Engines by James R. Senft Publisher Comments An Introduction to Low temperature Differential Stirling Engines covers the latest new development in the field of Striling engines. This volume introduces the fascinating world of Stirling engines that can operate on very small temperature differnces... (read more) Your price: $13.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Introduction to Stirling Engines by James R. Senft Publisher Comments An Introduction to Stirling Engines covers the subject of hot air engines and their modern counterparts from the beginning. The book starts with the elementary ideas that underly all heat engines and builds up to clear explanations of how all Stirling... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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Miniature Ringbom Engines by James R. Senft Publisher Comments The book Miniature Ringbom Engines is a practial introduction to a whole new branch of Stirling engine technology. The Ringbom engine is a hot air engine with a normal crank-coupled piston but with a displacer free of any mechanical linkage. The... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Keep Your Lathe in Trim by South Bend Lathe Works Publisher Comments The old proverb, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," is just as applicable today as when first expressed by some long forgotten sage. Lathes and other modern precision tools must be "kept trim" if they are to give long, trouble-free... (read more) Your price: $3.95 New - Pamphlet
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"Uncle" Dave Gingery's Shop Note Book 1 by Vince Gingery Publisher Comments Here in "Uncle" Dave Gingery's Shop Notebook you get not only project and ideas, but Uncle Dave's machine shop philosophy and how he has applied it to his work. You'll see how he developed simple solutions to seemingly complex problems, solutions that... (read more) Your price: $7.95 New - Pamphlet
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Lindsay's Chemical Cross Reference by Lindsay Publications Publisher Comments If you haven't run into the problem yet, you will. You'll be reading some old chemical formula calling for mirbane oil, salt of satum, or liver of sulphur. A quick check of this handy list of chemical terms would tell you that you need nitrobenzene... (read more) Your price: $5.95 New - Pamphlet
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Lathe Notes Volume 1 by Machinery Magazine Publisher Comments More articles published after WWI. First is an article on designing change gears. You get the simple calculations involved in designing change gear mechanisms for machine tools so that speeds will vary in geometrical progression. Examples include... (read more) Your price: $5.95 New - Pamphlet
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A Thousand & One Formulas: 1920 by Sidney Gernsback Publisher Comments Back in 1920 people were hot to set up their own laboratories and invent something and become rich. Experimenter Publishing Company published books and magazines to whet their appetite. They reprinted the best information from the magazines in this book.... (read more) Your price: $9.95 New - Trade Paper
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Entropy and Steam by ICS Publisher Comments All engines are governed by thermodynamics. Ooooooh! Such a big word! Thermo - heat energy. Dynamics - movement. Thermodynamics is the movement of heat energy, and that's what happens in a steam engine. Heat energy from the boiler flows through the... (read more) Your price: $5.95 New - Trade Paper
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Simple Scientific Experiments by Aurel de Ratti Publisher Comments "Describes forty-six instructive experiments in electricity, magnetism, hydraulics, hydrostatics, light and acoustics." From a century ago. You can build a model hydraulic ram, acoustic fountain, vortex (smoke) rings, flour explosive, manufacture of... (read more) Your price: $6.50 Sale - Pamphlet
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Hasluck's Photographic Notes by Paul N. Hasluck Publisher Comments We've had Paul Hasluck's Photographic Cameras in print for a number of years now. And it's a great how-to book from about 1906 based on articles reprinted from the British magazine "Work". About 1910 the publisher issued a six volume encyclopedia of... (read more) Your price: $5.95 New - Pamphlet
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Gear Calculations Gear Cutting by International Correspondence Schools Publisher Comments It was as true a hundred years ago as it is today. To get a better job, you needed to have a skill. Then and today, you must know something, have a skill. Back then many people bettered themselves by enrolling in a correspondence course. Here you... (read more) Your price: $8.95 New - Trade Paper
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Handbook for Drillers by Cleveland Twist Drill Company Publisher Comments Learn about the parts of a twist drill, tips on grinding or sharpening, correct feeds and speeds, tips on drilling hard materials, brass, use of cutting compound and more. Chapter 5 covers common errors and their results, including broken tangs, how to... (read more) Your price: $5.95 New - Pamphlet
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Neptune's Gift: A History of Common Salt by Robert P Multhauf Publisher Comments Common salt is a substance seemingly too ordinary to think about - yet it is the oldest of our raw materials and the basis of some of our newest inventions. Mythology and folklore abound in accounts of its power and importance. It has been a crucial... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Manual of Screw Cutting and Change Gears by William Simpson Publisher Comments Two Books in one! You get Manual of Screw Cutting 4th edition (1887) containing rules for calculating the change gears on screw-cutting lathes to cut square and angular threads per inch or per pitch, with two or four gears. Also, useful rules for... (read more) Your price: $4.95 New - Pamphlet
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Gems of American Architecture by William Royal Greer Publisher Comments Out of the depths of the great depression comes this small give-away picture book of twenty-two bizarre outhouses. You get what is supposed to be a picture catalog of designs produced by the L.A. Vitorie Company, complete with order numbers and prices.... (read more) Your price: $3.95 New - Pamphlet
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Day At the Factory by Penny Magazine Publisher Comments In 1832 the Penny Magazine, reputedly the world's first illustrated weekly magazine, was launched. By 1844 when these articles were published, the magazine was a wild success, proving that people were hungry for knowledge. The Industrial Revolution... (read more) Your price: $6.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Simple & Compound Steam Engines by ICS Publisher Comments A lot of people like to watch steam engines. They love all those moving parts I guess. Some of those people think they know all about steam engines, but few really do. It's a technology that disappeared a century ago when electricity came in. Unless... (read more) Your price: $9.95 New - Trade Paper
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Deep Hole Drilling by Machinery Magazine Publisher Comments Yes, you can now drill a hole, straight and true, all the way to China. Well, almost. You get a complete reprint of Machinery Reference Series Booklet No. 25 from 1910 and two later articles from Machinery Magazine. Part one covers the basic... (read more) Your price: $6.95 New - Pamphlet
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Motocycles of 1899 by American Machinist Magazine Publisher Comments The title is motocycles. NOT motoRcycles. In 1899 I guess the term "automobile" had not yet become universal. This is a fascinating collection of articles written for machinists when autos were brand new. Ignorant people often think Henry Ford... (read more) Your price: $6.95 New - Pamphlet
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