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Book cover for Hubert E. Collins: Shaft Governors

Shaft Governors

Hubert E. Collins
Paperback - $60.95

Originally published in 1908, this book is made up from material originally published in Power, together with some special articles which have been prepared to make it a complete handbook of the subject. Topics covered include evolution of the shaft ...

Book cover for Hubert E. Collins: Shafting, Pulleys, Belting and Rope Transmission

Shafting, Pulleys, Belting and Rope Transmission

Hubert E. Collins
Paperback - $60.95

Originally published in 1908, this handbook was intended to furnish the reader with practical help for the everyday handling of shafting, pulleys, and belting. They are allied in operation of plants and it is a pretty generally conceded fact that all ...

Book cover for Hubert E. Collins: Shafting, Pulleys, Belting, Rope Transmission and Shaft Governors

Shafting, Pulleys, Belting, Rope Transmission and Shaft Governors

Hubert E. Collins
Hardcover - $68.95

Originally published in 1908, this handbook was intended to furnish the reader with practical help for the everyday handling of shafting, pulleys, and belting. They are allied in operation of plants and it is a pretty generally conceded fact that all ...

Book cover for Nick Cook: The Hunt for Zero Point

The Hunt for Zero Point : Inside the Classified World of Antigravity Technology

Nick Cook
Paperback - $24.95

This riveting work of investigative reporting and history exposes classified government projects to build gravity-defying aircraft--which have an uncanny resemblance to flying saucers.
The atomic bomb was not the only project to occupy government ...

Book cover for Thomas Crump: A Brief History of the Age of Steam

A Brief History of the Age of Steam : The Power That Drove the Industrial Revolution

Thomas Crump
Paperback - $26.95

In 1710 an obscure Devon ironmonger Thomas Newcomen invented a machine with a pump driven by coal, used to extract water from mines. Over the next two hundred years the steam engine would be at the heart of the industrial revolution that changed the ...

Book cover for Michael DAntonio: A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey

A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey : 1957 - The Space Race Begins

Michael DAntonio
Hardcover - $41.95

From Pulitzer Prize-winning author DAntonio comes this memorable account of the first year of the space race, with all its panic, explosions, rivalries, and comic escapades. Eight pages of b&w photographs.

Book cover for Michael DAntonio: A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey

A Ball, a Dog, and a Monkey : 1957 -- The Space Race Begins

Michael DAntonio
Paperback - $24.95



Book cover for Virginia P. Dawson: Engines and Innovation

Engines and Innovation : Lewis Laboratory and American Propulsion Technology

Virginia P. Dawson
Paperback - $64.95



Book cover for Mark Denny: Ingenium

Ingenium : Five Machines That Changed the World

Mark Denny
Hardcover - $39.95

Ingenium is medieval English vernacular for "an ingenious contrivance." In this fascinating book, physicist Mark Denny considers five such contrivances -- the bow and arrow, the waterwheel, the counterpoise siege engine (including the trebuchet), the ...

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