An outline of mechanical engineering with drawings of finished machines, tools & apparatus, of every description, which are used in the different branches of industry, of the newest and most approved construction : as well as a number of different plans, showing the arrangements of well constructed manufactories, such as grist, oil, saw and other mills, foundries, forges, rolling mills, sugar, paper and spinning machines, pumps and waterworks, cloth manufactories, distilleries, breweries, &c. : with an appendix, containing the necessary descriptions and calculations : collected, elaborated and published by an American engineering society under the direction of Frederick Mone

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Notes: "$1 to subscribers, $1.50 to non-subscribers"; "Burroughs, printer ... N.Y"; "F. Mone and A. von Fischerz removed to 131 Fulton Street, N.Y"; "Part IX"--At head of title; Cover title; SCDIRB copy (39088016476087) has bookplate: Scientific Library, United States Patent Office (stamped: cancelled).; SCDIRB copy stamped at head of title of original front cover: Library Bureau of Railway Economics Washington D.C.; SCDIRB copy with original yellow printed paper wrappers, bound in black and purple cloths, marbled edges and endpapers.

editor: Mone, F.
former owner: United States Patent Office Scientific Library DSI; Bureau of Railway Economics (Washington, D.C.) Library DSI
publisher: F. Mone and von Fischerz; G.P. Putnam & Co.

Physical description: [52] pages, [27] leaves of plates (26 doubled) illustrations 60 cm

Topic: Cotton manufacture; Machine design; Steam-engines--Design and construction; Textile factories