Practical Essay on the Strength of Cast Iron and Other Metals

by Thomas Tredgold, Eaton Hodgkinson

$200 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books · No longer available

London: John Weale, 1860-1. Stated second edition of Hodgkinson's revision. Octavo 22cm . Brown blindstamped cloth, rebacked with modern brown cloth; brick red coated endpapers; x ,384, 32pp; 32pp publisher's catalogue at rear; 9 engraved plates. Rebacked, corners bumped, one or two spots of foxing: Very Good. A pioneering work on the strength of cast iron, first published in 1822 Bibliotheca Mechanica p.326 .

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