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"Puffing Billy" and the Prize "Rocket" or, the story of the Stephensons and our Railways.

'Return Loads' to Increase Transport Resources by Avoiding Waste of Empty Vehicle Running.

40 years / 40 años / 40 ans

A boy's text book on gas engines

A brief sketch of the work of Matthew Fontaine Maury during the war, 1861-1865

A Catechism of the Steam Engine

A Complete List of the Books Included in the S. & C. Series of Elementary Manuals for Mechanics and Students published by E. & F. N. Spon, Ltd., London. January 1912

A Course In Wood Turning

A Description of a New-Invented Stove-Grate Shewing Its Uses and Advantages Over All Others, Both in Point of Expence, and Every Purpose of a Chamber Fire

A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines containing a clear exposition of their principles and practice

A few secrets of the metallurgist simply told

A General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam, Between Great Britain and the Eastern and Western Parts of the World

A handbook of laboratory glass-blowing

A Historical Account of Useful Inventions and Scientific Discoveries Being a manual of instruction and entertainment.

A History of Aeronautics

A History of Aeronautics

A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2)

A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine

A Letter to the Kensington Canal Company on the Substitution of the Pneumatic Railway for the Common Railway by Which They Contemplate Extending Their Line of Conveyance

A Lost Chapter in the History of the Steamboat

A manual of face brick construction

A manual of pyrotechny

A Manual of Shoemaking and Leather and Rubber Products

A Manual of the Hand Lathe Comprising Concise Directions for Working Metals of All Kinds, Ivory, Bone and Precious Woods

A Method of Tanning without Bark

A New Century of Inventions Being Designs & Descriptions of One Hundred Machines, Relating to Arts, Manufactures, & Domestic Life

A new discovery for finding the longitude

A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication

A Pioneer Railway of the West

A Practical Manual of the Collodion Process, Giving in Detail a Method For Producing Positive and Negative Pictures on Glass and Paper.

A practical treatise on coach-building historical and descriptive

A Practical Treatise on Gas-light Exhibiting a Summary Description of the Apparatus and Machinery Best Calculated for Illuminating Streets, Houses, and Manufactories, with Carburetted Hydrogen, or Coal-Gas, with Remarks on the Utility, Safety, and General Nature of this new Branch of Civil Economy.

A Project for Flying: In Earnest at Last!

A Select Collection of Valuable and Curious Arts and Interesting Experiments, Which are Well Explained and Warranted Genuine and may be Performed Easily, Safely, and at Little Expense.

A short history of the printing press and of the improvements in printing machinery from the time of Gutenberg up to the present day

A Story of the Telegraph

A Succinct View of the Importance and Practicability of Forming a Ship Canal across the Isthmus of Panama

A system of pyrotechny

A Text-book of Paper-making

A Treatise on Hat-Making and Felting Including a Full Exposition of the Singular Properties of Fur, Wool, and Hair

A Treatise on Staff Making and Pivoting Containing Complete Directions for Making and Fitting New Staffs from the Raw Material

A treatise on the origin, progress, prevention, and cure of dry rot in timber

A-B-C of Electricity

ABC of the steel square and its uses

Account of the Skerryvore lighthouse

Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use A Practical Handbook on the Production, Purification, and Subsequent Treatment of Acetylene for the Development of Light, Heat, and Power

Acoustics of auditoriums

Aeolus; or, the future of the flying machine

Aeroplane construction

Aeroplane Construction and Operation