Cryogenic Engineering

Octavo with black and grey half cloth boards and gilt stamping; blue and black pictorial jacket; xi, 368 pages: illustrations; indexes; 24 cm. Published under contract with the United States Atomic Energy Commission. "Planned to provide maximum benefit to those who are unfamiliar with low-temperature techniques, this important volume clearly covers the entire range of cryogenic engineering. The author describes, in easily understood form, the development and improvement of low-temperature processes and equipment; the determination of the physical properties of materials used to produce, maintain, and utilize low temperatures; and the practical applications of cryogenic techniques." --Jacket copy. // Contents: Introduction. Liquefaction of gases. Separation of gases. Cooling by adiabatic demagnetization. Low-temperature thermometry. Insulation. Storing and transporting liquefied gases. Transfer of liquefied gases. Properties of cryogenic fluids. Low-temperature properties of structural materials. Appendix: Tables of conversion factors. A very good (-) copy, clean and tight; with a ~1 in patch of paper stuck to front board; some rubbing to extremities; jacket is good (+) with some chips and tears, mostly to edges and some to spine, now in archival myler.…