The Engineering Record, Building Record and the Sanitary Engineer. a Journal for the Architect, Engineer, Mechanic, and Municipal Officer. Volume XXXIX December, 1899-May, 1899

Original. Bound magazines; journals. Contemporary half black leather (spine and corners) and morocco patterned black cloth, approximately 11 x 14 inches, index, viii + 608 pp, tan marbeled edges, illustrated with black and white drawings and photographs. Hardcover, very good. Corners bumped with a bit of cardboard exposed there, a few chips off cloth on rear board, spine rebacked with black tape, front and rear hinges cracked, binder's (Conrad Lotz, Scranton Pennsylvania) label, free front endpapers creased, tanning along edges of first and last few leaves, paper lightly age yellowed, lower corners of a few adjoining leaves creased, otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked and apparently never read. Includes article by General Henry L Abbot about the feasibility of building the Panama Canal, comparing sites there and in Nicaragua, the Greenpoint Avenue Bridge over Newtown Creek, Brooklyn (illustrated) , the safety of the Brooklyn Bridge, ethics of paving contracts and snails in the water supply in Chicago, construction of the East River Bridge (Brookln to Manhattan) , a typhoid fever outbreak in Philadelphia, the Southern Terminal Railway terminal in Boston, the subway, wireless telegraphy (radio) , new inventions, techniques, construction projects, buildings, bridges, tunnels and a host of other subjects, all presenting a nice panorama of the techniques, projects, problems, solutions and so forth of the age of enterprise. Heavy and oversized. Engineering; science; technology; history; reference; architecture; civil engineering; steam engines.…