Recent Types of Dynamo-Electric Machinery: A Complete Guide for the Electrician, Engineer, Student and Professor, Being a Valuable History of the Extraordinary Advance in the Building of American Dynamo Machines and their Application, Profusely Illustrated with Over Six Hundred Engravings in Color (Volume Five of The Library of Electrical Science)

Houston, Edwin J. and Arthur E. Kennelly

Published by P. F. Collier, NY, 1902, hardcover, (G-),, 1902

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P. F. Collier, NY, 1902, 612 pages, index, profusely illustrated with b&w drawings, charts and diagrams as well as blue-tone plates (the color illustrations referred to in the title) - many full-page, 6.75 in. x 9.5 in., hardcover, half leather with blue cloth and gilt titles and decorations, all page edges marbled, corners and spine ends bumped and worn with chipping to leather, all edges worn, spine leather brittle from age with a few cracks, some loss to spine ends from chipping - interferes with gilt decoration at base and first word of titles at top, covers and spine slightly scuffed and soiled with 1 tiny chip to cloth of front cover, front inside hinge previously cracked - now neatly repaired with archival tape, hinges slightly loose but still holding nicely, 1 closed tear each to the 3 illustrations on pages. 299, 301 & 303, endpapers slightly browned at edges, otherwise contents clean and tight, item protected in new plastic sleeve, book good- {Regarding the authors, the title page states that Mr. Houston was ". joint inventor of the Thomson-Houston system of electric lighting ." and Mr. Kennelly was ". formerly Principal Assistant in Mr. Edison's laboratory .".} (G-) 4094 [(s)0709LB].

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• Title: Recent Types of Dynamo-Electric Machinery: A Complete Guide for the Electrician, Engineer, Student and Professor, Being a Valuable History of the Extraordinary Advance in the Building of American Dynamo Machines and their Application, Profusely Illustrated with Over Six Hundred Engravings in Color (Volume Five of The Library of Electrical Science)
• Publisher: P. F. Collier, NY, 1902, hardcover, (G-),
• Publication Date: 1902
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
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