Capt C Orde Browne (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Dark red covers with gilt lettering on spine are lightly rubbed at corners, with wear at spine-ends. Covers, spine and front end-paper are almost detached. Title-page is loose, otherwise text-block binding intact with slight separation at some gatherings and previous taped repair to pages 82-83. Clean pages, darkened around edges. Fold-out plates are clean and intact. Library pocket and plate in front. Contents include: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting held in Westminster on 30th April 1884; On the Use of Raw Coal in the Blast Furnace, by I Lowthian Bell; On Gas Puddling and Heating Furnaces, with Special Reference to the Casson-Bicheroux System, by R Smith-Casson; On the Most Recent Results Obtained in the Application and Utilisation of Gaseous Fuel, by W S Sutherland; On Iron and Steel Permanent Way, by Walter R Browne; On the Behaviour of Armour of Different Kinds under Fire, by Capt C Orde-Browne; On Recent Improvements in Iron and Steel Shipbuilding, by William John; On Improvements in Apparatus for Gas Analysis, by J E Stead; Notes on the Progress of the Home and Foreign Iron and Steel Industries. Fold-out plates showing: Casson's Patent Direct Acting Gas System as applied to Heating Furnaces, to illustrate Mr R Smith-Casson's Paper; To illustrate Mr Sutherland's Paper. No dust jacket, as published. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 02617053134. All our books are sent by tracked mail.