Resident Engineer (7 results)

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Soft cover. Condition: Good. Extracted from the Quarterly Review CLXX, Sept 1849. Article III.-1 In red soft paper covers, no titles. Internally, no endpages, 399-452 pp (213*131 mm).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. CLARK Edwin (illustrator). First Edition. VG, 2 text volumes (of 3 - lacks the plate vol), 1850, 17 pls. A subscribers proof tall paper copy. In the publishers quarter calf over embossed blue cloth, corners bumped. Spines, worn, gilt titles edges bumped, some loss, worn along joints. Internally, Vol 1, tipped in errata list, half title, frontis, [5], (vi-xii), [1], 2-466 pp, 8 pls, printed by G Barclay, Castle Street, Leicester Sq, London. Vol 2, half title, frontis, [5], (vi-vii), [1], [1], 468-821 pp, [1], (iv) subscribers list, 9 plates, numerous illustrations. V1 2" crack along top joint, both vols yellow endpapers, subscribers ink name to tps (Henry Robertson, Shrewsbury - see subscribers list V2 rear), folio 18.2*27.5 cms. (Allibone 333. Anderson 346). Vol 1 contains a History of the Design. Section II. The Preliminary Experiments. Section 111. General Principles of Beams. Section IV Specific Experimental Inquiries and numerous tables and sketches within the text block. Volume 2 contains chapters on - Section V. History of the Design. Section VI Details of Construction of the bridges. Section VII The Construction and Erection of the Bridges. Section VIII Strength and Deflection of the Tubes. Section IX The Tides followed by an Appendix, which goes into the Contracts and Cost of the Bridges, Persons Employed in the Works and the Index plus numerous tables and technical sketches amongst the text blocks. Clark was elected a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers on 3 December 1850, and contributed many papers to their Proceedings, being awarded a Telford medal in 1866 for his paper -On the hydraulic lift graving dock-, and a Watt medal in 1868 for those on -The durability of materials-. Two years' residence in Buenos Aires, Paraguay, and Uruguay, provided material for his Visit to South America (1878). (ODNB).

Hardcover. CLARK Edwin HAWKINS George (illustrator). First Edition. 2 * large paper text volumes with 18 plates. Plus the folio Atlas with 46 pls, a total of 64 lithographed plates (6 of which are tinted views after George Hawkins). Complete. Text volumes (274*180 mm) in contemporary quarter purple morocco over embossed purple cloth, corners brushed. Spines, gilt titles, blind tooling, worn slightly. Internally, Vol 1, 1850, tipped in errata, half title, frontis, [5], (vii-xii), [1], 2-466 pp, 9 pls (including frontis), numerous tables & illustrations within text. Vol 2, 1850, half title, frontis, [5], (vi-vii), [1] pl list, [1], 468-821, [2], (iv) list of subscribes, 9 pls. Numerous illustrations and tables within texts, yellow endpapers, t.e.g. Vol 3, the Atlas, modern dark quarter maroon morocco, gilt & blind tooling, over contemporary embossed cloth, tips rubbed, (626*460 & 610*443 mm), 1850, 2ff (title & pl list leaves), followed by 46 pls (1* Double & 1* triple, includes 6* tinted), small bookbinder label tp fpd, with a loose advert for a print. Yellow endpapers, plates are remarkable clean, (Allibone 333. Anderson 346. Ottley 2699). Vol 1 contains a History of the Design. Section II. The Preliminary Experiments. Section 111. General Principles of Beams. Section IV Specific Experimental Inquiries and numerous tables and sketches within the text block. Volume 2 contains Section V. History of the Design. Section VI Details of Construction of the bridges. Section VII The Construction and Erection of the Bridges. Section VIII Strength and Deflection of the Tubes. Section IX The Tides followed by an Appendix, which goes into the Contracts and Cost of the Bridges, Persons Employed in the Works and the Index plus numerous tables and technical sketches amongst the text blocks. Edwin Clark (1814-1894), after acting as mathematical master at Brook Green, and then as a surveyor in the west of England, went to London in 1846 and formed the acquaintance of Robert Stephenson, who appointed him superintending engineer of the Menai Strait Bridge, which was opened on 5 March 1850. In that year he published The Britannia and Conway Tubular Bridges (3 vols., the third an atlas). In August 1850 he became engineer to the Electric and International Telegraph Company, and three months later he took out the first of several patents for -electric telegraphs and apparatus connected therewith-. From then on he divided his time between electric and hydraulic engineering. On 4 February 1856 he took out a patent for -suspending insulated electric telegraph wires-, but most of his patents were for improvements in dry docks and floating docks, in the methods of lifting ships out of the water for repairs, and for constructing piers. He was elected a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers on 3 December 1850, and contributed many papers to their Proceedings, being awarded a Telford medal in 1866 for his paper -On the hydraulic lift graving dock-, and a Watt medal in 1868 for those on -The durability of materials-. Two years' residence in Buenos Aires, Paraguay, and Uruguay, provided material for his Visit to South America (1878). (ODNB). Documents the construction and engineering principles of two pioneering tubular bridges of the Industrial Revolution.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. CLARK Edwin. HAWKINS George (illustrator). First Edition. 2 * 8vo text volumes plus later facsimile copy of the folio Atlas, 64 plates. Text volumes in contemporary embossed purple cloth, corners & edges lightly bumped & worn. Re-spined, old laid down (hole in 1), gilt titles. Vol 1, 1850, half title, frontis, [5], (vi-xii), [1] 2-466 pp, 9 pls, errata tipped in. Vol 2, 1850, half title, frontis, [5], (vi-vii), [1], [1], 468-821 pp, [1], (iv) subscribers list, 9 pls. Numerous illustrations within text, ink name to feps (B Price Davis 1933), occasional spotting, corner tip stain to some margins V2, hinges strengthened. (256*157 mm). Vol 3, illustrations (590*455 mm) title leaf, plate leaf, followed by followed by 46 leaves of plates depicting 47 plates, of which 5 are double page, all printed on thick card. Stunning reproductions, sharp & very clear. (probably better that the original!). Vol 1 contains a History of the Design. Section II. The Preliminary Experiments. Section 111. General Principles of Beams. Section IV Specific Experimental Inquiries and numerous tables and sketches within the text block. Volume 2 contains chapters on - Section V. History of the Design. Section VI Details of Construction of the bridges. Section VII The Construction and Erection of the Bridges. Section VIII Strength and Deflection of the Tubes. Section IX The Tides followed by an Appendix, which goes into the Contracts and Cost of the Bridges, Persons Employed in the Works and the Index plus numerous tables and technical sketches amongst the text blocks. (Allibone 333. Anderson 346) Edwin Clark (1814-1894), after acting as mathematical master at Brook Green, and then as a surveyor in the west of England, went to London in 1846 and formed the acquaintance of Robert Stephenson, who appointed him superintending engineer of the Menai Strait Bridge, which was opened on 5 March 1850. In that year he published The Britannia and Conway Tubular Bridges (3 vols., the third an atlas). In August 1850 he became engineer to the Electric and International Telegraph Company, and three months later he took out the first of several patents for -electric telegraphs and apparatus connected therewith-. From then on he divided his time between electric and hydraulic engineering. On 4 February 1856 he took out a patent for -suspending insulated electric telegraph wires-, but most of his patents were for improvements in dry docks and floating docks, in the methods of lifting ships out of the water for repairs, and for constructing piers. He was elected a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers on 3 December 1850, and contributed many papers to their Proceedings, being awarded a Telford medal in 1866 for his paper -On the hydraulic lift graving dock-, and a Watt medal in 1868 for those on -The durability of materials-. Two years' residence in Buenos Aires, Paraguay, and Uruguay, provided material for his Visit to South America (1878). (ODNB).

Three volumes, text volumes royal 8vo., plates volume large folio, pp.xii,466;(vi),467-821,iv;unpaginated plates, text volumes in pictorially blindstamped textured cloth, gilt, with plates volume in matching cloth with pictorial gilt, b/w frontispieces and 16 further b/w plates to Volumes I and II, as well as in-text figures, Volume III comprises 45 plates, including folding plates and tinted lithographs; Volume III mildly ex library, a duplicate copy from the Institute of British Architects, with heraldic bookplate to front paste-down endpaper (with 'Duplicate' inkstamp above), and has large water-mark at lower margin throughout, ink ownership autograph (dated 1922) to front free endpapers of Volumes I and II, and ink ownership autograph, dated 1850, to title of Volume III, partial sunning to cloth (spines of Volumes I and II uniformly sunned to brown, with light sunning also to margins of boards; Volume III overall partially sunned), light marking to cloth, rubbing and a little light wear to extremities, a very good set.

Six of the letters are 4to, 1 p; the other is 12mo, 1 p. All good, on lightly aged paper. All bearing the Society's stamp and most docketed. On a variety of subjects: a proposed paper by 'Herr Frahm', the use by the Institution of the Royal Society's library for a council meeting, the delivery to the Society of a 'model tank that is coming from Germany' ('the reader of the paper is sending his representative over from Germany to superintend matters'), and a 'Proposed Memorial to the late Sir William White' ('with reference to Mr. Bailey Saunders and Mr. C. R. Graves. The latter would, I think, be an excellent selection for the General Committee, and I have no doubt an agreeable one to the numbers').