Schematic (10 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Plentiful B&W photos, diagrams, schematic drawings (illustrator). 1st Edition. Covers both the 352 and the 430 "Special V-8s." This big quarto softcover book is in "fair" condition -- not even the "good" condition which generally forms the floor for our listings. It's complete, but dirty to both front and back wraps, as well as page edges. Furthermore, previous owner did not use the hole punched to top of spine -- obviously intended to accept a metal ring -- but instead applied clear tape to outside of spine in an attempt to hold this thing together. All pages remain present, though first 50 pp. are pulling loose. Interior pages with plentiful B&W photos and drawings remain clean, flexible, easily read. Next owner will probably want to insert a metal ring through that pre-punched hole to top of spine. Reduced from $17.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. B&W photos, schematic diagrams (illustrator). Boards of our first offering, Harvey's "Multihulls for Cruising," resist opening past 70 degrees -- as-new unread. Number line complete 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 -- the first U.S. printing, though there was an earlier, 1990 edition by Adlard Coles in the U.K. A wise skipper will hold his speed lower than the maximum attainable with these craft, and limit cruises in windy conditions to 24 hours, since the hulls serve as sounding boards and the decibels from wave pounding can make sleep in the below-deck berths impossible. 179 pp. Our second offering, a large octavo trade paperback of 462 pp., "Sailor's Multihull Guide," ISBN 0-9627562-1-0, unread but with a small corner crease, catalogs the models of available multihull sailing craft as of 1994, with a diagram and description of each. This pair of books now reduced from $35.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Schematic (illustrator). First Thus. Four page report on battery charging invention. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. B&W photos and charts, fold-out schematic diagram. (illustrator). 1st. 1st printing; 370 clean, unmarked pages; moderate sunning, owner's name neatly inked out. ;Examines satellite-borne equipment for meteorological research and the uses of data obtained from them.

Broadside. One b/w photographic image and 7 b/w drawings. 16" x 10" A horizontal crease to center of broadside, and pencil and pen scribbling to upper half on the backside of poster. Withal, a VG copy. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Erin Entrada Kelly (Schematic illustrations) and C (illustrator). The format is approximately 5.75 by 8.5 inches. [10], 391 [1] pages. Section on "To Learn More" at the end. Signed first edition sticker on front of dust jacket. Boldly signed on the second fep. The dust jacket has some wear and soiling. Erin Entrada Kelly is an American writer of children's literature. Kelly started her career as a journalist for the American Press and worked as an editor for Thrive Magazine for several years. Her debut novel, Blackbird Fly, was published by HarperCollins Greenwillow Books in 2015 and won a Golden Kite Award honor from the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and an honor award from APALA. She won the 2016 Children's Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature for her second novel, The Land of Forgotten Girls. Kelly has also published numerous short stories for adults and worked as a book publicist with Smith Publicity in Cherry Hill, NJ. She was awarded the 2018 John Newbery Medal by the Association for Library Service to Children for her third novel, Hello, Universe. Kelly also received a 2021 Newbery Honor for We Dream of Space. Her books are national and New York Times bestsellers and have been translated into many languages. Celia Krampien is a Canadian illustrator and author. Her first picture book SUNNY was published in 2020 and she has been creating illustrations for newspapers, magazines and children's books since 2013. It's January 1986. The launch of the Challenger is just weeks away, and Cash, Fitch, and Bird Nelson Thomas are three siblings in seventh grade together in Park, Delaware. Cash loves basketball, Dr. J, and a girl named Penny; he's also in danger of failing seventh grade for a second time. Fitch spends every afternoon playing Major Havoc at the arcade and wrestles with an explosive temper that he doesn't understand. And Bird, his twelve-year-old twin, dreams of being NASA's first female shuttle commander, but feels like she's disappearing. The Nelson Thomas siblings exist in their own orbits, circling a tense, crowded, and unpredictable household, dreaming of escape, dreaming of the future, dreaming of space. They have little in common except an enthusiastic science teacher named Ms. Salongaâ"a failed applicant to the Teacher in Space programâ"who encourages her students to live vicariously through the launch. Cash and Fitch take a passive interest, but Bird builds her dreams around it. When the fated day arrives, it changes everything. Derived from a Kirkus review: Three siblings face their middle school problems as they learn about space. The Thomas siblingsâ"13-year-old Cash and 12-year-old twins Fitch and Birdâ"all struggle to navigate the doubts of middle school and their dysfunctional family. Cash sees himself as a failure. He isn't good at anything, and now he's repeating seventh grade with his two younger siblings. Fitch is good at video games but bad at controlling his temper. Bird likes tinkering with machines but feels invisible. The Thomas household is toxic with their parents' constant fighting, and Bird feels like she has to keep their family from malfunctioning altogether. It's January 1986, and their teacher is gearing them up for the launch of the space shuttle Challenger. Bird is enthralled with the space mission and decides she's going to be a shuttle commander one day. But when the Challenger disaster occurs, Bird finds herself in need of the support she's been giving. Each chapter begins with a date in January 1986, then divides into short vignettes following each sibling on that day. Kelly writes a heartfelt story of family and the bond of siblings. Even though readers are transported to 1986, the characters' social, emotional, and familial struggles will feel familiar and timely. Put this book in your orbit. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Upwards of 150 b/w photographic illusts,drawings and schematic diagrams. (illustrator). 1st Edition.

Oblong quarto size envelope containing a cardstock sheet printed on one side, representing ten black and white photographic images. Envelope yellowing, otherwise fine. - First edition. Published as part of Lawrence Alloway's. Artists & Photographs. New York: Multiples Inc., 1970.

Good. Light soiling. Light wear along original folds. Occasional handwritten annotations. Several tears along folds professionally repaired. Size 17 x 23 Inches. A curious 1943 World War II Newsmap prepared and distributed by the Army Orientation Course, set up by the Army Orientation Branch. This Newsmap was issued to educate American soldiers on German weapons and capabilities during the offensive drive northward through Italy. A Closer Look The World War II (1939 - 1945) view presents a hypothetical battlefield with U.S. troops attacking German units defending a ridgeline. The array of weapons available to the Germans is numbered in the view, corresponding to a list at bottom, which moves from close-quarters weapons like bayonets and pistols through rifles and machine guns to mortars and artillery. Information on each weapon type is provided, such as their range and rate of fire. This information was presented to U.S. troops during training to demonstrate the enemy's capabilities and develop effective countermeasures. Historical Context This Newsmap was most likely published in August 1943. U.S. and British troops had encountered the Afrika Korps in North Africa, an effective and well-led force but a small contingent compared to the regular Wehrmacht. However, in July 1943, the Allies invaded Sicily. This quick operation was followed by a more difficult slog up the Italian Peninsula, as Germans set up row after row of defensive lines cutting across the peninsula. It is thus no coincidence that the scene depicted here resembles the Italian countryside, with the Americans attacking uphill. Publication History and Census As noted in the margin, this Newsmap was printed by the Government Printing Office in 1943 for the Army Orientation Course. It also appeared on a two-sided Newsmap dated Monday, August 30, 1943 (Week of August 19 to August 26, 207th week of the war, 89th week of U.S. participation). The lack of content on the verso may indicate that it was an overseas edition of that particular Newsmap, but such overseas editions are generally marked as such. In any event, the two-sided Newsmap is noted among the holdings of some 15 institutions in the OCLC. References: OCLC 61751863, 62786502.

Good. Printed on waxed linen. Minor discoloration along bottom border. Some pen markings on left and right borders. Light soiling. Size 21.75 x 40.5 Inches. A detailed 1921 pair of manuscript schematic maps illustrating Niagara Falls Jr., a proposed dam on the Lower Niagara River, by civil engineer Thomas Kennard Thomson. The dam, which was never built, was an ambitious project advocated by Thomson and local politician Peter A. Porter. A Closer Look This is a set of two hand-drawn maps illustrating maps and transverse views of the proposed dam, to be located near Foster (or Fosters) Flats, just downriver from a whirlpool on the Niagara River. The larger sheet features a profile view of the Niagara River and Niagara Gorge, from the Falls to Brock's Monument, displaying the elevation changes of the river. Two drawings at center demonstrate the changes in elevation at the dam site from the side and head-on (looking upriver). At bottom is an overhead plan, oriented towards the west-northwest, covering an area from the Falls to Lewiston, indicating the proposed location of the dam. A second, smaller sheet focusing on proposed tunnels under Goat Island is divided roughly in half, with the top portion demonstrating the plan for building intake tunnels underneath Goat Island, which Porter's ancestors had owned before selling it to the Niagara Reservation (the first state park in the U.S.) in 1885. These tunnels could be used to generate power from water that would otherwise be 'wasted' by flowing over the Falls (though it was assumed that the diminished flow would somewhat reduce the majestic power of the Falls). At bottom is the same overhead plan also present on Kennard Thomson's main dam proposal schematic. At various points, the tunnels under Goat Island were proposed as either a supplement to the dam (as here) or as a standalone project. In either case, they were, from a technical perspective, by far the easier of the two projects to accomplish, though they, like the dam, were never completed. Niagara Falls Jr. The notion of constructing a hydroelectric dam across the Niagara River was most stridently advocated by two men, Kennard Thomson, who drew this schematic, and Peter A. Porter, a local politician who served in the New York State Assembly and U.S. House, and who had headed the Niagara River Hydraulic Tunnel, Power, and Sewer Company earlier in his career. The dam planned out by Thomson and Porter, along with other modifications such as new tunnels under Goat Island, promised to deliver 2,000,000 horsepower, which would significantly increase the power available throughout New York, even accounting for the power generation that would be devoted to the Canadian side of the falls. Through the Thomson-Porter Cataract Co. (seemingly short-lived) and the Lower Niagara River Power and Water Supply Company, in conjunction with other proponents of the project, Thomson and Porter were able to gain approval permits from the state of New York. The plan garnered significant public interest in support, including a front-page feature in the Scientific American on April 2, 1921. However, significant progress was never made on building the dam, perhaps because Porter died in 1925, while Thomson appears to have been drawn to other projects, including skyscrapers and bridges in New York City (it also seems that the Canadian government never approved the project). In any event, existing sites (such as the Schoellkopf Power Station) were expanded in the following years, an easier means of increasing the power supplied by the Falls than the highly ambitious Thomson-Porter proposal. Incidentally, after the partial collapse of the Schoellkopf Power Station in 1956, a new structure was built by the New York Power Authority on the same site. It was later named after Robert Moses (1888 - 1981), who headed the agency. Moses traveled in the same social circles as Kennard Thomson and the two New Yorkers shared a penchant for ambitious urban infrastructu.