Civil Engineering, Signed (13 results)

Condition: Good. 1959. First Edition. 217 pages. Signed by the author. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Signed by the author with dedication to F.E.Ford on title page. Clean pages with light tanning. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Top textblock edge dyed brown. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Visible wear marks to boards. Clipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edge wear with tears and creases. Visible wear marks to spine and panels.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Thick card cover with titles directly to front board. 140 x 215 x 6mm. 25pp. Signed and inscribed by the author on f.f.e.; also includes handwritten note by the author; with one glossy fold-out illustration, plus other diagrams within text; includes bibliography. Top corners lightly bumped and a little pale spotting here and there; otherwise almost as new. NB: An extra shipping charge may be requested for heavier or more valuable items. All our 'Seller Images' show the actual item you will receive.

Hardback. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG Pc DW. 1st Edition. Inscribed by the author "With best wishes Neil Upton", on front endpaper. Inscribed By the Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Brown cloth hard cover - Good. In illustrated DJ - some wear to spine ends/overall Good. 248 pages including and with additional illustrations. Inscription and signed by author to Fep. Light foxing to text block. Content Good. (484g) Photo on request. As the proceeds from the sale of the book go to charity correct postage will be asked for when more than default price quoted. Inscribed by Author(s).

soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No jacket. First Edition. Gainesville, FL:University of Florida. 1978. 1st edition. No pagination. Illustrated. Signed/inscribed by the author on the title page. Stapled wrps.  In very good condition, save for a very occasional spot of foxing scattered throughout. . Inscribed by author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st Edition (2022.) 8vo paperback with 289 pages. Signed on the front free endpaper,"To Aunt Bonnie, Jeremiah Gayle." The book is in very good condition very slight shelf wear. Interior clean and tight. No online access or CD-ROM or digital access codes if applicable! "Have you ever wondered how NASA designs, builds, and tests spacecrafts and hardware for space? How is it that wildly successful programs such as the Mars Exploration Rovers could produce a rover that lasted over ten times the expected prime mission duration? Or build a spacecraft designed to visit two orbiting destinations and last over 10 years when the fuel ran out? This book was written by NASA/JPL engineers with experience across multiple projects, including the Mars rovers, Mars helicopter." Black spine/White text. Size: 8vo. Signed. Engineering / Structural Space.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 172 pages in clean, white, excellent condition. Signed by the author on the title page. Brown, glossy cloth with illustration and white titles. Covers show very light wear. NEAR FINE. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Saddle Stitch/Stapled. Condition: Used - Very Good. Signed by William A. Myers on title page; minor wear overall. Signed By Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. CURSETJEE, Ardaseer (1808-1877).  Autograph letter signed from the Indian engineering pioneer to Charles Manby, engineer. 28 April 1840. Single sheet folded, written on one side. Dated at head 28 April 1840. Vertical fold from posting. A clean example, in very good condition. An autograph letter from Ardaseer Cursetjee (1808-1877), addressed to Charles Manby, civil engineer and long-serving Secretary of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Cursetjee writes to arrange a visit, asking when it would be convenient 'to show me the glass works and some other curiosities that you so kindly promised me to show the other day,' apologising for delay due to being busy, and proposing any day in the present or following week. Cursetjee was a Parsi engineer associated with the Bombay Dockyard and early developments in steam navigation in India. He travelled to Britain for technical study and professional engagement, establishing connections within leading engineering circles. In 1841 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, becoming the first Indian to receive that distinction. He occupies an established place in Indian scientific history and was commemorated on Indian stamp issued, reflecting his recognition as a pioneer of modern engineering in India. He introduced gas lighting, the sewing machine and steam pump driving irrigation to Bombay.  Autograph material from Cursetjee is uncommon, particularly from this early phase of his career and addressed to a central figure in Victorian engineering administration. . Signed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Approx. 10" x 10" square of brown suede printed with the following: "Be it known unto all men by these presents that one W.D. Murray is a member of the Civil Engineering Society of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology." Signed Horace S. Baker, President. Looks to be from the 1930s or 1940s. Uncommon.

Spiral bound. Condition: Very good. [4], 159, [1] pages, plus stiff card covers. Illustrations. Inscribed on the title page to "a faithful worker in the vineyard of the Military Engineer" by the author. Captain Charles J. Merdinger, Civil Engineer Corps, U. S. Navy, was Public Works Officer at Naval Support Activity, Da Nang in 1967-68, and currently commands the Western Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Command at San Francisco, California. A 1941 graduate of the U. S. Naval Academy, he served aboard the USS Nevada (BB-36) and USS Alabama (BB-60) during World War II. Later he earned bachelor's and master's degrees in civil engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and, as a Rhodes Scholar, a doctorate from Oxford University. He has held design, construction, public works, research, and educational posts-including a tour as Commanding Officer and Director of the Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory. The challenge of building the first master jet air station in the Navy, at Miramar, California, was his task during the years 1954-56. His most important research/academic post was as head of the English, History, and Government Department at the U.S. Naval Academy, where he also taught. Captain Merdinger is the author of a book, Civil Engineering Through the Ages, and has contributed articles on education, construction, administration, and history to many periodicals and has been invited to contribute an article on viaducts to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. In June, 1970, Captain Merdinger became President of Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland. Topics covered include: civil engineering, construction materials, Surveying instruments and techniques, Surveying--Polaris and the Meridian, Roads, Bridges, Canals, tunnels, Water Supply, Sewerage, Hydraulics and Waterfront Structures and Railroads. The content of this compilation was copyrighted by the Society of American Military Engineers and were reprinted by permission. The articles appeared in various issues during 1952 through 1962. This work is a partial approach to the history of technology through the medium of a historical survey of Civil Engineering, the parent from which all branches of the engineering profession stem. In 1952, the year in which the American Society of Civil Engineers celebrated the 100th anniversary of its founding, The Military Engineer began publishing the articles on the historical development of civil engineering which have now been reproduced to form this text. Published at varying intervals over the decade following the Centennial of Engineering, each of these articles was designed to stand alone, to give a sense of continuity from earliest times to the present in one special area of civil engineering such as roads, bridges, or canals. Now assembled under on cover, they are loosely bound together by the first chapter and by the fact that each one falls within the province of the profession of civil engineering. Only fragments of the entire story are here; it is hoped that the assembling of these sections will provide a stimulus and point of departure for additional research, historical and physical, in this field of engineering which has played such an important part in shaping our modern world. Presumed First Edition, First printing of this compilation.

Dissertation des österr. Bauingenieurs; Mang war 2003-06 Präsident der Österr. Akademie d. Wissenschaften, 2004 ein gewähltes Mitglied in der National Academy of Engineering für seine Beiträge über computergestützte Mechanik von Beton und Finite Elemente Analysen von Stahlbetonstrukturen. gr.-8°. XV, 250 Bl., einseitig bedruckt, OLn. mit goldgepr. RüTit., minimale Gebrauchsspuren Mit eh. Widmung des Verfassers für Prof. P. Stein.

First edition, presentation copy, inscribed to a railway administrator with whom Stevenson worked in Scotland, and in a well-preserved example of the publisher's cloth binding. Stevenson's study includes extensive analysis of North American dams, hydraulic docks and water infrastructure. As a well-known engineer in his own right, David Stevenson (1815-1886) designed over 30 lighthouses. In 1837, he took an extended trip across North America: the Sketch records his observations and helped to dispel the myth of American backwardness in engineering. Chapter X is dedicated to water supply infrastructure, with a particular focus on the supply for New York and Boston. Plate XIII provides a ground plan of the Fairmount water works at Philadelphia, now a National Historic Landmark. Plate XIV depicts the Fairmount dam on the Schuylkill river, while plates VII-X depict various American bridges. In 1835, Marc Brunel invited Stevenson to join his staff at the Thames Tunnel, but he declined in order to work with his father. Assessing Stevenson's impact in the field, the later American engineer Kip Finch noted that "one cannot fail to be impressed with the outspoken yet, fair, impartial and keen observation of this young engineer of 23 years" (quoted in Paxton, p. 2). The recipient, John Riddle Stodart (1792-1871), was a lawyer who served as secretary of the Edinburgh, Leith, and Newhaven Railway Company. In 1843, the Stevenson engineering consultancy produced proposals for a branch line on the ELNR. The neat inscription on the half-title may be secretarial. Goldsmiths' 30525; Howes 976; Kress C.4740; Sabin 91589. Roland Paxton, "A British perspective on American civil engineering achievement before 1840", American Civil Engineering History: The Pioneering Years, 2002. Octavo. Folding engraved map frontispiece and 14 other engraved plates, wood-engraved illustrations in the text, 7 pp. publisher's advertisements at rear. Original brown straight-grain cloth, spine lettered in gilt and ruled in blind, covers decoratively blocked in blind, light yellow coated endpapers. Light bumping and wear, sunning to spine, inner hinges split but holding firm, minor browning and foxing to contents: a very good copy indeed.