Papers, Literary, Scientific, Etc.

Fleeming Jenkin

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
• An electrical engineer, university teacher and wide-ranging writer, Fleeming Jenkin (1833-85) filed thirty-five British patents in the course of his c... Lees meer

The Steam Engine

Thomas Tredgold

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
• Thomas Tredgold (1788-1829) has been described as 'the most influential technical author of his generation and possibly of the nineteenth century'. Hi... Lees meer

Modern Views of Electricity

Oliver Lodge

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
• In 1889, a year after both he and Heinrich Hertz discovered electromagnetic waves and for the first time demonstrated the truth of Maxwell's great the... Lees meer

The Life Story of the Late Sir Charles Tilston Bright, Civil Engineer

Edward Brailsford Bright, Charles Bright

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
• Sir Charles Tilston Bright (1832-88) was a renowned telegraph engineer, best known for his role in laying the first successful transatlantic cable in ... Lees meer

Life of Richard Trevithick

Francis Trevithick

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
• Cornishman Richard Trevithick (1771-1833) was one of the pioneering engineers of the Industrial Revolution. Best remembered today for his early railwa... Lees meer

Rivers and Canals - 2 Volume Set

Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
• Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1839-1907) drew on a distinguished career in canal and river engineering for this illustrated two-volume survey, here... Lees meer

Life of Robert Stevenson

David Stevenson

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
• Published in 1878, this biography of the civil engineer Robert Stevenson (1772-1850) was written by his second-youngest son David (1815-86), also a ci... Lees meer

A Description of Westminster Bridge

Charles Labelye

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
• The construction of the first Westminster Bridge, upon which Wordsworth composed his famous sonnet, presented many challenges in terms of the material... Lees meer

The Architect, Engineer, and Operative Builder's Constructive Manual

Christopher Davy

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
• Little is known about Christopher Davy (c.1803-49), despite his regular contributions to architectural and engineering magazines in Britain and Americ... Lees meer

A System of Mechanical Philosophy 4 Volume Set

John Robison

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
• After a brief career at sea, during which he tested Harrison's chronometer for the Board of Longitude, John Robison (1739-1805) became lecturer in che... Lees meer

Sketch of the Civil Engineering of North America

David Stevenson

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
• A distinguished civil engineer, David Stevenson (1815-86) continued his father's work of designing and building lighthouses around the coast of his na... Lees meer

The Diamond Mines of South Africa

Gardner F Williams

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
• A life-long friend of Cecil Rhodes, Garner F. Williams (1842-1922) was the first general manager of the De Beers Consolidated Mines, which once produc... Lees meer

Hunt's Hand-Book to the Official Catalogues of the Great Exhibition 2 Volume Paperback Set

• Boek | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
• A famous chemist, photographer and scholar, Robert Hunt was a passionate advocate of popular education and the ideal choice to write an accessible and... Lees meer

The Drainage of Fens and Low Lands

William Henry Wheeler

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
• A respected hydraulic engineer, William Henry Wheeler (1832-1915) established himself as an authority in the fields of low-lying land reclamation and ... Lees meer

A Compendium of British Mining

Joseph Yelloly Watson

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
• Joseph Yelloly Watson (1817-88) produced this short work for private circulation in 1843. For many years a mining agent with the London firm of Watson... Lees meer

Essai Sur Les Moulins À Soie

Charles-Bruno Le Payen

• Paperback | Frans | Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
• From the fifteenth century, the silk industry developed in France to rival that of Italy. Taking off during the reign of Henri IV, sericulture was his... Lees meer

A Handbook of Wireless Telegraphy

James Erskine-Murray

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
• James Erskine-Murray (1868-1927) was a Scots expert in wireless technology who studied under Lord Kelvin for six years at Glasgow University before ar... Lees meer

Catalogue of the Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus at the South Kensington Museum 1876

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
• In 1876 the South Kensington Museum held a major international exhibition of scientific instruments and equipment, both historical and contemporary. M... Lees meer

The Atlantic Telegraph

William Howard Russell

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
• In 1866, William Howard Russell (1820-1907) published this work, the official account of the July 1865 expedition on board the Great Eastern to lay a ... Lees meer

Rivers and Canals

Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
• Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1839-1907) drew on a distinguished career in canal and river engineering for this illustrated two-volume survey, here... Lees meer

The International Exhibition of 1862: Volume 2, British Division 2

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
• Replete with detailed engravings, this four-volume catalogue was published to accompany the International Exhibition of 1862. Held in South Kensington... Lees meer

Life of Richard Trevithick

Francis Trevithick

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
• Cornishman Richard Trevithick (1771-1833) was one of the pioneering engineers of the Industrial Revolution. Best remembered today for his early railwa... Lees meer

The Scientific Papers of Sir Charles Wheatstone

Charles Wheatstone

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
• Sir Charles Wheatstone (1802-75) was a shoemaker's son whose fascination with physics led him to become one of the most celebrated scientists and inve... Lees meer

Present Day Metallurgical Engineering on the Rand

John Yates

• Paperback | Engels | Cambridge Library Collection - Technology
• The discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand hills and the Transvaal region of South Africa sparked a rush in the late 1880s. Competition between the Br... Lees meer