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STEAM BOILERS Their CONSTRUCTION CARE and OPERATION With Questions and Answers

Calvin F. Swingle

Steam Boilers Their Construction Care and Operation With Questions and Answers

Roper’s Questions for Engineers

Stephen Roper

Roper’s Questions for Engineers

Manual of Mechanical Movements

Henry T. Brown & Will Milton Clark

Manual of Mechanical Movements

Andrea Sutcliffe

Steam: The Untold Story of America’s First Great Invention

Close-up of a dark green vintage book titled 'Audels Plumbers and Steam Fitters Guide 1' on a work surface, with a warm lantern glow in the background.

Frank D. Graham & Thomas J. Emery

Audels Plumbers and Steam Fitters Guide

Green hardcover dictionary titled 'Dictionary of Technical Terms' by F. S. Crispin, on a white surface with a warm lamp in the background.

Frederic Swing Crispin

Dictionary of Technical Terms

A dark brown vintage book titled 'The Slide Valve' standing upright on a white mantle with a blurred lamp in the background.

Nicholas Procter Burgh

The Slide Valve Practically Considered

Black vintage book cover reading 'Acetylene Gas: How Generated—How Used' with brass fittings nearby and a warm lamp in the background.

James Joseph Lawler & George Tilden Hanchett

Practical Hot Water Heating, Steam and Gas Fitting

Black vintage book cover reading 'Acetylene Gas: How Generated—How Used' with brass fittings nearby and a warm lamp in the background.

“Amice,” a pseudonym

A Practical Treatise on the Steam Engine Indicator

Black vintage book cover reading 'Acetylene Gas: How Generated—How Used' with brass fittings nearby and a warm lamp in the background.

Floyd Clymer

Floyd Clymer’s Historical Motor Scrapbook: Steam Car Edition

Black vintage book cover reading 'Acetylene Gas: How Generated—How Used' with brass fittings nearby and a warm lamp in the background.

Floyd Clymer

Floyd Clymer’s Historical Scrapbook: Motor Cars and News of 1899

Lindsay Publications Inc.

Heat: Essential Steam Power Library

Locomotive Superheater Company

Data Book for Engineers

Lloyd’s Register of Shipping

Lloyd’s Register of Shipping: Extracts from the Rules Referring to Engines, Boilers, &c.

Old red hardcover book titled 'Triple Expansion Engines and Boilers' by A. Ritchie Leask, with vintage engine parts in the background.

A. Ritchie Leask

Triple Expansion Engines and Boilers

Thomas S. Derr

The Modern Steam Car and Its Background

Compiled by the editors of Power magazine

The Power Catechism

Black hardcover Audels Engineers and Mechanics Guide 8 on a shelf with other reference volumes in the background

Frank D. Graham

Audels Engineers and Mechanics Guide 8

Vintage black leather-bound manual standing upright on a white shelf; spine reads Audels Engineers and Mechanics Guide, volume 7 (Pipe Fitting, Heating, Refrigeration, Elevators).

Frank D. Graham

Audels Engineers and Mechanics Guide 7

Vintage black leather-bound engineering manual on a shelf titled 'Engineer's Mechanics Guide', volume 6 on the spine.

Frank D. Graham

Audels Engineers and Mechanics Guide 6

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Frank D. Graham

Audels Engineers and Mechanics Guide 5

Vintage black textured hardcover titled 'Engineers Mechanical Guide' standing upright on a shelf, with other books blurred in the background.

Frank D. Graham

Audels Engineers and Mechanics Guide 4

Vintage black textured hardcover titled 'Engineers Mechanical Guide' standing upright on a shelf, with other books blurred in the background.

Frank D. Graham

Audels Engineers and Mechanics Guide 3

Vintage black textured hardcover titled 'Engineers Mechanical Guide' standing upright on a shelf, with other books blurred in the background.

Frank D. Graham

Audels Engineers and Mechanics Guide 2

Vintage black textured hardcover titled 'Engineers Mechanical Guide' standing upright on a shelf, with other books blurred in the background.

Frank D. Graham

Audels Engineers and Mechanics Guide 1

Nehemiah Hawkins

Practical Treatise on the Steam Engine Indicator

Nehemiah Hawkins, M.E.

Maxims and Instructions for the Boiler Room

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Nehemiah Hawkins, M.E.

New Catechism of the Steam Engine

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Nehemiah Hawkins, M.E.

Steam Navigation in Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina Waters, 1826–1836

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