Washington: War Depertament, 1942. — 138 p. Since the decisive outcome of the campaigns in France and the Low Countries left the British Army considerably inferior to the German Army in strength and mat6riel, the British had no choice but to avoid full-scale fighting until new power could be marshalled. Accordingly, shortly after the withdrawal from Dunkirk in June 1940, the...
Chicago: A. Whitman & Co, 1942. — 48 p. Television is the twenty-seventh booklet in the Elementary Science Series. It was prepared by the Pennsylvania Writers' Project which is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Department of Public Instruction. This booklet was written by Katharine Britton. Illustrations were drawn by Reynolds Mason of the Pennsylvania Art Project, under the direction...
Praha: 1951. — 493 s. Klasická kuchařka určená pro domácí vaření představuje dnes už vskutku národní bohatství naší gastronomie. Získala si všechny generace kuchařů a kuchařek. Přehledné zpracování, jehož základem je česká kuchyně charakteristická polévkami, moučnými pečenými i vařenými pokrmy, úpravou mas v omáčkách a rozmanitosti bramborových jídel, nabízí začátečníkům, ale i...
London: The Westminster Press, 1922. — 197 p. The author, Alan Brock, dedicated this book to his brother, Frank Arthur Brock, who was killed in World War I. The brothers were from a famous family of fireworks makers; the family staged the celebrated Crystal Palace fireworks shows and used their factory to help provide special government war requirements during WWI. This book...
London: George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd, 1949. — 230 p. This mote than a quarter of a century since my first book, Pyrotechnics: the History and Art of Firework Making, made its appearance; it has now been out of print for several years. No one can be more aware than I of its many demerits and deficiencies, but so far as I know it presented the first, and, as I believe, until...
Smithsonian Institution, 1922. — 448 p. With illustrations. This work covers the Hterature published from January 1, 1917, to December 31, 1919, and continues the work of the Smithsonian Institution issued as volume 55 of the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, which covered the material published prior to June 30, 1909, and the work of the National Advisory Committee for...
Gravesend: World Ship Society, 1999. — 243 p. — ISBN: 0-905617-89-4 A compendium of warships built on the Tyne by Armstrong Works between 1867 and 1927, from gunboats to dreadnoughts. This World Ship Society book provides technical information on all of Armstrong's ships built 1867 - 1927, in a clear and easy reading. The ships are arranged in type, and ranged from the earliest...
New York: E.P. Button & Co, 1913. — 118 p. Lancers, Cavalry School. Mach has already been written on this subject, and I do not claim to propound any new theories. There are innumerable books about horse-training, many of which are excellent, but there is a general tendency amongst the readers of such books to become too bigoted in their views, accepting in its entirety the method...
Chicago: Frederick J. Drake & Co, 1919. — 345 p. A Complete Manual of Practical Information for Owners and Drivers of Automobiles, Operators of Gas and Oil Engines and Farm Tractors with Chapters on Electric Light and Water Supply Systems for Farm Homes. Acetylene. The gas acetylene, as used for lighting on automobiles, is produced from cacium carbide by the action of water. The...
Chicago: F. J. Drake & Co, 1913. — 719 p. A strictly up-to-date treatise, dealin the various questions relating operation of gasoline, electric, in a practical manner with all the construction, care and i id steam automobiles, including illustrated descriptions of thdmany different parts, together with clear and concise explanations of the principles governing their action....
Chicago: F.J. Drake & Сo, 1921. — 706 p. The Automobile Handbook has been designed to afford all those interested in self-propelled vehicles a concise, complete and accurate work of reference from which may be secured, in the shortest possible time, anything from a single fact to a' complete exposition of the major subjects pertaining to the motor car. The subject matter of the...
Chicago, F.J. Drake & Co, 1905. — 192 p. This work gives full and clear instructions on all points relating to the care, maintenance and repair of Stationary, Portable, Marine and Automobile, Gas and Oil Engines, including How to Start, How to Stop, How to Adjust, How to Repair, How to Test, and has been written with the intention of furnishing practical information regarding...
Washington: Department of the Navy Bureau of Ships, 1963. — 50 p. Three hundred twenty-three oxide, silicate, and metal hydride combinations were prepared and fabricated into test specimens by a variety of forming and firing techniques. Of these combinations, 309 were examined electrically for Seebeck effect and resistivity from 600 to 1200 Оi the remaining few failed in test....
J.F. Buček, 1923. — 203 s. Soubor 200 předloh s nákresy, barevnými přílohami, fotografickými snímky a slovním doprovodem. Předkládáme československému učitelstvu příspěvek k praktickému řešení zavedení vých. ručních prací do škol. Byli jsme vedeni snahou, aby dílo bylo obsažné i přehledné. Způsob úpravy volili jsme odlišný od děl dřívějších, hlavně ve vyobrazeních, aby učitel i...
Second edition. — New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, 1946. — 107 p. The use of capacitors in electronic circuits. More practical than theoretical. From the Van Nostrand Bell Telephone Laboratories technical series.
Toronto: Ginn and Company, 1955. — 97 p. — (Arithmetic We Need Series). Vols. for primer - grade 2 have title: Numbers we need, by William A. Bronwell and J. Fred Weaver. Accompanied by Teacher's edition [tch.ed.] (i.e. manual facsimile of text and answers) and workbook [wkbk.] Teacher's editions have title: Teaching arithmetic we need (Primer-grade 2: Teaching numbers we...
Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, Tweeddale Court; 1884. — 182 p. Forest Lands and Forestry of Northern Russia. Details are given of a trip from St. Petersburg to the forests around Petrozavodsk on Lake Onega, in the Government of Olonetz; a description of the forests in that government by Mr Judrae, a forest official of high position, and of the forests of Archangel by Mr Hepworth...
New York: Braun & Sevard, 1896. — 122 p. Epicyclic trains, oblique rollers, trip hammers, and lazy-tongs are among the ingenious mechanisms defined and illustrated in this intriguing collection. Spanning the first century of the Industrial Revolution, this 1868 compilation features simplified, concise illustrations of the mechanisms used in hydraulics, steam engines,...
Twenty first edition. — New York: Brown & Seward, 1908. — 122 p. The want of a comprehensive collection of illustrations and descriptions of Mechanical Movements has long been seriously felt by artisans, inventors, and students of the mechanic arts. It was the knowledge of this want which induced the compilation of the collection here presented. The movements which it contains...
East Los Olas: Future Books, an imprint of South Florida Electric Auto Association, 1993. — 129 p. A Step-By-Step Manual For Converting An Internal Combustion Vehicle To Electric Power. Facts About Electric Vehicles Safety What You Need To Get Started Choosing A Chassis Removing The Internal Combustion System Installing The Motor & Adaptor Batteries & Containment Installing EV...
London: F. Passmore, 1863. — 86 p. The remarkable success of this compilation and the continued demand for it, have compelled me to publish a fourth edition, which I trust will be still found to deserve the epithet already applied of “the standard Catalogue”. The best method of arranging a collection of postage-stamps is open to some discussion. One writer, who advocates a...
London: F. Passmore, 1863. — 222 p. The remarkable success of this compilation and the continued demand for it, have compelled me to publish a fourth edition, which I trust will be still found to deserve the epithet already applied of “ the standard Catalogue.” The best method of arranging a collection of postage-stamps is open to some discussion. One writer, who advocates a...
Third edition. — London: F. Passmore, 1862. — 160 p. Since the publication of the Second Edition of this Catalogue, so many new foreign postage stamps have been issued, and such variations of colour have been adopted, that the intention of printing supplementary sheets has been of necessity abandoned. In this new edition an alteration has been made in the type by which the...
Slough: W. Foulsham & Co. Ltd, 1972. — 64 p. — ISBN 0-572-00618-7 This book is for the electronic hobbyist who is interested in developing projects that can be fun as well as useful. Most projects can be constructed in one evening using only a few inexpensive parts. Many of the parts can be salvaged from old radio and television chassis. Each project is presented in an easy -to...
First edition, Fourth Printing. — Blue Ridge: Tab Books Inc., 1981. — 126 p. — ISBN 0-8306-0021-3, ISBN 0-8306-1347-1. This is a book of easy and entertaining electronic projects. Forty-nine projects are included in this volume, most of which you can build in one evening and for less than $10. The projects range from fun types, such as an electronic rifle range; through...
Fourth Printing. — Blue Ridge: Tab Books Inc., 1991. — 126 p. — ISBN: 0-8306-0021-3, ISBN: 0-8306-1347-1 This is a book of easy and entertaining electronic projects. Forty-nine projects are included in this volume, most of which you can build in one evening and for less than $10. The projects range from fun types, such as an electronic rifle range; through practical types, such...
Third edition. — Blueridge: Tab Books, 1972. — 193 p. The hundreds of parts that go into making a radio, Hi-Fi, or television set work are called ’'circuit components,tT the resistors, capacitors, tubes, coils, etc., that are necessary to the operation of any electronic circuit. All components arcidentified by a symbol on the schematic diagram of the equipment, much like the...
Port Townsend: Loompanics Unlimited, 1986. — 183 p. — ISBN 0-915179-39-3. This book will tell you how to make guns, gunpowder, and primers from common materials, No knowledge of chemistry is necessary, Nor is a fancy machine shop. Ordinary hand tools will do. With this book in hand, anyone who wants firearms can have them - with no litmus test of political, religious, or ethnic...
Schiffer, 2013. — 48 p. Freddy, Jason, Frankenstein, and Dracula are just a few of the thrilling movie monsters in this illustrated, collectible reference guide... A recognized international authority on the horror genre, vampires, and Monster Theory, John Edgar Browning (Ph.D., SUNY-Buffalo) has appeared as an expert guest on documentary TV and radio programs like National...
Maxwell Air Force Base: Air University Press, 2008. — 288 p. — ISBN: 978-1-58566-184-8. An insatiable fascination with aviation must have been ingrained by my earliest memory of being awed by a flimsy wood and canvas flying machine. Typical of many pilots and aeronautical engineers that grew up in the 1930s, I cultivated that dream by making balsa wood and paper model aircraft...
Institute of Archaeology, University College London. — 406 p. Swords inspire endless fascination. They are prominent in the mythology and history of many cultures, from King Arthur’s Excalibur in the west, to Japanese Samurai katana in the east, via the weapons described by Islamic philosopher al-Kindi in his ninth-century treatise on sword-making (Hoyland and Gilmour 2006)....
London: Boosey and Sons, 1825. — 222 p. "In compliance with the desire of the Publishers, whose names are very familiar to the Literary Public in England and abroad, I have revised the “Introduction" to Swedish Grammar,” by the late Rev. G. Brunnmark, and in this Third Edition made several alterations, which I fain would call improvements. The orthoepical part has been entirely...
Stuttgart: Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart, 1976. — 282 s. — ISBN 3-87943-433-6. The Junkers Ju 87 or Stuka (from Sturzkampfflugzeug, 'dive bomber') is a German dive bomber and ground-attack aircraft. Designed by Hermann Pohlmann, it first flew in 1935. The Ju 87 made its combat debut in 1937 with the Luftwaffe's Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War and served the Axis forces...
Boston: Boston Transportation Department (BTD), 2020. — 15 p. Many stakeholders are unfamiliar with the requirements and process for installing off-street, or on private property, Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Stations. This document will provide guidance on how to navigate the range of decisions necessary to choose and install charging stations in a residential or commercial...
Springfield: Philco Corporation, 1956. — 692 p. This is your copy of the latest edition of "Handbook of Piezo Electric Crystals for Radio Equipment Designers" prepared by Philco for the Air Force as a WADC Technical Report. The Report WADC TR-56-156 covers material considered useful in the design of crystal oscillators for electronic equipment. It will serve well in the hands...
Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. — Cardiff: Cardiff University, 2016. — 302 p. This thesis is an interdisciplinary study of the material culture of Frankish daily life within the mainland Crusader states in the 12th and 13th centuries. It explores the role of material culture in aspects of Frankish identity, including items of personal adornment and dress...
London: Routledge, Warne & Routledge, 1862. — 432 p. In a lately-published historical sketch I endeavoured briefly to set forth the advantage of taking cities as the leading points of historical research, and to show the necessity of judging1 of antiquity rather from the greatness attained in these noble sites of ancient civilization, than by the more desultory wanderings through...
Third edition. — London etc: Isaak Pitmann & Sons, 1931. — 603 p. This work is a scientific treatment of the subject of Commerce, and has been specially written with the object of meeting the needs of students preparing for the different stages of the Examinations of the Royal Society of Arts and the Lancashire and Cheshire Union of Institutes. The book is divided into nine...
Chicago: Nakl. a tlacou rovnosti ludu, 1920. — 612 p. Slováci sa začali prisťahovať do Ameriky asi pred 40 — 50 rokmi. Najprv došli sem robotníci, ktorí si chceli vyhľadať viac chleba. Tí zaiste prežili viac-menej ťažkostí, lebo prišli do krajiny, kde im reč bola celkom cudzou. Tí Slováci, čo sa ešte doma naučili čo to nemecký, mali sa tu trochu lepšie, lebo sa kde-tu postretli...
New Augusta: Editors and Engineers, Ltd., 1965. — 96 p. Easy Transistor Projects is a goldmine for hobbyists in several fields... Check out the theremin. Use the multivibrator for a timebase. Modify the flip-flop to switch crossing signal LEDs. Build the miniature radio receivers & transmitters. Customize them for your band of interest. By changing bias resistors, you can often...
The Canadian Journal of Native Studies XXII, 2002. — P.97-160. This paper focuses on the collective processes concerning the construction and transformation of Aboriginality and modernity that occur through Native media production in historically contextualizing the invention of The Indian, the first civil society. Whatever the mode of narration, whether by smoke or hand...
London: Harrison & Sons Ltd, 1930. — 543 p. Early in the year 1873 the late Dr, Samuel Birch, Keeper of Oriental Antiquities in the British Museum, gave me permission to copy cuneiform tablets in his private study, and to use the Departmental Library, His study, which was entered from the K&yflnjik GaHcty and no longer exists, was a comparatively small room, and lit was obliged...
Social Science Research Network electronic library, 2005. — 41 p. Armament minister Albert Speer is usually credited with causing the boom in German armament production after 1941. This paper uses the annual audit reports of the Deutsche Revisions- und Treuhand AG for seven firms which together represented about 50 % of the German aircraft producers. We question the received view...
Boulder, Paladin Press, 1999. — 310 p. — ISBN: 1-58160-022-4 Let's get a few things straight. First, despite its matador's cape of a title, this book is not an advertisement for, an enticeme nt to, or a promotion of illega l wiretapping, which happens to be called that because it's illegal. Grim sequelae are many and include federal prosecution and time in the joint, along with...
Sunnymead: The Teleflite Corporation, 1983. — 78 p. You will be building your own engines. In the early 1960's the United States and Russia both stood on the threshold of space. Each country had launched a few small satellites, and the nation was buzzing with interest in rocketry and space travel. Without a word of advice or a thought for safety many young people began their own...
Sofia: 1986. — 52 с. Fate, Art, Personalities The Fate of the nation, men of genius, and the monasteries A Sacred Place Three among the Top Masterpieces of Architecture and Art along the tracks of History
Sofia: Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism, 2007. — 26 p. Bulgaria has by now seven cultural and two natural sites included in the UNESCO List of the World Natural and Cultural Heritage: Churches & monasteries.