Artifact Details

Title

Treatise on screw propellers and their steam-engines : with practical rules and examples how to calculate and construct the same for any description of vessels, accompanied with a treatise on bodies in motion in fluid, exemplified for propellers and vessels : also, a full description of a calculating machine, A

Catalog Number

B275.83

Type

Document

Description

A small section is included at the back, 16 pages long, comprising of adversitsements for other publications by the publisher, Henry Carey Baird.

Date

1852

Author

Nystrom, John W. (John William)

Publisher

Henry Carey Baird

Place of Publication

Philadelphia, PA, USA

Extent

xii, 232, [4], 16 p.

Dimensions

overall: 1 1/4 in x 6 in x 9 1/4 in

Category

Book

Collection Title

Gwen Bell artifact and book collection

Series Title

Algorithms, tables, and history of calculation books

Credit

The Gwen Bell Early Book Collection of Algorithms, Tables, and History of Calculations

Lot Number

X7090.2014