1884 Engineer Handybook Locomotives Engineering Machine Inventions Stephen Roper

“Perhaps no device, in the entire range of mechanical inventions, has aided so much in developing and perfecting the steam-engine as the indicator.”

– Stephen Roper, Engineer’s Handy-Book

Stephen Roper was a 19th-century engineer known for a number of works on engineering. Roper’s ‘Handy-book’ was notable for being quite interesting and very useful to both professional and novice engineers offering direction on engines, boilers, locomotives, and important mechanical inventions.

This 1884 edition is a small journal-style tome complete with leather flap. While the contents are quite desirable in themselves, the full-page and in-text illustrations make this work highly collectable. Nearly 100 illustrations throughout depicting engines, steam-machines, and mechanical tools.

Item number: #3013

Price: $250

ROPER, Stephen

The engineer's handy-book Containing a full explanation of the steam-engine indicator, and its use and advantages to engineers and steam users. With formulæ for estimating the power of all classes of steam-engines; also, facts, figures, questions, and tables for engineers who wish to qualify themselves for the United States navy, the revenue service, the mercantile marine, or to take charge of the better class of stationary steam-engines. With illustrations.

Philadelphia, E. Claxton & Co., 1884.

Details:

Collation complete with all pages: [2], [ix-xxiii], 24-690

Numerous illustrations throughout

Language: English

Provenance: Handwritten – John Allmendinger

Binding: Leather (wrap); tight & secure

Leather wrap tearing

Size: ~7in X 5in (18cm x 13cm)

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