Technical Books at Dial a Book Sydney

The Laser Guidebook. Second Edition
Hecht, Jeff
Book Number: 64955
ISBN: 0830642749
Tab Books, Blue Ridge Summit, PA, 1992. 8vo. softcover. 498pp. index, b/w ilus. Very good.
Price: $20.00

Methane Digesters for Fuel Gas and Fertilizer with complete instructions for two working models
Fry, L. John; Merrill, Richard
Book Number: 64942
ISBN:
L. John Fry, Santa Barbara, 1973. 4to. stapled wraps. 47pp. b/w illus. Good, top corner bumped, spine faded, a few marks on cover.
Price: $30.00

Simplified Wind Power Systems for Experimenters
Park, Jack
Book Number: 64943
ISBN:
Helion, USA, 1975. 2nd edition. 4to. softcover. 80pp. b/w illus. Very good.
Price: $25.00

The Cat's Whisker: 50 Years Of Wireless Design
Hill, Jonathon
Book Number: 64348
ISBN: 0905368460
Oresko Books, London 1978. 4to. hardcover. 95pp. b/w illus. Near Fine. / Very good d/w.
Price: $20.00

Steam Traction-Engines: Memories of the Men and the Machines
Bonnett, Harold
Book Number: 64058
ISBN: 085949067X
Robert Tyndall, UK 1975. 8vo. hardcover. 48pp. index, b/w ilus. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $18.00

The Complete Guide to Blacksmithing: Horseshoeing, Carriage and Wagon Building and Painting
Lungwitz. Professor A. & Adams, Charles F.
Book Number: 63872
ISBN: 051734548X
Bonanza Books, New York, 1981. 8vo. hardcover. 222pp. b/w illus. Very good. / Very good d/w.
Price: $18.00

Admiralty Handbook of Wireless Telegraphy. 1938. Volume II. Wireless Telegraphy Theory
Admiralty
Book Number: 63735
ISBN:
HMSO, 1945. Large 8vo. hardcover. index, b/w illus. Very good.
Price: $25.00

Picturesque Panama. The Panama Railroad and The Panama Canal.
Heald, Jean Sadler
Book Number: 62795
ISBN:
Chicago Curt Tech & Co 1928. 8vo, illustrated cloth hardcover. 126pp. b/w illus. folding map loosely inserted. Very good, wear to spine ends.
Price: $25.00

The Buttermaker's Manual Volumes I & II
McDowall,Frederick Henry
Book Number: 62699
ISBN:
New Zealand University Press., Wellington., 1953. 8vo. cloth hardcovers. 1590pp. + indexes. b/w illus. Very good.
Price: $75.00

Metal Turning Made Easy
no author stated
Book Number: 58788
ISBN:
Cassell 1944 The Amateur Mechanic & Work Handbooks 8vo. Softcover. 152pp. Very good. Illustrated with diagrams throughout.
Price: $15.00

Care and Repair of Gas and Oil Engines. Machinery's Reference Book no. 129.
Machinery
Book Number: 57112
ISBN:
The Industrial Press, New York 1914. 8vo. stapled softcover. 48pp. Very good.
Price: $35.00

The Goonhilly Project. Communication-satellite ground station.
Taylor, F. J. D.
Book Number: 24179
ISBN:
London, Institution of Electrical Engineers. 1964 8vo. hardcover. 152pp. b/w illus. very good, light foxing to endpapers & prelims. / good chipped d/w. Scarce
Price: $95.00

Practical Carriage Building. Volume II
Richardson, M. T. (compiled by)
Book Number: 42050
ISBN:
Richardson 1892. First edition 8vo. hardcover. 280pp. index, b/w illus. good, foxing throughout, first few pages creased on bottom corner, cover faded with some wear to corners.
Price: $150.00

SIGNALLING - An Elementary Reference Manual Covering the Morse Code and its Application to Aural and Visual Signalling, Operating Procedure for Visual, Telegraphic and Telephonic Communication and Fundamental Electrical Principles.

Book Number: 60900
ISBN:
Mingay Publishing Company 1941 12mo, brown cloth wraps. 63pp. Very good. po name and station on title page. Contents includes, Signalling by the Morse Code, Visual Signals, Procedure, Elementary Electricity, The Telephone, Cables and Cable Jointing, Line Telephony Procedure, Telephone Exchange Operation.
Price: $30.00

Data and Circuits of Receiver and Amplifier Valves 1st supplement. (Electronic Valves Book III)
Ducloux, C. (trans.)
Book Number: 45854
ISBN:
Philips Tech Library, 1949. 8vo. blue cloth hardcover. 213pp. b/w illus. Very good, some foxing. Some fading to cover edge. Scarce.
Price: $65.00

The Design and Construction of Masonry Dams Giving the Method Employed in Determining the Profile of the Quaker Bridge Dam
Wegmann, Edward
Book Number: 60951
ISBN:
John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1889. 4to. blue dec, cloth hardcover. 112pp. + 62 plates (some folding) + ads. Good solid copy with some wear to cover corners, Ex Water Supply Department copy with some stamps & some mathematical formulas written on a few pages.
Price: $110.00

The principles of Electric Wave Telegraphy and Telephony
Fleming, J.A.
Book Number: 42821
ISBN:
Longmans Green and Co 1916. Third edition 8vo. green cloth hardcover. 911pp. index, b/w illus. fold-out charts. Good-, covers rubbbed, wear to spine edges, front hinge loose.
Price: $85.00

Steering Gear and Deck Machinery, reprinted from the Modern Marine Engineer's
Messaros, Frank C.
Book Number: 20386
ISBN:
Philadelphia . Cornell Maritime Press. 1943. small 8vo. softcover. 96pp. b/w illus. + one fold-out tech. drawing. very good, cover lightly chipped on edges, light foxing to endpapers, light soiling to cover.
Price: $55.00

Wonderful Models. The Romance of the World in Miniature and a Complete Encyclpaedia of Modelcraft. Vol 1 & 2
Marshall, Percival and Edward W. Hobbs; (editors)
Book Number: 33434
ISBN:
London: Percival Marshall & Co. 1928. Large 8vo red cloth hardcovers. 1152pp. b/w illus, plans, some fold-out. very good, foxing to endpapers. A very nice set.
Price: $125.00

Handbook of the Collections Illustrating Electrical Engineering II. Radio Communication Part 1 - History and Development
O'Dea, W. T.
Book Number: 44703
ISBN:
His Majesty's Stationary Office London 1934 8vo. Wrappers. Front wrap loose, Copy very good, very lightly foxed. Index. 58 Figures including diagrams and Photographic Illustrations of equipment from 1878 to 1943 including clockwork transmitter and detector, Hertz Apparatus, Oscillators and seonators, Lodge Coherers, Magnetic Detectors, Pedersen tikker, Fleming diode valves, Marconi, Lodge-Muirhead, Poldhu, diagram of different aerial configurations, Telefunken, Duddell, Poulsen, Jigger, Bellini-Tosi, Catkin, Rigby, Ongar, Burndept, Baird Television. Contents includes Electromagnetic Waves, Detectors, Early Wireless Telegraphy Experiments, The Development of Wireless Telegraphy, The Thermoinic Valve, Further Developments in Transmission, Wireless Telephony Recievers, Television and Picture Telegraphy, Miscellaneous Developments ( Microphones, Loudspeakers, Measurement of Wavelength), References.
Price: $75.00

Methane CH₄ The Replaceable Energy
Spargo, Raymond F.
Book Number: 47435
ISBN: 0959572007
Australian Methane Gas Research 1979 Large 8vo. softcover. 96pp. b/w illus. Very good, front cover creased. Scarce.
Price: $35.00

Radio Design: Official Organ of the Radio International Guild. Vol. 2, No. 3, Fall 1929
various
Book Number: 52518
ISBN:
Radio International Guild 1929 Large 8vo. softcover. 96pp. b/w illus. Good-, cover rubbed and chipped on corners.
Price: $15.00

BCAS Handbook of Pneumatic Equipment
British Compressed Air Society
Book Number: 23919
ISBN:
London: BCAS, (British Compressed Air Society ), 1949 2nd edition. 8vo. 194pp. + 15pp Buyers Guide. Unmarked copy except where the price has been blacked out on the front page, light wear at the top and bottom of spine and along spine fold, otherwise Very Good. Red decorated boards (gilt/bronze/maroon), Bronze faded on spine. A comprehensive description of the history and state-of-the-art (in 1949) of various uses of compressed air. Profusely illustrated with photographs of the tools and their industrial installation. Index. Contents covers, Air compressors, High Pressure Comprssors, Portable air compressors, turbo compressors, rotary compressors and roatry blowers, gas compressors and spheres of application, vacume pumps, british standard method for testing air compressors and effect of altitude on operation, spraying equipment, pneumatic tools - percussive/rotary, Misc. Pneumatic machines, foundry moulding machines, rock drills and contractors' tools, concrete breakers, spaders, picks, rammer, Vibrators, pumps, hoists, Cement Guns and Grouters, Pneumatic Sewage Ejectors, Aircraft Equipment, Accessories, Air consumption of pneumatic tools and appliamces, data required for enquireies and orders, some uses for compressed air, metric and british equivalents.
Price: $45.00

Land Engineering and Surveying for Students and Practical Use
Baker. T. and Leston, G. L.
Book Number: 24092
ISBN:
Crosby Lockwood and Son, London, 1925 24th edition. Lockwood's Technical Manuals small green stamped cloth 8vo.Good copy with cloth faded lightly and marked, and worn at spine fold. Ads on fep. ffl is missing. Illustrated throughout with Illustrations and Lithographic plates, diagrams, calculations, tables, and fold out plans. Contents include Practical Geometry, Mensuration, Haydraulic Memoranda, Values of French Measures, General Principles of Surveying, Chain Surveying, Instruments for Angular Measurement, Logarithms, Trigonometry as applied in Surveying, Surveying with the Theodolite, Levelling, Railway Surveying, Sundry Cases arising in the laying out and division of land, Plotting plans and sections, Calculation of Areas and Cubical contents, misc. Caluculations and Examples, publications of the ordanance survey, Examination papers, List of Plates.
Price: $15.00

Transmission Circuits for Telephonic Communication, Methods of Analysis and Design
Johnson, K.S.
Book Number: 24292
ISBN:
New York: D. Van Nostrand Company, LTD. 1929 8vo. hardcover. 334pp. index, b/w illus. good, owner's details inside front cover. cover edges slightly soiled. / no d/w.'
Price: $25.00

Transistor Audio Amplifiers
Shea, Richard F.
Book Number: 24301
ISBN:
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1955 8vo. hardcover. 219pp. index, b/w illus. very good, owner's name on fep. / good- chipped d/w.
Price: $28.00

The Treatment of Clinical and Laboratory Data
Mainland, Donald
Book Number: 32617
ISBN:
Oliver & Boyd, UK. 1938 8vo.blue cloth hardcover. 340pp. index, b.w graph, charts. very good. / very good d/w. with chipped spine ends.
Price: $45.00

Vacum-Tube Voltmeters
Rider, John F.
Book Number: 32632
ISBN:
Rider 1951 8vo. hardcover. 422pp. index, b/w illus. very good. / poor worn d/w.
Price: $75.00