Boston: American Bell Telephone Co., 1980. Hardcover. iv, 469 p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Red cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. Yellow floral endpapers. Stamps on endpapers and title page indicating that this book belonged to the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. Public Relations Library and the A.T. & T.... More about The Bell Telephone: The Deposition of Alexander Graham Bell in the Suit Brought by the United...

Chestnut Hill, MA: Adams Brown Co., 1945. Paperback. 6 p.; 22 cm. Folded pamphlet. This pamphlet is about the "Miraculous New Insecticide" DDT, or dodiphenyltrichloroethane. It discusses its use during the war and expectations of post-war use, listing 13 American companies from which experimental quantities could be obtained. Scarce. In... More about Chemical Progress, no. 4, Aug. 1, 1945 [DDT Miraculous New Insecticide

Chicago: Fred de Land, Publisher, 1894. Paperback. iv p., [approx. 30] leaves: illustrated advertisements; 23 cm. Light green wrappers (paperback) with advertisements on both sides of front and back wrapper. The publisher, Fred de Land, was involved in the development of telephone companies in the United States in the late... More about Electrical Literature: A Monthly Summary of Current Engineering Literature -- Vol. 1 No. 1 --...

S.l. General Electric Co., 1906. 1 leaf (19 x 14 cm.) with color advertisement for the electric fan sold by General Electric. With a striking color illustration of a Dutch woman in wooden shoes in the fore-ground, with the wind blowing her dress, and a traditional wooden windmill in the... More about General Electric Fan Motors -- 1906 [color advertisement

Philadelphia: Cutter Electrical & Mfg. Co., 1919. Hardcover. 263, [1] p.: illustrations, diagrams, tables; 24 cm. Blue cloth with white spine and cover titles. Spine title: Circuit (I-T-E) Breakers. No date of publication; 1919 is the year assigned in WordCat records. Former owner's name on front fixed endpaper: Cornelius C.... More about Handbook of the I-T-E Circuit Breaker: Series M [catalog

Paris: G. Masson, Libraire de l'Académie de Médecine de Paris, 1878. Hardcover. Quatrieme série. Tome vingt-septiéme. 631 p., 10 leaves of plates (5 folded): includes in-text drawings; 22 cm. Contemporary half green morocco with marbled paper over boards. Gilt-tooled spine title and decorative rules. All paged edges lightly speckled. Marbled..... More about Journal de Pharmacie et de Chimie; 4th ser., vol. 27

London: J. Limbird, 1836. Hardcover. Title continued: "Select Extracts from New and Expensive Works; Poetry, Original and Selected; The Spirit of the Public Journals; Discoveries in the Arts and Sciences; New Facts in Natural History &c." viii, 472 p.: frontispiece portrait of Felicia Hemans, many full-page and in-text illustrations; 22... More about The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction: Containing Original Essays; Historical...

West Hartford, Conn: American Radio Relay League, 1931. Paperback. March 1931. Vol. XV No. 3. 96 p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Orange and black paper covers. Penciled notation at head of front cover; faint stamp on back cover for the Broadway Store. This issue of QST features articles by VHF pioneer... More about QST: Devoted Entirely to Amateur Radio [Ross A. Hull, Eugene A. Hubbel

Cambridge, Mass. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1924. Hardcover. 525, [3] p.: 1 leaf of engraved portrait of William Emerson, 5 leaves of heavier stock with color illustrations precede sections, many black-and-white photographs; 28 cm. Suede binding with black-stamped spine title and front cover illustration. Grey endpapers with "Ex Libris" printed... More about Technique vol. 39: The Yearbook of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, Mass. War Records Committee of the Alumni Association of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1920. Hardcover. ix, [1], 747 p.: frontispiece portrait of Richard Cockburn Maclaurin, illustrations, portraits; 27 cm. Contemporary full burgundy morocco with five spine compartments. Gilt-stamped spine title and cover title; gilt-stamped cover decoration. All page... More about Technology's War Record: An Interpretation of the Contribution Made by the Massachusetts...

Pittsburgh, Pa. Westinghouse Air Brake Company, 1890. Hardcover. 63 p.: tables, and, in pocket following text: 4 large folded plans, 2 cards with moveable levers over plans, and 8-page pamphlet; 17 cm. Black morocco-grain cloth with gilt-stamped title on flap: The Westinghouse Air Brake Co. Instruction Book. Errata slip tipped... More about The Westinghouse Air Brake Company Instruction Book: The Quick Action Automatic Brake [with 4...

Boston: Manning & Loring, 1806. Hardcover. "Printed by Manning and Loring. Sold by them, and by Etheridge & Bliss, Boston; Cushing & Appleton, Salem; Thomas & Whipple, Newburyport; Charles Peirce, Portsmouth; Henry Cushing, Provience; Lincoln & Gleason, Hartford; Bronson, Walter & Co. New-Haven; I. Thomas, jun. Worcester; J. Prentiss, Keene;... More about The Medical and Agricultural Register, For the Years 1806 and 1807. Containing practical...

New York & London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1942. Hardcover. First Edition, Second Impression. vi, [2], 554 p.: illustrations, tables; 24 cm. Dark green cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. No dust jacket. Appendix contains tables of natural trigonometric functions. Former owner's name on front free endpaper: Harry F. Freeland. In Near... More about The Electrical Fundamentals of Communication