Useful Information for Engineers: Being a Series of Lectures Delivered Before the Working Engineers of Yorkshire and Lancashire : Together with a Series of Appendices Containing the Results of Experimental Inquiries Intro the Streght of Materials, the Causes of Boiler Explosions, Etc |
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