A. Ledieu - Les Nouvelles machines Marines - 1882

The New Marine Machines
A. Ledieu
Supplement to the Treatise on Steam Navigational Apparatus
Paris
Dunod publisher
1882

First edition, two volumes bound in period half-leather, marbled boards, raised bands on the spine, gilt titles and volume numbers.
Volume I: 745 pages, containing a large folding plate outside the text measuring 58 × 24.5 cm, complete and well preserved.
This plate depicts marine steam engines in detail with overviews, sections and mechanical elements.
Volume II: 546 pages
Volume dimensions: 24.5 × 16.5 cm

The book is enriched with numerous technical engravings within the text, as well as numerical comparison tables of steam engines, allowing for analysis and comparison:
developed powers,
yields,
consumption,
dimensions and performance of different marine machinery models.
This is a genuine scientific and industrial treatise on:
marine steam engines,
the boilers,
ship propulsion,
the application of the mechanical theory of heat,
the construction and optimization of steam navigation instruments.

Sturdy bindings with normal aging wear, clean interior with some foxing stains, engravings well preserved, fold-out plate complete but fragile, not cut.
Technical figures, naval engineering, seafaring and the Industrial Revolution.


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