Lorraine-Escaut - Recueil technique - 1965

Lorraine-Escaut — Important technical industrial collection complete — Berger-Levrault 1965 — Metal bridges / Reinforced concrete / Steel industry — approx. 820 pages
Description :
Important and rare industrial technical collection of the Lorraine-Escaut company, a remarkable testimony to the know-how of the French steel industry in the 1960s.
This imposing technical volume of about 820 pages gathers professional documentation that is particularly rich, devoted to industrial engineering and metal constructions.
The content includes notably:
• calculations of metal structures
• studies of metal bridges
• applications and calculations related to reinforced concrete
• calculations of cambered/bent parts
• flanges, joints and technical assemblies
• numerous industrial diagrams
• detailed technical drawings
• tables, developments and engineering formulas
The work presents strong historical and documentary interest for:
collectionners of industrial documentation,
engineers,
design offices,
historians of the steel industry,
technical schools,
lovers of French industrial archives.
Edition / printing:
Lorraine-Escaut
Mines and Factories of the Longwy Steel Works, Senelle-Maubeuge and Escaut & Meuse
Printing: Berger-Levrault – Nancy
Layout: Gilles Charoy
Legal deposit: 4th quarter 1965
Printed in France
The whole seems to have been intended for technical or specialized professional use, probably with limited diffusion.
Characteristics:
• about 820 pages
• large and thick technical volume
• numerous illustrations and diagrams
• period industrial documentation
• black presentation binding
• cover protected with transparent plastic
Condition:
Good general condition.
Clean and complete interior.
Normal presence of light signs of use related to age and professional use of the document.
An important technical and historical document on the French heavy industry of the Thirty Glorious Years, now difficult to find in such a complete state.