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| Shopify Unique ID: | 10562129166628 |
| Trademe Reference: | PR1436 (2) |
| Category: |
Model Making: Aircraft Model Making: Boats / Cars Model Making: Trains |
| New / Used: | Used |
Description
SIMPLE WORKING MODELS OF HISTORIC MACHINES: (Easily Made by the Reader)
by Aubrey F. Burstall
DESCRIPTION
ISBN: 0713132426
Format: medium card cover
Published: Edward Arnold Publishers 1968, reprinted 1975
Size (mm): 185 w x 215 h x 5 d
Pages: 79
SKU: A4/2604/0675/B939
ABOUT
A classic DIY engineering book providing instructions to build 35 small-scale, working models of historical machines.
Designed for the mechanically curious and venturesome, this book presents descriptions and model plans for a great variety of ingenious tools, devices, and engines invented over a span of history ranging from prehistory and antiquity to the Renaissance and recent centuries.
Photographs of built models and drawings of historical examples animate the descriptions of some of the machines, while for each machine a full-page scaled drawing of the model to be built is provided.
Illustrated throughout with monochrome images, drawings and diagrams.
CONDITION
Excellent with light wear on covers and page edges, otherwise clean. Images depict all need to know detail.
REMARKS
Scarce locally
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