Название: The Spirit of Steam: A Photographic Record of the Golden Age of American Steam
Автор: William L. Withuhn
Издательство: Smithmark Pub
Год: 1995
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 152
Размер: 48,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

In this album of black-and-white photographs, a people-oriented treatment of steam locomotives is favored over an obsession with mechanical detailia that tends to overwhelm photo collections of railroading. Dramatic shots of smoking machines hurtling down the line are de rigueur in any album, but Withuhn's selections and captions stress the quotidian meaning of steam engines in the three decades before diesels and autos triumphed: they were the economic lifeline.

Название: Rocket Planes From Sound Barrier to Heat Barrier... (Aviation Classics)
Автор: David Baker
Издательство: Tim Hartley
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 132
Размер: 82,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Today, modern high performance combat aircraft can easily exceed Mach 2... and some highly refined designs have exceeded Mach 3. Yet there was a time when even the speed of sound was a barrier to fast aircraft. Even as the jet engine was becoming accepted, just after the end of the Second World War, the development of high-speed flight was in its infancy.

Название: Canberra: In the Wake of a Legend
Автор: Phillip Dawson
Издательство: Conway Maritime Press
Год: 1997
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 184
Размер: 66,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

Using original material from the P&O archives and drawing on personal collections, this book explores the part "Canberra" has played in history since the early stages of planning in the 1950s through to her forthcoming retirement. The withdrawal of "Canberra", P&O's most famous cruise liner, will take place in September 1997.

Название: Вакуумная техника. Справочник
Автор: Демихов К.Е., Панфилова Ю.В. (ред.)
Издательство: М.: Машиностроение
ISBN: 978-5-94275-436-5
Год: 2009
Формат: DjVu
Страниц: 590
Размер: 10 MB
Язык: Русский

Содержит основные сведения по теории вакуума, расчету, конструированию и эксплуатации вакуумных систем и их элементов. Приведены физико-механические характеристики материалов, применяемых для изготовления элементов вакуумной аппаратуры, методы ее сборки и отладки, правила эксплуатации. Описаны приборы для измерения полного и парциального давления газа в вакуумных системах, методы и средства течеистекания. Даны сравнительные характеристики отечественных и зарубежных образцов вакуумной техники.

Название: Аэропланы
Автор: Рынин Н.
Издательство:Ленинград
Год: 1925
Формат:PDF
Страниц:82
Размер: 18.0MB
Язык: русский

Рынин Николай Алексеевич (23 декабря 1877, Москва — 28 июля 1942, Казань, в эвакуации) — советский учёный и популяризатор в области воздухоплавания, авиации и космонавтики, один из организаторов и активистов, член бюро ЛенГИРД. Автор ряда работ по реактивной технике, межпланетным сообщениям и освоению стратосферы.

Название: The Steam Locomotive: Its Form and Function
Автор: William Alfred Tuplin
Издательство: Macmillan Pub Co
ISBN: 0684137496
Год: 1974
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 158
Размер: 9,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

Countless books have been written on different aspects of the steam locomotive, but few have attempted to give an overall picture of its design, method of operation, handling characteristics and the many - often contradictory - factors involved in efficient and economical running. In this new book, Dr. Tuplin draws on his detailed and comprehensive knowledge of the railway engine to describe its invention, precisely how it works, the design and constructional considerations which had to be faced as it gradually grew larger and more powerful, the relationship between efficiency and cost, and the practical problems of the locomotive in service.

Название: Regional Tramways: Scotland: 1940-1950s
Автор: Peter Waller
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473823854
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 112
Размер: 12,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

Focusing on Scotland, this book provides an overview of the history of tramways north of the border from the 1940s, when the first horse-drawn service linking Inchture village to Inchture station opened, through to the closure of the last traditional tramway – Glasgow – in 1962.

Название: Regional Tramways: Yorkshire and North East of England
Автор: Peter Waller
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473823846
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 112
Размер: 13,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Focusing on Yorkshire and the North-East England, this book provides an overview of the history of tramways in the region from the 1860s, when one of the pioneering horse trams that predated the Tramways Act of 1870 operated for a brief period in Darlington, through to the closures of the last traditional tramways – Leeds and Sheffield – in 1959 and 1960, respectively.

Название: East Kent Road Car Company Ltd: A Century of Service, 1916-2016
Автор: Richard Wallace
Издательство: Crowood
ISBN: 1785001000
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 192
Размер: 37,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

East Kent Road Car Company Ltd - A Century of Service, 1916-2016, celebrates one hundred years of a bus operation that is still very much recognizable for its origins. Unlike so many proud names that have diasppeared in recent times, the old identity of East Kent Road Car Co Ltd is still carried as the legal lettering on the Stagecoach-owned buses operating in the area today.

Название: Rails through Barnsley: A Photographic Journey
Автор: Alan Whitehouse
Издательство: Pen & Sword
ISBN: 1526706458
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 136
Размер: 21,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

Few people realize it, but Barnsley was once the center of a railway universe. In Victorian times, dozens of competing companies put forward schemes to build railways across, through and around the town. Between them they constructed what some still regard as the most dense railway network in the country more complicated even than London's commuter system or even the railway networks of our major cities.