Compressed Air: Its Production, Uses, and Applications (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781410224644)

Originally published in 1903, this book was described by its publisher ---the Scientific American magazine--- as "comprising the physical properties of air from a vacuum to its liquid state, its thermodynamics, compression, transmission, and uses as a motive power in the operation of stationary and portable machinery, in mining, air tools, air lifts, pumping of water, acids, and oils; the air blast for cleaning and painting, the sand blast and its work, and the numerous appliances in which compressed air is a most convenient and economical transmitter of power for mechanical work, railway propulsion, refrigeration and the various uses to which compressed air has been applied; with forty air tables and five hundred and forty-five illustrations." Gardner D. Hiscox, M.E., was also the author of Mechanical Movements, Powers, Devices and Appliances, Gas Gasoline and Oil Engines, and Horseless Vehicles, Automobiles, amongst other books.

Author: Gardner Dexter Hiscox
ISBN-10: 1410224643
ISBN-13: 9781410224644
Publisher: University Press of the Pacific
Language: English
Published: 06/28/2005
Pages: 828
Format: Paperback
Weight: 2.51lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.64d