Entrée principale:

McNeil, Ian, 1920-1997.

Titre et auteur:

Joseph Bramah: a century of invention, 1749-1851.

Publication:

Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1968.

Description:

216 pages 16 plates, illustrations, portraits 23 cm

Notes:
"This is the first full-length biography of Joseph Bramah, inventor of the famous Bramah lock and, most important, of the hydraulic press. Bramah's ideas and inventions are here described in their setting, as direct responses to the late eighteenth/early nineteenth century demand for higher technical standards and greater domestic comfort."--Dust jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-207).
Dust jacket.
Library copy: Bookplate of Eaton Hall College of Education Library and ownership stamp of Ian Cowley's Bookshop.

ISBN:

0715342118
9780715342114

Sujet:

Bramah, Joseph, 1749-1814.
Bramah, Joseph, 1749-1814 Studies.
Sloten (sluitwerk)
Hydraulische techniek.
Persen (techniek)
Uitvinders.
Engineering Great Britain History.

Classification/genre:

Biographies.

Vedettes secondaires:

Provenance. Eaton Hall College of Education. Library. Bookplate.
Provenance. Ian Cowley's Bookshop. Ownership stamp.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 280564
Cote: BIB 217405
Statut: Disponible