A manual of the mechanics of engineering and of the construction of machines. Designed as a text-book for technical schools and colleges, and for the use of engineers, architects, etc.
Julius Weisbach's German engineering treatise, translated and expanded by A. Jay Du Bois and Richard H. Buel and issued by J. Wiley & Sons in New York from 1878 as a text for technical schools, engineers, and architects. The 188 figures are numbered wood-engraved diagrams, mostly sectioned valves, pumps, and gearing, with hatched cast iron, lettered parts, and scale fractions.
