T-TX: a selection of books in W&L libraries published before 1900
Dodd, George, 1808-1881.The curiosities of industry. [By George Dodd]London, H. Lea [1852?]Manufactures.; Technology.; Industrial arts.Science Library T7 .D63
Antisell, Thomas, 1817-1893.Hand-book of the useful arts; including agriculture, architecture, domestic economy, engineering, machinery; manufactures, mining, photogenic and telegraphic art: being an exposition of their principles and practice and a compend of American and EuropeNew-York : G. P. Putnam, 1852.Technology -- Dictionaries.; Industrial arts -- Dictionaries.Leyburn-Spec Coll-Rare T9 .A63 1852
Cutbush, James, 1788-1823.The American artist's manual : or, Dictionary of practical knowledge in the application of philosophy to the arts and manufactures / Selected from the most complete European systems, with original improvements and appropriate engravings. Adapted to the Philadelphia : Pub. by Johnson & Warner, and R. Fisher, W. Brown, printer, 1814.Technology -- Dictionaries.; Industrial arts -- DictionariesLeyburn-Spec Coll-Rare T9 .C95
Knight, Edward Henry, 1824-1883.Knight's American mechanical dictionary. A description of tools, instruments, machines, processes, and engineering; history of inventions; general technological vocabulary; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts / By Edward H. KniBoston : Houghton, Mifflin and Co., [1882Industrial arts -- Dictionaries.; Mechanical engineering -- Dictionaries.Leyburn-Spec Coll-Rare T9 .K69 1882 v. 1
Ure, Andrew, 1778-1857.Ures dictionary of arts, manufactures, and mines : containing a clear exposition of their principles and practice / by Robert Hunt. ; assisted by F. W. Rudler.London : Longmans, Green, and Co., 1878.Industrial arts -- Dictionaries.; Technology -- Dictionaries.Science Library T9 .U75 1878
Howe, Henry, 1816-1893.Memoirs of the most eminent American mechanics : also, lives of distinguished European mechanics; together with a collection of anecdotes, descriptions, &c. &c., relating to the mechanic arts. / Illustrated by fifty engravings. By Henry Howe ..New York : Harper & brothers, 1847.Inventors.; Industrial arts -- Biography.Leyburn-Franklin Soc. T39 .H72
Hubert, Philip Gengembre, 1852-1925.Inventors / by Philip G. Hubert, Jr.New York : C. Scribner's Sons, 1893.Inventors.Leyburn-Spec Coll-Rare T39 .
Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879.Elements of technology, taken chiefly from a course of lectures delivered at Cambridge, on the application of the sciences to the useful arts / Now published for the use of seminaries and students. By Jacob Bigelow.Boston : Hilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins, 1829.Technology.; Industrial arts.Leyburn-Spec Coll-Rare T47 .B58
Hazen, Edward.Popular technology; or, Professions and trades / by Edward Hazen ..New York : Harper and brothers, 1843.Industrial arts.; Occupations.; Engraving.; Printing.Leyburn-Franklin Soc. T47 .H418
Cooley, Arnold James.A cyclopaedia of six thousand practical receipts, and collateral information in the arts, manufactures, and trades, including medicine, pharmacy, and domestic economy. Designed as a compendious book of reference for the manufacturer, tradesman, amateNew York : D. Appleton & company, 1851.Technology -- Dictionaries.; Industrial arts -- Dictionaries.; Recipes.Leyburn-Franklin Soc. T49 .C765
Dick, William B. (William Brisbane), 1827-1901.Encyclopedia of practical receipts and processes. Containing over 6400 receipts; embracing thorough information, in plain language, applicable to almost every possible industrial and domestic requirement. By William B. Dick.New York, Dick & Fitzgerald [1875, c1872]Industrial arts.; Recipes.Science Library T49 .D54 1875
Workshop receipts : for the use of manufacturers, mechanics, and scientific amateurs / By Ernest Spon.London : New York : E. & F.N. Spon, 1878.Technology.; Industrial arts.; Catalogs, Publishers'Science Library T49 .S76
Richards, William C. (William Carey), 1818-1892.A day in the New York Crystal Palace and how to make the most of it : being a popular companion to the Official catalogue, and a guide to all the objects of special interest in the New York Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations / by William C. RiNew York : G.P. Putnam, 1853.New York Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations (1853-1854)Leyburn-Franklin Soc. T783.A2 R4
Van Nostrand's eclectic engineering magazine.[New York : D. Van Nostrand, 1869-1878]Engineering -- Periodicals.Leyburn-Spec Coll-Rare TA1 .V3
Van Nostrand's engineering magazine.[New York : D. Van Nostrand, 1879-1886]Engineering -- Periodicals.Leyburn-Spec Coll-Rare TA1 .V3
Crozet, Claudius, 1790-1864.Outline of the improvements in the state of Virginia : to accompany the map of the same ; prepared in pursuance of a resolution of the general assembly of March 15, 1848 / by Claudius Crozet.Philadelphia : C. Sherman, Printed, 1848.Virginia -- Public works.Leyburn-Franklin Soc. TA24.V83 C7
Strickland, William, 1787-1854.Reports on canals, railways, roads, and other subjects, made to The Pennsylvania Society for the Promotion of Internal Improvement. By William Strickland ... while engaged in the service of the society.Philadelphia, H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1826.Engineering.Leyburn-Spec Coll-Rare FOLIO TA57 .S91
Mahan, D. H. (Dennis Hart), 1802-1871.A treatise on civil engineering / By D. H. Mahan.New York : J. Wiley & son, 1873.Civil engineering.Leyburn-Spec Coll-Rare TA145 .M3 1873
Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering.New York, D. Appleton & company, 1852.Mechanics, Applied.; Mechanical engineering -- Dictionaries.Leyburn-Spec Coll-Rare TA350 .B83 1852 v. 1
Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, enginework, and engineering. Illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood.New York, D. Appleton & co., 1869.Mechanical engineering -- Dictionaries.Leyburn-Spec Coll-Rare TA350 .B83 1869 v. 1
Weisbach, Julius Ludwig, 1806-1871.Principles of the mechanics of machinery and engineering / By Julius Weisbach.Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard, 1848-49.Mechanical engineering.Leyburn-Spec Coll-Rare TA350 .W442
Hewson, William.Principles and practice of embanking lands from river-floods, as applied to levees of the Mississippi / by William Hewson.New York : D. Van Nostrand, 1870.Levees.; Mississippi River -- Levees.Leyburn-Spec Coll-Rare TC337 .H6 1870
Leffel, J., & Co.Leffel's construction of mill dams, and Bookwalter's Millwright and mechanic. Illustrated by numerous full-page plates.Springfield, O. : J. Leffel & co., 1881.Dams.Leyburn-Spec Coll-Rare TC540 .L49
James River and Kanawha Company.Annual report of the president to the stockholders of the James River and Kanawha Company, together with the proceedings of the stockholders.[Richmond, Va. : The Company], 1836-Leyburn-Spec Coll-Rare TC625.J2 A1 1835-
Virginia.A collection of all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, from October, 1784, down to the session of 1829-30, inclusive, relating to the James River Company. Together with an appendix, containing the regulations of the president Richmond : Printed by S. Shepherd, 1830Inland navigation -- Virginia.; James River Company.Leyburn-Spec Coll-Rare TC625.J2 A1 1835-40
James River and Kanawha Company (Richmond, Va.)The Central water-line from the Ohio River to the Virginia capes : connecting the Kanawha and James rivers, affording the shortest outlet of navigation from the Mississippi basin to the Atlantic.Richmond, Va. : Gary, Clemmitt & Jones, printers, 1869.Virginia Central Water Line.Leyburn-Spec Coll-Rare TC625.J2 A13
United States Naval Observatory.Report on interoceanic canals and railroads between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans / By Rear-Admiral Charles H. Davis, superintendent of the Naval Observatory.Washington : Govt. Print. Off., 1867.Canals, Interoceanic.Leyburn-Franklin Soc. TC773 .U45 1867
Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate, 1841-1906.American highways; a popular account of their conditions, and of the means by which they may be bettered. By N. S. Shaler ..New York, The Century Co., 1896.Roads -- United States.Science Library TE23 .S5
Latrobe, Benj. H. (Benjamin Henry), 1807-1878.Report upon the progress in the construction of the Northwestern Virginia Railroad : and its probable business and revenue when completed / made in February 1855, to Thomas Swann, Esq., President, by Benjamin H. Latrobe, Chief Engineer.Baltimore : Printed by John Murphy & Co., 1855.Northwestern Virginia Railroad.; Railroads -- Virginia.Leyburn-Spec Coll-Rare TF25.N68 L28 1855
Earle, Thomas, 1796-1849.Treatise on rail-roads and internal communications. By Thomas Earle.Philadelphia, J. Grigg [etc.] 1830.Railroads -- Early works to 1850.Leyburn-Spec Coll-Rare TF144 .E13
Tredgold, Thomas, 1788-1829.A practical treatise on rail-roads and carriages, showing the principles of estimating their strength, proportions, expense, and annual produce, and the conditions which render them effective, economical, and durable; with the theory, effect, and expenNew York, E. Bliss and E. White, 1825.Railroads -- Early works to 1850.Leyburn-Spec Coll-Rare TF144 .T7 1825
French, James Strange, 1807-1886.A memorial to the legislature of Virginia on railways / by James S. French.Richmond : Printed by Ritchies & Dunnavant, 1852.Railroads -- Early works to 1850.Leyburn-Spec Coll-Rare TF145 .F75
Vose, George L. (George Leonard), 1831-1910.Manual for railroad engineers and engineering students : containing the rules and tables needed for the location, construction, and equipment of railroads, as built in the United States / by George L. Vose.Boston : Lee and Shepard; New York : Lee, Shepard and Dillingham, 1873.Railroad engineering.Leyburn-Spec Coll-Rare TF145 .V96
Berg, Walter G. (Walter Gilman), 1858-1908.Buildings and structures of American railroads. A reference book for railroad managers, superintendents, master mechanics, engineers, architects, and students.New York, J. Wiley & Sons, 1893.Railroads -- Buildings and structures.; Buildings.Science Library FOLIO TF270 .B496
Hatfield, Robert Griffith, 1815-1879.The American house-carpenter; a treatise on the art of building, and the strength of materials. By R. G. Hatfield.New York, J. Wiley, 1867.Carpentry.; Architecture.Leyburn-Spec Coll-Rare TH5604 .H35 1867
Allen, Zachariah, 1795-1882.The science of mechanics, as applied to the present improvements in the useful arts in Europe, and in the United States of America: adapted as a manual for mechanics and manufacturers, and containing; tables and calculations of general practical utiliProvidence : Hutchens & Cory; Miller & Hammond, printers, 1829.Mechanical engineering.; Machinery.Leyburn-Spec Coll-Rare TJ146 .A42
Rankine, William John Macquorn, 1820-1872.A manual of the steam engine and other prime movers / by William John Macquorn Rankine.London : Griffin, Bohn, and Co., 1861.Power (Mechanics); Steam-engines.; Mechanical engineering.Leyburn-Spec Coll-Rare TJ250 .R2 1861
Babcock & Wilcox Company.Steam: its generation and use. With catalogue of the manufactures of the Babcock & Wilcox co. ..[New York, Press of the American art printer] 1889.Steam-boilers, Water-tube.Science Library TJ315.B2 A3 1889
Thurston, Robert Henry, 1839-1903.A history of the growth of the steam-engine. By Robert H. Thurston.New York, D. Appleton and company, 1884, t.p. 1886.Steam-engines -- History.Science Library TJ461 .T535
Renwick, James, 1790?-1863.Treatise on the steam engine / By James Renwick ..New York : G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1830.Steam-engines -- Early works to 1850.Leyburn-Franklin Soc. TJ464 .R42
Ward, James Harmon, 1806-1861.Steam for the million : a popular treatise on steam, and its application to the useful arts, especially to navigation : intended as an instructor for young seamen, mechanics' apprentices, academic students, passengers in mail steamers, etc. / by J.H. New York : D. Van Nostrand ..., 1860.Steam.; Steam-engines.Leyburn-Franklin Soc. TJ465 .W25 1860
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870.A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water, ancient and modern: with observations on various subjects connected with the mechanic arts: including the progressive development of the steam engine...In five bookNew York : Bangs, Platt, & co., 1850.Pumping machinery.Leyburn-Spec Coll-Rare TJ900 .E935
Prescott, George B. (George Bartlett), 1830-1894.History, theory, and practice of the electric telegraph / By George B. Prescott.Boston : Tickner and Fields, 1866.Telegraph.Leyburn-Spec Coll-Rare TK5261 .P82 1866
Hotchkiss, Jedediah, 1828-1899.The Shenandoah Iron, Lumber, Mining and Manufacturing Company of Virginia : a report on its charter, lands, iron ores and other minerals, timber, water-powers, ironworks and other improvements and commercial facilities, and the advantages, present andStaunton, Va. : Spectator Steam-Print. House, 1878.Shenandoah Iron, Lumber, Mining and Manufacturing Company of Virginia.Science Library QE173 .H6
Wrigley, Henry E.Special report on the petroleum of Pennsylvania, its production, transportation, manufacture and statistics. / By Henry E. Wrigley...To which are added a map and profile of a line of levels through Butler, Armstrong and Clarion counties by D. Jones LuHarrisburg : Pub. by the Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological survey, 1875.Petroleum -- Pennsylvania.Science Library TN872.P4 W7
Burgess, N. G. (Nathan G.)The photograph and ambrotype manual: a practical treatise on the art of taking positive and negative photographs on paper and glass, commonly known as photography, in all its branches; containing all the various recipes practised by the most successfuNew York : Wiley & Halsted; [etc., etc.] 1858.Photography.; Ambrotype.; Photography -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.Leyburn-Spec Coll-Rare TR145 .B95
Evans, Oliver, 1755-1819.The young mill-wright and miller's guide : in five parts ... / by Oliver Evans.Philadelphia : M. Carey, 1821.Flour-mills.Leyburn-Franklin Soc. TS2145 .E85 1821