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CHRISTIAN, (GERARD JOSEPH).
Traité de Méchanique Industrielle, ou exposé de la Science de la Mechanique déduite de L'Experience et de L'Observation principalement a L'Usage des Manufacturiers et des Artistes 3 vols. + Planches.
Paris, Bachelier, 1822-25. 4to. Bound in 4 uniform contemp. hcalf. Gilt backs. (4),4,VII,496(4),4,II,503"(4),6,482 pp. 4 plates to textvolumes and Plate-volume with 60 double-page engraved plates. (Total of 64 plates, all). Printed on good paper, broad margins, a few marginal brownspots internally clean and fine.
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First edition of this scarce early work on industrial engineering by the director of the ""Conservatoire Royal des Art et Métiers"" in Paris. He made importent improvements to steam-engines"" ""Gerard Joseph Christian unterscheidet in seinem ""Traité de méchanique industrielle"" scharf zwischen der Expansion in einem Zylinder und der in mehreren und beschreibt die mehrfach-Expansionsmachine vom allgemeinen Geschichtspunkt in richtiger Weise."" (Darmstaedter 1823). - Poggendorff I: p. 441. - Brunet I: 1854.
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