Well Boring - For Water Brine and Oil

Edité par E and FN Spon, 1911

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Well Boring ? For Water, Brine and Oil (1911) by C. Isler Published by E. & F. N. Spon | ISBN: none | Condition: Good Sold by Crappy Old Books Step right up for Well Boring ? For Water, Brine and Oil , the 1911 engineering classic that makes drilling holes in the ground sound like both a noble art and a mild nervous condition. Authored by C. Isler ? a man who clearly looked at a patch of earth and thought, ?Yes, I?ll make that interesting.? ? this is the definitive guide to the pre-war world of pipes, pulleys, and mud-streaked optimism. Before PowerPoint and digital twins, there were books like this: lavishly illustrated (in black and smudge), packed with diagrams, illustrations, black and white photo plates, and written in prose so confidently Edwardian that it could probably dig a borehole through sheer force of grammar. Isler takes you by the hand and leads you down, down, down into the world of artesian wells, boring rods, and the elegant geometry of things that go sploosh. Whether your passion is water, brine, or oil ? and really, who among us hasn?t been torn between the three ? this volume has you covered, quite possibly in drilling fluid. Condition: Good , which in the context of a 1911 technical manual means it?s survived over a century of damp workshops, oily fingers, and enthusiastic annotations from men in flat caps. The spine is still holding, the pages have that satisfying pre-war paper heft, and the faint scent of iron filings lingers like the ghost of industry past. It?s part manual, part time machine, and entirely delightful in its determination to explain everything from the simplest hand auger to the most ambitious petroleum prospect. Modern readers will marvel at how a book can make the phrase ?percussion boring apparatus? sound positively romantic. Perfect for engineers, nostalgists, steampunk visionaries, or anyone who?s ever thought, ?I wonder how deep that is?? Another sturdy gem from Crappy Old Books , where we celebrate the golden age of manuals ? when men were men, holes were deep, and the word ?bore? had at least three respectable meanings.…

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Titre
Well Boring - For Water Brine and Oil
Auteur
C Isler
Éditeur
E and FN Spon
Année de publication
1911
État de l'article
Good
Reliure
Hardback

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Crappy Old Books aims to be the online version of our much endangered high street second hand book stores. Here you will find all sorts of junk that you just couldnt imagine. Crappy Old Books also aims to provide all of these books at great rates. The site was concieved on Monday 23rd Novemeber 2009, and is slowly growing. Hopefully over years it'll have much more to offer and will be a joy to browse through, just like our musty second hand book stores of yore.

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