From the Publisher: This distinguished reference carries on a 70-year legacy as the world's most thorough, useful, readable, and understandable text on the prin
The first book on the life and work of 19th-century American inventor and entrepreneur James Bogardus, known for his unique grinding mill and other patented dev
This classic work documents the many uses and ingenious adaptations of wrought iron in architecture, with numerous examples from the fourteenth century through