Engineers' and Mechanics' Pocket-Book, Containing United States and Foreign Weight Measures; Tables of Areas and Circumferences of Circles, Circular Segments and Zones of a Circle; Squares and Cubes, Square and Cube Roots; Lengths of Circular and Semi-Elliptic Arcs; and Rules of Arithmetic. Mensuration of Surfaces and Solids; The Mechanical Powers; Geometry, Trigonometry, Gravity, Strength of Materials, Water Wheels, Hydraulics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, Statics, Dynamics, Gunnery, Heat, Winding Engines, Tonnage, Shot, Shells, &c. Steam and the Steam-Engine; Combustion, Water, Gunpowder, Cables and Anchors, Fuel, Air, Guns, &c, &c. Tables of the Weights of Metals, Pipes, &c. Miscellaneous Notes, Dimensions of Steamers, Mills, Motion of Bodies in Fluids, Orthography of Technical Terms, &c., &c.

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Title

Engineers' and Mechanics' Pocket-Book, Containing United States and Foreign Weight Measures; Tables of Areas and Circumferences of Circles, Circular Segments and Zones of a Circle; Squares and Cubes, Square and Cube Roots; Lengths of Circular and Semi-Elliptic Arcs; and Rules of Arithmetic. Mensuration of Surfaces and Solids; The Mechanical Powers; Geometry, Trigonometry, Gravity, Strength of Materials, Water Wheels, Hydraulics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, Statics, Dynamics, Gunnery, Heat, Winding Engines, Tonnage, Shot, Shells, &c. Steam and the Steam-Engine; Combustion, Water, Gunpowder, Cables and Anchors, Fuel, Air, Guns, &c, &c. Tables of the Weights of Metals, Pipes, &c. Miscellaneous Notes, Dimensions of Steamers, Mills, Motion of Bodies in Fluids, Orthography of Technical Terms, &c., &c.

Description

11th edition book of math problems and concepts for studying engineers bound in a leather traveling case. This book was allegedly carried by a Confederate soldier (related to Ellen Ingold McDowell McIntyre) in his knapsack during the Civil War. After Ellen McIntyre's death in 2024, the book was inherited by her granddaughter Addison Rebecca McDowell.

Creator

Haswell, Chas. H

Source

The Addison Rare Book Repository

Publisher

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 329 & 331 Pearl Street, Franklin Square. (see map)
Kennesaw State University (digital collection publisher)

Date

1860

Contributor

Addi McDowell - Curator

Rights

All Rights Reserved

Format

Book, 113mm x 160mm x 21mm

Language

English

Type

Physical Object

Coverage

United States 19th Century

Physical Object Item Type Metadata

Physical Dimensions

113mm x 160mm x 21mm

Materials

Leather, paper

Original Format

Book

Geolocation

Citation

Haswell, Chas. H, “Engineers' and Mechanics' Pocket-Book, Containing United States and Foreign Weight Measures; Tables of Areas and Circumferences of Circles, Circular Segments and Zones of a Circle; Squares and Cubes, Square and Cube Roots; Lengths of Circular and Semi-Elliptic Arcs; and Rules of Arithmetic. Mensuration of Surfaces and Solids; The Mechanical Powers; Geometry, Trigonometry, Gravity, Strength of Materials, Water Wheels, Hydraulics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, Statics, Dynamics, Gunnery, Heat, Winding Engines, Tonnage, Shot, Shells, &c. Steam and the Steam-Engine; Combustion, Water, Gunpowder, Cables and Anchors, Fuel, Air, Guns, &c, &c. Tables of the Weights of Metals, Pipes, &c. Miscellaneous Notes, Dimensions of Steamers, Mills, Motion of Bodies in Fluids, Orthography of Technical Terms, &c., &c.,” Digital Histories, accessed August 4, 2025, https://digitalhistories.kennesaw.edu/items/show/228.