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William Fairbairn

(Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874)

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Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: An account of the construction of the Britannia and Conway tubular bridges. (J. Weale; [etc., etc.], 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: An account of the construction of the Britannia and Conway tubular bridges : with a complete history of their progress from the conception of the original idea, to the conclusion of the elaborate experiments which determined the exact form and mode of construction ultimately adopted (J. Weale ;, 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: Biographies of distinguished scientific men. (Ticknor and Fields, 1859), also by F. Arago, Robert Grant, Baden Powell, and W. H. Smyth (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: Biographies of distinguished scientific men (Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857), also by F. Arago, Robert Grant, Baden Powell, and W. H. Smyth (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: Biographies of distinguished scientific men (Ticknor and Fields, 1859), also by F. Arago, Robert Grant, Baden Powell, and W. H. Smyth (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: Iron, its history, properties, & processes of manufacture (A. and C. Black, 1869) (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: Iron, its history, properties, & processes of manufacture (A. and C. Black, 1865) (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: Iron, its history, properties, and processes of manufacture. (A. and C. Black, 1861) (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: Lancashire and Cheshire, past and present: a history and a description of the palatine counties of Lancaster and Chester, forming the North-western division of England, from the earliest ages to the present time (1867). (W. Mackenzie, 1868), also by Thomas Baines and Henry Warren (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: The life of Sir William Fairbairn, bart. ... (Longmans, Green and co., 1877), also by William Pole (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: On the application of cast and wrought iron to building purposes. (Longmans, Green, 1870) (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: On the application of cast and wrought iron to building purposes (J. Weale, 1857) (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: On the application of cast and wrought iron to building purposes. (J. Weale, 1854) (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: On tubular girder bridges ... With an abstract of the discussion upon the paper (Printed by W. Clowes and sons, 1851) (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: The practical metal-worker's assistant... With the application of the art of electro-metallurgy to manufacturing processes. Collected from original sources and from the works of Holtzapffel, Bergeron, Leupold, Plumier, Napier, and others. (H. C. Baird;, 1864), also by Oliver Byrne, James Napier, William Clay, and J. Scoffern (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: The practical metal-worker's assistant ... With the application of the art of electro-metallurgy to manufacturing processes. (H.C. Baird;, 1864), also by Oliver Byrne, James Napier, William Clay, and J. Scoffern (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: The principles of mechanism and machinery of transmission. : Comprising the principles of mechanism, wheels and pulleys, strength and proportions of shafts, couplings for shafts, and engaging and disengaging gear (H. C. Baird & co., 1871) (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: The principles of mechanism and machinery of transmission. Comprising the principles of mechanism, wheels and pulleys, strength and proportions of shafts, couplings for shafts, and engaging and disengaging gear (H. C. Baird & co., 1891) (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: The principles of mechanism and machinery of transmission. Comprising the principles of mechanism, wheels and pulleys, strength and proportions of shafts, couplings for shafts, and engaging and disengaging gear. (H.C. Baird & co., 1872) (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: The principles of mechanism and machinery of transmission. Comprising the principles of mechanism, wheels and pulleys, strength and proportions of shafts, couplings for shafts, and engaging and disengaging gear. (H. C. Baird, 1869) (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: The principles of mechanism and machinery of transmission, comprising the principles of mechanism, wheels and pulleys, strength and proportion of shafts ... (Philadelphia, 1903) (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: The principles of mechanism and machinery of transmission. Comprising the principles of mechanism, wheels and pulleys, strength and proportions of shafts, coupling for shafts, and disengaging gear. (H.C. Baird & Co., 1876) (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: The principles of mechanism and machinery of transmission. Comprising the principles of mechanism, wheels and pulleys, strength and proportions of shafts, couplings for shafts, and engaging and disengaging gear. (H. C. Baird, 1870) (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: The principles of mechanism and machinery of transmission. Comprising the principles of mechanism, wheels and pulleys, strength and proportions of shafts, couplings for shafts, and engaging and disengaging gear. (H. C. Baird, 1867) (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: The principles of mechanism and machinery of transmission. Comprising the principles of mechanism, wheels and pulleys, strength and proportions of shafts, couplings for shafts, and engaging and disengaging gear. (H.C. Baird, 1882) (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: Remarks on canal navigation : illustrative of the advantages of the use of steam, as a moving power on canals : With an appendix, containing a series of experiments, tables, &c. on which a number of proposed improvements are founded : Also, plans and descriptions of certain classes of steam boats, intended for the navigation of canals, and the adjoining branches of the sea (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green :, 1831), also by H. G. James (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: The rise and progress of manufactures and commerce and of civil and mechanical engineering in Lancashire and Cheshire. (W. Mackenzie, 1869), also by Thomas Baines (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: Treaties on iron ship building: its history and progress as comprised in a series of experimental researches on the laws of strain ... (Longmans, Green & co., 1865) (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: Treatise on iron ship building: its history and progress as comprised in a series of experimental researches on the laws of strain ... including the experimental results on the resisting powers of armour plates and shot at high velocities. (Longmans, Green & Co., 1865) (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: Treatise on mills and mill work (Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1861) (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: Treatise on mills and mill work (Longmann, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864) (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: Treatise on mills and millwork (Longmans, Green and Co., 1871) (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: Treatise on mills and millwork (Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864) (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: A treatise on the strength of materials. With rules for application in architecture, the construction of suspension bridges, railways, etc.; and an appendix on the power of locomotive engines, and the effect of inclined planes and gradients (Lockwood & co., 1867), also by Peter Barlow, William Humber, William Henry Barlow, P. W. Barlow, Robert Willis, David Kirkaldy, and Eaton Hodgkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: Two lectures on iron and its application to the manufacture of steam engines, millwork, and machinery, and on natural laws; delivered to the memners of the Literary and Philosophical Society, Newcastle-on-Tyne, December 1863. (M. & M. W. Lambert, 1864) (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: Useful information for engineers; being a series of lectures. (London, 1856) (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: Useful information for engineers; being a series of lectures delivered before the working engineers of Yorkshire and Lancashire; together with a series of appendices, containing the results of experimental inquiries into the strength of materials, the causes of boiler explosions, &c. (Longman, Green, Longmans and Roberts, 1860) (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: Useful information for engineers : being a series of lectures delivered to the working engineers of Yorkshire and Lancashire : together with a series of appendices, containing the results of experimental inquiries into the strength of materials, the causes of boiler explosions, etc. (Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1864) (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: Useful information for engineers; being a series of lectures delivered to the working engineers of Yorkshire and Lancashire; together with a series of appendices, containing the results of experimental inquiries into the strength of materials, the causes of boiler explosions, etc. (Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1856) (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: Useful information for engineers. Containing experimental researches on the collapse of boiler flues and the strength of materials, and lectures on popular education and various subjects connected with mechanical engineering, iron ship-building, the properties of steam, etc. (Longmans, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860) (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: Useful information for engineers ... containing the results of experimental inquiries into the strength of materials, the causes of boiler explosions, etc. (Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864) (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: Useful information for engineers : first series, being a series of lectures delivered before the working engineers of Yorkshire and Lancashire, together with a series of appendices containing the results of experimental inquiries into the strength of materials, the causes of boiler explosions, etc., etc. (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1874) (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: Useful information for engineers. Second series : containing experimental researches on the collapse of boiler flues and the strength of materials, and lectures on popular education and various subjects connected with mechanical engineering, iron shipbuilding, the properties of steam, etc. (Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860) (page images at HathiTrust)
Fairbairn, William, Sir, 1789-1874: Useful information for engineers. Third series. As comprised in a series of lectures on the applied sciences; and on other kindred subjects; together with treatises on the comparative merits of the Paris and London international exhibitions, on roofs, on the Atlantic cable, and on the effect of impact on girders. (Longmans, Green, and co., 1866) (page images at HathiTrust)

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