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topic: 1831Daniel Kinnear Clark's "Railway Machinery" 1855 - free download
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posted: 15 Feb 2012 17:39

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LSWRArt
 
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I was looking for some photos of wagon turntables and came across a link to Daniel Kinnear Clark's  book "Railway Machinery" published in 1855. A full scanned copy can be found for free on Google Books . The link below points to the plates section which have been scanned seperately. There is a North British turnout drawings around page 133.  If you click on the i for information link on the top right of the page, you can then download the book as a .pdf and then copy individual pages into CAD, or just scale and print.  There are also lots of loco, coach and wagon dwgs, etc.

http://books.google.com/ebooks/reader?id=Y4xMAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&pg=GBS.PT209
Thought this might be of interest to other members of the group.
I assume that the text is elsewhere, but I have not yet had time to find this.
Arthur




posted: 15 Feb 2012 21:26

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Brian Nicholls
 
Poole - United Kingdom

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LSWRArt wrote:
  If you click on the i for information link on the top right of the page, you can then download the book as a .pdf and then copy individual pages into CAD, or just scale and print. 

Hi Arthur,

First, thank you for the link to a very interesting volume.

Now regarding the text of the book, if you sign in and log in, then select the book, all the text is there, all 342 pages of it.

However, what I don’t understand is, in your statement copied above is, if you left click on the i at the top left of the document, you only get a screen telling you about the book as in i = information.
But if you right click on the i, then you get a typical windows screen in which you can select various options.
The only option in this screen is to convert the page to pdf, however, when you do this only that page is displayed in Acrobat, and the problem is also included on the display is the right click screen, which covers some of the text or diagram.


Now I could not find anything on the Google book screen, when the page was displayed as an HTML doc, that would allow you to download or save the document in any form.

Can you please advise me as to exactly what you did to get the book downloaded as a pdf copy ?
(preferably all the book not just single pages).


All the best,

Brian Nicholls.

posted: 15 Feb 2012 21:41

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Brian Nicholls
 
Poole - United Kingdom

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Hi Arthur,

As a PS to my above message, try this link:

http://books.google.com/ebooks/reader?id=kpgOAAAAYAAJ&as_brr=5&ei=dh08T_f0FpCCzASry-AD&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&pg=GBS.PT209

 

All the best,

Brian Nicholls.

posted: 15 Feb 2012 21:57

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Martin Wynne
 
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Hi Brian,

The PDF download is on this page ("Read on your device") -- scroll to the bottom of the page:

  http://books.google.co.uk/ebooks?id=kpgOAAAAYAAJ&output=acs_help

The actual PDF download link is:

  http://books.google.co.uk/books/download/Railway_machinery.pdf?id=kpgOAAAAYAAJ&output=pdf

Keep reloading until you get a readable captcha -- they are awful.


For the Plates, the PDF download is on this page -- scroll to the bottom:

  http://books.google.com/ebooks?id=Y4xMAAAAYAAJ&output=acs_help

regards,

Martin.


posted: 16 Feb 2012 00:39

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Brian Nicholls
 
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Hi Martin,

Many thanks for the help and advice regarding the downloading of the Google books, it is very much appreciated.

I have now downloaded both the Vol 1, which is the text, and Vol 2 which contains all the associated plates (diagrams).

There’s a lot of useful information in these books regarding very early railways, although some of the pages are a little wonky, and badly copied, but it’s free and as stated just above, the data is excellent.

Thanks again Martin (& Arthur), that’s a first class job.

All the best,

Brian Nicholls.



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