old books

[nkalbrr]

My Father-in Law just gave me 3 books published in 1926 by the International Textbook Company of Scranton Pa. I now have the 3 part series on lathe operations.According to Wikipedia their were a total of 14 books in the machinist series.Looks like I have some reading to do.Anyone else heard of this company and do you own any of the books?

 

[Tin Falcon]

The International Textbook Co of Scranton PA. aka International correspondence Schools published a ton of technical engineering stuff over the years. Much of it is available in digital form from Google books and other internet archive sites. There material was widely used to train folks for factory etc work during wwII.
I have almost 40 booklets in the 1939 edition. This was the home study course material .
Tin

 

[ChooChooMike]

I too have about 2 dozen different (pocket-sized) books from them. Most are train/steam-engine related since that's my interest, but I picked up a batch of electrical/hydraulic/other related interests too. They are kind of fun to read - a real throw back to today's technology. Very interesting to see where stuff came from

Most of the I bought off of eBay. Search on International Textbook Company. Also look on AbeBooks.com, another wonderful source for old books.

Mike

 

[PTsideshow]

Searches 30 or so book sites all over the world and lets you compare what is available.
http://www.addall.com/

Another used book listing of numerous world wide vendors.
http://www.alibris.com/

If you want hard copy reprint of ICS here are two source for some
They have more titles and other books of interest for those on this forum
Nation Builder Books they are at the engine show.
http://www.nbbooks.com/
Of course Lindsay has some
http://www.lindsaybks.com/

A current remainder book seller have mostly the current and recent selling books. All kinds, of auto's,boats planes history and every thing else. They do have some machine shop books on occasion.
http://www.hamiltonbook.com/hamiltonbook.storefront
can't bead their DVD prices.

West coast MASSIVE amount of books new and used they have some of the English Model Engineers books by TEE publishing
http://www.powells.com/

The Astragal Press has some steam and reprints on old time stuff & tools
http://www.astragalpress.com/
The other has book on subjects of things metal

http://www.industrialpress.com/en/default.aspx
current industrial books has the pocket version of the Machinery handbook

Another one with assorted books of interest
http://www.mtroubleshooting.com/


Books on line
http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/ E books and others

http://books.google.com/ Google

http://openlibrary.org/ Open Library

http://www.archive.org/index.php Internet Archive

http://www.educypedia.be/index.htmEducypedia is an information resource about scientific and educational material: electronics, engineering, science, encyclopedia, history and information technology

Are a few

This one is a world wide search engine for local libraries catalog listing if your library is a member it will tell if they have it and how far it is from your house.
http://worldcat.org/