Instructional and educational works -- Textbooks
Subject
Subject Source: Loc Genre/Form Terms For Library And Archival Materials (Lcgft)
Scope Note: Books used as standard works for the formal study of a particular subject. Also any book that gives the first principles of a subject or basic instruction for beginners.Variants: Instruction books // Primers (Textbooks) // School books // Schoolbooks // Text books
Broader: Instructional and educational works
Found in 57 Collections and/or Records:
Airplane Design Manual (Third Edition), 1950, 1950
Item — Special collection MC-19, Book: 061, Call No.: TL 671.2 .T4 1950
Identifier: 20061108.02
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Textbook (Technical).Purpose: Training and Education.Authority: Author Expertise.Scope: Third edition of a textbook written by Frederick K. Teichmann, Professor of Aeronautical Engineering and Chairman of Department of Aeronautical Engineering, Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics, College of Engineering, New York University.Changes in Third edition: "Although airplane design has progressed tremendously since this book was...
Dates:
Copyright: 1950; Publication: 1950
Airplane Propeller Principles (2nd Printing), 1944, 1947-02
Item — Special collection MC-19, Book: 109, Call No.: TL 705 .N4
Identifier: 20061104
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Textbook (Technical)Purpose: Training and EducationAuthority: Author Expertise.Scope (from Preface):
"This material was subsequently used in mimeographed form for the course in airplane propellers at Iowa State College, and it is the basis of this publication.
Emphasis has been placed throughout upon the basic principles underlying the design and operation of the modern airplane propeller, rather than upon specific design...
Dates:
Copyright: 1944; Printed: 1947-02
Analytical Mechanics for Engineers (Third Edition, Fifteenth Printing), 1941, 1948-04
Item — Special collection MC-19, Book: 017, Call No.: QA 809 .S44 1941
Identifier: 20061176
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Textbook (Technical).Purpose: Training and Education.Authority: Author Expertise.Scope (Preface to Third Edition and Preface to First Edition)
"This book, as its name suggests, presents those principles of mechanics that are believed to be essential for the student of engi-neering.
Throughout the book the aim has been to make the principles of mechanics stand out clearly; to build them up as much as possible from common...
Dates:
Copyright: 1941; Printed: 1948-04
Applied Engineering Mechanics: Statics (Second Edition), 1981, 1981
Item — Special collection MC-19, Book: 018, Call No.: TA 351 .P4 1981
Identifier: 20061125
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Textbook (Technical).Purpose: Training and Education.Authority: Author Expertise.Scope:
Preface: "The purpose of this edition of Statics is to provide a suitable text for students of architecture and engineering in technical institutes, junior colleges, and universities. The major emphasis is on the application of basic physical concepts and principles to easily understood problems and examples.
A large number of problems...
Dates:
Copyright: 1981; Publication: 1981
Aviation Engines: Design, Construction, Operation and Repair, 1917, 1917
Item — Special collection MC-19, Book: 071, Call No.: TL 701 .P3
Identifier: 20180009
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Textbook (Technical).Purpose: Training & Education.Authority: Author Expertise.Scope: A COMPLETE, PRACTICAL TREATISE OUTLINING CLEARLY THE ELEMENTS OF INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINEERING WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, OPERATION AND REPAIR OF AIRPLANE POWER PLANTS; ALSO THE AUXILIARY ENGINE SYSTEMS, SUCH AS LUBRICATION, CARBURETION, IGNITION AND COOLING. IT INCLUDES COMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS FOR ENGINE REPAIRING AND...
Dates:
Copyright: 1917; Publication: 1917
Aviation Fuels and Their Effects on Engine Performance (Revised Edition), 1951, 1951
Item — Box TB.S3.002, Folder: TF.S3.D.xxB
Identifier: 20123048
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Book (Technical Reference).Purpose: Authoritative reference.Authority: Author Expertise and Manufacturer.Document Number: NAVAER-06-5-501 [Navy Technical Order] and USAF T.O. No. 06-5-4 [Air Force Technical Order]NB: Kimble McCutcheon attributes authorship to Sam Heron of Ethyl Company based on Kim's personal knowledge of Heron's history and other data.Note: This item includes 3 loose-leaf photcopied pages. The first is titled...
Dates:
Copyright: 1951; Publication: 1951
Basic Wing and Arifoil Theory, 1951, 1951
Item — Special collection MC-19, Book: 046, Call No.: TL 574 .A4 P58
Identifier: 20061119
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Textbook (Technical).Purpose: Training and Education.Authority: Author Expertise.Scope (from Preface):
"Books in the field of wing and airfoil theory have been written either at a very elementary level for the college junior or at a high level for the advanced student. Few, if any, papers have been presented at a level directly suitable for the college senior or first-year graduate stu-dent. Noting this situation in 1941,...
Dates:
Copyright: 1951; Publication: 1951
Calculus Made Easy: Being A Very Simplest Introduction To Those Beautiful Methods of Reckoning Which are Generally Called By the Terrifying Names of the Differential Calculus and Intregral Calculus (Second Edition, Enlarged), 1914, 1957
Item — Special collection MC-19, Book: 004, Call No.: QA 303 .T45 1957
Identifier: 20061160
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Textbook (Technical).Purpose: Training and Education.Authority: Author Expertise.Scope:
An introductory guide to Calculus with problems, answers, and examples. Contents (from Table of Contents):
Prologue
1. To Deliver You from the Preliminary Terrord
2. On Different Degrees of Smallness
3. On Relative Growings
4. Simplest Cases
5. Next Stage. What to Do with Constants
6. Sums, Differences,...
Dates:
Copyright: 1914; Printed: 1957
College Algebra (Alternate Edition), 1931, 1931
Item — Special collection MC-19, Book: 001, Call No.: QA 154 .H25 1931
Identifier: 20061169.01
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Textbook (Technical).Purpose: Training and Education.Authority: Author Expertise.Scope (from Preface):
"This book is a flexible and distinctly modern text containing material for a rich course in algebra for college students who have had either two or three semesters of high school algebra.
For a homogeneous group of students of any given preparation, there is an appropriate starting place in the book from which the group...
Dates:
Copyright: 1931; Publication: 1931
College Algebra (Revised Edition), 1938, 1938
Item — Special collection MC-19, Book: 002, Call No.: QA 154 .H25 1938
Identifier: 20061169
Scope and Contents
Document Type: Textbook (Technical).Purpose: Training and Education.Authority: Author Expertise.Scope (from Preface to the Revised Edition):
"This book offers an efficient collegiate discussion of the content necessary to bridge the gap between ninth grade algebra, imperfectly recalled, and college algebra, together with a complete treatment of all topics usually included under the last title. In addition to this classical material, the...
Dates:
Copyright: 1938; Publication: 1938