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Title

Allgemeine Maschinenlehre nach den Vorfrägen des Herrn Professor Dr. Rühlmann

Authors

• Bode, August H

Other related names

• Bode, Howard Douglas, former owner
• Koslov, Samuel, former owner

Call number

LJS 163
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5818281
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5818281

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

German

Origin

Date

1864

Place

Hannover

Summary

Drawings of machines, grouped by type, such as sewing machines, presses, scales, water wheels, turbines, cranes, steam engines, and locomotives, arranged to illustrate the development of the machines and accompanied by historical notes which often refer to the inventor and give citations to works dated as late as 1864, made while the author was a student at the Polytechnic Institute in Hannover, now Leibniz Universität Hannover. The title page refers to the Vorfrägen (Preliminary questions) of Dr. Rühlmann, probably the 4-volume encyclopedia of mechanical engineering titled Allgemeine Maschinenlehre, published by Christian Moritz Rühlmann, professor of mechanical engineering at Chemnitz; the first volume was published in 1862. A printed table concerning the performance of various locomotives, with a reference to an exhibition of 1862, is bound in near the end of the manuscript (f. 195) and folds out.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. ii recto).
   

Extent

197 leaves : 245 x 158 (220 x 130) mm. bound to 255 x 180 mm

Foliation

Paper, i + 200 + i; [i-ii, 1-198]; leaves 10-15 paginated in ink, 1-12, upper center.

Support

Paper

Binding

Cloth with gilt title Skizzen (Sketches) on upper cover.

Layout

Written in up to 27 long lines on text pages (generally verso sides, facing illustrations on recto sides); margins impressed in each leaf.

Script

Written in cursive script by August H. Bode.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Howard Douglas Bode (bookplate inside upper cover), son of the author; over the bookplate is written a note that begins "The sketch book of my father August H. Bode"; the remainder of the note is difficult to read.
   
• Formerly owned by Samuel Koslov.
   
• Sold at auction at Christie's as part of Samuel Koslov's collection, 12 Nov. 1996, lot 376, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
   

Subjects topical

• Mechanical engineering
• Technology--History

Genres

• Codices
• Drawings
• Technical drawings
• Manuscripts, German--19th century
• Manuscripts, Digital

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