[Engraved frontispiece showing pressure cookers opposite the title page to a book suggesting the use of steam as a force to drive an engine]

[The old-fashioned steam fire engine of the Fire Brigade]

[A three-horsepower internal combustion engine that ran on coal gas]

[Steam engine, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C. Transverse elevation of boiler, cistern, etc.]

[Title page with sailing ship, starboard view]

[Steam engine, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C. Side elevations - timber for the engine]

Gas rationing booklet. This is the front cover of the new "A" gasoline coupon book, which motorists in the East Coast rationed area will need to obtain their basic rations of gasoline when the coupon plan goes into effect in July. The front cover will carry a description of the car for which the hooklet is issued as well as the name and address of the owner. The other coupon books used in the plan will rsemble the "A" book, except in the color of printing and number of coupons

[Engraved frontispiece showing pressure cookers opposite the title page to a book suggesting the use of steam as a force to drive an engine]

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Illus. in: A new digester or engine for softning bones, .... / by Denis Papin M.D. London : Printed by J. M. for H. Bonwicke, 1681.
Published in: The tradition of technology : Landmarks of Western technology ... / Leonard C. Bruno. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1995, p. 139.