Audels Engineers and Mechanics Guide

[Diesel II]

I purchased a nice set of books on Ebay the other day. I thought that I would share the some of the information that was in them. This may be handy to the Steamers that are on this forum since the books contain lots of formulas and illistrations. What I love about these old books is that they do a great job of illustrating the history of our industrial revolution and are written in a manner that explains the theory and operation in terms that even I can understand. The title of the books are “Audels Engineers and Mechanics Guide # Questions Answers and Illustrations”. I believe that a complete set is 1-8. They were copyrighted in 1921,1927. The set that I purchased was a reprint from 1940.

[ken572]

Hello Diesel II,
What a GREAT Find!! Those books look like they were well taken care of.
Ken.

[spro]

Audels had great books for machinists too. I have most of the Carpenters series and many are beside reading when lonely, back when i cared. There was a particular book, the Toolmaker and Handybook which were really cool. There is Machinists' Library Machine shop which is more a compilation. There was Rogers which was excellent.
Then for the epitome of classic knowledge Machinery's Encyclopedia all nine volumes. wonderful. Yet there are certain books more attuned to the steamers and that is a different subject.
A set of books all about RR engineering and political history and all that. Crusty books found in a steamer trunk 20 years ago. These are like from 1919 don't remember. There were some significent displays and engineering drawings about different discussions they had about adopting certain other principles and what became of that. I digress.

[Falcon67]

I've had an old 1927 or 32 edition for quite a while - not very big square, but really thick:


That set you found is excellent. If you don't mind my asking, what did you end up giving for the set? I don't consider my book worth much, and it's way too cool to sell anyway.

[Diesel II]

I had to give 24.95 for the set plus shipping.

[spro]

The old canard "what's it worth to you" is instuctuctive on many levels. Two levels intersect. What may have been 10$ or $400 is irrelevant,for we may look out eyes that we think cannot change. They do and only if we are lucky do we see the changes of many things. It is one thing to get a bargain on Ebay and another to give a fair price to a fellow who is just an older version. By the luxury bought by even younger than the buyer he remained and the books were not rained on.
There are those ways of looking at things which don't appear immediatly.

[Falcon67]

I had to give 24.95 for the set plus shipping.

That's a good deal there.

[jim rozen]

The audel books are still published. Dollar per dollar I would say they are
among the best technical education out there.