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| Title | Engineering Drawing and Design (A Text-book Of): Including Practical Geometry, Plane and Solid, and Machine and Engine Drawing and Design ... Part 1 of Engineering Drawing and Design (a Text-book Of) : Including Practical Geometry, Plane and Solid, and Machine and Engine Drawing and Design, Sidney Herbert Wells Griffin's scientific text-books |
| Author | Sidney Herbert Wells |
| Edition | 3 |
| Publisher | C. Griffin & Company, 1900 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 2 Apr 2008 |
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