Description: 1945 Electrical Drafting Circuits and Wiring Diagrams Plans Car Signals Neon + This is a 140 page, 5 1/2” x 8 1/2”, hardcover book titled and subtitled Electrical Drafting / Applied to Circuits and Wiring. The book was written by D. Walter Van Gieson Assistant Electrical Engineer, Board of Transportation, City of New York and was copyrighted and published in 1945 by McGraw-Hill Book Company. This is a First Edition. As stated in the preface the author considers working drawings of electric machines as essentially mechanical drawings. His intent with this book is to deal with drafting technique as applied to electric circuit diagrams and wiring plans. The book assumes an elementary knowledge of the electric circuit. The book attempts to “carry the reader from the simple form of electrical diagram to those which are more complex by a graded series of drawing plates and explanations, at the same time developing the detailed wiring plan and correlating the equipment-location plan”. Chapter titles are – Symbols ; The Schematic Diagram ; Modern Methods ; The Detailed Wiring Plan ; Circuit and Wiring Plans–Lighting ; Circuit and Wiring Plans–Railway Signals ; Circuit and Wiring Plans–Communication ; Circuit and Wiring Plans–Radio and Television ; Circuit and Wiring Plans–Power ; Switchboard-wiring Plans ; Car-wiring Plans ; Ship-wiring Plans ; Aircraft-wiring Plans ; Traffic-Signal Wiring Plans ; Animated-sign Lighting ; Neon and Fluorescent Lighting ; Instruments and Indicating Devices ; Checking the Wiring Plan ; Equipment-location Plans ; Conduit and Location Plans ; Notes and Specifications ; Drawing Titles, Subtitles, Etc ; Alterations and Revisions to Drawings ; Office Practice ; Drafting Kinks. Condition – The book is clean, complete and tightly bound. The camel colored cover cloth with dark brown bordering gold spine edge print is unfaded. Cover cloth wear is minimal consisting of only mildly bumped corners. There are no markings in the book including no previous owners names. Pages are crisp. There are no torn, missing, loose, creased or marked pages. The book is in very good+ condition. The book will be shipped in a hardboard box via first class mail.
Price: 10.99 USD
Location: Lakewood, Ohio
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Publication Year: 1945
Type: Textbook
Format: Hardcover
Subject Area: Electrical Circuits
Language: English
Publication Name: Electrical Drafting
Author: D. Walter Van Gieson
Level: Technical
Subject: Electrical Drafting
