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Home mechanics for amateurs
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary4963
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV006.24.51
- Call Number
- 507.8 HOP
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- Sampson Low, Marston & Co.
- Publication Date
- 1903
- Physical Description
- 370 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Industrial arts
- Woodwork
- Metal-work
- Woodworking tools--Amateurs' manuals
- Electricity--Experiments
- Steam-engines
- Notes
- Includes index.
- Author's full name and dates : Hopkins, George M. (George Milton), 1842-1902.
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Confederation Park railway engine
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription96813
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2000]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Steve Postlethwaite, of the British Columbia Society of Model Engineers, restoring a 1936 Northern 4-8-4 steam engine ahead of the Confederation Park miniature railway (Burnaby Central Railway)'s opening for the season.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2000]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 535-2371
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Steve Postlethwaite, of the British Columbia Society of Model Engineers, restoring a 1936 Northern 4-8-4 steam engine ahead of the Confederation Park miniature railway (Burnaby Central Railway)'s opening for the season.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Bartel, Mario
- Notes
- Title based on caption
- Collected by editorial for use in an April 2000 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
- Caption from metadata: "Steve Postlethwaite is busy restoring the BC Society of Model Engineers' 1936 Northern 4-8-4 steam engine in time for the opening of another season of their railway at Confederation Park, on Good Friday."
- Geographic Access
- Confederation Park
- Willingdon Avenue
- Street Address
- 250 Willingdon Avenue
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Capitol Hill (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Capitol Hill Area
Images
![Confederation Park railway engine, [2000] thumbnail](/media/hpo/_Data/_Archives_Images/_Unrestricted/535/535-2371.jpg)
A textbook on steam engineering: arithmetic, mensuration and use of letters in formulas, principles of mechanics, machine elements, mechanics of fluids, strength of materials.
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary427
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV988.60.5
- Call Number
- 621.1 INT
- Place of Publication
- Scranton, Pa.
- Publisher
- International Textbook Company
- Publication Date
- c1902
- Series
- I.C.S. text books.
- Physical Description
- 1 v. (various pagings) : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Steam engineering
- Arithmetic
- Mechanics
- Notes
- Includes index.
A textbook on steam engineering: elements of electricity and magnetism, dynamos and motors, operation of dynamos and motors, heat and steam, types of steam boilers, boiler details, boiler fittings, combustion, firing, and draft.
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary426
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV988.60.4
- Call Number
- 621.1 INT
- Place of Publication
- Scranton, Pa.
- Publisher
- International Textbook Company
- Publication Date
- c1902
- Series
- I.C.S. text books.
- Physical Description
- 5 v. ; 23 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Steam engineering
- Engineering
- Notes
- Includes index.
Walter Pruder
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription79583
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- October 16, 1996
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 22 x 15 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Walter Pruder and his Model 374 steam engine that took him three years to build. It is a scale replica of the engine that pulled the first passenger train into Vancouver in 1897.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- October 16, 1996
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 22 x 15 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 535-0452
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No reproduction permitted
- Accession Number
- 2012-11
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Walter Pruder and his Model 374 steam engine that took him three years to build. It is a scale replica of the engine that pulled the first passenger train into Vancouver in 1897.
- Subjects
- Transportation - Locomotives
- Names
- Pruder, Walter
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Bartel, Mario
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- Note in black ink on recto of photograph reads: "Bartel Bby 2525 / 82% Bby 1"
- Trim marks and/or reproduction instructions on recto (scan is cropped)
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