ABANDONED. Structural Engineering Manual with a top down view of a helicopter in blueprint on the cover late 1990's

[Mikel]

When I was in college 1997, there was a book that a firm had in Seattle, it was the place we went when someone would ask us to customize, create or design from scratch to see how you do (most any mechanical innovation since fire)

You could build a boat engine based on gearing settings, create an abacus, build a solar clock, how to design a helicopter pad.

It was a well thought out published book, the cover if memory serves was a dark color with the design kinda quilted together like old "blue line prints" vs the blue prints they make with ammonia now.

This book was like "lets build a..." reference manual for us.

Thanks for any ideas or thoughts.

This has been a pretty cool place, I registered for goodreads a while back and forgot I saved a bunch of my earliest book purchases here.

Mike

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Mikel, I'm moving this to Unsolved since it sounds like you're looking for one specific book? If not you can move it back to "requests: for books in general."

Would you say this is a book only for engineers or engineering types? Do you think the publisher would be a publisher specific to the engineering community, or a general interest publisher? Was the book oversize, or strangely shaped in any way?

Are you saying that this book had instructions for all of those things - boat engine, abacus, solar clock, helipad?

[Mikel]

Hi Lobstergirl,

This book was specifically written for engineering types, I remember the books cover was on helicopter landing pads, there was many other subjects inside that were focused on "how to design a..."

Book was about 1-1/2" thick, bound, normal text book 8x11-ish.

Yeah this was a general design reference guide/manual on how to.

There are similar books like the Machinists Handbook, well ok its not really a "how to" its more of "the landing pad should be 36 larger than the aircraft, capable of supporting x in shear load 7 made of blah blah blah concrete 6" thick for every 10,000lbs of aircraft". ETC.

It was on a shelf that gathered dust until you were asked to design a building with a commercial loading dock... instead of buying 1 book for mechanical, structural, robotics or architectural... this was a bit of a one general reference for all engineering types etc.

thanks for the reply.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Mikel, are you still looking for this book or did you find it?

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Mikel, are you still looking for this book or did you find it?"

No response in 3 years. Moving to Abandoned.