[Greenbuilding] [BULK] Old Hydrated Lime Text Book available as a pdf file.

[Lawrence Lile]

Chris, that is a fascinating archive!  Not just from a Green
perspective.  Similar to the Gutenberg project, they publish a lot of
old, out of copyright material, or new material published under a
GNU-type license. But unlike the Gutenberg project, it is full-color
scans of old books, not just ascii text. It's a lot more fun to read old
books with the original typeface and the illustrations.  I can almost
smell them.  Thanks for pointing it out! Hopefully we'll find more old,
technical books on long-forgotten technologies that apply anew to Green
building. 

Lawrence Lile, PE, LEED AP
Project Solutions Engineering

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[mailto:greenbuilding-bounces at listserv.repp.org] On Behalf Of Chris
Green
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 9:32 AM
To: Greenbuilding at listserv.repp.org
Subject: [BULK] [Greenbuilding] Old Hydrated Lime Text Book available as
a pdf file.
Importance: Low

A book with the unwieldy title,  Hydrated Lime: History, Manufacture and

Uses in Plaster-Mortar-Cement: A Manual The Architect, Engineer, 
Contractor, and Builder,  by E.W. Lazell, Ph. D,(Engineering), printed 
in 1915, is available for download as a pdf file at the Internet 
Archives/ Open Library link which follows.

http://ia310925.us.archive.org/3/items/hydratedlimehist00lazerich/hydrat
edlimehist00lazerich.pdf

The pdf file runs to 22 Megabytes and 104 pages, so it takes 
considerable time to download. However, it might be a valuable resource 
for those interested in the things it discusses. This is one of two 
books found in a search for 'lime, plaster' at this site.

As well, there is a 649 Kbyte pdf file entitled Handbook Of Formulae And

Physical Constants available, and which was uploaded to this site last 
night.
At:
http://www.archive.org/details/HandbookOfFormulaAndPhysicalConstants

This could also be a valuable reference book, and takes much less time 
to download.

There are at least 237,466 texts and other "items" available here as
well.
http://www.archive.org/index.php
or
http://www.archive.org/details/texts


Cheers,

Chris Green.





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