[MANUSCRIPT - ENGINEERING]. ADAMI, G. F. Architectural album. Plans for projects in the Surrey, England and vicinity. Surrey, 1896-98.

Folio. Album of 44 engineering drawings in pen, most colored in wash, on large heavyweight folding sheets, each signed by Adami lower right. 20th-century half maroon morocco, upper cover gilt-lettered. 

Comprising drawings executed by Adami while he was a student at the Royal Indian Engineering College.  R. I. E., located on the Cooper's Hill estate, near Egham, Surrey from its founding in 1870 until 1906, educated about 50 students a year, who engaged in a curriculum in applied mathematics, construction, architectural design, surveying, mechanical drawing, geometry, physics, geology, and accounts. Plans in the album include: 3 inch bolt; Design for Skew Bridge; Chain Survey at Coopers Hill; Trigonometrical Survey at Coopers Hill; Railway Project Cross Sections; Design for 34 H.P. Turbine - 65 Feet Tall; Masonry Dam Reservoir Empty. Includes plans for projects in Surrey, Coopers Hill, and Chobham Common.  

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