It covers about every engineering discipline in the manner of the 20's or 30's, and includes a heavy dose of civil engineering and foundation design. I have one of those general engineering type handbooks of my late father's called "O'Rourke's Handbook". I have copies of "Kent", "Marks", and "Machinery's Handbook"- this last being given to me by my parents when I was attending Brooklyn Technical High School and we all had to have our own Machinery's Handbook and work from it. The Starrett book for Student Machinists is kind of an extract or condensed version of the Machinery's Handbook with the emphasis on using measuring instruments (Starrett, of course) along with cutting speeds and some basic shop math.
It does have considerable engineering information for things like strength of materials as well as machine design and the more specific shop related topics. The "Machinery's Handbook" is specific to machine design and machine shop work. None is a "Black Book", and one dates to the 1850's and has some really wild empirical formulas based (probably) on designing using wrought iron rather than steel. I've got a few of these old engineering handbooks on my shelves. I recall in one of those old engineering handbooks, there was even empirical formulas for figuring the height of a smokestack.
These books, from what I've seen, would give enough general information to do basic design work for things like foundations, structural steel or timber framing, some piping design and possibly a bit of thermodynamics, and some machine design. These books were written for people who were not necessarily engineers in a formal sense, but by the school of hard knocks or default, they had to do some engineering. These engineering handbooks were meant a general guide and covered a bit of each discipline- some Civil, some Mechanical, some Machine Design, and maybe some Electrical. Books of this sort were written by a variety of authors and published by many more firms- all of which have long since passed into oblivion. My guess is that it was one of those "pocket sized" general reference book for engineers, back in the days when engineering was a lot simpler. I've never seen nor heard of the "The Engineer's Black Book".
#ENGINEERING BLACK BOOK PROFESSIONAL#
I've been a practicing engineer (do we ever get it right despite all that practicing ?) for 46 years, and licensed as a professional engineer for 41 of those years.
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