This handbook of mechanics belonged to Immanuel Nobel. It is a Swedish translation of a book in German by the Austrian physics professor Andreas von Baumgartner. When it was first printed in 1842, Immanuel Nobel was stationed in Saint Petersburg in Russia, working on technological projects in several fields and running a mechanical workshop. Perhaps he got the book on returning to Sweden in the late 1850s, but he may also have consulted it in Russia. He never learned Russian but managed to get by on Swedish throughout his 20 years in Russia.
The book was acquired by the Nobel Prize Museum in 2008.
