Part 1. Introduction and the Principles of Geometry. Part
2. Land Surveying; comprising General Observations—The
Chain—Offsets Surveying by the Chain only—Surveying
Hilly Ground—To Survey an Estate or Parish by the Chain
only—Surveying with the Theodolite—Mining and Town
Surveying—Railroad Surveying—Mapping—Division and Laying
out of Land—Observations on Enclosures—Plane Trigonometry.
Part 3. Levelling—Simple and Compound Levelling—The
Level Book—Parliamentary Plan and Section—Levelling
with a Theodolite—Gradients—Wooden Curves—To Lay out
a Railway Curve—Setting out Widths. Part 4. Calculating
Quantities generally for Estimates—Cuttings and
Embankments—Tunnels—Brickwork—Ironwork—Timber Measuring.
Part 5. Description and Use of Instruments in Surveying
and Plotting—The Improved Dumpy Level—Troughton’s
Level—The Prismatic Compass—Proportional Compass—Box
Sextant—Vernier—Pantagraph—Merrett’s Improved
Quadrant—Improved Computation Scale—The Diagonal
Scale—Straight Edge and Sector. Part 6. Logarithms of
Numbers—Logarithmic Sines and Co-Sines, Tangents and
Co-Tangents—Natural Sines and Co-Sines—Tables for Earthwork,
for Setting out Curves, and for various Calculations, etc.,
etc., etc.
_Saws: the History, Development, Action, Classification, and Comparison
of Saws of all kinds._ By ROBERT GRIMSHAW. _With 220 illustrations_,
4to, cloth, 12_s._ 6_d._
_A Supplement to the above_; containing additional practical matter,
more especially relating to the forms of Saw Teeth for special
material and conditions, and to the behaviour of Saws under particular
conditions. _With 120 illustrations_, cloth, 9_s._
_A Guide for the Electric Testing of Telegraph Cables._ By Capt. V.
HOSKIŒR, Royal Danish Engineers. _With illustrations_, second edition,
crown 8vo, cloth, 4_s._ 6_d._
_Laying and Repairing Electric Telegraph Cables._ By Capt. V. HOSKIŒR,
Royal Danish Engineers. Crown 8vo, cloth, 3_s._ 6_d._
_The Assayer’s Manual_: an Abridged Treatise on the Docimastic
Examination of Ores and Furnace and other Artificial Products. By BRUNO
KERL. Translated by W. T. BRANNT. _With 65 illustrations_, 8vo, cloth,
12_s._ 6_d._
_The Steam Engine considered as a Heat Engine_: a Treatise on the
Theory of the Steam Engine, illustrated by Diagrams, Tables, and
Examples from Practice. By JAS. H. COTTERILL, M.A., F.R.S., Professor
of Applied Mechanics in the Royal Naval College. 8vo, cloth, 12_s._
6_d._
_Electricity_: its Theory, Sources, and Applications. By J. T.
SPRAGUE, M.S.T.E. Second edition, revised and enlarged, _with numerous
illustrations_, crown 8vo, cloth, 15_s._
_The Practice of Hand Turning in Wood, Ivory, Shell, etc._, with
Instructions for Turning such Work in Metal as may be required in
the Practice of Turning in Wood, Ivory, etc.; also an Appendix on
Ornamental Turning. (A book for beginners.) By FRANCIS CAMPIN. Third
edition, _with wood engravings_, crown 8vo, cloth, 6_s._