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Machinery for every purpose._ Collected from numerous Sources and
from Actual Work. Classified and Arranged for Reference. _Nearly 2000
Illustrations._ By T. B. BARBER, Engineer. 8vo, cloth, 7_s._ 6_d._
_A Pocket-Book for Chemists, Chemical Manufacturers, Metallurgists,
Dyers, Distillers, Brewers, Sugar Refiners, Photographers, Students,
etc., etc._ By THOMAS BAYLEY, Assoc. R.C. Sc. Ireland, Analytical and
Consulting Chemist and Assayer. Fourth edition, with additions, 437 pp.,
royal 32mo, roan, gilt edges, 5_s._
SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS:
Atomic Weights and Factors—Useful Data—Chemical
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Measures—Thermometers and Barometers—Chemical Physics—Boiling
Points, etc.—Solubility of Substances—Methods of Obtaining
Specific Gravity—Conversion of Hydrometers—Strength of
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Analysis—Qualitative Analysis and Reactions—Volumetric
Analysis—Manipulation—Mineralogy—Assaying—Alcohol—Beer—Sugar—
Miscellaneous Technological matter relating to Potash, Soda,
Sulphuric Acid, Chlorine, Tar Products, Petroleum, Milk,
Tallow, Photography, Prices, Wages, Appendix, etc., etc.
_The Mechanician_: A Treatise on the Construction and Manipulation of
Tools, for the use and instruction of Young Engineers and Scientific
Amateurs, comprising the Arts of Blacksmithing and Forging; the
Construction and Manufacture of Hand Tools, and the various Methods of
Using and Grinding them; description of Hand and Machine Processes;
Turning and Screw Cutting. By CAMERON KNIGHT, Engineer. _Containing 1147
illustrations_, and 397 pages of letter-press. Fourth edition, 4to,
cloth, 18_s._
_Just Published, in Demy 8vo, cloth, containing 975 pages and 250
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PRINCIPAL CONTENTS.
=Hints for selecting a good House=, pointing out the
essential requirements for a good house as to the Site, Soil,
Trees, Aspect, Construction, and General Arrangement; with
instructions for Reducing Echoes, Waterproofing Damp Walls,
Curing Damp Cellars.
=Sanitation.=—What should constitute a good Sanitary
Arrangement; Examples (with Illustrations) of Well- and
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=Water Supply.=—Care of Cisterns; Sources of Supply; Pipes;
Pumps; Purification and Filtration of Water.
=Ventilation and Warming.=—Methods of Ventilating without
causing cold draughts, by various means; Principles of Warming;
Health Questions; Combustion; Open Grates; Open Stoves; Fuel
Economisers; Varieties of Grates; Close-Fire Stoves; Hot-air
Furnaces; Gas Heating; Oil Stoves; Steam Heating; Chemical
Heaters; Management of Flues; and Cure of Smoky Chimneys.
=Lighting.=—The best methods of Lighting; Candles, Oil Lamps,
Gas, Incandescent Gas, Electric Light; How to test Gas Pipes;
Management of Gas.
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on the best methods of arranging Bells and Calls; How to
Construct an Electric Bell.
=Thieves and Fire.=—Precautions against Thieves and Fire;
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=The Larder.=—Keeping Food fresh for a limited time; Storing
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=Curing Foods for lengthened Preservation=, as Smoking,
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=The Pantry.=—Bread-making; Ovens and Pyrometers; Yeast; German
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=The Kitchen.=—On Fitting Kitchens; a description of the best
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Plates, Baking Ovens, Dampers, Flues, and Chimneys; Cooking by
Gas; Cooking by Oil; the Arts of Roasting, Grilling, Boiling,
Stewing, Braising, Frying.
=Receipts for Dishes.=—Soups, Fish, Meat, Game, Poultry,
Vegetables, Salads, Puddings, Pastry, Confectionery, Ices,
etc., etc.; Foreign Dishes.
=The Housewife’s Room.=—Testing Air, Water, and Foods; Cleaning
and Renovating; Destroying Vermin.
=Housekeeping, Marketing.=
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Buying Clothes; Outfits; Fancy Dress.
=The Nursery.=—The Room; Clothing; Washing; Exercise; Sleep;
Feeding; Teething; Illness; Home Training.
=The Sick-Room.=—The Room; the Nurse; the Bed; Sick Room
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Administering Physic; Domestic Remedies; Accidents and
Emergencies; Bandaging; Burns; Carrying Injured Persons;
Wounds; Drowning; Fits; Frost-bites; Poisons and Antidotes;
Sunstroke; Common Complaints; Disinfection, etc.
=The Bath-Room.=—Bathing in General; Management of Hot-Water
System.
=The Laundry.=—Small Domestic Washing Machines, and methods of
getting up linen; Fitting up and Working a Steam Laundry.
=The School-Room.=—The Room and its Fittings; Teaching, etc.
=The Playground.=—Air and Exercise; Training; Outdoor Games and
Sports.
=The Workroom.=—Darning, Patching, and Mending Garments.
=The Library.=—Care of Books.
=The Garden.=—Calendar of Operations for Lawn, Flower Garden,
and Kitchen Garden.
=The Farmyard.=—Management of the Horse, Cow, Pig, Poultry,
Bees, etc., etc.
=Small Motors.=—A description of the various small Engines
useful for domestic purposes, from 1 man to 1 horse power,
worked by various methods, such as Electric Engines, Gas
Engines, Petroleum Engines, Steam Engines, Condensing Engines,
Water Power, Wind Power, and the various methods of working and
managing them.
=Household Law.=—The Law relating to Landlords and Tenants,
Lodgers, Servants, Parochial Authorities, Juries, Insurance,
Nuisance, etc.
_On Designing Belt Gearing._ By E. J. COWLING WELCH, Mem. Inst. Mech.
Engineers, Author of ‘Designing Valve Gearing.’ Fcap. 8vo, sewed, 6_d._
_A Handbook of Formulæ, Tables, and Memoranda, for Architectural
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_Tabulated Weights of Angle, Tee, Bulb, Round, Square, and Flat Iron
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_A Complete Set of Contract Documents for a Country Lodge_, comprising
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printed in facsimile of the original documents, on single sheets fcap.,
in paper case, 10_s._
_A Practical Treatise on Heat, as applied to the Useful Arts_; for the
Use of Engineers, Architects, &c. By THOMAS BOX. _With 14 plates._ Sixth
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_A Descriptive Treatise on Mathematical Drawing Instruments_: their
construction, uses, qualities, selection, preservation, and suggestions
for improvements, with hints upon Drawing and Colouring. By W. F.
STANLEY, M.R.I. Sixth edition, _with numerous illustrations_, crown 8vo,
cloth, 5_s._
_Quantity Surveying._ By J. LEANING. With 42 illustrations. Second
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CONTENTS:
A complete Explanation of the London Practice.
General Instructions.
Order of Taking Off.
Modes of Measurement of the various Trades.
Use and Waste.
Ventilation and Warming.
Credits, with various Examples of Treatment.
Abbreviations.
Squaring the Dimensions.
Abstracting, with Examples in illustration of
each Trade.
Billing.
Examples of Preambles to each Trade.
Form for a Bill of Quantities.
Do. Bill of Credits.
Do. Bill for Alternative Estimate.
Restorations and Repairs, and Form of Bill.
Variations before Acceptance of Tender.
Errors in a Builder’s Estimate.
Schedule of Prices.
Form of Schedule of Prices.
Analysis of Schedule of Prices.
Adjustment of Accounts.
Form of a Bill of Variations.
Remarks on Specifications.
Prices and Valuation of Work, with Examples and Remarks upon
each Trade.
The Law as it affects Quantity Surveyors, with Law Reports.
Taking Off after the Old Method.
Northern Practice.
The General Statement of the Methods recommended by the Manchester
Society of Architects for taking Quantities.
Examples of Collections.
Examples of “Taking Off” in each Trade.
Remarks on the Past and Present Methods of Estimating.
_Spons’ Architects’ and Builders’ Price Book, with useful Memoranda._
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_Long-Span Railway Bridges_, comprising Investigations of the Comparative
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Type Systems of Construction, with numerous Formulæ and Tables giving the
weight of Iron or Steel required in Bridges from 300 feet to the limiting
Spans; to which are added similar Investigations and Tables relating to
Short-span Railway Bridges. Second and revised edition. By B. BAKER,
Assoc. Inst. C.E. _Plates_, crown 8vo, cloth, 5_s._
_Elementary Theory and Calculation of Iron Bridges and Roofs._ By AUGUST
RITTER, Ph.D., Professor at the Polytechnic School at Aix-la-Chapelle.
Translated from the third German edition, by H. R. SANKEY, Capt. R.E.
With 500 _illustrations_, 8vo, cloth, 15_s._
_The Elementary Principles of Carpentry._ By THOMAS TREDGOLD. Revised
from the original edition, and partly re-written, by JOHN THOMAS HURST.
Contained in 517 pages of letter-press, and _illustrated with 48 plates
and 150 wood engravings_. Sixth edition, reprinted from the third, crown
8vo, cloth, 12_s._ 6_d._
Section I. On the Equality and Distribution of Forces—Section
II. Resistance of Timber—Section III. Construction of
Floors—Section IV. Construction of Roofs—Section V.
Construction of Domes and Cupolas—Section VI. Construction
of Partitions—Section VII. Scaffolds, Staging, and
Gantries—Section VIII. Construction of Centres for
Bridges—Section IX. Coffer-dams, Shoring, and Strutting—Section
X. Wooden Bridges and Viaducts—Section XI. Joints, Straps, and
other Fastenings—Section XII. Timber.
_The Builder’s Clerk_: a Guide to the Management of a Builder’s Business.
By THOMAS BALES. Fcap. 8vo, cloth, 1_s._ 6_d._
_Practical Gold-Mining_: a Comprehensive Treatise on the Origin and
Occurrence of Gold-bearing Gravels, Rocks and Ores, and the methods by
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its Occurrence and Extraction.’ _With 8 plates and 275 engravings in the
text_, royal 8vo, cloth, 2_l._ 2_s._
_Hot Water Supply_: A Practical Treatise upon the Fitting of Circulating
Apparatus in connection with Kitchen Range and other Boilers, to supply
Hot Water for Domestic and General Purposes. With a Chapter upon
Estimating. _Fully illustrated_, crown 8vo, cloth, 3_s._
_Hot Water Apparatus_: An Elementary Guide for the Fitting and Fixing of
Boilers and Apparatus for the Circulation of Hot Water for Heating and
for Domestic Supply, and containing a Chapter upon Boilers and Fittings
for Steam Cooking. _32 illustrations_, fcap. 8vo, cloth, 1_s._ 6_d._
_The Use and Misuse, and the Proper and Improper Fixing of a Cooking
Range._ _Illustrated_, fcap. 8vo, sewed, 6_d._
_Iron Roofs_: Examples of Design, Description. _Illustrated with 64
Working Drawings of Executed Roofs._ By ARTHUR T. WALMISLEY, Assoc. Mem.
Inst. C.E. Second edition, revised, imp. 4to, half-morocco, 3_l._ 3_s._
_A History of Electric Telegraphy_, to the Year 1837. Chiefly compiled
from Original Sources, and hitherto Unpublished Documents, by J. J.
FAHIE, Mem. Soc. of Tel. Engineers, and of the International Society of
Electricians, Paris. Crown 8vo, cloth, 9_s._
_Spons’ Information for Colonial Engineers._ Edited by J. T. HURST. Demy
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CONTENTS:
Introductory Remarks—Natural Productions—Architecture and
Engineering—Topography, Trade, and Natural History—Principal
Stations—Weights and Measures, etc., etc.
No. 2. Southern Africa, including the Cape Colony, Natal, and
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CONTENTS:
General Description of South Africa—Physical Geography with
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Material in Cape Colony—Geological Notes on Rock Formation
in South Africa—Engineering Instruments for Use in South
Africa—Principal Public Works in Cape Colony: Railways,
Mountain Roads and Passes, Harbour Works, Bridges, Gas Works,
Irrigation and Water Supply, Lighthouses, Drainage and
Sanitary Engineering, Public Buildings, Mines—Table of Woods
in South Africa—Animals used for Draught Purposes—Statistical
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No. 3. India. By F. C. DANVERS, Assoc. Inst. C.E. With Map.
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Physical Geography of India—Building
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Works—Harbours—Lighthouse Buildings—Native Labour—The Principal
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Terms, etc.
_Our Factories, Workshops, and Warehouses_: their Sanitary and
Fire-Resisting Arrangements. By B. H. THWAITE, Assoc. Mem. Inst. C.E.
_With 183 wood engravings_, crown 8vo, cloth, 9_s._
_A Practical Treatise on Coal Mining._ By GEORGE G. ANDRÉ, F.G.S., Assoc.
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_A Practical Treatise on Casting and Founding_, including descriptions of
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_The Depreciation of Factories and their Valuation._ By EWING MATHESON,
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_A Handbook of Electrical Testing._ By H. R. KEMPE, M.S.T.E. Fourth
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_The Clerk of Works_: a Vade-Mecum for all engaged in the Superintendence
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_American Foundry Practice_: Treating of Loam, Dry Sand, and Green Sand
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and Foundry Foreman. Second edition, _with numerous illustrations_, crown
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_The Maintenance of Macadamised Roads._ By T. CODRINGTON, M.I.C.E.,
F.G.S., General Superintendent of County Roads for South Wales. 8vo,
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_Hydraulic Steam and Hand Power Lifting and Pressing Machinery._ By
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_Pumps and Pumping Machinery._ By F. COLYER, M.I.C.E., M.I.M.E. _With 23
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_Pumps and Pumping Machinery._ By F. COLYER. Second Part. _With 11 large
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_A Treatise on the Origin, Progress, Prevention, and Cure of Dry Rot in
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the Metropolitan Board of Works, etc., etc. _With 10 plates_, crown 8vo,
cloth, 7_s._ 6_d._
_Gas Works_: their Arrangement, Construction, Plant, and Machinery. By F.
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_The Municipal and Sanitary Engineer’s Handbook._ By H. PERCY BOULNOIS,
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CONTENTS:
The Appointment and Duties of the Town
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Metal and Breaking—Pitched Pavements—Asphalte—Wood
Pavements—Footpaths—Kerbs and Gutters—Street Naming
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and Water Companies, etc., Breaking up Streets—Improvement
of Private Streets—Borrowing Powers—Artizans’ and
Labourers’ Dwellings—Public Conveniences—Scavenging,
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Snow—Planting Street Trees—Deposit of Plans—Dangerous
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and Ordinary Markets—Public Slaughter-houses, etc.—Giving
numerous Forms of Notices, Specifications, and General
Information upon these and other subjects of great importance
to Municipal Engineers and others engaged in Sanitary Work.
_Metrical Tables._ By Sir G. L. MOLESWORTH, M.I.C.E. 32mo, cloth, 1_s._
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CONTENTS.
General—Linear Measures—Square Measures—Cubic Measures—Measures
of Capacity—Weights—Combinations—Thermometers.
_Elements of Construction for Electro-Magnets._ By Count TH. DU MONCEL,
Mem. de l’Institut de France. Translated from the French by C. J.
WHARTON. Crown 8vo, cloth, 4_s._ 6_d._
_A Treatise on the Use of Belting for the Transmission of Power._ By J.
H. COOPER. Second edition, _illustrated_, 8vo, cloth, 15_s._
_A Pocket-Book of Useful Formulæ and Memoranda for Civil and Mechanical
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illustrations_, 744 pp. Twenty-second edition, 32mo, roan, 6_s._
SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS:
Surveying, Levelling, etc.—Strength and Weight of
Materials—Earthwork, Brickwork, Masonry, Arches, etc.—Struts,
Columns, Beams, and Trusses—Flooring, Roofing, and Roof
Trusses—Girders, Bridges, etc.—Railways and Roads—Hydraulic
Formulæ—Canals, Sewers, Waterworks, Docks—Irrigation and
Breakwaters—Gas, Ventilation, and Warming—Heat, Light, Colour,
and Sound—Gravity: Centres, Forces, and Powers—Millwork,
Teeth of Wheels, Shafting, etc.—Workshop Recipes—Sundry
Machinery—Animal Power—Steam and the Steam Engine—Water-power,
Water-wheels, Turbines, etc.—Wind and Windmills—Steam
Navigation, Ship Building, Tonnage, etc.—Gunnery, Projectiles,
etc.—Weights, Measures, and Money—Trigonometry, Conic Sections,
and Curves—Telegraphy—Mensuration—Tables of Areas and
Circumference, and Arcs of Circles—Logarithms, Square and Cube
Roots, Powers—Reciprocals, etc.—Useful Numbers—Differential and
Integral Calculus—Algebraic Signs—Telegraphic Construction and
Formulæ.
_Hints on Architectural Draughtsmanship._ By G. W. TUXFORD HALLATT. Fcap.
8vo, cloth, 1_s._ 6_d._
_Spons’ Tables and Memoranda for Engineers_; selected and arranged by J.
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_A Practical Treatise on Natural and Artificial Concrete, its Varieties
and Constructive Adaptations._ By HENRY REID, Author of the ‘Science
and Art of the Manufacture of Portland Cement.’ New Edition, _with 59
woodcuts and 5 plates_, 8vo, cloth, 15_s._
_Notes on Concrete and Works in Concrete_; especially written to assist
those engaged upon Public Works. By JOHN NEWMAN, Assoc. Mem. Inst. C.E.,
crown 8vo, cloth, 4_s._ 6_d._
_Electricity as a Motive Power._ By Count TH. DU MONCEL, Membre de
l’Institut de France, and FRANK GERALDY, Ingénieur des Ponts et
Chaussées. Translated and Edited, with Additions, by C. J. WHARTON,
Assoc. Soc. Tel. Eng. and Elec. _With 113 engravings and diagrams_, crown
8vo, cloth, 7_s._ 6_d._
_Treatise on Valve-Gears_, with special consideration of the Link-Motions
of Locomotive Engines. By Dr. GUSTAV ZEUNER, Professor of Applied
Mechanics at the Confederated Polytechnikum of Zurich. Translated from
the Fourth German Edition, by Professor J. F. KLEIN, Lehigh University,
Bethlehem, Pa. _Illustrated_, 8vo, cloth, 12_s._ 6_d._
_The French-Polishers Manual._ By a French-Polisher; containing
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Directions for Staining, Sizing, Embodying, Smoothing, Spirit Varnishing,
French-Polishing, Directions for Repolishing. Third edition, royal 32mo,
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_Hops, their Cultivation, Commerce, and Uses in various Countries._ By P.
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_The Principles of Graphic Statics._ By GEORGE SYDENHAM CLARKE, Major
Royal Engineers. _With 112 illustrations._ Second edition, 4to, cloth,
12_s._ 6_d._
_Dynamo Tenders’ Hand-Book._ By F. B. BADT, late 1st Lieut. Royal
Prussian Artillery. _With 70 illustrations._ Third edition, 18mo, cloth,
4_s._ 6_d._
_Practical Geometry, Perspective, and Engineering Drawing_; a Course
of Descriptive Geometry adapted to the Requirements of the Engineering
Draughtsman, including the determination of cast shadows and Isometric
Projection, each chapter being followed by numerous examples; to which
are added rules for Shading, Shade-lining, etc., together with practical
instructions as to the Lining, Colouring, Printing, and general treatment
of Engineering Drawings, with a chapter on drawing Instruments. By GEORGE
S. CLARKE, Capt. R.E. Second edition, _with 21 plates_. 2 vols., cloth,
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_The Elements of Graphic Statics._ By Professor KARL VON OTT, translated
from the German by G. S. CLARKE, Capt. R.E., Instructor in Mechanical
Drawing, Royal Indian Engineering College. _With 93 illustrations_, crown
8vo, cloth, 5_s._
_A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture and Distribution of Coal Gas._
By WILLIAM RICHARDS. Demy 4to, with _numerous wood engravings and 29
plates_, cloth, 28_s._
SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS:
Introduction—History of Gas Lighting—Chemistry of Gas
Manufacture, by Lewis Thompson, Esq., M.R.C.S.—Coal,
with Analyses, by J. Paterson, Lewis Thompson, and
G. R. Hislop, Esqrs.—Retorts, Iron and Clay—Retort
Setting—Hydraulic Main—Condensers—Exhausters—Washers
and Scrubbers—Purifiers—Purification—History of Gas
Holder—Tanks, Brick and Stone, Composite, Concrete,
Cast-iron, Compound Annular Wrought-iron—Specifications—Gas
Holders—Station Meter—Governor—Distribution—Mains—Gas
Mathematics, or Formulæ for the Distribution of
Gas, by Lewis Thompson, Esq.—Services—Consumers’
Meters—Regulators—Burners—Fittings—Photometer—Carburization
of Gas—Air Gas and Water Gas—Composition of Coal Gas,
by Lewis Thompson, Esq.—Analyses of Gas—Influence of
Atmospheric Pressure and Temperature on Gas—Residual
Products—Appendix—Description of Retort Settings, Buildings,
etc., etc.
_The New Formula for Mean Velocity of Discharge of Rivers and Canals._
By W. R. KUTTER. Translated from articles in the ‘Cultur-Ingénieur,’ by
LOWIS D’A. JACKSON, Assoc. Inst. C.E. 8vo, cloth, 12_s._ 6_d._
_The Practical Millwright and Engineer’s Ready Reckoner_; or Tables for
finding the diameter and power of cog-wheels, diameter, weight, and power
of shafts, diameter and strength of bolts, etc. By THOMAS DIXON. Fourth
edition, 12mo, cloth, 3_s._
_Tin_: Describing the Chief Methods of Mining, Dressing and Smelting
it abroad; with Notes upon Arsenic, Bismuth and Wolfram. By ARTHUR G.
CHARLETON, Mem. American Inst. of Mining Engineers. _With plates_, 8vo,
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