JANUARY, 1905.
Catalogue of
_Special Technical Works_
FOR MANUFACTURERS, STUDENTS, AND TECHNICAL SCHOOLS
BY EXPERT WRITERS
INDEX TO SUBJECTS.
Agricultural Chemistry, 10
Air, Industrial Use of, 11
Alum and its Sulphates, 9
Ammonia, 9
Aniline Colours, 3
Animal Fats, 6
Anti-corrosive Paints, 4
Architecture, Terms in, 30
Architectural Pottery, 16
Artificial Perfumes, 7
Balsams, 10
Bibliography, 32
Bleaching, 23
Bone Products, 8
Bookbinding, 31
Brick-making, 15, 16
Burnishing Brass, 28
Carpet Yarn Printing, 21
Ceramic Books, 14, 15
Charcoal, 8
Chemical Essays, 9
Chemistry of Pottery, 17
Chemistry of Dye-stuffs, 23
Clay Analysis, 16
Coal-dust Firing, 26
Colour Matching, 21
Colliery Recovery Work, 25
Colour-mixing for Dyers, 21
Colour Theory, 22
Combing Machines, 24
Compounding Oils, 6
Condensing Apparatus, 26
Cosmetic, 8
Cotton Dyeing, 23
Cotton Spinning, 24
Damask Weaving, 20
Dampness in Buildings, 30
Decorators' Books, 28
Decorative Textiles, 20
Dental Metallurgy, 25
Dictionary of Paint Materials, 2
Drying Oils, 5
Drying with Air, 12
Dyeing Marble, 31
Dyeing Woollen Fabrics, 23
Dyers' Materials, 21
Dye-stuffs, 22
Enamelling Metal, 18
Enamels, 18
Engraving, 31
Essential Oils, 7
Evaporating Apparatus, 26
External Plumbing, 27
Fats, 5, 6
Faults in Woollen Goods, 20
Gas Firing, 26
Glass-making Recipes, 17
Glass Painting, 17
Glue Making and Testing, 8
Greases, 5
History of Staffs Potteries, 16
Hops, 28
Hot-water Supply, 28
How to make a Woollen Mill Pay, 21
India-rubber, 13
Inks, 3, 11
Iron-corrosion, 4
Iron, Science of, 26
Japanning, 28
Lacquering, 28
Lake Pigments, 2
Lead and its Compounds, 11
Leather Industry, 13
Leather-working Materials, 14
Lithography, 31
Lubricants, 5, 6
Manures, 8, 10
Mineral Pigments, 3
Mine Ventilation, 25
Mine Haulage, 25
Oil and Colour Recipes, 3
Oil Boiling, 4
Oil Merchants' Manual, 7
Oils, 5
Ozone, Industrial Use of, 12
Paint Manufacture, 2
Paint Materials, 3
Paint-material Testing, 4
Paper-pulp Dyeing, 18
Petroleum, 6
Pigments, Chemistry of, 2
Plumbers' Work, 27
Porcelain Painting, 18
Pottery Clays, 16
Pottery Manufacture, 14
Power-loom Weaving, 19
Preserved Foods, 30
Printers' Ready Reckoner, 31
Printing Inks, 3
Recipes for Oilmen, etc., 3
Resins, 10
Risks of Occupations, 11
Rivetting China, etc., 16
Sanitary Plumbing, 28
Scheele's Essays, 9
Sealing Waxes, 11
Silk Dyeing, 22
Silk Throwing, 19
Smoke Prevention, 26
Soaps, 7
Spinning, 20
Staining Marble, and Bone, 31
Steam Drying, 11
Sugar Refining, 32
Steel Hardening, 26
Sweetmeats, 30
Terra-cotta, 16
Testing Paint Materials, 4
Testing Yarns, 20
Textile Fabrics, 20
Textile Materials, 19, 20
Timber, 29
Varnishes, 4
Vegetable Fats, 7
Waste Utilisation, 10
Water, Industrial Use, 12
Waterproofing Fabrics, 21
Weaving Calculations, 20
Wood Waste Utilisation, 29
Wood Dyeing, 31
Wool Dyeing, 22, 23
Writing Inks, 11
X-Ray Work, 13
Yarn Testing, 20
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THE CHEMISTRY OF PIGMENTS. By ERNEST J. PARRY, B.Sc. (Lond.), F.I.C.,
F.C.S., and J. H. COSTE, F.I.C., F.C.S. Demy 8vo. Five Illustrations. 285
pp. 1902. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.;
strictly net.
Contents.
Introductory. Light--White Light--The Spectrum--The Invisible
Spectrum--Normal Spectrum--Simple Nature of Pure Spectral Colour--The
Recomposition of White Light--Primary and Complementary Colours--
Coloured Bodies--Absorption Spectra--The Application of Pigments.
Uses of Pigments: Artistic, Decorative, Protective--Methods of
Application of Pigments: Pastels and Crayons, Water Colour, Tempera
Painting, Fresco, Encaustic Painting, Oil-colour Painting, Keramic
Art, Enamel, Stained and Painted Glass, Mosaic--Inorganic Pigments.
White Lead--Zinc White--Enamel White--Whitening--Red Lead--Litharge--
Vermilion--Royal Scarlet--The Chromium Greens--Chromates of Lead,
Zinc, Silver and Mercury--Brunswick Green--The Ochres--Indian Red--
Venetian Red--Siennas and Umbers--Light Red--Cappagh Brown--Red
Oxides--Mars Colours--Terre Verte--Prussian Brown--Cobalt Colours--
Coeruleum--Smalt--Copper Pigments--Malachite--Bremen Green--Scheele's
Green--Emerald Green--Verdigris--Brunswick Green--Non-arsenical
Greens--Copper Blues--Ultramarine--Carbon Pigments--Ivory Black--Lamp
Black--Bistre--Naples Yellow--Arsenic Sulphides: Orpiment, Realgar--
Cadmium Yellow--Vandyck Brown--Organic Pigments. Prussian Blue--
Natural Lakes--Cochineal--Carmine--Crimson--Lac Dye--Scarlet--Madder--
Alizarin--Campeachy--Quercitron--Rhamnus--Brazil Wood--Alkanet--Santal
Wood--Archil--Coal-tar Lakes--Red Lakes--Alizarin Compounds--Orange
and Yellow Lakes--Green and Blue Lakes--Indigo--Dragon's Blood--
Gamboge--Sepia--Indian Yellow, Puree--Bitumen. Asphaltum, Mummy--
Index.
THE MANUFACTURE OF PAINT. A Practical Handbook for Paint Manufacturers,
Merchants and Painters. By J. CRUICKSHANK SMITH, B.Sc. Demy 8vo. 1901. 200
pp. Sixty Illustrations and One Large Diagram. Price 7s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Preparation of Raw Material--Storing of Raw Material--Testing and
Valuation of Raw Material--Paint Plant and Machinery--The Grinding of
White Lead--Grinding of White Zinc--Grinding of other White Pigments--
Grinding of Oxide Paints--Grinding of Staining Colours--Grinding of
Black Paints--Grinding of Chemical Colours--Yellows--Grinding of
Chemical Colours--Blues--Grinding Greens--Grinding Reds--Grinding
Lakes--Grinding Colours in Water--Grinding Colours in Turpentine--The
Uses of Paint--Testing and Matching Paints--Economic Considerations--
Index.
DICTIONARY OF CHEMICALS AND RAW PRODUCTS USED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
PAINTS, COLOURS, VARNISHES AND ALLIED PREPARATIONS. By GEORGE H. HURST,
F.C.S. Demy 8vo. 380 pp. 1901. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.;
Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
THE MANUFACTURE OF LAKE PIGMENTS FROM ARTIFICIAL COLOURS. By FRANCIS H.
JENNISON, F.I.C., F.C.S. Sixteen Coloured Plates, showing Specimens of
Eighty-nine Colours, specially prepared from the Recipes given in the
Book. 136 pp. Demy 8vo. 1900. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.;
Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
The Groups of the Artificial Colouring Matters--The Nature and
Manipulation of Artificial Colours--Lake-forming Bodies for Acid
Colours--Lake-forming Bodies' Basic Colours--Lake Bases--The
Principles of Lake Formation--Red Lakes--Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue,
Violet and Black Lakes--The Production of Insoluble Azo Colours in the
Form of Pigments--The General Properties of Lakes Produced from
Artificial Colours--Washing, Filtering and Finishing--Matching and
Testing Lake Pigments--Index.
THE MANUFACTURE OF MINERAL AND LAKE PIGMENTS. Containing Directions for
the Manufacture of all Artificial, Artists' and Painters' Colours, Enamel,
Soot and Metallic Pigments. A Text-book for Manufacturers, Merchants,
Artists and Painters. By Dr. JOSEF BERSCH. Translated by A. C. WRIGHT,
M.A. (Oxon.), B.Sc. (Lond.). Forty-three Illustrations. 476 pp., demy 8vo.
1901. Price 12s. 6d.; India and Colonies 13s. 6d.; Other Countries, 15s.;
strictly net.
Contents.
Introduction--Physico-chemical Behaviour of Pigments--Raw Materials
Employed in the Manufacture of Pigments--Assistant Materials--Metallic
Compounds--The Manufacture of Mineral Pigments--The Manufacture of
White Lead--Enamel White--Washing Apparatus--Zinc White--Yellow
Mineral Pigments--Chrome Yellow--Lead Oxide Pigments--Other Yellow
Pigments--Mosaic Gold--Red Mineral Pigments--The Manufacture of
Vermilion--Antimony Vermilion--Ferric Oxide Pigments--Other Red
Mineral Pigments--Purple of Cassius--Blue Mineral Pigments--
Ultramarine--Manufacture of Ultramarine--Blue Copper Pigments--Blue
Cobalt Pigments--Smalts--Green Mineral Pigments--Emerald Green--
Verdigris--Chromium Oxide--Other Green Chromium Pigments--Green
Cobalt Pigments--Green Manganese Pigments--Compounded Green Pigments--
Violet Mineral Pigments--Brown Mineral Pigments--Brown Decomposition
Products--Black Pigments--Manufacture of Soot Pigments--Manufacture of
Lamp Black--The Manufacture of Soot Black without Chambers--Indian
Ink--Enamel Colours--Metallic Pigments--Bronze Pigments--Vegetable
Bronze Pigments.
PIGMENTS OF ORGANIC ORIGIN--Lakes--Yellow Lakes--Red Lakes--
Manufacture of Carmine--The Colouring Matter of Lac--Safflower or
Carthamine Red--Madder and its Colouring Matters--Madder Lakes--
Manjit (Indian Madder)--Lichen Colouring Matters--Red Wood Lakes--The
Colouring Matters of Sandal Wood and Other Dye Woods--Blue Lakes--
Indigo Carmine--The Colouring Matter of Log Wood--Green Lakes--Brown
Organic Pigments--Sap Colours--Water Colours--Crayons--Confectionery
Colours--The Preparation of Pigments for Painting--The Examination of
Pigments--Examination of Lakes--The Testing of Dye-Woods--The Design
of a Colour Works--Commercial Names of Pigments--Appendix: Conversion
of Metric to English Weights and Measures--Centigrade and Fahrenheit
Thermometer Scales--Index.
RECIPES FOR THE COLOUR, PAINT, VARNISH, OIL, SOAP AND DRYSALTERY TRADES.
Compiled by AN ANALYTICAL CHEMIST. 350 pp. 1902. Demy 8vo. Price 7s. 6d.;
India and British Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Pigments or Colours for Paints, Lithographic and Letterpress Printing
Inks, etc.--Mixed Paints and Preparations for Paint-making, Painting,
Lime-washing, Paperhanging, etc.--Varnishes for Coach-builders,
Cabinetmakers, Wood-workers, Metal-workers, Photographers, etc.--Soaps
for Toilet, Cleansing, Polishing, etc.--Perfumes--Lubricating Greases,
Oils, etc.--Cements, Pastes, Glues and Other Adhesive Preparations--
Writing, Marking, Endorsing and Other Inks--Sealing-wax and Office
Requisites--Preparations for the Laundry, Kitchen, Stable and General
Household Uses--Disinfectant Preparations--Miscellaneous
Preparations--Index.
OIL COLOURS AND PRINTING INKS. By LOUIS EDGAR ANDÉS. Translated from the
German. 215 pp. Crown 8vo. 56 Illustrations. 1903. Price 5s.; India and
British Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly Net.
Contents.
Linseed Oil--Poppy Oil--Mechanical Purification of Linseed Oil--
Chemical Purification of Linseed Oil--Bleaching Linseed Oil--Oxidizing
Agents for Boiling Linseed Oil--Theory of Oil Boiling--Manufacture of
Boiled Oil--Adulterations of Boiled Oil--Chinese Drying Oil and Other
Specialities--Pigments for House and Artistic Painting and Inks--
Pigment for Printers' Black Inks--Substitutes for Lampblack--Machinery
for Colour Grinding and Rubbing--Machines for mixing Pigments with the
Vehicle--Paint Mills--Manufacture of House Oil Paints--Ship Paints--
Luminous Paint--Artists' Colours--Printers' Inks:--VEHICLES--Printers'
Inks:--PIGMENTS and MANUFACTURE--Index.
(_See also Writing Inks, p. 11._)
SIMPLE METHODS FOR TESTING PAINTERS' MATERIALS. By A. C. WRIGHT, M.A.
(Oxon.), B.Sc. (Lond.). Crown 8vo. 160 pp. 1903. Price 5s.; India and
British Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly Net.
Contents.
Necessity for Testing--Standards--Arrangement--The Apparatus-The
Reagents--Practical Tests--Dry Colours--Stiff Paints--Liquid and
Enamel Paints--Oil Varnishes--Spirit Varnishes--Driers--Putty--Linseed
Oil--Turpentine--Water Stains--The Chemical Examination--Dry Colours
and Paints--White Pigments and Paints--Yellow Pigments and Paints--
Blue Pigments and Paints--Green Pigments and Paints--Red Pigments and
Paints--Brown Pigments and Paints--Black Pigments and Paints--Oil
Varnishes--Linseed Oil--Turpentine.
IRON-CORROSION, ANTI-FOULING AND ANTI-CORROSIVE PAINTS. Translated from
the German of LOUIS EDGAR ANDÉS. Sixty-two Illustrations. 275 pp. Demy
8vo. 1900. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries,
12s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Iron-rust and its Formation--Protection from Rusting by Paint--
Grounding the Iron with Linseed Oil, etc.--Testing Paints--Use of Tar
for Painting on Iron--Anti-corrosive Paints--Linseed Varnish--Chinese
Wood Oil--Lead Pigments--Iron Pigments--Artificial Iron Oxides--
Carbon--Preparation of Anti-corrosive Paints--Results of Examination
of Several Anti-corrosive Paints--Paints for Ship's Bottoms--
Anti-fouling Compositions--Various Anti-corrosive and Ship's Paints--
Official Standard Specifications for Ironwork Paints--Index.
THE TESTING AND VALUATION OF RAW MATERIALS USED IN PAINT AND COLOUR
MANUFACTURE. By M. W. JONES, F.C.S. A Book for the Laboratories of Colour
Works. 88 pp. Crown 8vo. 1900. Price 5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.;
Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Aluminium Compounds--China Clay--Iron Compounds--Potassium Compounds--
Sodium Compounds--Ammonium Hydrate--Acids--Chromium Compounds--Tin
Compounds--Copper Compounds--Lead Compounds--Zinc Compounds--Manganese
Compounds--Arsenic Compounds--Antimony Compounds--Calcium Compounds--
Barium Compounds--Cadmium Compounds--Mercury Compounds--Ultramarine--
Cobalt and Carbon Compounds--Oils--Index.
STUDENTS' MANUAL OF PAINTS, COLOURS, OILS AND VARNISHES. By JOHN FURNELL.
Crown 8vo. 12 Illustrations. 96 pp. 1903. Price 2s. 6d.; Abroad, 3s.;
strictly net.
Contents.
Plant--Chromes--Blues--Greens--Earth Colours--Blacks--Reds--Lakes--
Whites--Painters' Oils--Turpentine--Oil Varnishes--Spirit Varnishes--
Liquid Paints--Enamel Paints.
Varnishes and Drying Oils.
THE MANUFACTURE OF VARNISHES, OIL REFINING AND BOILING, AND KINDRED
INDUSTRIES. Translated from the French of ACH. LIVACHE, Ingénieur Civil
des Mines. Greatly Extended and Adapted to English Practice, with numerous
Original Recipes by JOHN GEDDES MCINTOSH. 27 Illustrations. 400 pp. Demy
8vo. 1899. Price 12s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 13s. 6d.; Other Countries,
15s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Resins--Solvents: Natural, Artificial, Manufacture, Storage, Special
Use--Colouring: Principles, Vegetable, Coal Tar, Coloured Resinates,
Coloured Oleates and Linoleates--Gum Running: Melting Pots, Mixing
Pans--Spirit Varnish Manufacture: Cold Solution Plant, Mechanical
Agitators, Storage Plant--Manufacture, Characteristics and Uses of the
Spirit Varnishes--Manufacture of Varnish Stains--Manufacture of
Lacquers--Manufacture of Spirit Enamels--Analysis of Spirit
Varnishes--Physical and Chemical Constants of Resins--Table of
Solubility of Resins in different Menstrua--Systematic qualitative
Analysis of Resins, Hirschop's tables--Drying Oils--Oil Refining:
Processes--Oil Boiling--Driers--Liquid Driers--Solidified Boiled
Oil--Manufacture of Linoleum--Manufacture of India Rubber
Substitutes--Printing Ink Manufacture--Lithographic Ink Manufacture--
Manufacture of Oil Varnishes--Running and Special Treatment of Amber,
Copal, Kauri, Manilla--Addition of Oil to Resin--Addition of Resin to
Oil--Mixed Processes--Solution in Cold of previously Fused Resin--
Dissolving Resins in Oil, etc., under pressure--Filtration--
Clarification--Storage--Ageing--Coachmakers' Varnishes and Japans--Oak
Varnishes--Japanners' Stoving Varnishes--Japanners' Gold Size--
Brunswick Black--Various Oil Varnishes--Oil-Varnish Stains--Varnishes
for "Enamels"--India Rubber Varnishes--Varnishes Analysis: Processes,
Matching--Faults in Varnishes: Cause, Prevention--Experiments and
Exercises.
DRYING OILS, BOILED OIL AND SOLID AND LIQUID DRIERS. By L. E. ANDÉS.
Expressly Written for this Series of Special Technical Books, and the
Publishers hold the Copyright for English and Foreign Editions. Forty-two
Illustrations. 342 pp. 1901. Demy 8vo. Price 12s. 6d.; India and Colonies,
13s. 6d.; Other Countries, 15s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Properties of the Drying Oils; Cause of the Drying Property;
Absorption of Oxygen; Behaviour towards Metallic Oxides, etc.--The
Properties of and Methods for obtaining the Drying Oils--Production of
the Drying Oils by Expression and Extraction; Refining and Bleaching;
Oil Cakes and Meal; The Refining and Bleaching of the Drying Oils; The
Bleaching of Linseed Oil--The Manufacture of Boiled Oil; The
Preparation of Drying Oils for Use in the Grinding of Paints and
Artists' Colours and in the Manufacture of Varnishes by Heating over a
Fire or by Steam, by the Cold Process, by the Action of Air, and by
Means of the Electric Current; The Driers used in Boiling Linseed Oil;
The Manufacture of Boiled Oil and the Apparatus therefor; Livache's
Process for Preparing a Good Drying Oil and its Practical
Application--The Preparation of Varnishes for Letterpress,
Lithographic and Copperplate Printing, for Oilcloth and Waterproof
Fabrics; The Manufacture of Thickened Linseed Oil, Burnt Oil, Stand
Oil by Fire Heat, Superheated Steam, and by a Current of Air--
Behaviour of the Drying Oils and Boiled Oils towards Atmospheric
Influences, Water, Acids and Alkalies--Boiled Oil Substitutes--The
Manufacture of Solid and Liquid Driers from Linseed Oil and Rosin;
Linolic Acid Compounds of the Driers--The Adulteration and Examination
of the Drying Oils and Boiled Oil.
Oils, Fats, Soaps and Perfumes.
LUBRICATING OILS, FATS AND GREASES: Their Origin, Preparation, Properties,
Uses and Analyses. A Handbook for Oil Manufacturers, Refiners and
Merchants, and the Oil and Fat Industry in General. By GEORGE H. HURST,
F.C.S. Second Revised and Enlarged Edition. Sixty-five Illustrations. 317
pp. Demy 8vo. 1902. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other
Countries. 12s. strictly net.
Contents.
Introductory--Hydrocarbon Oils--Scotch Shale Oils--Petroleum--
Vegetable and Animal Oils--Testing and Adulteration of Oils--
Lubricating Greases--Lubrication--Appendices--Index.
TECHNOLOGY OF PETROLEUM: Oil Fields of the World--Their History, Geography
and Geology--Annual Production and Development--Oil-well
Drilling--Transport. By HENRY NEUBERGER and HENRY NOALHAT. Translated from
the French by J. G. MCINTOSH. 550 pp. 153 Illustrations. 26 Plates. Super
Royal 8vo. 1901. Price 21s.; India and Colonies, 22s.; Other Countries,
23s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Study of the Petroliferous Strata--Petroleum--Definition--The Genesis
or Origin of Petroleum--The Oil Fields of Galicia, their History--
Physical Geography and Geology of the Galician Oil Fields--Practical
Notes on Galician Land Law--Economic Hints on Working, etc.--
Roumania--History, Geography, Geology--Petroleum in Russia--History--
Russian Petroleum (_continued_)--Geography and Geology of the
Caucasian Oil Fields--Russian Petroleum (_continued_)--The Secondary
Oil Fields of Europe, Northern Germany, Alsace, Italy, etc.--Petroleum
in France--Petroleum in Asia--Transcaspian and Turkestan Territory--
Turkestan--Persia--British India and Burmah--British Burmah or Lower
Burmah--China--Chinese Thibet--Japan, Formosa and Saghalien--Petroleum
in Oceania--Sumatra, Java, Borneo--Isle of Timor--Philippine Isles--
New Zealand--The United States of America--History--Physical Geology
and Geography of the United States Oil Fields--Canadian and other
North American Oil Fields--Economic Data of Work in North America--
Petroleum in the West Indies and South America--Petroleum in the
French Colonies.
Excavations--Hand Excavation or Hand Digging of Oil Wells.
Methods of Boring.
Accidents--Boring Accidents--Methods of preventing them--Methods of
remedying them--Explosives and the use of the "Torpedo" Levigation--
Storing and Transport of Petroleum--General Advice--Prospecting,
Management and carrying on of Petroleum Boring Operations.
General Data--Customary Formulæ--Memento. Practical Part. General Data
bearing on Petroleum--Glossary of Technical Terms used in the
Petroleum Industry--Copious Index.
THE PRACTICAL COMPOUNDING OF OILS, TALLOW AND GREASE FOR LUBRICATION, ETC.
By AN EXPERT OIL REFINER. 100 pp. 1898. Demy 8vo. Price 7s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Introductory Remarks on the General Nomenclature of Oils, Tallow and
Greases suitable for Lubrication--Hydrocarbon Oils--Animal and Fish
Oils--Compound Oils--Vegetable Oils--Lamp Oils--Engine Tallow,
Solidified Oils and Petroleum Jelly--Machinery Greases: Loco and
Anti-friction--Clarifying and Utilisation of Waste Fats, Oils, Tank
Bottoms, Drainings of Barrels and Drums, Pickings Up, Dregs, etc.--The
Fixing and Cleaning of Oil Tanks, etc.--Appendix and General
Information.
ANIMAL FATS AND OILS: Their Practical Production, Purification and Uses
for a great Variety of Purposes. Their Properties, Falsification and
Examination. Translated from the German of LOUIS EDGAR ANDÉS. Sixty-two
Illustrations. 240 pp. 1898. Demy 8vo. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies,
11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Introduction--Occurrence, Origin, Properties and Chemical Constitution
of Animal Fats--Preparation of Animal Fats and Oils--Machinery--
Tallow-melting Plant--Extraction Plant--Presses--Filtering Apparatus--
Butter: Raw Material and Preparation, Properties, Adulterations, Beef
Lard or Remelted Butter, Testing--Candle-fish Oil--Mutton-Tallow--Hare
Fat--Goose Fat--Neatsfoot Oil--Bone Fat: Bone Boiling, Steaming Bones,
Extraction, Refining--Bone Oil--Artificial Butter: Oleomargarine,
Margarine Manufacture in France, Grasso's Process, "Kaiser's Butter,"
Jahr & Münzberg's Method, Filbert's Process, Winter's Method--Human
Fat--Horse Fat--Beef Marrow--Turtle Oil--Hog's Lard: Raw Material--
Preparation, Properties, Adulterations, Examination--Lard Oil--Fish
Oils--Liver Oils--Artificial Train Oil--Wool Fat: Properties, Purified
Wool Fat--Spermaceti: Examination of Fats and Oils in General.
THE OIL MERCHANTS' MANUAL AND OIL TRADE READY RECKONER. Compiled by FRANK
F. SHERRIFF. Second Edition Revised and Enlarged. Demy 8vo. 214 pp. 1904.
With Two Sheets of Tables. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other
Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Trade Terms and Customs--Tables to Ascertain Value of Oil sold per
cwt. or ton--Specific Gravity Tables--Percentage Tare Tables--
Petroleum Tables--Paraffine and Benzoline Calculations--Customary
Drafts--Tables for Calculating Allowance for Dirt, Water, etc.--
Capacity of Circular Tanks Tables, etc., etc.
THE CHEMISTRY OF ESSENTIAL OILS AND ARTIFICIAL PERFUMES. By ERNEST J.
PARRY, B.Sc. (Lond.), F.I.C., F.C.S. 411 pp. 20 Illustrations. 1899. Demy
8vo. Price 12s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 13s. 6d.; Other Countries, 15s.;
strictly net.
Contents.
The General Properties of Essential Oils--Compounds occurring in
Essential Oils--The Preparation of Essential Oils--The Analysis of
Essential Oils--Systematic Study of the Essential Oils--Terpeneless
Oils--The Chemistry of Artificial Perfumes--Appendix: Table of
Constants--Index.
VEGETABLE FATS AND OILS: Their Practical Preparation, Purification and
Employment for Various Purposes, their Properties, Adulteration and
Examination. Translated from the German of LOUIS EDGAR ANDÉS. Ninety-four
Illustrations. 340 pp. Second Edition. 1902. Demy 8vo. Price 10s. 6d.;
India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.
Contents.
General Properties--Estimation of the Amount of Oil in Seeds--The
Preparation of Vegetable Fats and Oils--Apparatus for Grinding Oil
Seeds and Fruits--Installation of Oil and Fat Works--Extraction Method
of Obtaining Oils and Fats--Oil Extraction Installations--Press
Moulds--Non-drying Vegetable Oils--Vegetable drying Oils--Solid
Vegetable Fats--Fruits Yielding Oils and Fats--Wool-softening Oils--
Soluble Oils--Treatment of the Oil after Leaving the Press--Improved
Methods of Refining--Bleaching Fats and Oils--Practical Experiments on
the Treatment of Oils with regard to Refining and Bleaching--Testing
Oils and Fats.
SOAPS. A Practical Manual of the Manufacture of Domestic, Toilet and other
Soaps. By GEORGE H. HURST, F.C.S. 390 pp. 66 Illustrations. 1898. Price
12s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 13s. 6d.; Other Countries, 15s.; strictly
net.
Contents.
Introductory--Soap-maker's Alkalies--Soap Fats and Oils--Perfumes--
Water as a Soap Material--Soap Machinery--Technology of Soap-making--
Glycerine in Soap Lyes--Laying out a Soap Factory--Soap Analysis--
Appendices.
Textile Soaps.
TEXTILE SOAPS AND OILS. Handbook on the Preparation, Properties and
Analysis of the Soaps and Oils used in Textile Manufacturing, Dyeing and
Printing. By GEORGE H. HURST, F.C.S. Crown 8vo. 195 pp. 1904. Price 5s.;
India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Methods of Making Soaps--Hard Soap--Soft Soap. Special Textile Soaps--
Wool Soaps--Calico Printers' Soaps--Dyers' Soaps. Relation of Soap to
Water for Industrial Purposes--Treating Waste Soap Liquors--Boiled Off
Liquor--Calico Printers' and Dyers' Soap Liquors--Soap Analysis--Fat
in Soap.
ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE OILS AND FATS--Tallow--Lard--Bone Grease--Tallow
Oil. Vegetable Soap, Oils and Fats--Palm Oil--Coco-nut Oil--Olive
Oil--Cottonseed Oil--Linseed Oil--Castor Oil--Corn Oil--Whale Oil or
Train Oil--Repe Oil.
GLYCERINE.
TEXTILE OILS--Oleic Acid--Blended Wool Oils--Oils for Cotton Dyeing,
Printing and Finishing--Turkey Red Oil--Alizarine Oil--Oleine--Oxy
Turkey Red Oils--Soluble Oil--Analysis of Turkey Red Oil--Finisher's
Soluble Oil--Finisher's Soap Softening--Testing and Adulteration of
Oils--Index.
Cosmetical Preparations.
COSMETICS: MANUFACTURE, EMPLOYMENT AND TESTING OF ALL COSMETIC MATERIALS
AND COSMETIC SPECIALITIES. Translated from the German of Dr. THEODOR
KOLLER. Crown 8vo. 262 pp. 1902. Price 5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.;
Other Countries, 6s. net.
Contents.
Purposes and Uses of, and Ingredients used in the Preparation of
Cosmetics--Preparation of Perfumes by Pressure, Distillation,
Maceration, Absorption or Enfleurage, and Extraction Methods--Chemical
and Animal Products used in the Preparation of Cosmetics--Oils and
Fats used in the Preparation of Cosmetics--General Cosmetic
Preparations--Mouth Washes and Tooth Pastes--Hair Dyes, Hair Restorers
and Depilatories--Cosmetic Adjuncts and Specialities--Colouring
Cosmetic Preparations--Antiseptic Washes and Soaps--Toilet and
Hygienic Soaps--Secret Preparations for Skin, Complexion, Teeth,
Mouth, etc.--Testing and Examining the Materials Employed in the
Manufacture of Cosmetics--Index.
Glue, Bone Products and Manures.
GLUE AND GLUE TESTING. By SAMUEL RIDEAL, D.SC. (Lond.), F.I.C. Fourteen
Engravings. 144 pp. Demy 8vo. 1900. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies,
11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Constitution and Properties: Definitions and Sources, Gelatine,
Chondrin and Allied Bodies, Physical and Chemical Properties,
Classification, Grades and Commercial Varieties--Raw Materials and
Manufacture: Glue Stock, Lining, Extraction, Washing and Clarifying,
Filter Presses, Water Supply, Use of Alkalies, Action of Bacteria and
of Antiseptics, Various Processes, Cleansing, Forming, Drying,
Crushing, etc., Secondary Products--Uses of Glue: Selection and
Preparation for Use, Carpentry, Veneering, Paper-Making, Bookbinding,
Printing Rollers, Hectographs, Match Manufacture, Sandpaper, etc.,
Substitutes for other Materials, Artificial Leather and Caoutchouc--
Gelatine: General Characters, Liquid Gelatine, Photographic Uses,
Size, Tanno-, Chrome and Formo-Gelatine, Artificial Silk, Cements,
Pneumatic Tyres, Culinary, Meat Extracts, Isinglass, Medicinal and
other Uses, Bacteriology--Glue Testing: Review of Processes, Chemical
Examination, Adulteration, Physical Tests, Valuation of Raw
Materials--Commercial Aspects.
BONE PRODUCTS AND MANURES: An Account of the most recent Improvements in
the Manufacture of Fat, Glue, Animal Charcoal, Size, Gelatine and Manures.
By THOMAS LAMBERT, Technical and Consulting Chemist. Illustrated by
Twenty-one Plans and Diagrams. 162 pp. Demy 8vo. 1901. Price 7s. 6d.;
India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Chemical Composition of Bones--Arrangement of Factory--Properties of
Glue--Glutin and Chondrin--Skin Glue--Liming of Skins--Washing--
Boiling of Skins--Clarification of Glue Liquors--Glue-Boiling and
Clarifying-House--Specification of a Glue--Size--Uses and Preparation
and Composition of Size--Concentrated Size--Properties of Gelatine--
Preparation of Skin Gelatine--Drying--Bone Gelatine--Selecting Bones--
Crushing--Dissolving--Bleaching--Boiling--Properties of Glutin and
Chondrin--Testing of Glues and Gelatines--The Uses of Glue, Gelatine
and Size in Various Trades--Soluble and Liquid Glues--Steam and
Waterproof Glues--Manures--Importation of Food Stuffs--Soils--
Germination--Plant Life--Natural Manures--Water and Nitrogen in
Farmyard Manure--Full Analysis of Farmyard Manure--Action on Crops--
Water-Closet System--Sewage Manure--Green Manures--Artificial
Manures--Mineral Manures--Nitrogenous Matters--Shoddy--Hoofs and
Horns--Leather Waste--Dried Meat--Dried Blood--Superphosphates--
Composition--Manufacture--Common Raw Bones--Degreased Bones--Crude
Fat--Refined Fat--Degelatinised Bones--Animal Charcoal--Bone
Superphosphates--Guanos--Dried Animal Products--Potash Compounds--
Sulphate of Ammonia--Extraction in Vacuo--French and British Gelatines
compared--Index.
Chemicals, Waste Products and Agricultural Chemistry.
REISSUE OF CHEMICAL ESSAYS OF C. W. SCHEELE. First Published in English in
1786. Translated from the Academy of Sciences at Stockholm, with
Additions. 300 pp. Demy 8vo. 1901. Price 5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.;
Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Memoir: C. W. Scheele and his work (written for this edition by J. G.
McIntosh)--On Fluor Mineral and its Acid--On Fluor Mineral--Chemical
Investigation of Fluor Acid, with a View to the Earth which it Yields,
by Mr. Wiegler--Additional Information Concerning Fluor Minerals--On
Manganese, Magnesium, or Magnesia Vitrariorum--On Arsenic and its
Acid--Remarks upon Salts of Benzoin--On Silex, Clay and Alum--Analysis
of the Calculus Vesical--Method of Preparing Mercurius Dulcis Via
Humida--Cheaper and more Convenient Method of Preparing Pulvis
Algarothi--Experiments upon Molybdæna--Experiments on Plumbago--Method
of Preparing a New Green Colour--Of the Decomposition of Neutral Salts
by Unslaked Lime and Iron--On the Quantity of Pure Air which is Daily
Present in our Atmosphere--On Milk and its Acid--On the Acid of
Saccharum Lactis--On the Constituent Parts of Lapis Ponderosus or
Tungsten--Experiments and Observations on Ether--Index.
THE MANUFACTURE OF ALUM AND THE SULPHATES AND OTHER SALTS OF ALUMINA AND
IRON. Their Uses and Applications as Mordants in Dyeing and Calico
Printing, and their other Applications in the Arts, Manufactures, Sanitary
Engineering, Agriculture and Horticulture. Translated from the French of
LUCIEN GESCHWIND. 195 Illustrations. 400 pp. Royal 8vo. 1901. Price 12s.
6d.; India and Colonies, 13s. 6d.; Other Countries, 15s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Theoretical Study of Aluminium, Iron, and Compounds of these Metals--
Aluminium and its Compounds--Iron and Iron Compounds.
Manufacture of Aluminium Sulphates and Sulphates of Iron--Manufacture
of Aluminium Sulphate and the Alums--Manufacture of Sulphates of Iron.
Uses of the Sulphates of Aluminium and Iron--Uses of Aluminium
Sulphate and Alums--Application to Wool and Silk--Preparing and using
Aluminium Acetates--Employment of Aluminium Sulphate in Carbonising
Wool--The Manufacture of Lake Pigments--Manufacture of Prussian Blue--
Hide and Leather Industry--Paper Making--Hardening Plaster--Lime
Washes--Preparation of Non-inflammable Wood, etc.--Purification of
Waste Waters--Uses and Applications of Ferrous Sulphate and Ferric
Sulphates--Dyeing--Manufacture of Pigments--Writing Inks--Purification
of Lighting Gas--Agriculture--Cotton Dyeing--Disinfectant--Purifying
Waste Liquors--Manufacture of Nordhausen Sulphuric Acid--Fertilising.
Chemical Characteristics of Iron and Aluminium--Analysis of Various
Aluminous or Ferruginous Products--Aluminium--Analysing Aluminium
Products--Alunite Alumina--Sodium Aluminate--Aluminium Sulphate--
Iron--Analytical Characteristics of Iron Salts--Analysis of Pyritic
Lignite--Ferrous and Ferric Sulphates--Rouil Mordant--Index.
AMMONIA AND ITS COMPOUNDS: Their Manufacture and Uses. By CAMILLE VINCENT,
Professor at the Central School of Arts and Manufactures, Paris.
Translated from the French by M. J. SALTER. Royal 8vo. 114 pp. 1901.
Thirty-two Illustrations. Price 5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other
Countries, 6s.; strictly net.
Contents.
General Considerations: Various Sources of Ammoniacal Products; Human
Urine as a Source of Ammonia--Extraction of Ammoniacal Products from
Sewage--Extraction of Ammonia from Gas Liquor--Manufacture of
Ammoniacal Compounds from Bones, Nitrogenous Waste, Beetroot Wash and
Peat--Manufacture of Caustic Ammonia, and Ammonium Chloride, Phosphate
and Carbonate--Recovery of Ammonia from the Ammonia-Soda Mother
Liquors--Index.
ANALYSIS OF RESINS AND BALSAMS. Translated from the German of Dr. KARL
DIETERICH. Demy 8vo. 340 pp. 1901. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.;
Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Definition of Resins in General--Definition of Balsams, and especially
the Gum Resins--External and Superficial Characteristics of Resinous
Bodies--Distinction between Resinous Bodies and Fats and Oils--Origin,
Occurrence and Collection of Resinous Substances--Classification--
Chemical Constituents of Resinous Substances--Resinols--Resinot
Annols--Behaviour of Resin Constituents towards the Cholesterine
Reactions--Uses and Identification of Resins--Melting-point--
Solvents--Acid Value--Saponification Value--Resin Value--Ester and
Ether Values--Acetyl and Corbonyl Value--Methyl Value--Resin Acid--
Systematic Résumé of the Performance of the Acid and Saponification
Value Tests.
Balsams--Introduction--Definitions--Canada Balsam--Copaiba Balsam--
Angostura Copaiba Balsam--Babia Copaiba Balsam--Carthagena Copaiba
Balsam--Maracaibo Copaiba Balsam--Maturin Copaiba Balsam--Gurjum
Copaiba Balsam--Para Copaiba Balsam--Surinam Copaiba Balsam--West
African Copaiba Balsam--Mecca Balsam--Peruvian Balsam--Tolu Balsam--
Acaroid Resin--Amine--Amber--African and West Indian Kino--Bengal
Kino--Labdanum--Mastic--Pine Resin--Sandarach--Scammonium--Shellac--
Storax--Adulteration of Styrax Liquidus Crudus--Purified Storax--
Styrax Crudus Colatus--Tacamahac--Thapsia Resin--Turpentine--Chios
Turpentine--Strassburg Turpentine--Turpeth Turpentine. Gum Resins--
Ammoniacum--Bdellium--Euphorbium--Galbanum--Gamboge--Lactucarium--
Myrrh--Opopanax--Sagapenum--Olibanum or Incense--Acaroid Resin--
Amber--Thapsia Resin--Index.
MANUAL OF AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY. By HERBERT INGLE, F.I.C., Lecturer on
Agricultural Chemistry, the Yorkshire College; Lecturer in the Victoria
University. 388 pp. 11 Illustrations. 1902. Demy 8vo. Price 7s. 6d.; India
and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d. net.
Contents.
Introduction--The Atmosphere--The Soil--The Reactions occurring in
Soils--The Analysis of Soils--Manures, Natural--Manures (continued)--
The Analysis of Manures--The Constituents of Plants--The Plant--
Crops--The Animal--Foods and Feeding--Milk and Milk Products--The
Analysis of Milk and Milk Products--Miscellaneous Products used in
Agriculture--Appendix--Index.
THE UTILISATION OF WASTE PRODUCTS. A Treatise on the Rational Utilisation,
Recovery and Treatment of Waste Products of all kinds. By Dr. THEODOR
KOLLER. Translated from the Second Revised German Edition. Twenty-two
Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 280 pp. 1902. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies,
8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
The Waste of Towns--Ammonia and Sal-Ammoniac--Rational Processes for
Obtaining these Substances by Treating Residues and Waste--Residues in
the Manufacture of Aniline Dyes--Amber Waste--Brewers' Waste--Blood
and Slaughter-House Refuse--Manufactured Fuels--Waste Paper and
Bookbinders' Waste--Iron Slags--Excrement--Colouring Matters from
Waste--Dyers' Waste Waters--Fat from Waste--Fish Waste--Calamine
Sludge--Tannery Waste--Gold and Silver Waste--India-rubber and
Caoutchouc Waste--Residues in the Manufacture of Rosin Oil--Wood
Waste--Horn Waste--Infusorial Earth--Iridium from Goldsmiths'
Sweepings--Jute Waste--Cork Waste--Leather Waste--Glue Makers'
Waste--Illuminating Gas from Waste and the By-Products of the
Manufacture of Coal Gas--Meerschum--Molasses--Metal Waste--By-Products
in the Manufacture of Mineral Waters--Fruit--The By-Products of Paper
and Paper Pulp Works--By-Products in the Treatment of Coal Tar Oils--
Fur Waste--The Waste Matter in the Manufacture of Parchment Paper--
Mother of Pearl Waste--Petroleum Residues--Platinum Residues--Broken
Porcelain. Earthenware and Glass--Salt Waste--Slate Waste--Sulphur--
Burnt Pyrites--Silk Waste--Soap Makers' Waste--Alkali Waste and the
Recovery of Soda--Waste Produced in Grinding Mirrors--Waste Products
in the Manufacture of Starch--Stearic Acid--Vegetable Ivory Waste--
Turf--Waste Waters of Cloth Factories--Wine Residues--Tinplate Waste--
Wool Waste--Wool Sweat--The Waste Liquids from Sugar Works--Index.
Writing Inks and Sealing Waxes.
INK MANUFACTURE: Including Writing, Copying, Lithographic, Marking,
Stamping, and Laundry Inks. By SIGMUND LEHNER. Three Illustrations. Crown
8vo. 162 pp. 1902. Translated from the German of the Fifth Edition. Price
5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; net.
Contents.
Varieties of Ink--Writing Inks--Raw Materials of Tannin Inks--The
Chemical Constitution of the Tannin Inks--Recipes for Tannin Inks--
Logwood Tannin Inks--Ferric Inks--Alizarine Inks--Extract Inks--
Logwood Inks--Copying Inks--Hektographs--Hektograph Inks--Safety
Inks--Ink Extracts and Powders--Preserving Inks--Changes in Ink and
the Restoration of Faded Writing--Coloured Inks--Red Inks--Blue
Inks--Violet Inks--Yellow Inks--Green Inks--Metallic Inks--Indian
Ink--Lithographic Inks and Pencils--Ink Pencils--Marking Inks--Ink
Specialities--Sympathetic Inks--Stamping Inks--Laundry or Washing
Blue--Index.
SEALING-WAXES, WAFERS AND OTHER ADHESIVES FOR THE HOUSEHOLD, OFFICE,
WORKSHOP AND FACTORY. By H. C. STANDAGE. Crown 8vo. 96 pp. 1902. Price
5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Materials Used for Making Sealing-Waxes--The Manufacture of
Sealing-Waxes--Wafers--Notes on the Nature of the Materials Used in
Making Adhesive Compounds--Cements for Use in the Household--Office
Gums, Pastes and Mucilages--Adhesive Compounds for Factory and
Workshop Use.
Lead Ores and Compounds.
LEAD AND ITS COMPOUNDS. By THOS. LAMBERT, Technical and Consulting
Chemist. Demy 8vo. 226 pp. Forty Illustrations. 1902. Price 7s. 6d.; India
and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; net. Plans and Diagrams.
Contents.
History--Ores of Lead--Geographical Distribution of the Lead
Industry--Chemical and Physical Properties of Lead--Alloys of Lead--
Compounds of Lead--Dressing of Lead Ores--Smelting of Lead Ores--
Smelting in the Scotch or American Ore-hearth--Smelting in the Shaft
or Blast Furnace--Condensation of Lead Fume--Desilverisation, or the
Separation of Silver from Argentiferous Lead--Cupellation--The
Manufacture of Lead Pipes and Sheets--Protoxide of Lead--Litharge and
Massicot--Red Lead or Minium--Lead Poisoning--Lead Substitutes--Zinc
and its Compounds--Pumice Stone--Drying Oils and Siccatives--Oil of
Turpentine Resin--Classification of Mineral Pigments--Analysis of Raw
and Finished Products--Tables--Index.
NOTES ON LEAD ORES: Their Distribution and Properties. By JAS. FAIRIE,
F.G.S. Crown 8vo. 1901. 64 pages. Price 2s. 6d.; Abroad, 3s.; strictly
net.
Industrial Hygiene.
THE RISKS AND DANGERS TO HEALTH OF VARIOUS OCCUPATIONS AND THEIR
PREVENTION. By LEONARD A. PARRY, M.D., B.S. (Lond.). 196 pp. Demy 8vo.
1900. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.;
strictly net.
Contents.
Occupations which are Accompanied by the Generation and Scattering of
Abnormal Quantities of Dust--Trades in which there is Danger of
Metallic Poisoning--Certain Chemical Trades--Some Miscellaneous
Occupations--Trades in which Various Poisonous Vapours are Inhaled--
General Hygienic Considerations--Index.
Industrial Uses of Air, Steam and Water.
DRYING BY MEANS OF AIR AND STEAM. Explanations, Formulæ, and Tables for
Use in Practice. Translated from the German of E. HAUSBRAND. Two folding
Diagrams and Thirteen Tables. Crown 8vo. 1901. 72 pp. Price 5s.; India and
Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.
Contents.
British and Metric Systems Compared--Centigrade and Fahr.
Thermometers--Estimation of the Maximum Weight of Saturated Aqueous
Vapour which can be contained in 1 kilo. of Air at Different Pressure
and Temperatures--Calculation of the Necessary Weight and Volume of
Air, and of the Least Expenditure of Heat, per Drying Apparatus with
Heated Air, at the Atmospheric Pressure: _A_, With the Assumption that
the Air is _Completely Saturated_ with Vapour both before Entry and
after Exit from the Apparatus--_B_, When the Atmospheric Air is
Completely Saturated _before entry_, but at its _exit_ is _only_ 3/4,
1/2 or 1/4 Saturated--_C_, When the Atmospheric Air is _not_ Saturated
with Moisture before Entering the Drying Apparatus--Drying Apparatus,
in which, in the Drying Chamber, a Pressure is Artificially Created,
Higher or Lower than that of the Atmosphere--Drying by Means of
Superheated Steam, without Air--Heating Surface, Velocity of the Air
Current, Dimensions of the Drying Room, Surface of the Drying
Material, Losses of Heat--Index.
(_See also "Evaporating, Condensing and Cooling Apparatus," p. 27._)
PURE AIR, OZONE AND WATER. A Practical Treatise of their Utilisation and
Value in Oil, Grease, Soap, Paint, Glue and other Industries. By W. B.
COWELL. Twelve Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 85 pp. 1900. Price 5s.; India and
Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Atmospheric Air; Lifting of Liquids; Suction Process; Preparing Blown
Oils; Preparing Siccative Drying Oils--Compressed Air; Whitewash--
Liquid Air; Retrocession--Purification of Water; Water Hardness--
Fleshings and Bones--Ozonised Air in the Bleaching and Deodorising of
Fats, Glues, etc.; Bleaching Textile Fibres--Appendix: Air and Gases;
Pressure of Air at Various Temperatures; Fuel; Table of Combustibles;
Saving of Fuel by Heating Feed Water; Table of Solubilities of Scale
Making Minerals; British Thermal Units Tables; Volume of the Flow of
Steam into the Atmosphere; Temperature of Steam--Index.
THE INDUSTRIAL USES OF WATER. COMPOSITION--EFFECTS--TROUBLES--
REMEDIES-RESIDUARY WATERS--PURIFICATION--ANALYSIS. By H. DE LA COUX. Royal
8vo. Translated from the French and Revised by Arthur Morris. 364 pp. 135
Illustrations. 1903. Price 10s. 6d.; Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries,
12s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Chemical Action of Water in Nature and in Industrial Use--Composition
of Waters--Solubility of Certain Salts in Water Considered from the
Industrial Point of View--Effects on the Boiling of Water--Effects of
Water in the Industries--Difficulties with Water--Feed Water for
Boilers--Water in Dyeworks, Print Works, and Bleach Works--Water in
the Textile Industries and in Conditioning--Water in Soap Works--Water
in Laundries and Washhouses--Water in Tanning--Water in Preparing
Tannin and Dyewood Extracts--Water in Papermaking--Water in
Photography--Water in Sugar Refining--Water in Making Ices and
Beverages--Water in Cider Making--Water in Brewing--Water in
Distilling--Preliminary Treatment and Apparatus--Substances Used for
Preliminary Chemical Purification--Commercial Specialities and their
Employment--Precipitation of Matters in Suspension in Water--Apparatus
for the Preliminary Chemical Purification of Water--Industrial
Filters--Industrial Sterilisation of Water--Residuary Waters and their
Purification--Soil Filtration--Purification by Chemical Processes--
Analyses--Index.
(_See Books on Smoke Prevention, Engineering and Metallurgy, p. 26,
etc._)
X Rays.
PRACTICAL X RAY WORK. By FRANK T. ADDYMAN, B.Sc. (Lond.), F.I.C., Member
of the Roentgen Society of London; Radiographer to St. George's Hospital;
Demonstrator of Physics and Chemistry, and Teacher of Radiography in St.
George's Hospital Medical School. Demy 8vo. Twelve Plates from Photographs
of X Ray Work. Fifty-two Illustrations. 200 pp. 1901. Price 10s. 6d.;
India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Historical--Work leading up to the Discovery of the X Rays--The
Discovery--Apparatus and its Management--Electrical Terms--Sources of
Electricity--Induction Coils--Electrostatic Machines--Tubes--Air
Pumps--Tube Holders and Stereoscopic Apparatus--Fluorescent Screens--
Practical X Ray Work--Installations--Radioscopy--Radiography--X Rays
in Dentistry--X Rays in Chemistry--X Rays in War--Index.
List of Plates.
_Frontispiece_--Congenital Dislocation of Hip-Joint.--I., Needle in
Finger.--II., Needle in Foot.--III., Revolver Bullet in Calf and
Leg.--IV., A Method of Localisation.--V., Stellate Fracture of Patella
showing shadow of "Strapping".--VI., Sarcoma.--VII., Six-weeks-old
Injury to Elbow showing new Growth of Bone.--VIII., Old Fracture of
Tibia and Fibula badly set.--IX., Heart Shadow.--X., Fractured Femur
showing Grain of Splint.--XI., Barrell's Method of Localisation.
India-Rubber and Gutta Percha.
INDIA-RUBBER AND GUTTA PERCHA. Translated from the French of T.
SEELIGMANN, G. LAMY TORVILHON and H. FALCONNET by JOHN GEDDES MCINTOSH.
Royal 8vo. Eighty-six Illustrations. Three Plates. 412 pages. 1903. Price
12s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 13s. 6d.; Other Countries, 15s.; strictly
net.
Contents.
India-Rubber--Botanical Origin--Climatology--Soil--Rational Culture
and Acclimation of the Different Species of India-Rubber Plants--
Methods of Obtaining the Latex--Methods of Preparing Raw or Crude
India-Rubber--Classification of the Commercial Species of Raw Rubber--
Physical and Chemical Properties of the Latex and of India-Rubber--
Mechanical Transformation of Natural Caoutchouc into Washed or Normal
Caoutchouc (Purification) and Normal Rubber into Masticated Rubber--
Softening, Cutting, Washing, Drying--Preliminary Observations--
Vulcanisation of Normal Rubber--Chemical and Physical Properties of
Vulcanised Rubber--General Considerations--Hardened Rubber or
Ebonite--Considerations on Mineralisation and other Mixtures--
Coloration and Dyeing--Analysis of Natural or Normal Rubber and
Vulcanised Rubber--Rubber Substitutes--Imitation Rubber.
Gutta Percha--Botanical Origin--Climatology--Soil--Rational Culture--
Methods of Collection--Classification of the Different Species of
Commercial Gutta Percha--Physical and Chemical Properties--Mechanical
Transformation--Methods of Analysing--Gutta Percha Substitutes--Index.
Leather Trades.
PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE LEATHER INDUSTRY. By A. M. VILLON. Translated by
FRANK T. ADDYMAN, B.Sc. (Lond.), F.I.C., F.C.S.; and Corrected by an
Eminent Member of the Trade. 500 pp., royal 8vo. 1901. 123 Illustrations.
Price 21s.; India and Colonies, 22s.; Other Countries, 23s. 6d.; strictly
net.
Contents.
Preface--Translator's Preface--List of Illustrations.
Part I., Materials used in Tanning--Skins: Skin and its Structure;
Skins used in Tanning; Various Skins and their Uses--Tannin and
Tanning Substances: Tannin; Barks (Oak); Barks other than Oak; Tanning
Woods; Tannin-bearing Leaves; Excrescences; Tan-bearing Fruits;
Tan-bearing Roots and Bulbs; Tanning Juices; Tanning Substances used
in Various Countries; Tannin Extracts; Estimation of Tannin and Tannin
Principles.