Leather Chain Belts; Various Belts; Use of Belts--Boot and
Shoe-making: Boots and Shoes; Laces--Saddlery: Composition of a
Saddle; Construction of a Saddle--Harness: The Pack Saddle; Harness--
Military Equipment-Glove Making--Carriage Building--Mechanical Uses.
Appendix, The World's Commerce in Leather--Europe; America; Asia;
Africa; Australasia--Index.
THE LEATHER WORKER'S MANUAL. Being a Compendium of Practical Recipes and
Working Formulæ for Curriers, Bootmakers, Leather Dressers, Blacking
Manufacturers, Saddlers, Fancy Leather Workers. By H. C. STANDAGE. 165 pp.
1900. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.;
strictly net.
Contents.
Blackings, Polishes, Glosses, Dressings, Renovators, etc., for Boot
and Shoe Leather--Harness Blackings, Dressings, Greases, Compositions,
Soaps, and Boot-top Powders and Liquids, etc., etc.--Leather Grinders'
Sundries--Currier's Seasonings, Blacking Compounds, Dressings,
Finishes, Glosses, etc.--Dyes and Stains for Leather--Miscellaneous
Information--Chrome Tannage--Index.
Books on Pottery, Bricks, Tiles, Glass, etc.
THE MANUAL OF PRACTICAL POTTING. Compiled by Experts, and Edited by CHAS.
F. BINNS. Revised Third Edition and Enlarged. 200 pp. 1901. Price 17s.
6d.; India and Colonies, 18s. 6d.; Other Countries, 20s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Introduction. The Rise and Progress of the Potter's Art--Bodies. China
and Porcelain Bodies, Parian Bodies, Semi-porcelain and Vitreous
Bodies, Mortar Bodies, Earthenwares Granite and C.C. Bodies,
Miscellaneous Bodies, Sagger and Crucible Clays, Coloured Bodies,
Jasper Bodies, Coloured Bodies for Mosaic Painting, Encaustic Tile
Bodies, Body Stains, Coloured Dips--Glazes. China Glazes, Ironstone
Glazes, Earthenware Glazes, Glazes without Lead, Miscellaneous Glazes,
Coloured Glazes, Majolica Colours--Gold and Gold Colours. Gold, Purple
of Cassius, Marone and Ruby, Enamel Coloured Bases, Enamel Colour
Fluxes, Enamel Colours, Mixed Enamel Colours, Antique and Vellum
Enamel Colours, Underglaze Colours, Underglaze Colour Fluxes, Mixed
Underglaze Colours, Flow Powders, Oils and Varnishes--Means and
Methods. Reclamation of Waste Gold, The Use of Cobalt, Notes on Enamel
Colours, Liquid or Bright Gold--Classification and Analysis.
Classification of Clay Ware, Lord Playfair's Analysis of Clays, The
Markets of the World, Time and Scale of Firing, Weights of Potter's
Material, Decorated Goods Count--Comparative Loss of Weight of
Clays--Ground Felspar Calculations--The Conversion of Slop Body
Recipes into Dry Weight--The Cost of Prepared Earthenware Clay--Forms
and Tables. Articles of Apprenticeship, Manufacturer's Guide to
Stocktaking, Table of Relative Values of Potter's Materials, Hourly
Wages Table, Workman's Settling Table, Comparative Guide for
Earthenware and China Manufacturers in the use of Slop Flint and Slop
Stone, Foreign Terms applied to Earthenware and China Goods, Table for
the Conversion of Metrical Weights and Measures on the Continent and
South America--Index.
CERAMIC TECHNOLOGY: Being some Aspects of Technical Science as Applied to
Pottery Manufacture. Edited by CHARLES F. BINNS. 100 pp. Demy 8vo. 1897.
Price 12s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 13s. 6d.; Other Countries, 15s.;
strictly net.
Contents.
Preface--The Chemistry of Pottery--Analysis and Synthesis--Clays and
their Components--The Biscuit Oven--Pyrometry--Glazes and their
Composition--Colours and Colour-making--Index.
A TREATISE ON THE CERAMIC INDUSTRIES. A Complete Manual for Pottery, Tile
and Brick Works. By EMILE BOURRY. Translated from the French by WILTON P.
RIX, Examiner in Pottery and Porcelain to the City and Guilds of London
Technical Institute, Pottery Instructor to the Hanley School Board. Royal
8vo. 1901. 760 pp. 323 Illustrations. Price 21s.; India and Colonies,
22s.; Other Countries, 23s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Part I., General Pottery Methods. Definition and History. Definitions
and Classification of Ceramic Products--Historic Summary of the
Ceramic Art--Raw Materials of Bodies. Clays: Pure Clay and Natural
Clays--Various Raw Materials: Analogous to Clay--Agglomerative and
Agglutinative--Opening--Fusible--Refractory--Trials of Raw Materials--
Plastic Bodies. Properties and Composition--Preparation of Raw
Materials: Disaggregation--Purification--Preparation of Bodies: By
Plastic Method--By Dry Method--By Liquid Method--Formation. Processes
of Formation: Throwing--Expression--Moulding by Hand, on the Jolley,
by Compression, by Slip Casting--Slapping--Slipping--Drying. Drying of
Bodies--Processes of Drying: By Evaporation--By Aeration--By Heating--
By Ventilation--By Absorption--Glazes. Composition and Properties--Raw
Materials--Manufacture and Application--Firing. Properties of the
Bodies and Glazes during Firing--Description of the Kilns--Working of
the Kilns--Decoration. Colouring Materials--Processes of Decoration.
Part II., Special Pottery Methods. Terra Cottas. Classification: Plain
Ordinary, Hollow, Ornamental, Vitrified, and Light Bricks--Ordinary
and Black Tiles--Paving Tiles--Pipes--Architectural Terra Cottas--
Vases, Statues and Decorative Objects--Common Pottery--Pottery for
Water and Filters--Tobacco Pipes--Lustre Ware--Properties and Tests
for Terra Cottas--Fireclay Goods. Classification: Argillaceous,
Aluminous, Carboniferous, Silicious and Basic Fireclay Goods--Fireclay
Mortar (Pug)--Tests for Fireclay Goods--Faiences. Varnished Faiences--
Enamelled Faiences--Silicious Faiences--Pipeclay Faiences--Pebble
Work--Feldspathic Faiences--Composition, Processes of Manufacture and
General Arrangements of Faience Potteries--Stoneware. Stoneware
Properly So-called: Paving Tiles--Pipes--Sanitary Ware--Stoneware for
Food Purposes and Chemical Productions--Architectural Stoneware--
Vases, Statues and other Decorative Objects--Fine Stoneware--
Porcelain. Hard Porcelain for Table Ware and Decoration, for the Fire,
for Electrical Conduits, for Mechanical Purposes; Architectural
Porcelain, and Dull or Biscuit Porcelain--Soft Phosphated or English
Porcelain--Soft Vitreous Porcelain, French and New Sèvres--
Argillaceous Soft or Seger's Porcelain--Dull Soft or Parian
Porcelain--Dull Feldspathic Soft Porcelain--Index.
ARCHITECTURAL POTTERY. Bricks, Tiles, Pipes, Enamelled Terra-cottas,
Ordinary and Incrusted Quarries, Stoneware Mosaics, Faïences and
Architectural Stoneware. By LEON LEFÊVRE. With Five Plates. 950
Illustrations in the Text, and numerous estimates. 500 pp., royal 8vo.
1900. Translated from the French by K. H. BIRD, M.A., and W. MOORE BINNS.
Price 15s.; India and Colonies, 16s.; Other Countries, 17s. 6d.; strictly
net.
Contents.
Part I. Plain Undecorated Pottery.--Clays, Bricks, Tiles, Pipes,
Chimney Flues, Terra-cotta.
Part II. Made-up or Decorated Pottery.
THE ART OF RIVETING GLASS, CHINA AND EARTHENWARE. By J. HOWARTH. Second
Edition. 1900. Paper Cover. Price 1s. net; by post, home or abroad, 1s.
1d.
HOW TO ANALYSE CLAY. Practical Methods for Practical Men. By HOLDEN M.
ASHBY, Professor of Organic Chemistry, Harvey Medical College, U.S.A. 74
pp. Twenty Illus. 1901. Price 2s. 6d.; Abroad, 3s.; strictly net.
NOTES ON POTTERY CLAYS. Their Distribution, Properties, Uses and Analyses
of Ball Clays, China Clays and China Stone. By JAS. FAIRIE, F.G.S. 1901.
132 pp. Crown 8vo. Price 3s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 4s.; Other
Countries, 4s. 6d.; strictly net.
A Reissue ofT HE HISTORY OF THE STAFFORDSHIRE POTTERIES; AND THE RISE AND
PROGRESS OF THE MANUFACTURE OF POTTERY AND PORCELAIN. With References to
Genuine Specimens, and Notices of Eminent Potters. By SIMEON SHAW.
(Originally Published in 1829.) 265 pp. 1900. Demy 8vo. Price 7s. 6d.;
India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Introductory Chapter showing the position of the Pottery Trade at the
present time (1899)--Preliminary Remarks--The Potteries, comprising
Tunstall, Brownhills, Greenfield and New Field, Golden Hill,
Latebrook, Green Lane, Burslem, Longport and Dale Hall, Hot Lane and
Cobridge, Hanley and Shelton, Etruria, Stoke, Penkhull, Fenton, Lane
Delph, Foley, Lane End--On the Origin of the Art, and its Practice
among the early Nations--Manufacture of Pottery, prior to 1700--The
Introduction of Red Porcelain by Messrs. Elers, of Bradwell, 1690--
Progress of the Manufacture from 1700 to Mr. Wedgwood's commencement
in 1760--Introduction of Fluid Glaze--Extension of the Manufacture of
Cream Colour--Mr. Wedgwood's Queen's Ware--Jasper, and Appointment of
Potter to Her Majesty--Black Printing--Introduction of Porcelain. Mr.
W. Littler's Porcelain--Mr. Cookworthy's Discovery of Kaolin and
Petuntse, and Patent--Sold to Mr. Champion--resold to the New Hall
Com.--Extension of Term--Blue Printed Pottery. Mr. Turner, Mr. Spode
(1), Mr. Baddeley, Mr. Spode (2), Messrs. Turner, Mr. Wood, Mr.
Wilson, Mr. Minton--Great Change in Patterns of Blue Printed--
Introduction of Lustre Pottery. Improvements in Pottery and Porcelain
subsequent to 1800.
A Reissue of THE CHEMISTRY OF THE SEVERAL NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL
HETEROGENEOUS COMPOUNDS USED IN MANUFACTURING PORCELAIN, GLASS AND
POTTERY. By SIMEON SHAW. (Originally published in 1837.) 750 pp. 1900.
Royal 8vo. Price 14s.; India and Colonies, 15s.; Other Countries, 16s.
6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
PART I., ANALYSIS AND MATERIALS.--Introduction: Laboratory and
Apparatus Elements--Temperature--Acids and Alkalies--The Earths--
Metals.
PART II., SYNTHESIS AND COMPOUNDS.--Science of Mixing--Bodies:
Porcelain--Hard, Porcelain--Fritted Bodies, Porcelain--Raw Bodies,
Porcelain--Soft, Fritted Bodies, Raw Bodies, Stone Bodies, Ironstone,
Dry Bodies, Chemical Utensils, Fritted Jasper, Fritted Pearl, Fritted
Drab, Raw Chemical Utensils, Raw Stone, Raw Jasper, Raw Pearl, Raw
Mortar, Raw Drab, Raw Brown, Raw Fawn, Raw Cane, Raw Red Porous, Raw
Egyptian, Earthenware, Queen's Ware, Cream Colour, Blue and Fancy
Printed, Dipped and Mocha, Chalky, Rings, Stilts, etc.--Glazes:
Porcelain--Hard Fritted Porcelain--Soft Fritted Porcelain--Soft Raw,
Cream Colour Porcelain, Blue Printed Porcelain, Fritted Glazes,
Analysis of Fritt, Analysis of Glaze, Coloured Glazes, Dips, Smears
and Washes; Glasses: Flint Glass, Coloured Glasses, Artificial Garnet,
Artificial Emerald, Artificial Amethyst, Artificial Sapphire,
Artificial Opal, Plate Glass, Crown Glass, Broad Glass, Bottle Glass,
Phosphoric Glass, British Steel Glass, Glass-Staining and Painting,
Engraving on Glass, Dr. Faraday's Experiments--Colours: Colour Making,
Fluxes or Solvents, Components of the Colours; Reds, etc., from Gold,
Carmine or Rose Colour, Purple, Reds, etc., from Iron, Blues, Yellows,
Greens, Blacks, White, Silver for Burnishing, Gold for Burnishing,
Printer's Oil, Lustres.
TABLES OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES.
Glassware, Glass Staining and Painting.
RECIPES FOR FLINT GLASS MAKING. By a British Glass Master and Mixer. Sixty
Recipes. Being Leaves from the Mixing Book of several experts in the Flint
Glass Trade, containing up-to-date recipes and valuable information as to
Crystal, Demi-crystal and Coloured Glass in its many varieties. It
contains the recipes for cheap metal suited to pressing, blowing, etc., as
well as the most costly crystal and ruby. Crown 8vo. 1900. Price for
United Kingdom, 10s. 6d.; Abroad, 15s.; United States, $4; strictly net.
Contents.
Ruby--Ruby from Copper--Flint for using with the Ruby for Coating--A
German Metal--Cornelian, or Alabaster--Sapphire Blue--Crysophis--
Opal--Turquoise Blue--Gold Colour--Dark Green--Green (common)--Green
for Malachite--Blue for Malachite--Black for Malachite--Black--Common
Canary Batch--Canary--White Opaque Glass--Sealing-wax Red--Flint--
Flint Glass (Crystal and Demi)--Achromatic Glass--Paste Glass--White
Enamel--Firestone--Dead White (for moons)--White Agate--Canary--Canary
Enamel--Index.
A TREATISE ON THE ART OF GLASS PAINTING. Prefaced with a Review of Ancient
Glass. By ERNEST R. SUFFLING. With One Coloured Plate and Thirty-seven
Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 140 pp. 1902. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies,
8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d. net.
Contents.
A Short History of Stained Glass--Designing Scale Drawings--Cartoons
and the Cut Line--Various Kinds of Glass Cutting for Windows--The
Colours and Brushes used in Glass Painting--Painting on Glass,
Dispersed Patterns--Diapered Patterns--Aciding--Firing--Fret Lead
Glazing--Index.
PAINTING ON GLASS AND PORCELAIN AND ENAMEL PAINTING. A Complete
Introduction to the Preparation of all the Colours and Fluxes used for
Painting on Porcelain, Enamel, Faïence and Stoneware, the Coloured Pastes
and Coloured Glasses, together with a Minute Description of the Firing of
Colours and Enamels. By FELIX HERMANN, Technical Chemist. With Eighteen
Illustrations. 300 pp. Translated from the German second and enlarged
Edition. 1897. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries,
12s.; strictly net.
Contents.
History of Glass Painting--The Articles to be Painted: Glass,
Porcelain, Enamel, Stoneware, Faïence--Pigments: Metallic Pigments:
Antimony Oxide, Naples Yellow, Barium Chromate, Lead Chromate, Silver
Chloride, Chromic Oxide--Fluxes: Fluxes, Felspar, Quartz, Purifying
Quartz, Sedimentation, Quenching, Borax, Boracic Acid, Potassium and
Sodium Carbonates, Rocaille Flux--Preparation of the Colours for Glass
Painting--The Colour Pastes--The Coloured Glasses--Composition of the
Porcelain Colours--The Enamel Colours: Enamels for Artistic Work--
Metallic Ornamentation: Porcelain Gilding, Glass Gilding--Firing the
Colours: Remarks on Firing: Firing Colours on Glass, Firing Colours on
Porcelain; The Muffle--Accidents occasionally Supervening during the
Process of Firing--Remarks on the Different Methods of Painting on
Glass, Porcelain, etc.--Appendix: Cleaning Old Glass Paintings.
Paper Staining.
THE DYEING OF PAPER PULP. A Practical Treatise for the use of Papermakers,
Paperstainers, Students and others. By JULIUS ERFURT, Manager of a Paper
Mill. Translated into English and Edited with Additions by JULIUS HÜBNER,
F.C.S., Lecturer on Papermaking at the Manchester Municipal Technical
School. With Illustrations and 157 patterns of paper dyed in the pulp.
Royal 8vo, 180 pp. 1901. Price 15s.; India and Colonies. 16s.; Other
Countries, 20s.; strictly net. Limited edition.
Contents.
Behaviour of the Paper Fibres during the Process of Dyeing, Theory of
the Mordant--Colour Fixing Mediums (Mordants)--Influence of the
Quality of the Water Used--Inorganic Colours--Organic Colours--
Practical Application of the Coal Tar Colours according to their
Properties and their Behaviour towards the Different Paper Fibres--
Dyed Patterns on Various Pulp Mixtures--Dyeing to Shade--Index.
Enamelling on Metal.
ENAMELS AND ENAMELLING. For Enamel Makers, Workers in Gold and Silver, and
Manufacturers of Objects of Art. By PAUL RANDAU. Translated from the
German. With Sixteen Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 180 pp. 1900. Price 10s.
6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Composition and Properties of Glass--Raw Materials for the Manufacture
of Enamels--Substances Added to Produce Opacity--Fluxes--Pigments--
Decolorising Agents--Testing the Raw Materials with the Blow-pipe
Flame--Subsidiary Materials--Preparing the Materials for Enamel
Making--Mixing the Materials--The Preparation of Technical Enamels,
The Enamel Mass--Appliances for Smelting the Enamel Mass--Smelting the
Charge--Composition of Enamel Masses--Composition of Masses for Ground
Enamels--Composition of Cover Enamels--Preparing the Articles for
Enamelling--Applying the Enamel--Firing the Ground Enamel--Applying
and Firing the Cover Enamel or Glaze--Repairing Defects in Enamelled
Ware--Enamelling Articles of Sheet Metal--Decorating Enamelled Ware--
Specialities in Enamelling--Dial-plate Enamelling--Enamels for
Artistic Purposes, Recipes for Enamels of Various Colours--Index.
THE ART OF ENAMELLING ON METAL. By W. NORMAN BROWN. Twenty-eight
Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 60 pp. 1900. Price 2s. 6d.; Abroad, 3s.;
strictly net.
Silk Manufacture.
SILK THROWING AND WASTE SILK SPINNING. By HOLLINS RAYNER. Demy 8vo. 170
pp. 117 Illus. 1903. Price 5s.; Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.;
strictly net.
Contents.
The Silkworm--Cocoon Reeling and Qualities of Silk--Silk Throwing--
Silk Wastes--The Preparation of Silk Waste for Degumming--Silk Waste
Degumming, Schapping and Discharging--The Opening and Dressing of
Wastes--Silk Waste "Drawing" or "Preparing" Machinery--Long
Spinning--Short Spinning--Spinning and Finishing Processes--
Utilisation of Waste Products--Noil Spinning--Exhaust Noil Spinning.
Books on Textile and Dyeing Subjects.
THE CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY OF TEXTILE FIBRES: Their Origin, Structure,
Preparation, Washing, Bleaching, Dyeing, Printing and Dressing. By Dr.
GEORG VON GEORGIEVICS. Translated from the German by CHARLES SALTER. 320
pp. Forty-seven Illustrations. Royal 8vo. 1902. Price 10s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s. net.
Contents.
The Textile Fibres--Washing, Bleaching, Carbonising--Mordants and
Mordanting--Dyeing--Printing--Dressing and Finishing.
POWER-LOOM WEAVING AND YARN NUMBERING, According to Various Systems, with
Conversion Tables. Translated from the German of ANTHON GRUNER. With
Twenty-six Diagrams in Colours. 150 pp. 1900. Crown 8vo. Price 7s. 6d.;
India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Power-Loom Weaving in General. Various Systems of Looms--Mounting and
Starting the Power-Loom. English Looms--Tappet or Treadle Looms--
Dobbies--General Remarks on the Numbering, Reeling and Packing of
Yarn--Appendix--Useful Hints. Calculating Warps--Weft Calculations--
Calculations of Cost Price in Hanks.
TEXTILE RAW MATERIALS AND THEIR CONVERSION INTO YARNS. (The Study of the
Raw Materials and the Technology of the Spinning Process.) By JULIUS
ZIPSER. Translated from German by CHARLES SALTER. 302 Illustrations. 500
pp. Demy 8vo. 1901. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other
Countries, 12s.; strictly net.
Contents.
PART I.--The Raw Materials Used in the Textile Industry.
MINERAL RAW MATERIALS. VEGETABLE RAW MATERIALS. ANIMAL RAW MATERIALS.
PART II.--The Technology of Spinning or the Conversion of Textile Raw
Materials into Yarn.
SPINNING VEGETABLE RAW MATERIALS. Cotton Spinning--Installation of a
Cotton Mill--Spinning Waste Cotton and Waste Cotton Yarns--Flax
Spinning--Fine Spinning--Tow Spinning--Hemp Spinning--Spinning Hemp
Tow String--Jute Spinning--Spinning Jute Line Yarn--Utilising Jute
Waste.
PART III.--Spinning Animal Raw Materials.
Spinning Carded Woollen Yarn--Finishing Yarn--Worsted Spinning--
Finishing Worsted Yarn--Artificial Wool or Shoddy Spinning--Shoddy and
Mungo Manufacture--Spinning Shoddy and other Wool Substitutes--
Spinning Waste Silk--Chappe Silk--Fine Spinning--Index.
THE TECHNICAL TESTING OF YARNS AND TEXTILE FABRICS. With Reference to
Official Specifications. Translated from the German of Dr. J. HERZFELD.
Second Edition. Sixty-nine Illustrations. 200 pp. Demy 8vo. 1902. Price
10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Yarn Testing. Determining the Yarn Number--Testing the Length of
Yarns--Examination of the External Appearance of Yarn--Determining the
Twist of Yarn and Twist--Determination of Tensile Strength and
Elasticity--Estimating the Percentage of Fat in Yarn--Determination of
Moisture (Conditioning)--Appendix.
DECORATIVE AND FANCY TEXTILE FABRICS. By R. T. LORD. Manufacturers and
Designers of Carpets, Damask Dress and all Textile Fabrics. 200 pp. 1898.
Demy 8vo. 132 Designs and Illustrations. Price 7s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
A Few Hints on Designing Ornamental Textile Fabrics--A Few Hints on
Designing Ornamental Textile Fabrics (continued)--A Few Hints on
Designing Ornamental Textile Fabrics (continued)--A Few Hints on
Designing Ornamental Textile Fabrics (continued)--Hints for
Ruled-paper Draughtsmen--The Jacquard Machine--Brussels and Wilton
Carpets--Tapestry Carpets--Ingrain Carpets--Axminster Carpets--Damask
and Tapestry Fabrics--Scarf Silks and Ribbons--Silk Handkerchiefs--
Dress Fabrics--Mantle Cloths--Figured Plush--Bed Quilts--Calico
Printing.
THEORY AND PRACTICE OF DAMASK WEAVING. By H. KINZER and K. WALTER. Royal
8vo. Eighteen Folding Plates. Six Illustrations. Translated from the
German. 110 pp. 1903. Price 8s. 6d.; Colonies, 9s.; Other Countries, 9s.
6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
The Various Sorts of Damask Fabrics--Drill (Ticking, Handloom-made)--
Whole Damask for Tablecloths--Damask with Ground- and Connecting-warp
Threads--Furniture Damask--Lampas or Hangings--Church Damasks--The
Manufacture of Whole Damask--Damask Arrangement with and without
Cross-Shedding--The Altered Cone-arrangement--The Principle of the
Corner Lifting Cord--The Roller Principle--The Combination of the
Jacquard with the so-called Damask Machine--The Special Damask
Machine--The Combination of Two Tyings.
FAULTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF WOOLLEN GOODS AND THEIR PREVENTION. By
NICOLAS REISER. Translated from the Second German Edition. Crown 8vo.
Sixty-three Illustrations. 170 pp. 1903. Price 5s.; Colonies, 5s. 6d.;
Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Improperly Chosen Raw Material or Improper Mixtures--Wrong Treatment
of the Material in Washing, Carbonisation, Drying, Dyeing and
Spinning--Improper Spacing of the Goods in the Loom--Wrong Placing of
Colours--Wrong Weight or Width of the Goods--Breaking of Warp and Weft
Threads--Presence of Doubles, Singles, Thick, Loose, and too Hard
Twisted Threads as well as Tangles, Thick Knots and the Like--Errors
in Cross-weaving--Inequalities, i.e., Bands and Stripes--Dirty
Borders--Defective Selvedges--Holes and Buttons--Rubbed Places--
Creases--Spots--Loose and Bad Colours--Badly Dyed Selvedges--Hard
Goods--Brittle Goods--Uneven Goods--Removal of Bands, Stripes, Creases
and Spots.
SPINNING AND WEAVING CALCULATIONS, especially relating to Woollens. From
the German of N. REISER. Thirty-four Illustrations. Tables. 170 pp. Demy
8vo. 1904. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries,
12s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Calculating the Raw Material--Proportion of Different Grades of Wool
to Furnish a Mixture at a Given Price--Quantity to Produce a Given
Length--Yarn Calculations--Yarn Number--Working Calculations--
Calculating the Reed Count--Cost of Weaving, etc.
WATERPROOFING OF FABRICS. By Dr. S. MIERZINSKI. Crown 8vo. 104 pp. 29
Illus. 1903. Price 5s.; Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly
net.
Contents.
Introduction--Preliminary Treatment of the Fabric--Waterproofing with
Acetate of Alumina--Impregnation of the Fabric--Drying--Waterproofing
with Paraffin--Waterproofing with Ammonium Cuprate--Waterproofing with
Metallic Oxides--Coloured Waterproof Fabrics--Waterproofing with
Gelatine, Tannin, Caseinate of Lime and other Bodies--Manufacture of
Tarpaulin--British Waterproofing Patents--Index.
HOW TO MAKE A WOOLLEN MILL PAY. By JOHN MACKIE. Crown 8vo. 76 pp. 1904.
Price 3s. 6d.; Colonies, 4s.; Other Countries, 4s. 6d.; net.
Contents.
Blends, Piles, or Mixtures of Clean Scoured Wools--Dyed Wool Book--The
Order Book--Pattern Duplicate Books--Management and Oversight--
Constant Inspection of Mill Departments--Importance of Delivering
Goods to Time, Shade, Strength, etc.--Plums.
(_For "Textile Soaps" see p. 7._)
Dyeing, Colour Printing, Matching and Dye-stuffs.
THE COLOUR PRINTING OF CARPET YARNS. Manual for Colour Chemists and
Textile Printers. By DAVID PATERSON, F.C.S. Seventeen Illustrations. 136
pp. Demy 8vo. 1900. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other
Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Structure and Constitution of Wool Fibre--Yarn Scouring--Scouring
Materials--Water for Scouring--Bleaching Carpet Yarns--Colour Making
for Yarn Printing--Colour Printing Pastes--Colour Recipes for Yarn
Printing--Science of Colour Mixing--Matching of Colours--"Hank"
Printing--Printing Tapestry Carpet Yarns--Yarn Printing--Steaming
Printed Yarns--Washing of Steamed Yarns--Aniline Colours Suitable for
Yarn Printing--Glossary of Dyes and Dye-wares used in Wood Yarn
Printing--Appendix.
THE SCIENCE OF COLOUR MIXING. A Manual intended for the use of Dyers,
Calico Printers and Colour Chemists. By DAVID PATERSON, F.C.S. Forty-one
Illustrations, Five Coloured Plates, and Four Plates showing Eleven Dyed
Specimens of Fabrics. 132 pp. Demy 8vo. 1900. Price 7s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Colour a Sensation; Colours of Illuminated Bodies; Colours of Opaque
and Transparent Bodies; Surface Colour--Analysis of Light; Spectrum;
Homogeneous Colours; Ready Method of Obtaining a Spectrum--Examination
of Solar Spectrum; The Spectroscope and Its Construction; Colourists'
Use of the Spectroscope--Colour by Absorption; Solutions and Dyed
Fabrics; Dichroic Coloured Fabrics in Gaslight--Colour Primaries of
the Scientist _versus_ the Dyer and Artist; Colour Mixing by Rotation
and Lye Dyeing; Hue, Purity, Brightness; Tints; Shades, Scales, Tones,
Sad and Sombre Colours--Colour Mixing; Pure and Impure Greens, Orange
and Violets; Large Variety of Shades from few Colours; Consideration
of the Practical Primaries: Red, Yellow and Blue--Secondary Colours;
Nomenclature of Violet and Purple Group; Tints and Shades of Violet;
Changes in Artificial Light--Tertiary Shades; Broken Hues; Absorption
Spectra of Tertiary Shades--Appendix: Four Plates with Dyed Specimens
Illustrating Text--Index.
DYERS' MATERIALS: An Introduction to the Examination, Evaluation and
Application of the most important Substances used in Dyeing, Printing,
Bleaching and Finishing. By PAUL HEERMAN, Ph.D. Translated from the German
by A. C. WRIGHT, M.A. (Oxon.), B.Sc. (Lond.). Twenty-four Illustrations.
Crown 8vo. 150 pp. 1901. Price 5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other
Countries, 6s.; strictly net.
COLOUR MATCHING ON TEXTILES. A Manual intended for the use of Students of
Colour Chemistry, Dyeing and Textile Printing. By DAVID PATERSON, F.C.S.
Coloured Frontispiece. Twenty-nine Illustrations and Fourteen Specimens of
Dyed Fabrics. Demy 8vo. 132 pp. 1901. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies,
8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Colour Vision and Structure of the Eye--Perception of Colour--Primary
and Complementary Colour Sensations--Daylight for Colour Matching--
Selection of a Good Pure Light--Diffused Daylight, Direct Sunlight,
Blue Skylight, Variability of Daylight, etc., etc.--Matching of Hues--
Purity and Luminosity of Colours--Matching Bright Hues--Aid of Tinted
Films--Matching Difficulties Arising from Contrast--Examination of
Colours by Reflected and Transmitted Lights--Effect of Lustre and
Transparency of Fibres in Colour Matching--Matching of Colours on
Velvet Pile--Optical Properties of Dye-stuffs Dichroism,
Fluorescence--Use of Tinted Mediums--Orange Film--Defects of the Eye--
Yellowing of the Lens--Colour Blindness, etc.--Matching of Dyed Silk
Trimmings and Linings and Bindings--Its Difficulties--Behaviour of
Shades in Artificial Light--Colour Matching of Old Fabrics, etc.--
Examination of Dyed Colours under the Artificial Lights--Electric Arc,
Magnesium and Dufton, Gardner Lights, Welsbach, Acetylene, etc.--
Testing Qualities of an Illuminant--Influence of the Absorption
Spectrum in Changes of Hue under the Artificial Lights--Study of the
Causes of Abnormal Modifications of Hue, etc.
COLOUR: A HANDBOOK OF THE THEORY OF COLOUR. By GEORGE H. HURST, F.C.S.
With Ten Coloured Plates and Seventy-two Illustrations. 160 pp. Demy 8vo.
1900. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.;
strictly net.
Contents.
Colour and its Production--Cause of Colour in Coloured Bodies--Colour
Phenomena and Theories--The Physiology of Light--Contrast--Colour in
Decoration and Design--Measurement of Colour.
Reissue of THE ART OF DYEING WOOL, SILK AND COTTON. Translated from the
French of M. HELLOT, M. MACQUER and M. LE PILEUR D'APLIGNY. First
Published in English in 1789. Six Plates. Demy 8vo. 446 pp. 1901. Price
5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Part I., The Art of Dyeing Wool and Woollen Cloth, Stuffs, Yarn,
Worsted, etc. Part II., The Art of Dyeing Silk. Part III., The Art of
Dyeing Cotton and Linen Thread, together with the Method of Stamping
Silks, Cottons, etc.
THE CHEMISTRY OF DYE-STUFFS. By Dr. GEORG VON GEORGIEVICS. Translated from
the Second German Edition. 412 pp. Demy 8vo. 1903. Price 10s. 6d.; India
and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Introduction--Coal Tar--Intermediate Products in the Manufacture of
Dye-stuffs--The Artificial Dye-stuffs (Coal-tar Dyes)--Nitroso
Dye-stuffs--Nitro Dye-stuffs--Azo Dye-stuffs--Substantive Cotton
Dye-stuffs--Azoxystilbene Dye-stuffs--Hydrazones--Ketoneimides--
Triphenylmethane Dye-stuffs--Rosolic Acid Dye-stuffs--Xanthene
Dye-stuffs--Xanthone Dye-stuffs--Flavones--Oxyketone Dye-stuffs--
Quinoline and Acridine Dye-stuffs--Quinonimide or Diphenylamine
Dye-stuffs--The Azine Group: Eurhodines, Safranines and Indulines--
Eurhodines--Safranines--Quinoxalines--Indigo--Dye-stuffs of Unknown
Constitution--Sulphur or Sulphine Dye-stuffs--Development of the
Artificial Dye-stuff Industry--The Natural Dye-stuffs--Mineral
Colours--Index.
THE DYEING OF COTTON FABRICS: A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and
Student. By FRANKLIN BEECH, Practical Colourist and Chemist. 272 pp.
Forty-four Illustrations of Bleaching and Dyeing Machinery. Demy 8vo.
1901. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.;
strictly net.
Contents.
Structure and Chemistry of the Cotton Fibre--Scouring and Bleaching of
Cotton--Dyeing Machinery and Dyeing Manipulations--Principles and
Practice of Cotton Dyeing--Direct Dyeing; Direct Dyeing followed by
Fixation with Metallic Salts; Direct Dyeing followed by Fixation with
Developers; Direct Dyeing followed by Fixation with Couplers; Dyeing
on Tannic Mordant; Dyeing on Metallic Mordant; Production of Colour
Direct upon Cotton Fibres; Dyeing Cotton by Impregnation with
Dye-stuff Solution--Dyeing Union (Mixed Cotton and Wool) Fabrics--
Dyeing Half Silk (Cotton-Silk, Satin) Fabrics--Operations following
Dyeing--Washing, Soaping, Drying--Testing of the Colour of Dyed
Fabrics--Experimental Dyeing and Comparative Dye Testing--Index.
The book contains numerous recipes for the production on Cotton
Fabrics of all kinds of a great range of colours.
THE DYEING OF WOOLLEN FABRICS. By FRANKLIN BEECH, Practical Colourist and
Chemist. Thirty-three Illustrations. Demy 8vo. 228 pp. 1902. Price 7s.
6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d. net.
Contents.
The Wool Fibre--Structure, Composition and Properties--Processes
Preparatory to Dyeing--Scouring and Bleaching of Wool--Dyeing
Machinery and Dyeing Manipulations--Loose Wool Dyeing, Yarn Dyeing and
Piece Dyeing Machinery--The Principles and Practice of Wool Dyeing--
Properties of Wool Dyeing--Methods of Wool Dyeing--Groups of Dyes--
Dyeing with the Direct Dyes--Dyeing with Basic Dyes--Dyeing with Acid
Dyes--Dyeing with Mordant Dyes--Level Dyeing--Blacks on Wool--Reds on
Wool--Mordanting of Wool--Orange Shades on Wool--Yellow Shades on
Wool--Green Shades on Wool--Blue Shades on Wool--Violet Shades on
Wool--Brown Shades on Wool--Mode Colours on Wool--Dyeing Union (Mixed
Cotton Wool) Fabrics--Dyeing of Gloria--Operations following Dyeing--
Washing, Soaping, Drying--Experimental Dyeing and Comparative Dye
Testing--Testing of the Colour of Dyed Fabrics--Index.
Bleaching and Washing.
A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE BLEACHING OF LINEN AND COTTON YARN AND
FABRICS. By L. TAILFER, Chemical and Mechanical Engineer. Translated from
the French by JOHN GEDDES MCINTOSH. Demy 8vo. 303 pp. Twenty Illusts.
1901. Price 12s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 13s. 6d.; Other Countries, 15s.;
strictly net.
Contents.
General Considerations on Bleaching--Steeping--Washing: Its End and
Importance--Roller Washing Machines--Wash Wheel (Dash Wheel)--Stocks
or Wash Mill--Squeezing--Lye Boiling--Lye Boiling with Milk of Lime--
Lye Boiling with Soda Lyes--Description of Lye Boiling Keirs--
Operations of Lye Boiling--Concentration of Lyes--Mather and Platt's
Keir--Description of the Keir--Saturation of the Fabrics--Alkali used
in Lye Boiling--Examples of Processes--Soap--Action of Soap in
Bleaching--Quality and Quantity of Soaps to use in the Lye--Soap Lyes
or Scalds--Soap Scouring Stocks--Bleaching on Grass or on the
Bleaching Green or Lawn--Chemicking--Remarks on Chlorides and their
Decolourising Action--Chemicking Cisterns--Chemicking--Strengths,
etc.--Sours--Properties of the Acids--Effects Produced by Acids--
Souring Cisterns--Drying--Drying by Steam--Drying by Hot Air--Drying
by Air--Damages to Fabrics in Bleaching--Yarn Mildew--Fermentation--
Iron Rust Spots--Spots from Contact with Wood--Spots incurred on the
Bleaching Green--Damages arising from the Machines--Examples of
Methods used in Bleaching--Linen--Cotton--The Valuation of Caustic
and Carbonated Alkali (Soda) and General Information Regarding these
Bodies--Object of Alkalimetry--Titration of Carbonate of Soda--
Comparative Table of Different Degrees of Alkalimetrical Strength--
Five Problems relative to Carbonate of Soda--Caustic Soda, its
Properties and Uses--Mixtures of Carbonated and Caustic Alkali--Note
on a Process of Manufacturing Caustic Soda and Mixtures of Caustic and
Carbonated Alkali (Soda)--Chlorometry--Titration--Wagner's
Chlorometric Method--Preparation of Standard Solutions--Apparatus for
Chlorine Valuation--Alkali in Excess in Decolourising Chlorides--
Chlorine and Decolourising Chlorides--Synopsis--Chlorine--Chloride of
Lime--Hypochlorite of Soda--Brochoki's Chlorozone--Various
Decolourising Hypochlorites--Comparison of Chloride of Lime and
Hypochlorite of Soda--Water--Qualities of Water--Hardness--Dervaux's
Purifier--Testing the Purified Water--Different Plant for
Purification--Filters--Bleaching of Yarn--Weight of Yarn--Lye
Boiling--Chemicking--Washing--Bleaching of Cotton Yarn--The
Installation of a Bleach Works--Water Supply--Steam Boilers--Steam
Distribution Pipes--Engines--Keirs--Washing--Machines--Stocks--Wash
Wheels--Chemicking and Souring Cisterns--Various--Buildings--Addenda--
Energy of Decolourising Chlorides and Bleaching by Electricity and
Ozone--Energy of Decolourising Chlorides--Chlorides--Production of
Chlorine and Hypochlorites by Electrolysis--Lunge's Process for
increasing the intensity of the Bleaching Power of Chloride of Lime--
Trilfer's Process for Removing the Excess of Lime or Soda from
Decolourising Chlorides--Bleaching by Ozone.
Cotton Spinning and Combing.
COTTON SPINNING (First Year). By THOMAS THORNLEY, Spinning Master, Bolton
Technical School. 160 pp. Eighty-four Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 1901.
Price 3s.; Abroad, 3s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Syllabus and Examination Papers of the City and Guilds of London
Institute--Cultivation, Classification, Ginning, Baling and Mixing of
the Raw Cotton--Bale-Breakers, Mixing Lattices and Hopper Feeders--
Opening and Scutching--Carding--Indexes.
COTTON SPINNING (Intermediate, or Second Year). By THOMAS THORNLEY. 180
pp. Seventy Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 1901. Price 5s.; India and British
Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Syllabuses and Examination Papers of the City and Guilds of London
Institute--The Combing Process--The Drawing Frame--Bobbin and Fly
Frames--Mule Spinning--Ring Spinning--General Indexes.
COTTON SPINNING (Honours, or Third Year). By THOMAS THORNLEY. 216 pp.
Seventy-four Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 1901. Price 5s.; India and British
Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Syllabuses and Examination Papers of the City and Guilds of London
Institute--Cotton--The Practical Manipulation of Cotton Spinning
Machinery--Doubling and Winding--Reeling--Warping--Production and
Costs--Main Driving--Arrangement of Machinery and Mill Planning--Waste
and Waste Spinning--Indexes.
COTTON COMBING MACHINES. By THOS. THORNLEY, Spinning Master, Technical
School, Bolton. Demy 8vo. 117 Illustrations. 300 pp. 1902. Price 7s. 6d.;
India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d. net.
Contents.
The Sliver Lap Machine and the Ribbon Cap Machine--General Description
of the Heilmann Comber--The Cam Shaft--On the Detaching and Attaching
Mechanism of the Comber--Resetting of Combers--The Erection of a
Heilmann Comber--Stop Motions: Various Calculations--Various Notes and
Discussions--Cotton Combing Machines of Continental Make--Index.
Collieries and Mines.
RECOVERY WORK AFTER PIT FIRES. By ROBERT LAMPRECHT, Mining Engineer and
Manager. Translated from the German. Illustrated by Six large Plates,
containing Seventy-six Illustrations. 175 pp., demy 8vo. 1901. Price 10s.
6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Causes of Pit Fires--Preventive Regulations: (1) The Outbreak and
Rapid Extension of a Shaft Fire can be most reliably prevented by
Employing little or no Combustible Material in the Construction of the
Shaft; (2) Precautions for Rapidly Localising an Outbreak of Fire in
the Shaft; (3) Precautions to be Adopted in case those under 1 and 2
Fail or Prove Inefficient. Precautions against Spontaneous Ignition of
Coal. Precautions for Preventing Explosions of Fire-damp and Coal
Dust. Employment of Electricity in Mining, particularly in Fiery Pits.
Experiments on the Ignition of Fire-damp Mixtures and Clouds of Coal
Dust by Electricity--Indications of an Existing or Incipient Fire--
Appliances for Working in Irrespirable Gases: Respiratory Apparatus;
Apparatus with Air Supply Pipes; Reservoir Apparatus; Oxygen
Apparatus--Extinguishing Pit Fires: (_a_) Chemical Means; (_b_)
Extinction with Water. Dragging down the Burning Masses and Packing
with Clay; (_c_) Insulating the Seat of the Fire by Dams. Dam
Building. Analyses of Fire Gases. Isolating the Seat of a Fire with
Dams: Working in Irrespirable Gases ("Gas-diving"): Air-Lock Work.
Complete Isolation of the Pit. Flooding a Burning Section isolated by
means of Dams. Wooden Dams; Masonry Dams. Examples of Cylindrical and
Dome-shaped Dams, Dam Doors: Flooding the Whole Pit--Rescue Stations:
(_a_) Stations above Ground; (_b_) Underground Rescue Stations--
Spontaneous Ignition of Coal in Bulk--Index.
VENTILATION IN MINES. By ROBERT WABNER, Mining Engineer. Translated from
the German. Royal 8vo. Thirty Plates and Twenty-two Illustrations. 240 pp.
1903. Price 10s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.;
strictly net.
Contents.
The Causes of the Contamination of Pit Air--The Means of Preventing
the Dangers resulting from the Contamination of Pit Air--Calculating
the Volume of Ventilating Current necessary to free Pit Air from
Contamination--Determination of the Resistance Opposed to the Passage
of Air through the Pit--Laws of Resistance and Formulæ therefor--
Fluctuations in the Temperament or Specific Resistance of a Pit--Means
for Providing a Ventilating Current in the Pit--Mechanical
Ventilation--Ventilators and Fans--Determining the Theoretical,
Initial, and True (Effective) Depression of the Centrifugal Fan--New
Types of Centrifugal Fan of Small Diameter and High Working Speed--
Utilising the Ventilating Current to the utmost Advantage and
distributing the same through the Workings--Artificially retarding the
Ventilating Current--Ventilating Preliminary Workings--Blind
Headings--Separate Ventilation--Supervision of Ventilation--INDEX.
HAULAGE AND WINDING APPLIANCES USED IN MINES. By CARL VOLK. Translated
from the German. Royal 8vo. With Six Plates and 148 Illustrations. 150 pp.
1903. Price 8s. 6d.; Colonies, 9s.; Other Countries, 9s. 6d.; strictly
net.
Contents.
Haulage Appliances--Ropes--Haulage Tubs and Tracks--Cages and Winding
Appliances--Winding Engines for Vertical Shafts--Winding without
Ropes--Haulage in Levels and Inclines--The Working of Underground
Engines--Machinery for Downhill Haulage.
Dental Metallurgy.
DENTAL METALLURGY: MANUAL FOR STUDENTS AND DENTISTS. By A. B. GRIFFITHS,
Ph.D. Demy 8vo. Thirty-six Illustrations. 1903. 200 pp. Price 7s. 6d.;
India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Introduction--Physical Properties of the Metals--Action of Certain
Agents on Metals--Alloys--Action of Oral Bacteria on Alloys--Theory
and Varieties of Blowpipes--Fluxes--Furnaces and Appliances--Heat and
Temperature--Gold--Mercury--Silver--Iron--Copper--Zinc--Magnesium--
Cadmium--Tin--Lead--Aluminium--Antimony--Bismuth--Palladium--
Platinum--Iridium--Nickel--Practical Work--Weights and Measures.
Engineering, Smoke Prevention and Metallurgy.
THE PREVENTION OF SMOKE. Combined with the Economical Combustion of Fuel.
By W. C. POPPLEWELL, M.Sc., A.M.Inst., C.E., Consulting Engineer.
Forty-six Illustrations. 190 pp. 1901. Demy 8vo. Price 7s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Fuel and Combustion--Hand Firing in Boiler Furnaces--Stoking by
Mechanical Means--Powdered Fuel--Gaseous Fuel--Efficiency and Smoke
Tests of Boilers--Some Standard Smoke Trials--The Legal Aspect of the
Smoke Question--The Best Means to be adopted for the Prevention of
Smoke--Index.
GAS AND COAL DUST FIRING. A Critical Review of the Various Appliances
Patented in Germany for this purpose since 1885. By ALBERT PÜTSCH. 130 pp.
Demy 8vo. 1901. Translated from the German. With 103 Illustrations. Price
7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Generators--Generators Employing Steam--Stirring and Feed Regulating
Appliances--Direct Generators--Burners--Regenerators and
Recuperators--Glass Smelting Furnaces--Metallurgical Furnaces--Pottery
Furnace--Coal Dust Firing--Index.
THE HARDENING AND TEMPERING OF STEEL IN THEORY AND PRACTICE. By FRIDOLIN
REISER. Translated from the German of the Third Edition. Crown 8vo. 120
pp. 1903. Price 5s.; India and British Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries,
6s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Steel--Chemical and Physical Properties of Steel, and their Casual
Connection--Classification of Steel according to Use--Testing the
Quality of Steel--Steel-Hardening--Investigation of the Causes of
Failure in Hardening--Regeneration of Steel Spoilt in the
Furnace--Welding Steel--Index.
SIDEROLOGY: THE SCIENCE OF IRON (The Constitution of Iron Alloys and
Slags). Translated from German of HANNS FREIHERR V. JÜPTNER. 350 pp. Demy
8vo. Eleven Plates and Ten Illustrations. 1902. Price 10s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; net.
Contents.
The Theory of Solution.--Solutions--Molten Alloys--Varieties of
Solutions--Osmotic Pressure--Relation between Osmotic Pressure and
other Properties of Solutions--Osmotic Pressure and Molecular Weight
of the Dissolved Substance--Solutions of Gases--Solid Solutions--
Solubility--Diffusion--Electrical Conductivity--Constitution of
Electrolytes and Metals--Thermal Expansion. Micrography.--
Microstructure--The Micrographic Constituents of Iron--Relation
between Micrographical Composition, Carbon-Content, and Thermal
Treatment of Iron Alloys--The Microstructure of Slags. Chemical
Composition of the Alloys of Iron.--Constituents of Iron Alloys--
Carbon--Constituents of the Iron Alloys, Carbon--Opinions and
Researches on Combined Carbon--Opinions and Researches on Combined
Carbon--Applying the Curves of Solution deduced from the Curves of
Recalescence to the Determination of the Chemical Composition of the
Carbon present in Iron Alloys--The Constituents of Iron--Iron--The
Constituents of Iron Alloys--Manganese--Remaining Constituents of Iron
Alloys--A Silicon--Gases. The Chemical Composition of Slag.--Silicate
Slags--Calculating the Composition of Silicate Slags--Phosphate
Slags--Oxide Slags--Appendix--Index.
EVAPORATING, CONDENSING AND COOLING APPARATUS. Explanations, Formulæ and
Tables for Use in Practice. By E. HAUSBRAND, Engineer. Translated by A. C.
WRIGHT, M.A. (Oxon.), B.Sc. (Lond.). With Twenty-one Illustrations and
Seventy-six Tables. 400 pp. Demy 8vo. 1903. Price 10s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; net.
Contents.
_Re_Coefficient of Transmission of Heat, k/, and the Mean Temperature
Difference, [Greek: th]/m--Parallel and Opposite Currents--Apparatus
for Heating with Direct Fire--The Injection of Saturated Steam--
Superheated Steam--Evaporation by Means of Hot Liquids--The
Transference of Heat in General, and Transference by means of
Saturated Steam in Particular--The Transference of Heat from Saturated
Steam in Pipes (Coils) and Double Bottoms--Evaporation in a
Vacuum--The Multiple-effect Evaporator--Multiple-effect Evaporators
from which Extra Steam is Taken--The Weight of Water which must be
Evaporated from 100 Kilos. of Liquor in order its Original Percentage
of Dry Materials from 1-25 per cent. up to 20-70 per cent.--The
Relative Proportion of the Heating Surfaces in the Elements of the
Multiple Evaporator and their Actual Dimensions--The Pressure Exerted
by Currents of Steam and Gas upon Floating Drops of Water--The Motion
of Floating Drops of Water upon which Press Currents of Steam--The
Splashing of Evaporating Liquids--The Diameter of Pipes for Steam,
Alcohol, Vapour and Air--The Diameter of Water Pipes--The Loss of Heat
from Apparatus and Pipes to the Surrounding Air, and Means for
Preventing the Loss--Condensers--Heating Liquids by Means of Steam--
The Cooling of Liquids--The Volumes to be Exhausted from Condensers by
the Air-pumps--A Few Remarks on Air-pumps and the Vacua they Produce--
The Volumetric Efficiency of Air-pumps--The Volumes of Air which must
be Exhausted from a Vessel in order to Reduce its Original Pressure to
a Certain Lower Pressure--Index.
Plumbing, Decorating, Metal Work, etc., etc.
EXTERNAL PLUMBING WORK. A Treatise on Lead Work for Roofs. By JOHN W.
HART, R.P.C. 180 Illustrations. 272 pp. Demy 8vo. Second Edition Revised.
1902. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.;
strictly net.
Contents.
Cast Sheet Lead--Milled Sheet Lead--Roof Cesspools--Socket Pipes--
Drips-Gutters--Gutters (continued)--Breaks--Circular Breaks--Flats--
Flats (continued)--Rolls on Flats--Roll Ends--Roll Intersections--
Seam Rolls--Seam Rolls (continued)--Tack Fixings--Step Flashings--Step
Flashings (continued)--Secret Gutters--Soakers--Hip and Valley
Soakers--Dormer Windows--Dormer Windows (continued)--Dormer Tops--
Internal Dormers--Skylights--Hips and Ridging--Hips and Ridging
(continued)--Fixings for Hips and Ridging--Ornamental Ridging--
Ornamental Curb Rolls--Curb Rolls--Cornices--Towers and Finials--
Towers and Finials (continued)--Towers and Finials (continued)--
Domes--Domes (continued)--Ornamental Lead Work--Rain Water Heads--Rain
Water Heads (continued)--Rain Water Heads (continued).
HINTS TO PLUMBERS ON JOINT WIPING, PIPE BENDING AND LEAD BURNING. Third
Edition, Revised and Corrected. By JOHN W. HART, R.P.C. 184 Illustrations.
313 pp. Demy 8vo. 1901. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other
Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Pipe Bending--Pipe Bending (continued)--Pipe Bending (continued)--
Square Pipe Bendings--Half-circular Elbows--Curved Bends on Square
Pipe--Bossed Bends--Curved Plinth Bends--Rain-water Shoes on Square
Pipe--Curved and Angle Bends--Square Pipe Fixings--Joint-wiping--
Substitutes for Wiped Joints--Preparing Wiped Joints--Joint Fixings--
Plumbing Irons--Joint Fixings--Use of "Touch" in Soldering--Underhand
Joints--Blown and Copper Bit Joints--Branch Joints--Branch Joints
(continued)--Block Joints--Block Joints (continued)--Block Fixings--
Astragal Joints--Pipe Fixings--Large Branch Joints--Large Underhand
Joints--Solders--Autogenous Soldering or Lead Burning--Index.
WORKSHOP WRINKLES for Decorators, Painters, Paper-hangers and Others. By
W. N. BROWN. Crown 8vo. 128 pp. 1901. Price 2s. 6d.; Abroad, 3s.; strictly
net.
SANITARY PLUMBING AND DRAINAGE. By JOHN W. HART. Demy 8vo. With 208
Illustrations. 250 pp. 1904. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other
Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Sanitary Surveys--Drain Testing--Drain Testing with Smoke--Testing
Drains with Water--Drain Plugs for Testing--Sanitary Defects--
Closets--Baths and Lavatories--House Drains--Manholes--Iron Soil
Pipes--Lead Soil Pipes--Ventilating Pipes--Water-closets--Flushing
Cisterns--Baths--Bath Fittings--Lavatories--Lavatory Fittings--Sinks--
Waste Pipes--Water Supply--Ball Valves--Town House Sanitary
Arrangements--Drainage--Jointing Pipes--Accessible Drains--Iron
Drains--Iron Junctions--Index.
THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF DIPPING, BURNISHING, LACQUERING AND
BRONZING BRASS WARE. By W. NORMAN BROWN. 35 pp. Crown 8vo. 1900. Price
2s.; Abroad, 2s. 6d.; strictly net.
HOUSE DECORATING AND PAINTING. By W. NORMAN BROWN. Eighty-eight
Illustrations. 150 pp. Crown 8vo. 1900. Price 3s. 6d.; India and Colonies,
4s.; Other Countries, 4s. 6d.; strictly net.
A HISTORY OF DECORATIVE ART. By W. NORMAN BROWN. Thirty-nine
Illustrations. 96 pp. Crown 8vo. 1900. Price 2s. 6d.; Abroad, 3s.;
strictly net.
A HANDBOOK ON JAPANNING AND ENAMELLING FOR CYCLES, BEDSTEADS, TINWARE,
ETC. By WILLIAM NORMAN BROWN. 52 pp. and Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 1901.
Price 2s.; Abroad, 2s. 6d.; net.
THE PRINCIPLES OF HOT WATER SUPPLY. By JOHN W. HART, R.P.C. With 129
Illustrations. 1900. 177 pp., demy 8vo. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies,
8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net.
Contents.
Water Circulation--The Tank System--Pipes and Joints--The Cylinder
System--Boilers for the Cylinder System--The Cylinder System--The
Combined Tank and Cylinder System--Combined Independent and Kitchen
Boiler--Combined Cylinder and Tank System with Duplicate Boilers--
Indirect Heating and Boiler Explosions--Pipe Boilers--Safety Valves--
Safety Valves--The American System--Heating Water by Steam--Steam
Kettles and Jets--Heating Power of Steam--Covering for Hot Water
Pipes--Index.
Brewing and Botanical.
HOPS IN THEIR BOTANICAL, AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL ASPECT, AND AS AN
ARTICLE OF COMMERCE. By EMMANUEL GROSS, Professor at the Higher
Agricultural College, Tetschen-Liebwerd. Translated from the German.
Seventy-eight Illustrations. 1900. 340 pp. Demy 8vo. Price 12s. 6d.; India
and Colonies, 13s. 6d.; Other Countries, 15s.; strictly net.
Contents.
HISTORY OF THE HOP--THE HOP PLANT--Introductory--The Roots--The Stem--
and Leaves--Inflorescence and Flower: Inflorescence and Flower of the
Male Hop; Inflorescence and Flower of the Female Hop--The Fruit and
its Glandular Structure: The Fruit and Seed--Propagation and Selection
of the Hop--Varieties of the Hop: (_a_) Red Hops; (_b_) Green Hops;
(_c_) Pale Green Hops--Classification according to the Period of
Ripening: Early August Hops; Medium Early Hops; Late Hops--Injuries to
Growth--Leaves Turning Yellow, Summer or Sunbrand, Cones Dropping Off,
Honey Dew, Damage from Wind, Hail and Rain; Vegetable Enemies of the
Hop; Animal Enemies of the Hop--Beneficial Insects on Hops--
CULTIVATION--The Requirements of the Hop in Respect of Climate, Soil
and Situation; Climate; Soil; Situation--Selection of Variety and
Cuttings--Planting a Hop Garden; Drainage; Preparing the Ground;
Marking-out for Planting; Planting; Cultivation and Cropping of the
Hop Garden in the First Year--Work to be Performed Annually in the Hop
Garden; Working the Ground; Cutting; The Non-cutting System; The
Proper Performance of the Operation of Cutting; Method of Cutting:
Close Cutting, Ordinary Cutting, The Long Cut, The Topping Cut; Proper
Season for Cutting: Autumn Cutting, Spring Cutting; Manuring; Training
the Hop Plant: Poled Gardens, Frame Training; Principal Types of
Frames; Pruning, Cropping, Topping, and Leaf Stripping the Hop Plant;
Picking, Drying and Bagging--Principal and Subsidiary Utilisation of
Hops and Hop Gardens--Life of a Hop Garden; Subsequent Cropping--Cost
of Production, Yield and Selling Prices.
Preservation and Storage--Physical and Chemical Structure of the Hop
Cone--Judging the Value of Hops.
Statistics of Production--The Hop Trade--Index.
Timber and Wood Waste.
TIMBER: A Comprehensive Study of Wood in all its Aspects (Commercial and
Botanical), showing the Different Applications and Uses of Timber in
Various Trades, etc. Translated from the French of PAUL CHARPENTIER. Royal
8vo. 437 pp. 178 Illustrations. 1902. Price 12s. 6d.; India and Colonies,
13s. 6d.; Other Countries, 15s.; net.
Contents.
Physical and Chemical Properties of Timber--Composition of the
Vegetable Bodies--Chief Elements--M. Fremy's Researches--Elementary
Organs of Plants and especially of Forests--Different Parts of Wood
Anatomically and Chemically Considered--General Properties of Wood--
Description of the Different Kinds of Wood--Principal Essences with
Caducous Leaves--Coniferous Resinous Trees--Division of the Useful
Varieties of Timber in the Different Countries of the Globe--European
Timber--African Timber--Asiatic Timber--American Timber--Timber of
Oceania--Forests--General Notes as to Forests; their Influence--
Opinions as to Sylviculture--Improvement of Forests--Unwooding and
Rewooding--Preservation of Forests--Exploitation of Forests--Damage
caused to Forests--Different Alterations--The Preservation of Timber--
Generalities--Causes and Progress of Deterioration--History of
Different Proposed Processes--Dessication--Superficial Carbonisation
of Timber--Processes by Immersion--Generalities as to Antiseptics
Employed--Injection Processes in Closed Vessels--The Boucherie System,
Based upon the Displacement of the Sap--Processes for Making Timber
Uninflammable--Applications of Timber--Generalities--Working Timber--
Paving--Timber for Mines--Railway Traverses--Accessory Products--
Gums--Works of M. Fremy--Resins--Barks--Tan--Application of Cork--The
Application of Wood to Art and Dyeing--Different Applications of
Wood--Hard Wood--Distillation of Wood--Pyroligneous Acid--Oil of
Wood--Distillation of Resins--Index.
THE UTILISATION OF WOOD WASTE. Translated from the German of ERNST
HUBBARD. Crown 8vo. 192 pp. 1902. Fifty Illustrations. Price 5s.; India
and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; net.
Contents.
General Remarks on the Utilisation of Sawdust--Employment of Sawdust
as Fuel, with and without Simultaneous Recovery of Charcoal and the
Products of Distillation--Manufacture of Oxalic Acid from Sawdust--
Process with Soda Lye; Thorn's Process; Bohlig's Process--Manufacture
of Spirit (Ethyl Alcohol) from Wood Waste--Patent Dyes (Organic
Sulphides, Sulphur Dyes, or Mercapto Dyes)--Artificial Wood and
Plastic Compositions from Sawdust--Production of Artificial Wood
Compositions for Moulded Decorations--Employment of Sawdust for
Blasting Powders and Gunpowders--Employment of Sawdust for
Briquettes--Employment of Sawdust in the Ceramic Industry and as an
Addition to Mortar--Manufacture of Paper Pulp from Wood--Casks--
Various Applications of Sawdust and Wood Refuse--Calcium Carbide--
Manure--Wood Mosaic Plaques--Bottle Stoppers--Parquetry--
Fire-lighters--Carborundum--The Production of Wood Wool--Bark--Index.
Building and Architecture.
THE PREVENTION OF DAMPNESS IN BUILDINGS; with Remarks on the Causes,
Nature and Effects of Saline, Efflorescences and Dry-rot, for Architects,
Builders, Overseers, Plasterers, Painters and House Owners. By ADOLF
WILHELM KEIM. Translated from the German of the second revised Edition by
M. J. SALTER, F.I.C., F.C.S. Eight Coloured Plates and Thirteen
Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 115 pp. 1902. Price 5s.; India and Colonies, 5s.
6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; net.
Contents.
The Various Causes of Dampness and Decay of the Masonry of Buildings,
and the Structural and Hygienic Evils of the Same--Precautionary
Measures during Building against Dampness and Efflorescence--Methods
of Remedying Dampness and Efflorescences in the Walls of Old
Buildings--The Artificial Drying of New Houses, as well as Old Damp
Dwellings, and the Theory of the Hardening of Mortar--New, Certain and
Permanently Efficient Methods for Drying Old Damp Walls and
Dwellings--The Cause and Origin of Dry-rot: its Injurious Effect on
Health, its Destructive Action on Buildings, and its Successful
Repression--Methods of Preventing Dry-rot to be Adopted During
Construction--Old Methods of Preventing Dry-rot--Recent and More
Efficient Remedies for Dry-rot--Index.
HANDBOOK OF TECHNICAL TERMS USED IN ARCHITECTURE AND BUILDING, AND THEIR
ALLIED TRADES AND SUBJECTS. By AUGUSTINE C. PASSMORE. Demy 8vo. 380 pp.
1904. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.;
strictly net.
Foods and Sweetmeats.
THE MANUFACTURE OF PRESERVED FOODS AND SWEETMEATS. By A. HAUSNER. With
Twenty-eight Illustrations. Translated from the German of the third
enlarged Edition. Crown 8vo. 225 pp. 1902. Price 7s. 6d.; India and
Colonies, 8s.; Other Countries, 8s. 6d.; net.
Contents.
The Manufacture of Conserves--Introduction--The Causes of the
Putrefaction of Food--The Chemical Composition of Foods--The Products
of Decomposition--The Causes of Fermentation and Putrefaction--
Preservative Bodies--The Various Methods of Preserving Food--The
Preservation of Animal Food--Preserving Meat by Means of Ice--The
Preservation of Meat by Charcoal--Preservation of Meat by Drying--The
Preservation of Meat by the Exclusion of Air--The Appert Method--
Preserving Flesh by Smoking--Quick Smoking--Preserving Meat with
Salt--Quick Salting by Air Pressure--Quick Salting by Liquid
Pressure--Gamgee's Method of Preserving Meat--The Preservation of
Eggs--Preservation of White and Yolk of Egg--Milk Preservation--
Condensed Milk--The Preservation of Fat--Manufacture of Soup Tablets--
Meat Biscuits--Extract of Beef--The Preservation of Vegetable Foods in
General--Compressing Vegetables--Preservation of Vegetables by
Appert's Method--The Preservation of Fruit--Preservation of Fruit by
Storage--The Preservation of Fruit by Drying--Drying Fruit by
Artificial Heat--Roasting Fruit--The Preservation of Fruit with
Sugar--Boiled Preserved Fruit--The Preservation of Fruit in Spirit,
Acetic Acid or Glycerine--Preservation of Fruit without Boiling--Jam
Manufacture--The Manufacture of Fruit Jellies--The Making of Gelatine
Jellies--The Manufacture of "Sulzen"--The Preservation of Fermented
Beverages--The Manufacture of Candies--Introduction--The Manufacture
of Candied Fruit--The Manufacture of Boiled Sugar and Caramel--The
Candying of Fruit--Caramelised Fruit--The Manufacture of Sugar Sticks,
or Barley Sugar--Bonbon Making--Fruit Drops--The Manufacture of
Dragées--The Machinery and Appliances used in Candy Manufacture--
Dyeing Candies and Bonbons--Essential Oils used in Candy Making--Fruit
Essences--The Manufacture of Filled Bonbons, Liqueur Bonbons and
Stamped Lozenges--Recipes for Jams and Jellies--Recipes for Bonbon
Making--Dragées--Appendix--Index.
Dyeing Fancy Goods.
THE ART OF DYEING AND STAINING MARBLE, ARTIFICIAL STONE, BONE, HORN, IVORY
AND WOOD, AND OF IMITATING ALL SORTS OF WOOD. A Practical Handbook for the
Use of Joiners, Turners, Manufacturers of Fancy Goods, Stick and Umbrella
Makers, Comb Makers, etc. Translated from the German of D. H. SOXHLET,
Technical Chemist. Crown 8vo. 168 pp. 1902. Price 5s.; India and Colonies,
5s. 6d.; Other Countries, 6s.; net.
Contents.
Mordants and Stains--Natural Dyes--Artificial Pigments--Coal Tar
Dyes--Staining Marble and Artificial Stone--Dyeing, Bleaching and
Imitation of Bone, Horn and Ivory--Imitation of Tortoiseshell for
Combs: Yellows, Dyeing Nuts--Ivory--Wood Dyeing--Imitation of
Mahogany: Dark Walnut, Oak, Birch-Bark, Elder-Marquetry, Walnut,
Walnut-Marquetry, Mahogany, Spanish Mahogany, Palisander and Rose
Wood, Tortoiseshell, Oak, Ebony, Pear Tree--Black Dyeing Processes
with Penetrating Colours--Varnishes and Polishes: English Furniture
Polish, Vienna Furniture Polish, Amber Varnish, Copal Varnish,
Composition for Preserving Furniture--Index.
Lithography, Printing and Engraving.
PRACTICAL LITHOGRAPHY. By ALFRED SEYMOUR. Demy 8vo. With Frontispiece and
33 Illus. 120 pp. 1903. Price 5s.; Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other Countries,
6s.; net.
Contents.
Stones--Transfer Inks--Transfer Papers--Transfer Printing--Litho
Press--Press Work--Machine Printing--Colour Printing--Substitutes for
Lithographic Stones--Tin Plate Printing and Decoration--
Photo-Lithography.
PRINTERS' AND STATIONERS' READY RECKONER AND COMPENDIUM. Compiled by
VICTOR GRAHAM. Crown 8vo. 112 pp. 1904. Price 3s. 6d.; India and Colonies,
4s.; Other Countries, 4s. 6d.; strictly net, post free.
Contents.
Price of Paper per Sheet, Quire, Ream and Lb.--Cost of 100 to 1000
Sheets at various Sizes and Prices per Ream--Cost of Cards--Quantity
Table--Sizes and Weights of Paper, Cards, etc.--Notes on Account
Books--Discount Tables--Sizes of spaces--Leads to a lb.--Dictionary--
Measure for Bookwork--Correcting Proofs, etc.
ENGRAVING FOR ILLUSTRATION. HISTORICAL AND PRACTICAL NOTES. By J.
KIRKBRIDE. 72 pp. Two Plates and 6 Illustrations. Crown 8vo. 1903. Price
2s. 6d.; Abroad, 3s.; strictly net.
Contents.
Its Inception--Wood Engraving--Metal Engraving--Engraving in England--
Etching--Mezzotint--Photo-Process Engraving--The Engraver's Task--
Appreciative Criticism--Index.
Bookbinding.
PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. By PAUL ADAM. Translated from the German. Crown
8vo. 180 pp. 127 Illustrations. 1903. Price 5s.; Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other
Countries, 6s.; net.
Contents.
Materials for Sewing and Pasting--Materials for Covering the Book--
Materials for Decorating and Finishing--Tools--General Preparatory
Work--Sewing--Forwarding, Cutting, Rounding and Backing--Forwarding,
Decoration of Edges and Headbanding--Boarding--Preparing the Cover--
Work with the Blocking Press--Treatment of Sewn Books, Fastening in
Covers, and Finishing Off--Handtooling and Other Decoration--Account
Books--School Books, Mounting Maps, Drawings, etc.--Index.
Sugar Refining.
THE TECHNOLOGY OF SUGAR: Practical Treatise on the Modern Methods of
Manufacture of Sugar from the Sugar Cane and Sugar Beet. By JOHN GEDDES
MCINTOSH. Demy 8vo. 83 Illustrations. 420 pp. Seventy-six Tables. 1903.
Price 10s. 6d.; Colonies, 11s.; Other Countries, 12s.; net.
(_See "Evaporating, Condensing, etc., Apparatus," p. 27._)
Contents.
Chemistry of Sucrose, Lactose, Maltose, Glucose, Invert Sugar,
etc.--Purchase and Analysis of Beets--Treatment of Beets--Diffusion--
Filtration--Concentration--Evaporation--Sugar Cane: Cultivation--
Milling--Diffusion--Sugar Refining--Analysis of Raw Sugars--Chemistry
of Molasses, etc.
Bibliography.
CLASSIFIED GUIDE TO TECHNICAL AND COMMERCIAL BOOKS. Compiled by EDGAR
GREENWOOD. Demy 8vo. 224 pp. 1904. Being a Subject-list of the Principal
British and American Books in print; giving Title, Author, Size, Date,
Publisher and Price. Price 7s. 6d.; India and Colonies, 8s.; Other
Countries, 8s. 6d.; strictly net, post free.
Contents.
1. Agriculture and Farming--Agricultural Chemistry--Bee-keeping--
Cattle, Pigs, Sheep--Dairy and Dairy Work--Feeding Animals--Forestry--
Fruit Growing--Irrigation--Manures--Poultry Farming. 2. Air, Aerial
Navigation. 3. Architecture and Building. 4. Art--Lettering--
Modelling--Ornament--Painting--Perspective. 5. Arts and Crafts,
Amateur Work. 6. Auction Sales. 7. Banking. 8. Book and Newspaper
Production, Papermaking, Printing--Bookbinding--Bookselling--
Copyright--Journalism--Lithography--Papermaking--Printing,
Typography--Process Work--Stationery. 9. Brewing and Distilling. 10.
Cabinet-making. 11. Calculators, Ready Reckoners, Discount Tables. 12.
Carpentry and Joinery. 13. Chemicals, Chemistry. 14. Coachbuilding.
15. Commerce, Business. 16. Dams, Docks, Harbours. 17. Dogs. 18.
Domestic Economy--Cookery--Dressmaking--Laundry--Millinery. 19.
Electricity--Alternating Currents--Dynamos--Electric Heating--Electric
Lighting--Electric Traction--Telegraphy--Telephones--Wireless
Telegraphy. 20. Elocution, Voice Production. 21. Engineering and Metal
Work--Architectural Engineering--Blacksmithing--Boilers--Bridges--
Civil Engineering--Fuel, Smoke--Galvanising, Tinning--Gas, Oil and Air
Engines--Hardware--Hydraulic Engineering--Indicators--Injectors--Iron
and Steel--Ironfounding--Lathes, Tools--Locomotives--Machine
Construction and Design--Marine Engineering--Mechanical Engineering--
Metal Work--Pattern Making--Pipes--Power Transmission--Pumps--
Refrigeration--Saw Filing--Screw Cutting--Steam Engine--Strains and
Stresses--Turbines. 22. Factories and Workshops. 23. Financial--
Investments--Stockbroking. 24. Foods and Beverages--Adulteration and
Analysis--Bread--Cakes--Fish--Flour, Grain--Food and Drug Acts--Tea.
25. Foreign Exchange Tables, Metric System. 26. Foreign Languages. 27.
Gardening, Flowers. 28. Gas--Acetylene--Gas Fitting--Gas Lighting and
Supply. 29. Glass. 30. Glues, Inks, Pastes. 31. Horses. 32. Hospitals,
Nursing. 33. House Decoration. 34. Hygiene, Public Health--
Bacteriology--Hygiene--Public Health--Sanitary Inspection--Sewage and
Sewerage. 35. India-Rubber. 36. Insurance. 37. Jewellery, Silver and
Goldsmith's Work. 38. Land, Property. 39. Leather Trades. 40. Legal--
Arbitration--Bankruptcy Law--Commercial Law--Contract Law--
Solicitors--Stamp Duties--Trustee Law--Wills. 41. Metallurgy. 42.
Military. 43. Mining, Quarrying. 44. Motor Cars and Cycles. 45. Music.
46. Nautical, Navigation. 46a. Navy. 47. Oils, Fats. 48. Optical,
Microscopy, Instruments. 49. Paints, Colours, Varnishes. 50. Patents,
Trade Marks. 51. Photography. 52. Physics. 53. Physical Training. 54.
Plumbing, Heating, Ventilation. 55. Pottery, China, Bricks. 56. Public
Meetings, Elections, Taxes. 57. Railways and Tramways--Construction of
Railways--Carriage and Wagon Building--Law of Railways--Light
Railways--Management. 58. Rivers, Canals. 59. Roads, Highways. 60.
Shopkeeping, Ticket Writing. 61. Shorthand, Typewriting. 62. Soaps,
Candles. 63. Building, Co-operative and Friendly Societies. 64.
Surveying. 65. Teaching, Education. 66. Telegraph Codes. 67. Textile
Trades. 68. Timber. 69. Veterinary. 70. Watches, Clocks. 71. Water.
Subject Index.
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