MAY, 1904.
Catalogue
OF
Special Technical Works
FOR
MANUFACTURERS, STUDENTS, AND TECHNICAL
SCHOOLS
BY EXPERT WRITERS
INDEX TO SUBJECTS.
PAGE
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
Cosmetics, 7
Cotton Dyeing, 22
Cotton Spinning, 24
Damask Weaving, 20
Dampness in Buildings, 30
Decorators' Books, 28
Decorative Textiles, 20
Dental Metallurgy, 27
Dictionary of Paint Materials, 3
Drying Oils, 5
Drying with Air, 11
Dyeing Marble, 31
Dyeing Woollen Fabrics, 22
Dyers' Materials, 21
Dye-stuffs, 23
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, 3
Lead and its Compounds, 11
Leather Industry, 13
Leather-working Materials, 14
Lithography, 31
Lubricants, 5, 6
Manures, 8, 10
Mineral Pigments, 2
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, 12
Rivetting China, etc., 16
Sanitary Plumbing, 28
Scheele's Essays, 9
Sealing Waxes, 11
Silk Dyeing, 23
Silk Throwing, 19
Smoke Prevention, 25
Soaps, 7, 32
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
Writing Inks, 11
X-Ray Work, 13
Yarn Testing, 20
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Paints, Colours and Printing Inks.
=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.
=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.
=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.
=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--Neat's Foot 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. SHERIFF. Second Edition Revised and Enlarged. Demy 8vo. 214
pp. 1904.
[_In the press._
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.
=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.=
=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=.
(_For "Textile Soaps" see p. 32._)
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--Crushing
of Bones--Treatment with Benzene--Benzene in Crude
Fat--Analyses of Clarified Fats--Mechanical Cleansing of
Bones--Animal Charcoal--Tar and Ammoniacal Liquor, Char and
Gases, from good quality Bones--Method of Retorting the
Bones--Analyses of Chars--"Spent" Chars--Cooling of Tar and
Ammoniacal Vapours--Value of Nitrogen for Cyanide of
Potash--Bone Oil--Marrow Bones--Composition of Marrow
Fat--Premier Juice--Buttons--Properties of Glue--Glutin and
Chondrin--Skin Glue--Liming of Skins--Washing--Boiling of
Skins--Clarification of Glue Liquors--Acid Steeping of
Bones--Water System of Boiling Bones--Steam Method of Treating
Bones--Nitrogen in the Treated Bones--Glue-Boiling and
Clarifying-House--Plan showing Arrangement of Clarifying
Vats--Plan showing Position of Evaporators--Description of
Evaporators--Sulphurous Acid Generator--Clarification of
Liquors--Section of Drying-House--Specification of a
Glue--Size--Uses and Preparation and Composition of
Size--Concentrated Size--Properties of Gelatine--Preparation of
Skin Gelatine--Washing--Bleaching--Boiling--Clarification--
Evaporation--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--Section of
Manure-Shed--First and Ground Floor Plans of
Manure-Shed--Quality of Acid Used--Mixings--Special
Manures--Potato Manure--Dissolved Bones--Dissolved Bone
Compound--Enriched Peruvian Guano--Special Manure for Garden
Stuffs, etc.--Special Manures--Analyses of Raw and Finished
Products--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--Meerchum--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 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. 26._)
=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. 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
Wash-houses--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._)
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.
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., Barrett'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.