Belting; 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 of =THE 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 Melachite--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, Paper-stainers, 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,
Hand-loom-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. Demy
8vo. 170 pp. 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. 32._)
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.=
=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.=
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.
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.= A Description of the Principal Methods
Pursued, especially in Fiery Mines, and of the Various Appliances
Employed, such as Respiratory and Rescue Apparatus, Dams, etc. 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.
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.
The Coefficient of Transmission of Heat, _k_, and the Mean
Temperature Difference [theta]_{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.
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.
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, post free.
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. 1904.
[_In the press._
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--Hand-tooling 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. 26._)
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. 1904. Being a Subject-list of the Principal
British and American Books in print; giving Title, Author, Size, Date,
Publisher and Price.
[_In the press._
Contents.
Agriculture--Architecture--Art--Book Production--Building--
Chemicals--Commercial--Electricity--Engineering--Farming--
Gardening--Glass--Hygiene--Legal (not pure Law)--Metallurgy--
Mining--Military--Music--Naval--Oils--Paints--Photography--Physical
Training--Plumbing--Pottery--Printing--Public Health--Railways--
Roads--Soaps--Surveying--Teaching--Textile--Veterinary--Water--
Index, etc., etc.
=TEXTILE SOAPS AND OILS.= Handbook on the Preparation, Properties and
Analysis of the Soaps and Oils used in Textile Manufacturing, Dyeing
and Printing. By GEORGE H. HURST, F.C.S. Crown 8vo. 200 pp. Nine
Illustrations. 1904. Price 5s.; India and Colonies, 5s. 6d.; Other
Countries, 6s.; net.
Contents.
=Methods of Making Soaps=--Hard Soap--Soft Soap. =Special Textile
Soaps=--Wool Soaps--Calico Printers' Soaps--Dyers' Soaps.
=Relation of Soap to Water for Industrial Purposes=--Treating
Waste Soap Liquors--Boiled Off Liquor--Calico Printers and
Dyers' Soap Liquors--=Soap Analysis=--=Fat in Soap=.
ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE OILS AND FATS--Tallow--Lard--Bone
Grease--Tallow Oil. =Vegetable Soap, Oils and Fats=--Palm
Oil--Coco-nut Oil--Olive Oil--Cottonseed Oil--Linseed
Oil--Castor Oil--Corn Oil--Whale Oil or Train Oil--Repe Oil.
GLYCERINE.
TEXTILE OILS--Oleic Acid--Blended Wool Oils--Oils for Cotton
Dyeing, Printing and Finishing--Turkey Red Oil--Alizarine
Oil--Oleine--Oxy Turkey Red Oils--Soluble Oil--Analysis of
Turkey Red Oil--Finisher's Soluble Oil--Finisher's Soap
Softening--Testing and Adulteration of Oils--Index.
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Transcriber's Note
This catalogue was originally bound in with Practical Bookbinding by
Paul Adam, which is available from Project Gutenberg at
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39318
On p.26, the title of the first chapter of Evaporating, Condensing and
Cooling Apparatus has been corrected by reference to the original book.