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“ Design and Construction of Oil Engines, with full directions for Erecting, Testing, Installing, Running and Repairing, including descriptions of American and English Kerosene Oil Engines, with an appendix on Marine Oil Engines. ”

“ Machinery for Prospecting, Excavating, Hauling, and Hoisting—Ventilation—Pumping—Treatment of Mineral Products, including Gold and Silver, Copper, Tin, and Lead, Iron Coal, Sulphur, China Clay, Brick Earth, etc.
Tables for Setting out Curves for Railways, Canals, Roads, etc., varying from a radius of five chains to three miles. By A. Kennedy and R. W. Hackwood. Illustrated, 32mo, cloth, 2s. ”

“ Painting (general instructions, proportions of ingredients, measuring paint work; carriage painting—priming paint, best putty, finishing colour, cause of cracking, mixing the paints, oils, driers, and colours, varnishing, importance of washing vehicles, re-varnishing, how to dry paint; woodwork painting) .
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“ Very Great Care is taken in their manufacture, and Every Piece is examined by a competent workman before leaving the factory.
SPECIAL POCKET CASES, containing good sound instruments of my own manufacture, but not extra finish (recommended) :—
No. 721A. 721A Morocco Case, containing the following electrum instruments:—6-inch double-jointed, needle-pointed compass, ink and pencil points, and lengthening bar—ink and pencil double-jointed, needle-pointed bows—set of three spring bows—hair divider—two drawing pens, and ivory scale, £3 3s. ”

“ LOGARITHM TABLES Aldum’s Pocket Folding Mathematical Tables. Four-figure Logarithms, and Anti-logarithms, Natural Sines, Tangents, Cotangents, Cosines, Chords and Radians for all angles from 1 to 90 degrees. And Decimalizer Table for Weights and Money. On folding card. 4d. net. 20 copies, 6s. net.
Tables of Seven-figure Logarithms of the Natural Numbers from 1 to 108,000. By C. Babbage. Stereotype edition, 224 pp., medium 8vo. 5s. net.
Four-Place Tables of Logarithms and Trigonometric Functions. By E. V. Huntington. Ninth thousand, 34 pp., square 8vo, limp buckram, with cut lateral index. ”

“ Cooling Air and Water, producing low temperatures, making ice, cooling syrups and solutions, and separating salts from liquors by refrigeration. Pumps and Siphons, embracing every useful contrivance for raising and supplying water on a moderate scale, and moving corrosive, tenacious, and other liquids. Desiccating—air- and water-ovens, and other appliances for drying natural and artificial products. ”

“ PAGE Agriculture 2 Architecture 3 Artillery 5 Bridges and Roofs 5 Building 3 Cement and Concrete 7 Civil Engineering 8 Dictionaries 11 Domestic Economy 12 Drawing 13 Electrical Engineering 14 Foreign Exchange 19 Gas and Oil Engines 20 Gas Lighting 20 Historical ”

“ To this end illustrations will be given of the most recent arrangements of Horizontal, Vertical, Beam, Pumping, Winding, Portable, Semi-portable, Corliss, Allen, Compound, and other similar Engines, by the most eminent Firms in Great Britain and America. The laws relating to the action and precautions to be observed in the construction of the various details, such as Cylinders, Pistons, Piston-rods, Connecting-rods, Cross-heads, Motion-blocks, Eccentrics, Simple, Expansion, Balanced, and Equilibrium Slide-valves, and Valve-gearing will be minutely dealt with. ”

“ Description and Use of Instruments in Surveying and Plotting—The Improved Dumpy Level—Troughton’s Level—The Prismatic Compass—Proportional Compass—Box Sextant—Vernier—Pantagraph—Merrett’s Improved Quadrant—Improved Computation Scale—The Diagonal Scale—Straight Edge and Sector. Part 6. Logarithms of Numbers—Logarithmic Sines and Co-Sines, Tangents and Co-Tangents—Natural Sines and Co-Sines—Tables for Earthwork, for Setting out Curves, and for various Calculations, etc., etc., etc. ”

“ Ventilation 47 Water Supply 48 Workshop Practice 49 Useful Tables 52 Miscellaneous 53 Full particulars post free on application. All books are bound in cloth unless otherwise stated.
NOTE: The Prices in this Catalogue apply to books sold in the United Kingdom only. ”

“ Firework Making— (Rockets, Stars, Rains, Gerbes, Jets, Tourbillons, Candles, Fires, Lances, Lights, Wheels, Fire-balloons, and minor Fireworks) . Fluxes. Foundry Mixtures. Freezing. Fulminates. Furniture Creams, Oils, Polishes, Lacquers, and Pastes. Gilding. Glass Cutting, Cleaning, Frosting, Drilling, Darkening, Bending, Staining, and Painting. Glass Making. Glues. Gold. ”

“ Spons’ Fables and Memoranda for Engineers; selected and arranged by J. T. Hurst, C.E., Author of ‘Architectural Surveyors’ Handbook,’ ‘Hurst’s Tredgold’s Carpentry,’ etc. Seventh edition, 64mo, roan, gilt edges, 1s.; or in cloth case, 1s. 6d.
This work is printed in a pearl type, and is so small, measuring only 21⁄2 in. by 13⁄4 in. by 1⁄4 in. thick, that it may be easily carried in the waistcoat pocket.
“It is certainly an extremely rare thing for a reviewer to be called upon to notice a volume measuring but 21⁄2 in. ”

“ For Roll Bearings, Wagon Brasses, &c.
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“ To Measure from the Diagram the Quantity of Heat Expended. Of the Real Diagram, and how to Construct it. Of the Conversion of Heat into Work in the Steam-engine. Observations on the several Lines of the Diagram. Of the Loss attending the Employment of Slow-piston Speed, and the Extent to which this is Shown by the Indicator. Of other Applications of the Indicator. Of the use of the Tables of the Properties of Steam in Calculating the Duty of Boilers. Introductory. Of the Pressure on the Crank when the Connecting-rod is conceived to be of Infinite Length. ”

“ Pottery— (Clays, Bodies, Glazes, Colours, Oils, Stains, Fluxes, Enamels, and Lustres) . Scouring. Silvering. Soap. Solders. Tanning. Taxidermy. Tempering Metals. Treating Horn, Mother-o’-Pearl, and like substances. Varnishes, Manufacture and Use of. Veneering. Washing. Waterproofing. Welding.
Besides Receipts relating to the lesser Technological matters and processes, such as the manufacture and use of Stencil Plates, Blacking, Crayons, Paste, Putty, Wax, Size, Alloys, Catgut, Tunbridge Ware, Picture Frame and Architectural Mouldings, Compos, Cameos, and others too numerous to mention. ”

“ Earthwork Slips and Subsidences on Public Works. By J. Newman. 240 pp., crown 8vo. (1890.) 7s. 6d.
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING Journal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. Edited by P. F. Rowell, Secretary. Issued in quarto parts. The number of parts are from 12 to 16 annually. Annual Subscription, 46s. post free, payable in advance. Single copies, 3s. 9d. post free.
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Practical Electric Bell Fitting. By F. C. Allsop. Tenth edition, 186 illus., including 8 folding plates, 185 pp., cr. 8vo. (1914.) 2s. 6d. net. ”

“ It is the writer’s desire to draw illustrations from every possible source, and give only those rules that present practice deems correct.
A Practical Treatise on the Science of Land and Engineering Surveying, Levelling, Estimating Quantities, etc., with a general description of the several Instruments required for Surveying, Levelling, Plotting, etc. By H. S. Merrett. Fourth edition, revised by G. W. Usill, Assoc. Mem. Inst. C.E. 41 plates, with illustrations and tables, royal 8vo, cloth, 12s. ”

“ By W. Fletcher. 109 illus. 288 pp. 8vo. 50 [22] Life as an Engineer: its Lights, Shades, and Prospects. By J. W. C. Haldane. 23 plates, 338 pp. crown 8vo. (1905) net 50 Philipp Reis, Inventor of the Telephone: a Biographical Sketch. By Prof. S. P. Thompson. 8vo, cloth. (1883) 76 The Development of the Mercurial Air Pump. By Prof. S. P. Thompson. Illustrated, royal 8vo, sewed. (1888) 16
HOROLOGY.
Watch and Clock Maker’s Handbook, Dictionary and Guide. By F. J. Britten. Tenth edition, 450 illus. 492 pp. crown 8vo. (1902) net 50 The Springing and Adjusting of Watches. By F. J. Britten. ”

“ R.E. With illustrations, 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d.
The Essential Elements of Practical Mechanics; based on the Principle of Work, designed for Engineering Students. By Oliver Byrne, formerly Professor of Mathematics, College for Civil Engineers. Third edition, with 148 wood engravings, post 8vo, cloth, 7s. 6d.
Contents:
Chap. 1. How Work is Measured by a Unit, both with and without reference to a Unit of Time—Chap. 2. The Work of Living Agents, the Influence of Friction, and introduces one of the most beautiful Laws of Motion—Chap. 3. ”

“ Edited by W. Young, Architect. Crown 8vo, cloth, red edges, 3s. 6d. Published annually. Seventeenth edition. Now ready.
Long-Span Railway Bridges, comprising Investigations of the Comparative Theoretical and Practical Advantages of the various adopted or proposed Type Systems of Construction, with numerous Formulæ and Tables giving the weight of Iron or Steel required in Bridges from 300 feet to the limiting Spans; to which are added similar Investigations and Tables relating to Short-span Railway Bridges. Second and revised edition. ”

“ C.E. With 183 wood engravings, crown 8vo, cloth, 9s.
Gold: Its Occurrence and Extraction, embracing the Geographical and Geological Distribution and the Mineralogical Characters of Gold-bearing rocks; the peculiar features and modes of working [4] Shallow Placers, Rivers, and Deep Leads; Hydraulicing; the Reduction and Separation of Auriferous Quartz; the treatment of complex Auriferous ores containing other metals; a Bibliography of the subject and a Glossary of Technical and Foreign Terms. By Alfred G. Lock, F.R.G.S. With numerous illustrations and maps, 1250 pp., super-royal 8vo, cloth, 2l. ”

“ Electricity as a Motive Power. By Count Th. Du Moncel, Membre de l’Institut de France, and Frank Geraldy, Ingénieur des Ponts et Chaussées. Translated and Edited, with Additions, by C. J. Wharton, Assoc. Soc. Tel. Eng. and Elec. With 113 engravings and diagrams, crown 8vo, cloth, 7s. 6d.
Treatise on Valve-Gears, with special consideration of the Link-Motions of Locomotive Engines. By Dr. Gustav Zeuner, Professor of Applied Mechanics at the Confederated Polytechnikum of Zurich. Translated from the Fourth German Edition, by Professor J. F. Klein, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa. ”

“ Hot Water Supply: A Practical Treatise upon the Fitting of Circulating Apparatus in connection with Kitchen Range and other Boilers, to supply Hot Water for Domestic and General Purposes. With a Chapter upon Estimating. Fully illustrated, crown 8vo, cloth, 3s.
Hot Water Apparatus: An Elementary Guide for the Fitting and Fixing of Boilers and Apparatus for the Circulation of Hot Water for Heating and for Domestic Supply, and containing a Chapter upon Boilers and Fittings for Steam Cooking. 32 illustrations, fcap. 8vo, cloth, 1s. ”

“ A Pocket-Book for Chemists, Chemical Manufacturers, Metallurgists, Dyers, Distillers, Brewers, Sugar Refiners, Photographers, Students, etc., etc. By Thomas Bayley, Assoc. R.C. Sc. Ireland, Analytical and Consulting Chemist and Assayer. Fourth edition, with additions, 437 pp., royal 32mo, roan, gilt edges, 5s. ”

“ The Larder.—Keeping Food fresh for a limited time; Storing Food without change, such as Fruits, Vegetables, Eggs, Honey, etc.
Curing Foods for lengthened Preservation, as Smoking, Salting, Canning, Potting, Pickling, Bottling Fruits, etc. ”

“ Second edition, oblong, cloth, 1s., or sewed, 6d.
A Treatise on a Practical Method of Designing Slide-Valve Gears by Simple Geometrical Construction, based upon the principles enunciated in Euclid’s Elements, and comprising the various forms of Plain Slide-Valve and Expansion Gearing; together with Stephenson’s, Gooch’s, and Allan’s Link-Motions, as applied either to reversing or to variable expansion combinations. By Edward J. Cowling Welch, Memb. Inst. Mechanical Engineers. Crown 8vo, cloth, 6s. ”

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“ Use and Waste. Ventilation and Warming. Credits, with various Examples of Treatment. Abbreviations. Squaring the Dimensions. Abstracting, with Examples in illustration of each Trade. Billing. Examples of Preambles to each Trade. ”