Catalogue of Books

RELATING TO

PRACTICAL SCIENCE,

PUBLISHED AND SOLD BY

E. & F. N. SPON.

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LONDON: 48, CHARING CROSS.
NEW YORK: 446, BROOME STREET.



Architects' Handbook.

5   0

André's Handbook of Mapping.

15   0

Blast-Furnace.

8   6

Bridges.

31   6

Bridges.

£2   2   0

Bridges.

12   6

Bridges.

£4   14   6

Bridges.

5   0

Builders' Price-Book.

4   6

3   6

Cabinet Making.

21   0

Carpentry.

18   0

Compensations.

5   0

Coffee.

7   6

Coffee and Chicory.

2   0

Cotton Cultivation.

7   6

Curves, Railway.

10   6

Curve Tables.

4   6

Dilapidations.

5   0

Earthwork Tables.

6   0

Economy in the Use of Steam.

3   6

Electrical Standards.

9   0

Electric Telegraph.

12   6

Engineering.

8 divisions, cloth, 13s. 6 d. each

£5   8   0

8      "      half-morocco

£6   8   0

8      "      French morocco

£7   4   0

Complete in 3 vols., cloth

£5   5   0

Bound in a superior manner, half-morocco, top edge gilt, 3 vols.

£6   12   0

Engineers' Companion.

3   0

Engineering Drawing.

9   0

Mr. Binns' system of Mechanical Drawing is in successful operation in all the Art Schools of the United Kingdom.

Engineering Drawing.

10   6

Engineers' Pocket-Book.

12   6

Engineers' Pocket-Book.

6   0

9   0

6   0

Engineers' Price-Book.

12   6

Engineers' Tables.

1   0

Or in cloth case

1   6

French Measures.

1   0

"In a series of compact tables the English values of the French measures are arranged from one to a thousand millimetres, and from one to a hundred metres; the fractions of an inch progressing in sixteenths are also reduced to French values. The little book will be found useful to almost every engineer."—Engineering.

French-Polishing.

0   6

Gas.

12   6

Gas Works.

4   0

Gunner's Pocket-Book.

1   6

Handrailing.

6   0

Hydraulics.

5   0

Iron.

6   0

Iron and Steel.

7   6

Indian Engineering.

3   0

Link-Motion.

£2   2   0

Mechanical Engineering.

£2   10   0

2   12   6

Mechanics.

7   6

Mechanics.

4   6

Metric Weights and Measures.

5   0

Military Terms.

2   0

Mill Gearing.

5   0

Millwright's Guide.

3   0

Mine Engineering.

£3   12   0

Mining.

4   0

Narrow Gauge Railways.

12   6

Contents:

Copy of paper read at the "Inventors' Institute" on Narrow Gauge Railways—the Festiniog Railway—Experiment on the Festiniog Railway—Captain Tyler's Report—The Railways of the Future—Advantages gained by Narrow Gauge Railways—Railway Gauges—Narrow Gauge Rolling Stock—Battle of the Gauges—Indian Railway Gauges and Rolling Stock, etc.

Pyrology.

£1   16   0

"A work which we have no hesitation in pronouncing original and valuable. The author is not a chemist trained in the orthodox school outside which there is no salvation: for cooked results and unproved theories he shows very little respect. We can strongly recommend this book to Analysts, Assayers, Mineralogists, and to all persons interested in Mining and Metallurgy."—Chemical News, August 6th, 1875.

Railway Engineering.

7   6

Rennie, Sir John.

12   6

Reservoirs.

5   0

Retaining Walls.

2   0

Ropemaking.

3   0

Sanitary Engineering.

21   0

Sanitary Engineering.

10   6

Sewage.

3   6

This work treats: I. Of the evils of the present system of Sewage Treatment, the Pollution of Water, and the Waste of Manure. II. Remedies, Privy, and Ash-pit; Eureka System; Milan, Goul, and Moule's Systems. III. Treatment of Sewage by Chemical means; Experiments with Lime; Lime and Chloride of Iron; Sulphate of Ammonia; Holden's Process; Sulphate of Alumina; Persalts of Iron; Blyth, Lenk, Phosphate, A.B.C., Scott, and Hille Processes; Filtration. IV. Irrigation. With an Appendix, including the Law relating to Sewage Utilization.

Sewage.

2   0

Silver Mines.

16   0

Slide Valve.

5   0

Slide Valve. Designing Valve-gearing.

6   0

The system described in this work enables any draughtsman or foreman to "get out" in a few minutes, and with the greatest precision, all the details of a Slide Valve Gear, without recourse to models or other similar appliances.

Steam Boilers.

£3   13   6

Steam Engine.

£2   5   0

Steam Engine.

18   0

The following Firms have contributed Working Drawings of their best and most modern examples of Engines fitted in the Royal and Mercantile Navies: Messrs. Maudslay, Rennie, Watt, Dudgeon, Humphreys, Ravenhill, Jackson, Perkins, Napier, Elder, Laird, Day, Allibon.

Steam Engine.

£1   5   0

Steam Engine.

£2   2   0

Steam Engine.

4   6

Details of High-Pressure Engine, Beam Engine, Condensing, Marine Screw Engines, Oscillating Engines, Valves, etc., Land and Marine Boilers, Proportions of Engines produced by the rules, Proportions of Boilers, etc.

Steep Gradients on Railways.

1   0

Strength of Beams.

9   0

Strength of Beams.

4   6

Sugar.

10   6

Short Logarithms.

1   0

1   6

Sulphuric Acid.

4   6

Surveying.

5   0

Surveying.

12   6

Table of Logarithms.

7   6

Tables of Squares and Cubes.

6   0

Teeth of Wheels.

5   0

Telegraphy.

5   0

Torpedo Warfare.

15   0

Trevithick.

12   6

Turbine.

12   6

Turning.

6   0

Valve-Gears.

12   6

Ventilation.

7   6

The Supplement separate

0   6

Weight of Iron.

1   6

Wood-working Factories.

5   0

Wood-working Machines.