Fire and Explosion Risks: A Handbook Dealing with the Detection, Investigation and Prevention of Dangers Arising from Fires and Explosions of Chemico-technical Substances and Establishments--

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Charles Griffin and Company, Limited, 1904 - 357 Seiten

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Seite 43 - Price 6s. A MEDICAL AND SURGICAL HELP FOR SHIPMASTERS AND OFFICERS IN THE MERCHANT NAVY. BY WM. JOHNSON SMITH, FROS, Principal Medical Officer, Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich. ".* The attention of all interested in our Merchant Navy is requested to this exceedingly useful and valuable work. It is needless to say that it is the outcome of many years PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE amongst Seamen.
Seite 83 - Large 8vo. Profusely Illustrated with Plates and Figures in the Text. 16s. net. THE SPINNING AND TWISTING OF LONG VEGETABLE FIBRES (FLAX, HEMP, JUTE. TOW, & RAMIE). A Practical Manual of the most Modern Methods as applied to the Hackling. Carding Preparing, Spinning, and Twisting of the Long Vegetable Fibres of Commerce. BY HERBERT R. CARTER, Belfast and Lille.
Seite 56 - Professor of Mining and Director of the Otago University School of Mines ; late Director Thames School of Mines, and Geological Surveyor and Mining Geologist to the Government of New Zealand. FOURTH ENGLISH EDITION. Thoroughly Revised and Greatly Enlarged. With additional details concerning the Siemens-Halske and other recent processes. " Deserves to be ranked as amongst the BEST OF EXISTING TREATISES."— Mining Journal.
Seite 42 - —The Inclined Plane ; the Screw— The Centre of Gravity of a Ship and Cargo — Relative Strength of Rope : Steel Wire, Manilla, Hemp, Coir — Derricks and Shears — Calculation of the Cross-breaking Strain of Fir Spar — Centre of Effort of Sails — Hydrostatics : the Diving-bell ; Stability of Floating Bodies ; the Ship's Pump, &c. " THIS EXCELLENT BOOK . . . contains a LARGE AMOUNT of information." — Nature. " WELL WORTH the money . . . will be found EXCEEDINGLY HELPFUL." — Shipping...
Seite 82 - GENERAL CONTENTS. — Chemical Technology of the Textile Fabrics — Water — Washing and Bleaching — Acids, Alkalies, Mordants — Natural Colouring Matters — Artificial Organic Colouring Matters — Mineral Colours — Machinery used in Dyeing — Tinctorial Properties of Colouring Matters — Analysis and Valuation of Materials used in Dyeing, &c. . &c. " This authoritative and exhaustive work ... the MOST COMPLETE we have yet seen on the subject.
Seite 53 - The work is one which will appeal to those intending to become farmers at home or in the Colonies, and who desire to obtain a general idea of the true principles of farming in ALL ITS BRANCHES."— Journal of the Royal Colonial Inst.
Seite ii - Price 8s. 6d. net. A HANDBOOK ON PETROLEUM. FOR INSPECTORS UNDER THE PETROLEUM ACTS, And for those engaged in the Storage, Transport, Distribution, and Industrial Use of Petroleum and its Products, and of Calcium Carbide. With suggestions on the Construction and Use of Mineral Oil Lamps. BY CAPTAIN JH THOMSON, HM Chief Inspector of Explosives, AND SIR BOVERTON REDWOOD, Author of "A Treatise on Petroleum.
Seite 42 - CONTENTS.— Resolution and Composition of Forces— Work done by Machines and Living Agents — The Mechanical Powers : The Lever ; Derricks as Bent Levers— The Wheel and Axle: Windlass; Ship's Capstan ; Crab Winch— Tackles : the "Old Man...
Seite 82 - Properties, and Applications of the various substances described, and concise directions for their Commercial Valuation, and for the Detection of Adulterants. BY CHRISTOPHER RAWSON, FIC, FCS, Consulting Chemist to the Behar Indigo Planters' Association ; Co-Author of " A Manual of Dyeing ;
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