Practical Masonry: A Guide to the Art of Stone Cutting, Comprising the Construction, Setting-out, and Working of Stairs, Circular Work, Arches, Niches, Domes, Pendentives, Vaults, Tracery Windows, Etc.,etc. for the Use of Students, Masons, and Other Workmen

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Crosby Lockwood & Son, 1896 - 124 Seiten
 

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Seite 9 - Rainfall and Evaporation.— IV. Springs and the waterbearing formations of various districts.— V. Measurement and Estimation of the Flow of Water.— VI. On the Selection of the Source of Supply.— VII. Wells.— VIII.
Seite 26 - STUDENT'S GUIDE to the PRACTICE of MEASURING and VALUING ARTIFICERS' WORKS ; containing Directions for taking Dimensions, Abstracting the same, and bringing the Quantities into Bill, with Tables of Constants, and copious Memoranda for the Valuation of Labour and Materials in the respective Trades of Bricklayer and Slater, Carpenter and Joiner, Painter and Glazier, Paperhanger, &c.
Seite 34 - Museum of Science and Art. THE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND ART. Edited by DIONYSIUS LARDNER, DCL, formerly Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy in University College, London. With upwards of 1 200 Engravings on Wood.
Seite 50 - WATER WORKS, for the Supply of Cities and Towns. With a Description of the Principal Geological Formations of England as influencing Supplies of Water ; and Details of Engines and Pumping Machinery for raising Water.
Seite 30 - A comprehensive guide to the art. The explanations of the processes, the manipulation and management of the colours, and the beautifully executed plates will not be the least valuable to the student who aims at making his work a faithful transcript of nature.
Seite 5 - Steam Boilers. A TREATISE ON STEAM BOILERS: Their Strength, Construction, and Economical Working. By R. WILSON, CE Fifth Edition. I2mo, 6s. cloth. "The best treatise that has ever been published on steam boilers.
Seite 9 - Distribution of Water.— XIV. Meters, Service Pipes, and House Fittings. — XV. The Law and Economy of Water Works.— XVI. Constant and Intermittent Supply. —XVII. Description of Plates.— Appendices, giving Tables of Rates of Supply, Velocities, &c. &c., together with Specifications of several Works illustrated, among which will be found : Aberdeen, Bideford, Canterbury, Dundee, Halifax, Lambeth, Rotherham, Dublin, and others. "The most systematic and valuable work upon water supply hitherto...
Seite 9 - Cast and Wrought Iron Bridge Construction," &c. &c. Illustrated with 50 Double Plates, i Single Plate, Coloured Frontispiece, and upwards of 250 Woodcuts, and containing 400 pages of Text. Imp.
Seite 46 - Advowsons, &c., and for the Renewing of Leases held under Cathedral Churches, Colleges, or other corporate bodies ; for Terms of Years certain, and for Lives ; also for Valuing Reversionary Estates, Deferred Annuities, Next Presentations, &c. , together with Smart's Five Tables of Compound Interest, and an Extension of the same to lower and Intermediate Rates. By WILLIAM INWOOD, Architect.
Seite 37 - THE ART OF SOAP-MAKING. A Practical Handbook of the Manufacture of Hard and Soft Soaps, Toilet Soaps, &c. Including many New Processes, and a Chapter on the Recovery of Glycerine from Waste Leys. By ALEXANDER WATT.

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