A Manual of Applied Mechanics

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C. Griffin and Company, Limited, 1898 - 676 Seiten

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Seite 63 - Typical Metallurgical Processes. — The Micro-Structure of Metals and Alloys. — Economic Considerations. " No English text-book at all approaches this in the COMPLETENESS with which the most modern views on the subject are dealt with. Professor Austen's volume will be INVALUABLE, not only to the student, but also to those whose knowledge of the art is far advanced.
Seite 76 - SEWAGE DISPOSAL WORKS : A Guide to the Construction of Works for the Prevention of the Pollution by Sewage of Rivers and Estuaries. BY W. SANTO CRIMP, M.lNST.CE. FGS, Late Assistant-Engineer, London County Council "Probably the MOST COMPLETE AND REST TREATISE on the subject which has appeared in our language.
Seite 35 - A MANUAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS : Comprising the Principles of Statics and Cinematics, and Theory of Structures, Mechanism, and Machines. With Numerous Diagrams Crown 8vo, cloth. SEVENTEENTH EDITION. 12s. 6d. A MANUAL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING : Comprising Engineering Surveys, Earthwork, Foundations, Masonry, Carpentry, Metal Work, Roads, Railways, Canals, Rivers, Waterworks, Harbours, &c.
Seite 44 - THE MEAN DENSITY OF THE EARTH : An Essay to which the Adams Prize was adjudged in 1893 in the University of Cambridge. By JH POYNTING, Sc.D., FRS, Late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; Professor of Physics, Birmingham University. In Large 8vo, with Bibliography, Illustrations in the Text, and Seven Lithographed Plates. 12s. 6d. " Cannot fail to be of GREAT and GENERAL INTEREST."— Athenteum.
Seite 30 - Deputy-Manager, North- Western Railway, India. Contents. — Discussion of the Term " Light Railways."— English Railways, Rates, and Farmers. — Light Railways in Belgium, France, Italy, other European Countries, America and the Colonies, India, Ireland. —Road Transport as an alternative. — The Light Railways Act, 1896.— The Question of Gauge. — Construction and Working. — Locomotives and Rolling-Stock. — Light Railways in England, Scotland, and Wales. — Appendices and Index.
Seite 38 - is INVALUABLE. The NAVAL ARCHITECT will find brought togetner and ready to his hand, a mass of information which he would otherwise have to seek in an almost endless variety of publications, and some of which he would possibly not be able to obtain at all elsewhere."— Steamship.
Seite 34 - A POCKET-BOOK of ELECTRICAL RULES and TABLES. For the Use of Electricians and Engineers. By JOHN MUNRO, CE, and Prof. JAMIESON. Pocket Size.
Seite 56 - Occurrence of Minerals. — Prospecting. — Boring. — Breaking Ground. — Supporting Excavations. — Exploitation. — Haulage or Transport. — Hoisting or Winding. — Drainage. — Ventilation. — Lighting. — Descent and Ascent. — Dressing, &c. — INDEX. " A remarkably clear survey of the whole field of mining operations."— Engineer.
Seite 5 - But his demonstration proceeds on the supposition that the machinery is such as no load will bend or break. If the engineer, who has* to lift a great mass of real granite by the instrumentality of real timber and real hemp, should absolutely rely on the propositions which he finds in treatises on Dynamics, and should make no allowance for the imperfection of his materials," his whole apparatus of beams, wheels, and ropes would soon come down in ruin, and, with all his geometrical skill, he would...
Seite 85 - Bog — Where the Samphire grows — A Flowery Meadow — Among the Corn (a Study in Weeds) — In the Home of the Alpines — A City Rubbish-Heap — Glossary. " A FRESH AND STIMULATING book . . . should take a high place . . . The Illustrations are drawn with much skill."— The Times.

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