ENGINEERING AND MECHANICS. 29 THIRD EDITION, Revised and Enlarged. Pocket-Size, Leather, 12s. 6d.; also Larger Size for Office Use, Cloth, 12s. 6d Boilers, Marine and Land: THEIR CONSTRUCTION AND STRENGTH. A HANDBOOK OF RULES, FORMULE, TABLES, &C., RELATIVE TO MATERIAL, FOR THE USE OF ENGINEERS, SURVEYORS, BOILER-MAKERS, BY T. W. TRAILL, M. INST. O. E., F. E. R. N., Late Engineer Surveyor-in-Chief to the Board of Trade. TO THE SECOND AND THIRD EDITIONS MANY NEW TABLES for PRESSURES up to 200 LBS. per SQUARE INCH have been added. "THE MOST VALUABLE WORK on Boilers published in England."-Shipping World. Contains an ENORMOUS QUANTITY OF INFORMATION arrranged in a very convenient form. A MOST USEFUL VOLUME supplying information to be had nowhere else."-The Engineer. Large Crown 8vo. With numerous Illustrations. 6s. ENGINE-ROOM PRACTICE: A Handbook for Engineers and Officers in the Royal Navy and Mercantile Marine, Including the Management of the Main and Auxiliary Engines on Board Ship. 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Folio, strongly half-bound, 21/. TRAVERSE TABLES: Computed to Four Places of Decimals for every Minute of Angle up to 100 of Distance. For the use of Surveyors and Engineers. BY RICHARD LLOYD GURDEN, Authorised Surveyor for the Governments of New South Wales and 33 Published with the Concurrence of the Surveyors-General for New South Wales and Victoria. "Those who have experience in exact SURVEY-WORK will best know how to appreciate the enormous amount of labour represented by this valuable book. The computations enable the user to ascertain the sines and cosines for a distance of twelve miles to within half an inch, and this BY REFERENCE TO BUT ONE TABLE, in place of the usual Fifteen minute computations required. This alone is evidence of the assistance which the Tables ensure to every user, and as every Surveyor in active practice has felt the want of such assistance FEW KNOWING OF THEIR PUBLICATION WILL REMAIN WITHOUT THEM." -Engineer. THIRD EDITION. In Two Parts, Published Separately. Engineering Drawing and Design VOL. I.-PRACTICAL GEOMETRY, PLANE, AND SOLID. 38. BY SIDNEY H. WELLS, WH.Sc., A.M.INST.C.E., A.M.INST.MECH.E., Principal of the Battersea Polytechnic Institute, and Head of the Engineering Department therein; formerly of the Engineering Departments of the Yorkshire College, Leeds; and Dulwich College, London. With many Illustrations, specially prepared for the Work, and numerous Examples, for the Use of Students in Technical Schools and Colleges. "A THOROUGHLY USEFUL WORK, exceedingly well written. For the many Examples and Questions we have nothing but praise."-Nature. "A CAPITAL TEXT-BOOK, arranged on an EXCELLENT SYSTEM, calculated to give an intelligent grasp of the subject, and not the mere faculty of mechanical copying. 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