Researches on the Past and Present History of the Earth's Atmosphere: Including the Latest Discoveries and Their Practical ApplicationsC. Griffin & Company, limited, 1901 - 194 Seiten |
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Seite 50 - The little book will be found EXCEEDINGLY HANDY by most officers and officials connected with shipping. . . . Mr. Walton's work will obtain LASTING SUCCESS, because of its unique fitness for those for whom it has been written." — Shipping World. " An EXCELLENT WORK, full of solid instruction and INVALUABLE to every officer of the Mercantile Marine who has his profession at heart.
Seite 34 - A POCKET-BOOK of ELECTRICAL RULES and TABLES For the Use of Electricians and Engineers. By JOHN MUNRO, CE, and Prof.
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Seite 19 - By the River — Along the Shingle — A Fragrant Hedgerow — A Connemara, 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. " BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED. . . . One of the HOST ACCURATE as well ai INTERESTING books of the kind we have seen."— Athenaeum.
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Seite 32 - By THE SAME AUTHOR. KITCHEN BOILER EXPLOSIONS: Why they Occur, and How to Prevent their Occurrence. A Practical Handbook based on Actual Experiment. With Diagram and Coloured Plate.
Seite 27 - A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON BRIDGE-CONSTRUCTION: Being a Text-Book on the Construction of Bridges in Iron and Steel. FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS, DRAUGHTSMEN, AND ENGINEERS. BY T. CLAXTON FIDLER, M. INST. CE, Late Prof, of Engineering, University College, Dundee "The new edition of Mr.
Seite 46 - EDITION, Revised and Corrected. *»* Mr. Buck's Text-Book has been SPECIALLY PREPARED with a view to the New Examinations of the Board of Trade, in which Trigonometry is an obligatory subject. "This...
Seite 45 - Quite the BEST PUBLICATION on this subject."— Shipping Gazette. Latitude and Longitude : How to find them. By WJ MILLAR, CE SECOND EDITION, Revised. 2s. " Cannot but prove an acquisition to those studying Navigation."— Marine Engineer.
Seite 37 - Pumps and Pump Valves — General Principles of Non-Rotative Pumping Engines — The Cornish Engine, Simple and Compound — Types of Mining Engines — Pit Work — Shaft Sinking — Hydraulic Transmission of Power in Mines — Electric Transmission of Power — Valve Gears of Pumping Engines — Water Pressure Pumping Engines — Water Works Engines — Pumping Engine Economy and Trials of Pumping Machinery — Centrifugal and other Low-Lift Pumps — Hydraulic Rams, Pumping Mains, &c.