A Manual of the Steam Engine and Other Prime Movers

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C. Griffin, 1897 - 640 Seiten

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Seite 63 - 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 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 49 - The Master's Duty in relation to Pilots, Signals, Flags, and Light Dues — The Master's Duty upon Arrival at the Port of Discharge — Appendices relative to certain Legal Matters : Board of Trade Certificates, Dietary Scales, Stowage of Grain Cargoes, Load Line Regulations, Life-saving Appliances, Carriage of Cattle at Sea, Ac., Ac.— Copious Index.
Seite 33 - 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 26 - Text-book on Structures, requiring on the part of the reader a knowledge of ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS only. 2. The subject of GRAPHIC STATICS has only of recent years been generally applied in this country to determine the Stresses on Framed Structures; and in too many cases this is done without a knowledge of the principles upon which the science is founded. In Mr. Anglin's work the system is explained from FIRST PRINCIPLES, and the Student will find in it a valuable aid in determining the stresses...
Seite 85 - Water. — Ventilation and Warming. — Principles of Sewage Removal. — Details of Drainage ; Refuse Removal and Disposal.— Sanitary and Insanitary Work and Appliances. — Details of Plumbers' Work. — House Construction. — Infection and Disinfection. — Food, Inspection of; Characteristics of Good Meat ; Meat, Milk, Fish, &c., unfit for Human Food. — Appendix : Sanitary Law ; Model Bye-Laws, .^ c.
Seite 52 - BY GRENVILLE AJ COLE, MRIA, FGS, Professor of Geology in the Royal College of Science for Ireland, and Examiner in the University of London. In Crown 8vo.
Seite 65 - A Complete and Exhaustive Treatise on the Manufacture of Lead, with Sections on Smelting and Desilverisation, and Chapters on the Assay and Analysis of the Materials involved. Price i6s.
Seite 26 - The leading features in Mr. Anglin's carefully-planned " Design of Structures " may be briefly summarised as follows : — 1. It supplies the want, long felt among Students of Engineering and Architecture, of a concise Text-book on Structures, requiring on the part of the reader a knowledge of ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS only. 2. The subject of GRAPHIC STATICS has only of recent years been generally applied in this country to determine the Stresses on Framed Structures ; and in too many cases this is...
Seite 32 - A POCKET-BOOK of ELECTRICAL RULES and TABLES For the Use of Electricians and Engineers.

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