Chapter I: Front Matter

_A CATALOGUE OF_

TECHNICAL AND
SCIENTIFIC BOOKS

PUBLISHED BY

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19 Aeronautics
58 Agriculture, Farming and Forestry
55 Arts and Crafts
55 Business and Management
27 Civil Engineering, Building Construction, etc.
33 Electrical Engineering
7 Electro-Chemistry
13 Fuel and its Combustion
21 Hydraulics and Turbines
10 Internal Combustion Engines
17 Iron, Steel, and other Metals
31 Irrigation and Water Supply
61 Law, Patents, etc.
39 Lighting
15 Machinery, Power Plants, etc.
51 Manufacture and Industries
20 Marine Engineering
50 Mathematics
49 Metallurgy
23 Mining
61 Miscellaneous
19 Motor-Cars and Engines
30 Municipal Engineering
57 Natural History, Botany, Nature Study, etc.
8 Outlines of Industrial Chemistry
40 Physics and Chemistry
17 Pumps
24 Railway Engineering
26 Reinforced Concrete and Cement
12 Steam Engines, Boilers, etc.
29 Surveying
32 Telegraphy and Telephony
39 Thermodynamics
56 Useful Handbooks and Tables

VARIOUS SERIES

7 A Treatise of Electro-Chemistry
9 The D.-S. Technical Dictionaries in Six Languages
4 The Glasgow Text-Books of Civil Engineering
65 Messrs. Franklin & Charles’ List
9 Metallurgical Series
8 Outlines of Industrial Chemistry
7 Practical Manuals for Practical Men
3 Staple Trades and Industries
3 The Chadwick Library
4 “The Engineer” Library
5 The “Westminster” Series
8 Thresholds of Science
66 Index

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_The Internal Combustion Engine._ Being a Text-Book on Gas, Oil, and Petrol Engines, for the use of Students and Engineers. =H. E. Wimperis, M.A., M.I.E.E.= 3rd Edition Revised and Enlarged. Demy 8vo. 8/6 net.

CONTENTS.—Preface. List of Symbols. Tables of Constants.
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_A Primer of the Internal Combustion Engine._ A Text-Book for First and Second Year Students. =H. E. Wimperis, M.A., M.I.E.E.=, etc. Crown 8vo. 3rd Imp. 4/- net.

CONTENTS.—List of Symbols. Useful Constants. Introductory.
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_Governors and the Governing of Prime Movers._ =Trinks.= (See p. 16.)

_Diesel Engine Design._ H. F. P. Purday. Demy 8vo. 271 Illustrations. 21/- net.

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_An Introduction to the Study of Fuel._ A Text-Book for those entering the Engineering, Chemical and Technical Industries. =F. J. Brislee, D.Sc.= Demy 8vo. 2nd Edn. 9/6 net. (Outlines of Industrial Chemistry.)

CONTENTS.—General Chemical Principles. Weight and Volume of
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Furnace and Boiler Tests. Liquid Fuels.

_Liquid Fuel and its Combustion._ =W. H. Booth, F.G.S., M.Am.Soc.C.E.=, Author of “Water Softening and Treatment,” “Steam Pipes: Their Design and Construction.” With Illustrations and Diagrams. Imperial 8vo. 24/- net.

_Liquid Fuel and its Apparatus._ =William H. Booth, F.G.S., M.Am.Soc.C.E.=, Author of “Liquid Fuel and its Combustion,” etc. Demy 8vo. New Edition. 9/- net.