Chapter I: Front Matter

7, STATIONERS’ HALL COURT, LONDON, E.C.

_January, 1901._

CROSBY LOCKWOOD & SON’S

Catalogue of

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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 1

CIVIL ENGINEERING 10

MARINE ENGINEERING, &c. 17

MINING & METALLURGY 19

COLLIERY WORKING, &c. 21

ELECTRICITY 23

ARCHITECTURE & BUILDING 25

SANITATION & WATER SUPPLY 27

CARPENTRY & TIMBER 28

DECORATIVE ARTS 30

NATURAL SCIENCE 32

CHEMICAL MANUFACTURES 34

INDUSTRIAL ARTS 36

COMMERCE, TABLES, &c. 41

AGRICULTURE & GARDENING 43

AUCTIONEERING, VALUING, &c. 46

LAW & MISCELLANEOUS 47

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, &c.

THE MECHANICAL ENGINEER’S POCKET-BOOK.

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MR. HUTTON’S PRACTICAL HANDBOOKS.

THE WORKS’ MANAGER’S HANDBOOK.

Comprising Modern Rules, Tables, and Data. For Engineers, Millwrights, and Boiler Makers; Tool Makers, Machinists, and Metal Workers; Iron and Brass Founders, &c. By W. S. HUTTON, Civil and Mechanical Engineer, Author of “The Poetical Engineer’s Handbook.” Sixth Edition, carefully Revised, with Additions. In One handsome Volume, medium 8vo, strongly bound. [_Just Published._ =15/0=

☞ _The Author having compiled Rules and Data for his own use in a great variety of modern engineering work, and having found his notes extremely useful, decided to publish them—revised to date—believing that a practical work, suited to the DAILY REQUIREMENTS OF MODERN ENGINEERS, would be favourably received_.

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THE PRACTICAL ENGINEER’S HANDBOOK.

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☞ _This Work is designed as a companion to the Author’s_ “WORKS’ MANAGER’S HANDBOOK.” _It possesses many new and original features, and contains, like its predecessor, a quantity of matter not originally intended for publication, but collected by the Author for his own use in the construction of a great variety of_ MODERN ENGINEERING WORK.

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STEAM BOILER CONSTRUCTION.

A Practical Handbook for Engineers, Boiler-Makers, and Steam Users. Containing a large Collection of Rules and Data relating to Recent Practice in the Design, Construction, and Working of all Kinds of Stationary, Locomotive, and Marine Steam-Boilers. By WALTER S. HUTTON, Civil and Mechanical Engineer, Author of “The Works’ Manager’s Handbook,” “The Practical Engineer’s Handbook,” &c. With upwards of 500 Illustrations. Third Edition, Revised and much Enlarged, medium 8vo, cloth =18/0=

☞ THIS WORK _is issued in continuation of the Series of Handbooks written by the Author, viz._:—“THE WORKS’ MANAGER’S HANDBOOK” _and_ “THE PRACTICAL ENGINEER’S HANDBOOK,” _which are so highly appreciated by engineers for the practical nature of their information; and is consequently written in the same style as those works_.

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PRACTICAL MECHANICS’ WORKSHOP COMPANION.

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A Collection of Useful Tables, Rules, and Data. By WILLIAM TEMPLETON. Eighth Edition, with Additions. 18mo, cloth =2/6=

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PART I.—MEASURES.—CIRCUMFERENCES AND AREAS, &C., SQUARES, CUBES, FOURTH POWERS.—SQUARE AND CUBE ROOTS.—SURFACE OF TUBES.—RECIPROCALS.—LOGARITHMS.—MENSURATION.—SPECIFIC GRAVITIES AND WEIGHTS.—WORK AND POWER.—HEAT.—COMBUSTION.—EXPANSION AND CONTRACTION.—EXPANSION OF GASES.—STEAM.—STATIC FORCES.—GRAVITATION AND ATTRACTION.—MOTION AND COMPUTATION OF RESULTING FORCES.—ACCUMULATED WORK.—CENTRE AND RADIUS OF GYRATION.—MOMENT OF INERTIA.—CENTRE OF OSCILLATION.—ELECTRICITY.—STRENGTH OF MATERIALS.—ELASTICITY.—TEST SHEETS OF METALS.—FRICTION.—TRANSMISSION OF POWER.—FLOW OF LIQUIDS.—FLOW OF GASES.—AIR PUMPS, SURFACE CONDENSERS, &C.—SPEED OF STEAMSHIPS.—PROPELLERS.—CUTTING TOOLS.—FLANGES.—COPPER SHEETS AND TUBES.—SCREWS, NUTS, BOLT HEADS, &C.—VARIOUS RECIPES AND MISCELLANEOUS MATTER.—WITH DIAGRAMS FOR VALVE-GEAR, BELTING AND ROPES, DISCHARGE AND SUCTION PIPES, SCREW PROPELLERS, AND COPPER PIPES.