A treatise on the origin, progress, prevention, and cure of dry rot in timber : $b with remarks on the means of preserving wood from destruction by sea worms, beetles, ants, etc.Britton, Thomas Allen
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A treatise on the origin, progress, prevention, and cure of dry rot in timber : $b with remarks on the means of preserving wood from destruction by sea worms, beetles, ants, etc.
Britton, Thomas Allen
Dry-rot; Wood -- Preservation
Atomic Weights and Factors--Useful Data--Chemical
Calculations--Rules for Indirect Analysis--Weights and
Measures--Thermometers and Barometers--Chemical Physics--Boiling
Points, etc.--Solubility of Substances--Methods of Obtaining
Specific Gravity--Conversion of Hydrometers--Strength of
Solutions by Specific Gravity-Analysis--Gas Analysis--Water
Analysis--Qualitative Analysis and Reactions--Volumetric
Analysis--Manipulation--Mineralogy--Assaying--Alcohol--
Beer--Sugar--Miscellaneous Technological matter relating to
Potash, Soda, Sulphuric Acid, Chlorine, Tar Products, Petroleum,
Milk, Tallow, Photography, Prices, Wages, etc., etc.
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_Algebra Self-Taught._ By W. P. HIGGS, M.A., D.Sc., LL.D., Assoc. Inst.
C.E., Author of ‘A Handbook of the Differential Calculus,’ etc. Crown
8vo, cloth, 2_s._ 6_d._
CONTENTS:
Symbols and the Signs of Operation--The Equation
and the Unknown Quantity--Positive and Negative
Quantities--Multiplication--Involution--Exponents--Negative
Exponents--Roots, and the Use of Exponents as
Logarithms--Logarithms--Tables of Logarithms and Proportionate
Parts--Transformation of System of Logarithms--Common Uses of
Common Logarithms--Compound Multiplication and the Binominal
Theorem--Division, Fractions and Ratio--Continued Proportion--The
Series and the Summation of the Series--Limit of Series--Square
and Cube Roots--Equations--List of Formulæ, etc.
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_On Designing Belt Gearing._ By E. J. COWLING WELCH, Mem. Inst. Mech.
Engineers, Author of ‘Designing Valve Gearing.’ Fcap. 8vo, sewed, 6_d._
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_Arbitrations_: a Text-book for Surveyors in Tabulated Form. By BANISTER
FLETCHER, F.R.I.B.A., Author of ‘Model Houses,’ etc. Crown 8vo, cloth,
5_s._
CONTENTS:
What matters may be submitted to Arbitration--Of the
Submission--Of Revocation--Who may Arbitrate--Powers of the
Arbitrators--Of Joint Arbitrators and Umpires--Of Evidence--Of
the Award--Of Costs and Charges--Advice to Plaintiffs and
Defendants--Appendix of Forms.
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_A Handbook of Formulæ, Tables, and Memoranda, for Architectural
Surveyors and others engaged in Building._ By J. T. HURST, C.E. Twelfth
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