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
To ensure the correctness of these Tables of Logarithms, they
were compared with Callett’s, Vega’s, Hutton’s, Briggs’,
Gardiner’s, and Taylor’s Tables of Logarithms, and carefully read
by nine different readers; and further, to remove any possibility
of an error remaining, the stereotyped sheets were hung up in the
Hall at Cambridge University, and a reward offered to anyone who
could find an inaccuracy. So correct are these Tables, that since
their first issue in 1827 no error has been discovered.
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_The Steam Engine considered as a Heat Engine_: a Treatise on the Theory
of the Steam Engine, illustrated by Diagrams, Tables, and Examples from
Practice. By JAS. H. COTTERILL, M.A., Professor of Applied Mechanics in
the Royal Naval College, 8vo, cloth, 12_s._ 6_d._
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_The Practice of Hand Turning in Wood, Ivory, Shell, etc._, with
Instruction for Turning such Work in Metal as maybe required in the
Practice of Turning in Wood, Ivory, etc., also an Appendix on Ornamental
Turning. (A book for beginners). By FRANCIS CAMPIN. Second edition, _with
wood engravings_, crown 8vo, cloth, 6_s._
CONTENTS:
On Lathes--Turning Tools--Turning Wood--Drilling--Screw
Cutting--Miscellaneous Apparatus and Processes--Turning
Particular Forms--Staining--Polishing--Spinning
Metals--Materials--Ornamental Turning, etc.
* * * * *
_Health and Comfort in House Building, or Ventilation with Warm Air
by Self-Acting Suction Power_, with Review of the mode of Calculating
the Draught in Hot-Air Flues, and with some actual Experiments. By J.
DRYSDALE, M.D., and J. W. HAYWARD, M.D. Second edition, with Supplement,
demy 8vo, _with plates,_ cloth, 7_s._ 6_d._
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_Treatise on Watchwork, Past and Present._ By the Rev. H. L. NELTHROPP,
M.A., F.S.A. _Numerous illustrations_, crown 8vo, cloth, 6_s._ 6_d._
CONTENTS:
Definitions of Words and Terms used in
Watchwork--Tools--Time--Historical Summary--On Calculations of
the Numbers for Wheels and Pinions; their Proportional Sizes,
Trains, etc.--Of Dial Wheels, or Motion Work--Length of Time
of Going without Winding up--The Verge--The Horizontal--The
Duplex--The Lever--The Chronometer--Repeating Watches--Keyless
Watches--The Pendulum, or Spiral Spring--Compensation--Jewelling
of Pivot Holes--Clerkenwell--Fallacies of the Trade--Incapacity
of Workmen--How to Choose and Use a Watch, etc.
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_Now in Course of Publication._
To be completed in about 30 Monthly Parts, each Part containing 64 pp.,
with _numerous illustrations_, super-royal 8vo, price 2_s._; or in 5
Divisions, cloth, price 13_s._ 6_d._ each.
DIVISIONS I., II, & III., NOW READY.
SPONS’ ENCYCLOPÆDIA OF THE INDUSTRIAL ARTS, MANUFACTURES, AND COMMERCIAL
PRODUCTS.
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