Manual of Library Economy: Third and Memorial EditionBrown, James Duff
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Manual of Library Economy: Third and Memorial Edition
Brown, James Duff
Libraries -- Great Britain -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Library science -- Great Britain -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
A detailed technical treatise on the methods and appliances for
“spraying” paint, lacquer, enamel, varnish, etc., and painting by
immersion. By the process of “flowing on” it is stated that a complete
coat of enamel can be given to the body of a four-seated touring car
in two minutes.
=Jex-Blake=, A. J. =Tuberculosis:= a general account of the disease,
its forms, treatment, and prevention. 1915. [616.995]
22158
=Kean=, F. J. =Petrol engine.= 1915. _Diagrams._ [621.434]
22217
Each part of the engine is dealt with in a separate chapter. The
two-stroke engine receives a chapter to itself. Liquid fuels are very
briefly covered in four pages. The appendix deals with engine
troubles, their causes and cure.
=Kingsbury=, J. E. =Telephone= and telephone exchanges: their
invention and development. 1915. _Ill._ [621.385]
22207
An attempt has been made in this work so to relate the inventions and
developments in the telephone field that the record may constitute in
effect a short history of the telephone industry and an expression of
its main principles.
=Lange=, K. R. By-products of =coal-gas= manufacture; _trans._ from
the German. 1915. _Ill._ [665.7]
22037
_Contents_: Introduction; Purification of coal gas; Coke; Gas-tar; Gas
liquor; Treatment of the gas purifying agents; Treatment of cyanogen
sludge; Treatment of crude liquors; Treatment of ammonium thiocyanate,
etc.
=McCormick=, W. H. _Electricity_. _Romance of Reality Series._ 1915.
_Ill._ [621.3]
21858
=Martin=, Geoffrey. =Chlorine= and Chlorine products. _Manuals of
Chemical Technology IV._ 1915. _Ill._ [661.3]
22159
Includes the manufacture of bleaching powder, hypochlorites,
chlorates, etc., with sections on bromine, iodine, hydrofluoric acid;
with a chapter on “Recent oxidizing agents” by G. W. Clough.
=Martin=, Geoffrey, _and_ =Barbour=, William. Industrial =nitrogen
compounds= and explosives. _Manuals of Chemical Technology III._ 1915.
_Ill._ [662]
22160
A practical treatise on the manufacture, properties, and industrial
uses of nitric acid, nitrates, ammonia, ammonium salts, cyanides,
etc., including most recent modern explosives.
The cost of such bulletins varies according to style, variety of types
used, etc., and rarely can it be recovered from sales. Some bulletins
are wholly or partly supported by advertisements, and when these are
included it is better that they should be on separated pages at the
beginning and end, and not, as is sometimes done, inserted in irritating
manner amongst the library matter.
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