Modern shipbuilding and the men engaged in itPollock, David
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Modern shipbuilding and the men engaged in it
Pollock, David
Shipbuilding -- Great Britain
_Iron Roofs_: Examples of Design, Description. _Illustrated with 64
Working Drawings of Executed Roofs._ By ARTHUR T. WALMISLEY, Assoc.
Mem. Inst. C.E. Imp. 4to, half-morocco, £2 12_s._ 6_d._
_A History of Electric Telegraphy_, to the Year 1837. Chiefly
compiled from Original Sources, and hitherto Unpublished Documents,
by J. J. FAHIE, Mem. Soc. of Tel. Engineers, and of the International
Society of Electricians, Paris. Crown 8vo, cloth, 9_s._
_Spons’ Information for Colonial Engineers._ Edited by J. T. HURST.
Demy 8vo, sewed.
No. 1, Ceylon. By ABRAHAM DEANE, C.E. 2_s._ 6_d._
CONTENTS:
Introductory Remarks—Natural Productions—Architecture and
Engineering—Topography, Trade, and Natural History—Principal
Stations—Weights and Measures, etc., etc.
No. 2. Southern Africa, including the Cape Colony, Natal, and
the Dutch Republics. By HENRY HALL, F.R.G.S., F.R.C.I. With Map.
3_s._ 6_d._
CONTENTS:
General Description of South Africa—Physical Geography with
reference to Engineering Operations—Notes on Labour and Material
in Cape Colony—Geological Notes on Rock Formation in South
Africa—Engineering Instruments for Use in South Africa—Principal
Public Works in Cape Colony: Railways, Mountain Roads and Passes,
Harbour Works, Bridges, Gas Works, Irrigation and Water Supply,
Lighthouses, Drainage and Sanitary Engineering, Public Buildings,
Mines—Table of Woods in South Africa—Animals used for Draught
Purposes—Statistical Notes—Table of Distances—Rates of Carriage,
etc.
No. 3. India. By F. C. DANVERS, Assoc. Inst. C.E. With Map. 4_s._
6_d._
CONTENTS:
Physical Geography of India—Building
Materials—Roads—Railways—Bridges—Irrigation—River
Works—Harbours—Lighthouse Buildings—Native Labour—The Principal
Trees of India—Money—Weights and Measures—Glossary of Indian
Terms, etc.
_A Practical Treatise on Casting and Founding_, including
descriptions of the modern machinery employed in the art. By N. E.
SPRETSON, Engineer. Third edition, with 82 _plates_ drawn to scale,
412 pp., demy 8vo, cloth, 18_s._
_Steam Heating for Buildings_; or, Hints to Steam Fitters, being a
description of Steam Heating Apparatus for Warming and Ventilating
Private Houses and Large Buildings, with remarks on Steam, Water,
and Air in their relation to Heating. By W. J. BALDWIN. _With many
illustrations._ Fourth edition, crown 8vo, cloth 10_s._ 6_d._
_The Depreciation of Factories and their Valuation._ By EWING
MATHESON, M. Inst. C.E. 8vo, cloth, 6_s._
_A Handbook of Electrical Testing._ By H. R. KEMPE, M.S.T.E. Third
edition, revised and enlarged, crown 8vo, cloth, 15_s._
_Gas Works_: their Arrangement, Construction, Plant, and Machinery.
By F. COLYER, M. Inst. C.E. _With 31 folding plates_, 8vo, cloth,
24_s._
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