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
Part 1. Introduction and the Principles of Geometry. Part
2. Land Surveying: comprising General Observations—The
Chain—Offsets Surveying by the Chain only—Surveying Hilly
Ground—To Survey an Estate or Parish by the Chain only—Surveying
with the Theodolite—Mining and Town Surveying—Railroad
Surveying—Mapping—Division and Laying out of Land—Observations
on Enclosures—Plane Trigonometry. Part 3. Levelling—Simple
and Compound Levelling—The Level Book—Parliamentary Plan
and Section—Levelling with a Theodolite—Gradients—Wooden
Curves—To Lay out a Railway Curve—Setting out Widths. Part
4. Calculating Quantities generally for Estimates—Cuttings
and Embankments—Tunnels—Brickwork—Ironwork—Timber
Measuring. Part 5. Description and Use of Instruments in
Surveying and Plotting—The Improved Dumpy Level—Troughton’s
Level—The Prismatic Compass—Proportional Compass—Box
Sextant—Vernier—Pantagraph—Merrett’s Improved Quadrant—Improved
Computation Scale—The Diagonal Scale—Straight Edge and Sector. Part
6. Logarithms of Numbers—Logarithmic Sines and Co-Sines, Tangents
and Co-Tangents—Natural Sines and Co-Sines—Tables for Earthwork,
for Setting out Curves, and for various Calculations, etc., etc.,
etc.
_Saws: the History, Development, Action, Classification, and
Comparison of Saws of all kinds._ By ROBERT GRIMSHAW. _With 220
illustrations_, 4to, cloth, 12_s._ 6_d._
_A Supplement to the above_; containing additional practical
matter, more especially relating to the forms of Saw Teeth for
special material and conditions, and to the behaviour of Saws under
particular conditions. _With 120 illustrations_, cloth, 9_s._
_A Guide for the Electric Testing of Telegraph Cables._ By Capt.
V. HOSKIÆR, Royal Danish Engineers. _With illustrations_, second
edition, crown 8vo, cloth, 4_s._ 6_d._
_Laying and Repairing Electric Telegraph Cables._ By Capt. V.
HOSKIÆR, Royal Danish Engineers. Crown 8vo, cloth, 3_s._ 6_d._
_A Pocket-Book of Practical Rules for the Proportions of Modern
Engines and Boilers for Land and Marine purposes._ By N. P. BURGH.
Seventh edition, royal 32mo, roan, 4_s._ 6_d._
_The Assayers Manual_: an Abridged Treatise on the Docimastic
Examination of Ores and Furnace and other Artificial Products. By
BRUNO KERL. Translated by W. T. BRANNT. _With 65 illustrations_, 8vo,
cloth, 12_s._ 6_d._
_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., F.R.S., Professor
of Applied Mechanics in the Royal Naval College. 8vo, cloth, 12_s._
6_d._
_Electricity_: its Theory, Sources, and Applications. By J. T.
SPRAGUE, M.S.T.E. Second edition, revised and enlarged, _with
numerous illustrations_, crown 8vo, cloth, 15_s._
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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