A Practical Treatise on Locomitive Engines ... Founded on ... Experiments ... with Many Different Engines ... to which is Added, an Appendix ...

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J. Weale, 1840 - 583 pages
 

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Page 29 - Brick and Plaster Groins, Niches of every description, Sky-lights, Lines for Roofs and Domes; with a great variety of Designs for Roofs, Trussed Girders, Floors, Domes, Bridges, &c., Angle Bars for Shop Fronts, &c., and Raking Mouldings.
Page 14 - Naval Architecture; or the Rudiments and Rules of Ship Building, Exemplified in a Series of Draughts and Plans; with Observations tending to the further improvement of that important art.
Page 16 - THE MONUMENTAL REMAINS OF NOBLE AND EMINENT PERSONS, Comprising the Sepulchral Antiquities of Great Britain, engraved from Drawings by EDWARD BLORE, Architect, FSA With Historical and Biographical Illustrations.
Page 29 - Strength of Cast Iron, &c. A PRACTICAL ESSAY on the STRENGTH of CAST IRON and OTHER METALS. By THOMAS TREDGOLD, CE Fifth Edition.
Page 20 - Advowsons, &c. , and for the Renewing of Leases held under Cathedral Churches, Colleges, or other corporate bodies ; for Terms of Years certain, and for Lives ; also for Valuing Reversionary Estates, Deferred Annuities, Next Presentations, &c., together with Smart's Five Tables of Compound Interest, and an Extension of the same to lower and Intermediate Rates. By WILLIAM INWOOD, Architect.
Page 9 - SKETCH OF THE CIVIL ENGINEERING OF NORTH AMERICA. Comprising Remarks on the Harbours, River and Lake Navigation, Lighthouses, Steam-navigation, Water-works, Canals, Roads, Railways, Bridges, and other Works in that country. By DAVID STEVENSON, Civil Engineer.
Page 4 - AN OUTLINE OF THE METHOD OF CONDUCTING A TRIGONOMETRICAL SURVEY. For the Formation of Geographical and Topographical Maps and Plans, Military Reconnaissance, LEVELLING, &c., with Useful Problems, Formulae, and Tables.
Page 10 - A treatise on the Strength of Timber, cast iron, malleable iron, and other materials ; with rules for application in architecture, construction of suspension bridges, railways, &c.
Page 29 - A PRACTICAL ESSAY on the STRENGTH of CAST IRON and OTHER METALS ; intended for the Assistance of Engineers, Iron-Masters, Millwrights, Architects, Founders, Smiths, and others engaged in the Construction of Machines, Buildings, &c. ; containing Practical Rules, Tables, and Examples, founded on a series of New Experiments ; with an Extensive Table of the Properties of Materials. By the late THOMAS TREDGOLD, Mem. Inst. CE, Author of " Elementary Principles of Carpentry," " History of the Steam-Engine,
Page 11 - AN ELEMENTARY INVESTIGATION OF THE THEORY OF NUMBERS, With its Application to the Indeterminate and Diophantine Analysis, the Analytical and Geometrical Division of the Circle, and several other curious Algebraical and Arithmetical Problems. By PETER BARLOW, Esq., FRS, M.Inst.CE, and of several other Learned Societies and Academies. 102. Second Edition, with Examples, Price 3*.

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