The Rudiments of Civil EngineeringJ. Weale, 1852 |
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Seite 19 - VALUING ARTIFICERS' WORKS; containing Directions for taking Dimensions, Abstracting the same, and bringing the Quantities into Bill, with Tables of Constants, and copious Memoranda for the Valuation of Labour and Materials in the respective Trades of Bricklayer and Slater, Carpenter and Joiner, Painter and Glazier, Paperhanger, &c. With 43 Plates and Woodcuts.
Seite 3 - EMBANKING LANDS FROM THE SEA, the Practice of. Treated as a Means of Profitable Employment for Capital.
Seite 21 - WORKSHOP COMPANION. Comprising a great variety of the most useful Rules and Formulae in Mechanical Science, with numerous Tables of Practical Data and Calculated Results for Facilitating Mechanical Operations. By WILLIAM TEMPLETON, Author of " The Engineer's Practical Assistant, "&c., &c. Eighteenth Edition, Revised, Modernised, and considerably Enlarged by WALTER S. HUTTON, CE, Author of "The Works' Manager's Handbook," " The Practical Engineer's Handbook,
Seite 21 - Workshop Companion. THE OPERATIVE MECHANIC'S WORKSHOP COMPANION, and THE SCIENTIFIC GENTLEMAN'S PRACTICAL ASSISTANT ; comprising a great variety of the most useful Rules in Mechanical Science ; with numerous Tables of Practical Data and Calculated Results. By W. TEMPLETON, Author of "The Engineer's,- Millwright's, and Machinist's Practical Assistant.
Seite 4 - DICTIONARIES has long been felt by the younger students in schools, and by the classical scholar who requires a book that may be carried in the pocket ; and it is believed that the present is the first attempt which has been made to offer a complete Lexicon of the Greek Language in so small a compass. In the volumes on ENGLAND, GREECE and ROME, it is intended to treat of History as a Science, and to present in a connected view an analysis of the large and expensive works of the most highly valued...
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Seite 16 - Fairbairn (\Vm.), on the expansive action of steam, and a new construction of expansion valves for condensing steam engines.
Seite 7 - This work contains a vast number of different hydraulic formulae, and the most extensive and accurate tables yet published for finding the mean velocity of discharge from triangular, quadrilateral, and circular orifices, pipes, and rivers ; with experimental results and co-efficients ; effects of friction ; of the velocity of approach ; and of curves, bends, contractions, and expansions ; the best form of channel ; the drainage effects of long and short weirs, and weir-basins ; extent of back-water...
Seite 4 - England may find in them an easy means of communication, although possessing but a slight acquaintance with the respective languages. They will also be found of essential...
Seite 14 - THE WORK ON BRIDGES OF STONE, IRON, TIMBER, AND WIRE. In 4 Vols., bound in 3, described In the larger Catalogue of Publications ; to which the following is the Supplement; now completed, entitled SUPPLEMENT TO " THE THEORY, PRACTICE, AND ARCHITECTURE OF BRIDGES OP STONE, IRON, TIMBER, WIRE, AND SUSPENSION...