A Rudimentary Treatise on Steam Boilers: Their Construction and Practical Management

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J. Weale, 1850 - 138 Seiten
 

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Seite 4 - EMBANKING LANDS FROM THE SEA, the Practice of. Treated as a Means of Profitable Employment for Capital.
Seite 20 - 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 22 - 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 14 - Hints to Young Architects : Comprising Advice to those who, while yet at school, are destined to the Profession; to such as, having passed their pupilage, are about to travel ; and to those who, having completed their education, are about to practise. Together with a Model Specification involviLg a great variety of instructive and suggestive matter.
Seite 20 - Containing Directions for taking Dimensions, Abstracting the same, and bringing the Quantities into Bill, with Tables of Constants for Valuation of Labour, and for the Calculation of Areas and Solidities. Originally edited by E.
Seite 8 - 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 23 - Practical Mathematics. MATHEMATICS for PRACTICAL MEN ; being a Commonplace Book of Pure and Mixed Mathematics. Designed chiefly for the Use of Civil Engineers, Architects, and Surveyors. Part I. PURE MATHEMATICS — comprising Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, Mensuration, Trigonometry, Conic Sections, Properties of Curves. Part II. MIXED MATHEMATICS — comprising Mechanics in general, Statics, Dynamics, Hydrostatics...
Seite 17 - Digging, well-sinking, &c. Docks, dry, at Greenock. Draining by steam power. Dredging machinery. DWARF, Table of experiments with HM screw steam tender. Earthwork and embankments, Tables of contents, &c. Experiments on rectangular bars of malleable iron, by Mr. Barlow ; on angle and T iron bars. Fairbairn (Wm.), on the expansive action of steam, and a new construction of expansion valves for condensing steam engines.
Seite 15 - 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 OF STONE, IRON, TIMBER, WIRE, AND SUSPENSION...
Seite 16 - Longitudinal elevation of toll-house, fixture pier, wing wall, and pedestal. Vertical section of retaining-piers. Section at end of fixture pier, showing chain-holes. Lamp and pedestal at entrance of bridge. Lamp and pedestal at end of wing walls. Separately sold from the above in a volume, price half-bound in morocco £1, 12s. An ACCOUNT, with Illustrations, of the SUSPENSION BRIDGE ACROSS the RIVER DANUBE, BY WILLIAM TIERNEY CLARK, CE, FRS With Forty Engravings. THE ENGINEER'S AND CONTRACTOR'S...

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