The Sun.
London, England, 1834-11-03 00:00:00

DEDICATED TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE
LORD BROUGHAM AND VAUX.
THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND MACHINIST.

I)IIACTICAL TREATISES of Civil Engineering,
Engineer Building, Machinery, Mill Work, Engine Work,
Iron Founding, &c., designed for the Use of Engineers, Iron-masters,
Manufacturers, and Operative Mechanics.
By CHARLES JOHN BLUNT and R. MACDONALD
STEPHENSON,
Civil Engineers, Architects, &c.
Consisting of practical examples in their entire detail, drawn from
the known great works of British and Foreign Engineering; ac-
companied by full reports, specifications, estimates, and journals of
progress ; and the formulae, calculations, tables, &c., in use by the
first authorities, illustrated by working plans and general views from
original drawings of great practical accuracy and careful execution,
and occupying upwards of 500 folio and imperial folio plates.
DIVISION I.—Contains BOULTON and WATT'S PORT-
ABLE STEAM ENGINE Complete, was published on the let
July, price One Guinea.
DIVISION ll.—Contains STEAM-BOAT ENGINES and
MACHINERY, MILL-WORK, and CORN MILLS, Complete,
will be published 31st August, price One Guinea.
GENERAL ARRANGEMENT.
These Treatises, which form a compendious practical Text-
book of Civil Engineering, in its most extended sense, embrace
the entire routine of modern practice, with reference to known
works, and the fullest descriptive accounts of all those great under-
takings of the art, on which it founds its practical experience and
its importance. It arranges itself under the following general heads :
SE A, RIVER, and CANAL WORKS.—Locks—rivers—har-
bours—piers—aqueduets— embankments—sea walls—reservoirs—
lighthouses—dry and wet docks—basins—drainages—weirs—sluices
water mills—water works—stone, iron, and timber bridges—jetties
—tunnelling—shaft sinking--coffer dams—boring—dredging—
mains, conduits, pipes, tanks, road-making, pumps, and pump-ma-
chinery, &c.
THE STEAM-ENGINE.—ITS. PRACTICAL ORGANI-
ZATION and LAWS of CONSTRUCTION ; ITS APPLI-
CATION to STEAM NAVIGATION, MANUFACTURES,
&c.—Details of rail-roads, and locomotive engines—blast engines
and blowing apparatus—mining engines—pumps—steam mills—
grinding, sawing, and paper machinery—woollen, cotton, silks, and
lace machinery—sugar mills—glass polishing machinery—boring
mills—lathes and turning machinery—rolling and flatting mills—
forge and foundry machinery—cranes—hydrostatic presses—coin-
ing machinery—pile engines—arrangements and fittings of gas
works—blast, common air, and reverberatory furnaces—coke ovens,
blacksmiths' hearths—boiler, gasometer, and tank making—print-
ing machinery—slitting mills—marble machinery—heating and
ventilating apparatus—iron roofs, girders, columns—flax:machinery
—detailed iron-works—forges and foundries—iron chain and cable
making.,
ON GEARING, MILL, and ENGINE WORK.—The teeth
of wheels, and the organisation and manufacture of engines, and
apparatus in general. Rules for practical delineation, laying out,
and erection, &c., of mills and machines.
THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION andMANUFACTURE
of CAST and WROUGHT IRON.—As to its safe and extended
use in the construction and formation of rail-roads, suspension
bridges, chain piers, roofs, fire-proof floors, bressummers, beams,
and general employment in manufactures, shipbuilding, &c., with
constant reference to practical examples in executed and known

works.
CARPENTRY and TIMBER FRAMING.—The construc-
tion of roofs, floors, centering', bridges, practical descriptions of the
woods used in building, engineering, &c., including details of the
most remarkable structures.
QUARRYING, STONEMASONRY, and BRICKLAYING•
—Building under watar—uses and application of the diving bell ;
the properties and relative values for the purposes of construction of
marble, stone, brick, lime, cement, concretes, &c., with the appli-
cation of machinery to the operations of quarrying and excavating.
ON MINING and MINING OPERA TIONS.—In iron, silver,
copper, lead, tin, &c., with the application of steam power, water
engines, capstan machinery, erection of smelting furnaces, &c., re-
quired in their operations, detail, and processes ; vertical, horizontal,
transverse, and diagonal dialling, with the use and application of
trigonometrical tables to the dial practice of shafts, edits, lodes,
drifts, slides, levellings, &c.
LAND SURVEYING, LEVELLING, and PLOTTING, as
REQUIRED by the CIVIL ENGINEER, ARCHITECT, and
LAND SURVEYOR.—The choice and uses of the instruments,
and detailed examples of their applications to the production of ac-
curate and practical levellings and surveys.
CRITICAL NOTICES.
° A more spirited and laudable enterprise, or one more fraught
with extensive and permanent benefit to the science and the useful
arts, was never undertaken in this or any other country."—Literary
Gazette.
" The first division of this extensive work, the result of eleven
years' labour, has just appeared, and is now before us ; its execution
is worthy of the patronage under which it appears, and fully ade-
quate to the importance of the subject."—Spectator.
" Nothing short of an immense sale of this magnificent work can
remunerate the proprietors."—Loudon's Architectural Magazine.
London : Published for the authors, Blunt and Stephenson, civil
engineers, &c., 51, Great Ormond-street ; and to be had of all the
principal English and Foreign Booksellers.