Textiles and Apparel Industries comprises three chapters on clothing, textile goods and leather, fur and footwear. Transport Industries covers the manufacture and repair of transport vehicles. Its three chapters address aerospace manufacture and maintenance, motor vehicles, heavy equipment and ship and boat building and repair. Services and Trade has nine chapters representing a broad spectrum of personal and governmental services, including emergency services and the military, entertainment and the arts, hotels, restaurants, offices and retail trades, transport and warehousing. Indexes The Index by Subject is a detailed index of subjects found in the Encyclopaedia.
Page numbers followed by an italicized t or f refer to a table or figure, respectively.
Diseases and body parts appear either under the appropriate organ system or as a separate reference. The Index to Chemicals provides an index of each chemical substance covered in the Encyclopaedia. Minerals and chemical families are also indexed. As with the subject index, a t or f following a page number refers to a table or figure on the indicated page. The CAS numbers for all chemicals listed in the tables on chemical identification of each chemical family in the Guide to Chemicals, and the page on which the respective tables begin, are given.