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MECHANICAL ARTS & SCIENCES
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MECHANICAL ARTS & SCIENCES.
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A Dictionay of Machines, Mechanics,
2 Engine Wok, and Engineering.
Designed for Practical Working Men, and those
intended for the Engineering Profession.
Edited by OLIVER BYRNE, formerly Professor Of
Mathematics, College of CipiI Engineers, London ;
Author and Inventor Of The Calculus Of Form"
The .NeD and Improved Sysiem Of Logarithinls, ;"
The Elements Of EueHdby Coiors, ETC., etc, ETC.
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plates and sir thousand rood cuts. II will present
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lowing: s -. ..s..........5 .5 ...s.... 81 ...... 49,
/. Bibliotheque des Arts Industriels. (Masson,
.. Paris.) n. .., ,....., .......
2. Civil Engineer and Architects Journal.
OLondon.) ...... .........
3. Engineer and Machinists Assistant (Blackie,
4. Publication Industrielle. (Armengaud Aine,
S. Jamieson's Mechanics of. Fluids.
6. Treatise on Mechanics. (Poisson.)
Z. Algemine Bauzeitung NIT Abbildungen.
. .. 4. (Forster, Wien.) ssa.t .s.s--.5 t.a- ..., ,
g. Organ fur die Fortschri'te des Eisenbahnwe-
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degg Wiesbaden.)
6. Sherwin's Logarthims.
10. Byrne's Logarithms.
IL. The Mechanical and Mathematical Works Of
% a Oliver Byrne.
12. Silliman>s Journal.
I3. Algemeine Maschinen-E Encyclopedia. (Huls.
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..n America contrasted. .. ,.. ........-- -.
Is. Holtzapfels Turning and Mechanical Manip
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l6. The Steam Engine. g. Bourne)
II. Eiscnbahn-Zeiiung. (Stuttgart.)
18. Tregod on the Steam Engine.
10. Pixies Mathematical and Optical Instruments.
20. Dictionnaire des Arts ct Manufactures. La
u.s.. boulaye, Paris. . .. ..
2l. Sganzin's CIVIL Engineering,
%. Browns Indicator and Dynaonmeter.
90. Origin and Progress of Steam Navigation.
(Woodcroft.)
"a. Essai sur rIndustric des Matieres Textiles
(Michel Alcan, faris.)
25. Macneills Tables.
26. Griers' Mechanics Pocket Dictionary.
q. Templeton's Millwright's and Engineers
p. ' Pocket Companion.
%. I.ady's and Gentlemen's Diary.
29 Marine Steam Engine. (Brown.)
80. Weisbach's Mechanics and Engineering,
81, The Mathematician, tLondon,)
80. Barlow on Strength of Materials.
80. Hams Mechanics.
"a Mechanical Principles Of Engineering and
Architecture. (Mosley)
az JournaI Of the Franklin tnstitutp
Sc. The Transactions Of the Institute Of Civil
Engineers. (London.)
81, The Artisan,
49, Quarterly Papers on Engineering. pub
lished by Weale, London.)
80. Imperial Dictionary, (Glasgow)
40. Students Guide TO the Locomotive Engine.
A., Railway Engine and Carriage Wheels (Bar-
low, Eondon,) ..-. 80 ....
AZ. Recueil des Machines instruments ct Apparel.
lie Blanc, Paris.)
43. Buchanan on Mill Work.
"A. Practical Examples of Modern Tools and Ma
chimes: (G. Renpe,l
as. Repertoire de- hIndustre Franquaise ct Elran-
gere IL Matthias Paris.)
46 Treatise on the Manufacture of Gas, (Ac-
CON, London.)
At. Setting out Curves on Railways. Q.aw,
London,)
A. Hodge on the Steam Engine
49. Scientific American,
5U. Hallroad Journal lNeW ioIk
ST. American Artisan.
ST. Mechanics Magazine.
So. Nicholson's (Peter) Dictionary of ARCHITECT
.a1A ture. @z3 VI a3t#a@.-.. "
54 Dictionaire de Marine Voiles ct Vapeur,
(De Bonnefoux, Paris.)
S.. Conway and Menai Tubuleer Bridges (Fair-
a barn.l @- - g. ,.E,.-
Sc. Brees' Railway Practice.
81. Barlow,s Mathematical Dictionary.
a,h, N,ti
So Gregory's Mathematics for Practical Men,
GO. Ensineegs' and MssEanies' Encyclopedia.
(Euke Herbert.)
6l Patent Journal London
Ga, Bree's Glossary Of Engineering,
63 Enoyclopedia Of Civil Engineering, Grassy.
64 Craddock's Lectures OIL the Steam-Engine.
65. Assistant Engineers Railway Guide. (Has-
koll) ..... ..
&C. Mechanical Principal. (Leonard.)
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